Axis Mundi (2019) – Board Game
My Role: Solo project
‘In a gothic, surreal, mystical land shattered from the collapse of several fallen empires, who but the faithful can reunite these disparate cultures and end the chaos of this world, bringing forth the apocalypse. Only one faith can succeed but what is an ending but also a new beginning..?’
Axis Mundi is a board game created as a final dissertation project for an undergraduate degree in Game Design. In Axis Mundi, 2-4 players compete to bring their personalised fantasy religion to the masses in a fantasy world. Players will assemble their Faith Deck with deck-building, whilst they gather followers across a changing/modular World Board with area control mechanics. Unique personalised Scriptures are created out of combinations of Subjects (e.g. ‘Cats are…’) and Conditions (‘Divine‘ or ‘Treacherous‘). These Scriptures along with other in-game actions shift the alignments of religions which is tracked on the Creed Board. Character art illustrated by Edward Welch.
James Nowlan Games 