Rock Hard: 1977 is a board game designed by Jackie Fox, former bassist for the all-girl band The Runaways and illustrated by Jennifer Giner.
At 15, Jackie Fox became the bassist for the pioneering all-female teenage rock band, The Runaways. Now, she's turned her intimate knowledge of what it takes to make it big in the music industry into a new board game called Rock Hard: 1977.
Players have to choose actions meant to build their reputation and business, including doing radio interviews, doing musical gigs in small club venues, and hanging out backstage to meet people who can help — or hinder — your budding career.host Brent Bambury that she wanted to make a game inspired by European strategy games, but with the speed and unpredictability of American board games.
"So the theme inspired what actions you can take in the game ... so that you feel like you are a rock musician just starting out in your career," she said. The game's cards all have short narrative or "flavour" text that Fox drew on her personal experience to write at the request of the game's publisher Devir Games, though they don't cite specific real-world stories.
Board games with explicitly biographical elements are fairly rare, according to Casto Chan, operations manager at Snakes & Lattes, a Canadian chain of board game cafes. He cited Heading Forward, which draws from designer John du Bois' recovery after suffering a traumatic brain injury, as one example.
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