Goose game on the theme of Covid, you had to dare. “I am well aware that I am a provocateur.”Jack Gumbau admits. The 74-year-old had long hair and a white beard, which gives him “All the air of Santa Claus”, inspired by the rich news of the epidemic: “I read Nice-Matin every day and cut out many drawings, pictures and photos that illustrate and explain the daily developments of the virus and the new rules of life: bat, syringe, anteater. 135 euros, masks, sticks to test themselves, applause every evening for caregivers, etc. All these materials gradually gave me the idea for Goose. I made a lot of models”, says the former head of a construction company, who is now retired and specializes in garage sales.
Determined to embark on creating games, he uses the top of a round table in a speckled bistro to give shape to his game, hence his impressively large shape in a pretty orange box. “But this presentation will not be easy to achieve. Nobody does it in France. I ended up finding a manufacturer in China at 1 euro a box, but transportation is expensive. So I came up with the idea of transferring it to an oilcloth wrapped in a poster tube.”
pangolin vs goose
Nice stuff for an original board game: 62 chests, like many pangolin scales rolled up on themselves. “In each picture, paraphrased by an artist doctor signs Jean Sillot. They remember an episode of Epidemic”Jack Gumbau explains.
Some huts are sometimes given a syringe breeding or small carnivorous mammal referred to for a while as the origin of the epidemic: there, you have to follow your steps or skip a chest. The other images invite you to replay according to the Goose rule of the game… “Through this game, I hope nothing will be forgotten in this year 2020. That each box generates a discussion among the players. That is why the game is accompanied by a rule, but also a small sentence reminding the news associated with each image.”
Everyone who is also a visual artist (covering his car with postage stamps, for example) has faced many obstacles since they embarked on this adventure of creating games… Finding the right interlocutors, for example, is not always easy. At the moment, Pangolin is not marketed. “But I hope you relax, sighs Jack Gambau (1). I now realize that I can create a lot of games. I have four more work in progress, but I’m not talking about them yet because they might steal from me.”
1. To contact Jacques Gumbau: tel. 06.46.01.54.84 or at [email protected]
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