The notebook
Long-form stories from behind the game: how things are built, what broke along the way, and what we learned about tabletop football. Written by Miguel Ángel Villar Alarcón, who builds the game — one article at a time.
🇬🇧 EnglishThey all work with any piece, on any surface. Ten minutes each.
🇬🇧 EnglishTape, a table, and a standings sheet on the fridge.
🇬🇧 EnglishSix checks you can run in two minutes, before handing the tablet over.
🇬🇧 EnglishFive countries, five inventors, twenty years apart — and almost the same game. This is the map nobody draws.
🇬🇧 EnglishFilters fail. A closed list cannot. What that costs, and what it buys.
🇬🇧 EnglishIt looks like just flicking figures at a ball. Quite a lot more is going on.
🇬🇧 EnglishHalf psychology, half playground economics: the eternal magic of the sticker album, explained.
🇬🇧 EnglishFour kids, one rainy afternoon and a kitchen table are all you need for a World Cup.
🇬🇧 EnglishEverything a new player should hear five minutes before their first ranked duel.
🇬🇧 EnglishYou do not need to be a tech expert to audit a kids' game. You need ten minutes and this list.
🇬🇧 EnglishLong before video games, every country invented its own way of playing football on a table. This is that story.
