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Sachin Allums

I have spent my entire life in Austin, Texas, which is why I'm excited to go off to college at Stanford University in California this Fall. I have been designing games my entire life, but I have only recently published some of my creations to the Game Crafter. When I'm not thinking of a new game, I enjoy swimming, making music on the string bass, playing hacky sack, and tutoring kids. I hope to become an educator in some form or fashion in the future, and I hope the games I've played and created will be at the heart of whatever I end up teaching. I am an organized, ambitious, jack-of-all-trades kind of a guy, and I'm excited to share these games with you.

Cheesepond

At the age of 8, my parents took me to IKEA. While they started looking at furniture in the store, I wandered the aisles until I found a small igloo tent with a stuffed animal rat inside it. Normally, kids have teddy bears or unicorns or other cute stuffed animals that they form a bond with: I bonded with a rat. Since rats like cheese, the rat was in an igloo, and when igloos melt they turn into ponds, I decided to name the rat, logically, Cheesepond. Realizing that since I had named the rat it would be nearly impossible to separate me from it, my parents reluctantly bought me a stuffed rat. Like the name Cheesepond, my games strive to be original, creative, and make perfect sense to 8-year-olds. Cheesepond sits on my dresser to this day, and his name is now a part of every single game I make.

Rapid Reply

While my father was the one who introduced me to and inspired my love of games, Rapid Reply was created for my mother. She is someone who dislikes games that last longer than 20 minutes, are too complicated, and don't have a lot of interaction. Rapid Reply checks off every one of her requirements and has challenged me to create games that are accessible to everyone.

Swap Four

When I was a kid, my sister and I were obsessed with card games. We knew every single game you could play with a standard deck of cards, and one of our favorite ones was a game called "Stress." Swap Four has a lot of the same mechanics as this game, but instead of making sets of numbers, you're trying to make words. Like Rapid Reply, Swap Four is easy to learn, plays fast, and creates lots of fun.

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