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Hiatus Games is a tiny board game studio from Ukraine with big ideas. They've just successfully crowdfunded their first project, Deus Lo Vult. It's a medieval board game of rampage, betrayal and agony, and it has over 300 original gilded and foiled miniatures. They were drawn by a professional art restorer and icon painter as a tribute to medieval illuminations from the Grandes Chroniques de France, and they're absolutely awesome.
Deus Lo Vult should've started its way to its backers all over the world, however, the pandemic had other plans.
"Our game shipping was greatly delayed due to quarantine in China, and then the quarantine and lockdown came everywhere," Mike Badelin, founder, producer, and game designer at Hiatus Games told Bored Panda. "We too are grounded at our homes and our game is stuck for an indefinite time in Shanghai, and it has made our Kickstarter and Facebook communities very sad."
So, to keep themselves busy and their fans entertained during these uncertain times, Badelin and two artists at the studio, Alex Komyakhov and Mykhailo Skop, started creating medieval memes. "We have the most amazing backers, who supported us through the darkest of times and we're trying to do what little we can: to cheer them up with some silly pictures. It worked, and people found it amusing."
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George Digamma 5 years ago
-Thy shall eat a turnip -i didn't know i was served your head, fair maiden.
MermaidsAndDragons 5 years ago
Thee shall consume the turnip! "I didn't knoweth i wast being s'rv'd thy headeth, fair mistress."
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Badelin said creating memes acts as the whole team's coping mechanism, helping them to handle pandemic-related fears and anxieties. "The more we laugh at something, the less scary it looks."
At the same time, of course, they're spreading the word about their game. The coronavirus is no joke, but a joke could be the best way to make people remember Deus Lo Vult and what it's all about, Badelin said.
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George Digamma 5 years ago
Ney plague sir, just simple graveto asiatica. Thou shalt not listen to bards and their lies.
According to him, the beauty of this process is the realization that modern memes are a lot closer to medieval miniatures than one could think.
But there's certainly a lot of work the team put into when creating one of their medieval memes. "You need to avoid the sin of anatomism, everyone must be properly disfigured and have the signature medieval 'resting b*tch face'".
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Hans 5 years ago
Anyone notices that with either choice, peope and economy die, just the order changes? This is an interesting idea...
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
But it omits the possibility to do both: Let the ecomony suffer to save the people. When the people are saved they can work to revive the economy again. that's the scenario any civilised country will follow.
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Ann O'Riley 5 years ago
“It’s the little differences. I mean they got the same s**t over there that they got here, but it’s just — it’s just there it’s a little different.” -Vincent Vega
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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
And why are Patrick's stumps bloody?
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Jennifer Hillman Briscese 5 years ago
OMG! Spongebob is wear ya skin suit and Patrick has a huge bulge! I’m gonna have to pluck out my eyes
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Bender Bending Rodríguez 5 years ago
How nice they gave a blank template for future memes. Sorry I don't know how to 'ye olde English".
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Markus Holstein 5 years ago
It is apparently the Great Whore Babylon, but beyond that, I don't get it
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Beaver boi🦫🇺🇦 3 years ago
On left hand. Sign of devil according to rly old christianity.
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The team even made a medieval version of Bored Panda
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