Hello Marjolaine and welcome to My Jane
Austen Book Club. A Match Made in Austen is the new card game you created for
Renaissance Press, which will be released on 10th September. Can you
briefly tell us what kind of game it is?
A Match Made in Austen is a
storytelling card game. People draw six cards, three representing male
characters and three representing female characters, they improvise some event
at which the characters interact and then try to make wedding proposals to the
characters they think are best suited to the ones in their hand.
Great! I think our Janeite friends will love
it. It may be a perfect game to animate tea parties or friendly gathering of
any type. How many players can be involved in the game?
The game can involve as few as two
players (with some rule variations included in the rulebook) and as many as
six.
Which Austen characters are involved in
your card game?
The game includes 54 characters
from the six main novels of Jane Austen. They are, by books and in alphabetical
order: