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UMBRA VIA

Interview by Christopher John Eggett

Could you introduce yourself, and Umbra Via?

I’m Connor Wake. By day I’m a software engineer living in the SF Bay Area and the rest of the time I’m a board game designer and amateur baker. Umbra Via is an abstract game about guiding the lost pieces of your soul back to you by bidding on pieces of paths and trying to gain control of them when they get placed onto the board. However, the other players are trying to do the same, and they have just as much influence as you, so you have to be cunning about how you gain the upper hand.

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