Toybox dungeon
CORAQUEST
Designer: Dan Hughes, Cora Hughes | Publisher: Bright Eye Games
It wouldn’t be far from the truth to say that I saw fatherhood as an opportunity to introduce a convenient third player to the family unit. Alas, for the first year of my son’s life he was nothing more than a glorified first player marker. Now, at the age of three, we’re ready to take things up a notch. Enter CoraQuest –a fully fledged dungeon crawler aimed at the younger tabletop crowd and the adults in their life.
What started out as a lockdown homeschooling project for designer Dan Hughes and his daughter Cora, soon morphed into a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign, garnering over 5000 followers and a devoted community of fans and art contributors. Through the application of a slick and simple ruleset and an art direction based on the illustrative work of children across the world, CoraQuest quickly succeeded at bringing a youthful edge to the crowded dungeon-crawl genre.