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I designed Octico a couple years ago. At the time I was messing around with 3x3 grid mechanics and wanted to design a 1v1 game that was simple to pick up but with a mastery curve. I ended up building something tic-tac-toe-esque with much more going on strategically.

I'm no illustrator, so I leaned on my experience with data viz and made a clean, high-contrast aesthetic that was easy to repeat. This isn't how I'd want all of my games to look, but I'm happy with it as an aesthetic for a low-key abstract strategy game.

Octico is the most successful game I've ever made. People really seem to like it! Friends and playtesters have described it as the kind of game you'd pick up in a Target checkout line, which I consider tremendously high praise.