Wallace announces he and his wife will be emigrating to New Zealand around the 33 minute mark.

"We will be closing down the direct sales and Treefrog will become more of a design house"

"England feels very dull at the moment"

Wants to organize conventions in New Zealand, "from a selfish point of view, I'm going to need playtesters"

"Conventions are very good places for testing games."

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Yes, its true. New Zealand has a real shortage of Board Game Designers at the moment. We just can't seem to keep them from moving offshore after graduating from our board gaming institutions. Good to know that the gaps in our ailing economy are being plugged post haste.


I sincerely hope he's done his due diligence on NZ.

good bye treefrog games.


'England feels very dull at the moment'

i wonder what he means by this, might listen to the interview.

I met quite a few Brit ex-pats during my time in NZ, some of whom I'm still friends (err, mates) with to this day. Every one of them (including my mates, God love 'em) had this creepy, nostalgic, semi-racist view of modern England and the 'good old days', which they perceived New Zed to be closer to. Traffic-chavs-Pakis-welfarequeens-blahblahblah.

I love Godsown, but "Nothing interesting going on in England, going to move to New Zealand." Really? Move for the hunting, for the beautiful sky, for the diving, for the relatively progressive politics (except Key's really fucked that up), for the friendly people, but there're more interesting things happening in one London weekend than happen in NZ in a year.

Add one more the Martin Wanker Index.

I can picture it now: Wallace thinks "I'm bored, shall I do a Weeks and troll the internet? Nah, let's move to New Zealand!"