Crimps is a strategy game with a maritime backdrop for 2-4 players where sloops and galleons navigate the seas using the wind to their advantage. The game is composed of rounds, each one an immersive cyclone of changing winds and tempestuous sailing. During these rounds you sow to decide the winds, and let your ships come to life by drifting, boarding and broadsiding.

Right at the core centre of the board there is a sinking hole: an oubliette. What pleasure and grandiose defeat, to drop the enemies’ ship down the hole once you have blasted it. It is an exciting way to win and still an honorable way to loose.

What is the game of the captains of old? What did they play in their rolling cabins in the storms? Well there wasn’t such a thing but it would have been Adella if only it had been born earlier. It is the game of strategians to exercise their mind’s wit to that of the enemy. And to display their evident tastefulness.

And so the creators made it public. Their gift to the world and our pleasure to see it played, touched and appreciated.

No-one is left out or cast aside for not knowing all the complexities of crimping. The dynamics are made in such a way that through allegiances players fight all the way to the bitter end.

And yet there is something more to it… a lingering feeling of something that has been with us through the ages, almost familiar…

This game was not made to be stored away with other boardgames. It is rather a sculpture that creates it’s own epicenter.

Wherever it rests a humming will encircle. This is the sound of whispers of intrigue and desire filling the room with adoration as you lay out the pieces.

People ask, on the street, at the pub, every day, what is that object you carry? They will tell you they have never seen anything like it.

Their eyes are drawn to it’s shapes and a beam of light enters their imagination.

This is because it’s shapes are taken from the dawn of creation, the ancestors of civilizations.

The game takes from chess, from Go, from Mancala, from sennet, from the flower of life, combining shapes, movements, structure, into a single unique masterpiece of design.

Adella is entirely 3D printed and finished by hand. It uses PLA, an environmentally friendly material and eliminates all the usual plastic wrapping and waste that goes into packaging: instead this board folds on itself as a box to hold it’s own pieces and becomes a self-contained organism.

It is not without work – countless nights have been spent, years, more than seven different versions… and finally, it has landed.

Adella, the game of Crimps is now available to order from Kickstarter.