I started out making Ned Kelly Chess men and then pursued Chess variants.
I like the idea of Ned robbing via feature tiles and the King trying to capture him before Ned escapes off the board via a portal.
Chess is a bit slow so I needed to speed the game up so my last board is a 6 tiles wide (my game has no Bishops) by 8 tiles. I added artwork to feature tiles.
I also wanted to have a handicap factor so my 2 grandsons could play without the older one having an advantage.
And I was looking for a way to have a third player (their father) involved in the game rather than just be a supervisor.
I am an artist and I have a laminator so I made a board from artists a4 paper and laminated it, the board is 2 pieces.