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Bryan C. Parker

How a board game about birds turned into a sleeper hit for Steam and Switch

In 2016, video game developer Krzysiek Żarczyński was working out of a spare bedroom in Poznań, Poland with two buddies on a Viking-themed action RPG called Die for Valhalla!

Less than four years later, his small startup company, Monster Couch, successfully created a digital port for an award-winning — and notably serene — board game about birds called Wingspan for Stonemaier Games, a company based in St. Louis, Missouri.

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