London — February 7, 2019 Go Dotty is a brand new 2-player abstract board game currently available for backing on Kickstarter. It’s easy to learn but takes strategy and tactics to master it. The rules of the game are simple—connect the dots to create the most lines-of-three to win the game.

Go Dotty is the debut game of game designer, Neil Barrie, who says “I came up with the idea of Go Dotty in a proper lightbulb moment, wondering what Dominoes and Noughts and Crosses would be like combined, after a week of scribbling more thoughts and working out the maths and mechanics, I had a working mock-up of the game.”

This was back in May 2017, Neil then went on a mission to get the game played with as many people as possible from all walks of life, taking it to board game nights but also playing it with anyone he could. “I’ve carried an evolving copy of Go Dotty around with me for nearly two years now”.

In that time, the game has evolved, but also been refined, both with the game play but also the look and feel. The design is slick and sophisticated, but not over complicated so that it is easy enough for ages of 8–80 to pick up and start playing.

The Kickstarter campaign aims to raise £9000 to get this game off the ground but if it goes beyond this and hits its stretch goals it will take the game from being a 2-player to a 4-player game.

Some fantastic quotes have come out of the game reviews, like this from Sam Illingworth, at The Games Research Network “Simple but with lots of strategy. Could pick up and play very quickly but also has lots of depth. I REALLY enjoyed this.”

And Carly from BoardGeekGirl.com says “Go Dotty doesn’t take hours to play but does get your brain working!”

Ryan Saunders from The Inquisitive Meeple even went on to say “I wouldn’t be too surprised if Go Dotty ends up in a national chain store’s game shelves in a couple of years.”

If the game is successful on Kickstarter, it will go immediately into production and we plan for it to be in our hands by September 2019, and on the shelves of retailers in time for Christmas.

2019 is the year we can all finally Go Dotty.