26.2 Development Update July 2026

 Prototype and Design Update July 2026

In our last update we were thrilled to share the design of the box art for 26.2, and the response has been amazing! We've had so many great comments about how it looks, and we appreciated all of them.

In this update we are happy to share that work is now progressing on all of the remaining art for the game, beginning with the board. As I write this, Mark Aaron, our artist, is working on taking Gill's beautiful, hand-drawn race board and working his magic on it. We can't share any images quite yet, but from the early work we have seen, we are confident that it is going to look amazing.

Game design is very much a process. We are now at prototype number 5 and we've had a successful weekend of playtesting at Leeds Board Game Convention on 25-26 July with further tweaks to make, we feel like the finish line is close though. Each stage of development 26.2 has been changed and improved. This has either been in graphic design, style and appearance, or in gameplay. Sometimes it has been in a significant way, sometimes in a minor way, but always in an effort to move the game forward in response to feedback from players. The images below show the evolution of some card designs, where we have improved them to look much clearer and simpler to understand.

Though they say don't test your game ideas on family because they'll just tell you how good it is regardless, some of our harshest critiques and most difficult questions to answer came early on following testing with family members!

One thing that hasn't changed from Day 1 is the core concept of the game: to immerse players in the theme of running a marathon, to take players on the journey from training to race. And to make the game as close to the marathon experience as possible without having the pain!

If you are keen to help in the continuing development of 26.2 in the build up to a crowdfunding launch in 2027, you can find us at the following conventions in the rest of this year:

Norwich Games Convention 22 August

Tabletop Scotland 4-6 September

Tyneside Games Expo 17-18 October

Thanks for reading 

Gill & Si

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