Tesseract Games was born from unfortunate circumstances encountered by me, Nick, a Graphic Designer of 15 years, after having been made redundant from my job in December 2019. This was the third redundancy in my career and whilst there is never a ‘good time’ to be made redundant, it turned out that December was really bad! The job market was quiet and just as I began hearing back from applications in February and with two interviews lined up, the world was shocked by COVID-19 and everything went into lockdown. The interviews were postponed indefinately. To top this, I was about two weeks away from meeting my first child and so my wife was starting maternity leave with reduced pay.
With the job market looking sparse for the foreseeable future, I decided to put some card game dividers I created up on the online marketplace 'Etsy' to see if they would sell in the hope of helping bring something in for the family whilst I applied for jobs and changed nappies. The community response has be