{"id":181,"date":"2025-02-09T20:04:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T20:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upgames.fi\/uselesscowards\/?page_id=181"},"modified":"2026-03-14T06:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:37:26","slug":"design-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/upgames.fi\/uselesscowards\/design-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Design team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Useless Cowards<\/em> is designed by a group of Finnish wargamers. The ruleset was originally created for our own use to play condottieri battles, but after receiving encouraging feedback we decided to publish it. The game is published by U&amp;P Games Ltd. Comments, ideas, and feedback from many players have been invaluable during the development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hannu Uusitalo<\/strong> &#8211; Rules and game design<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kim Paqvalin<\/strong> &#8211; Graphics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Janne Niinivaara <\/strong>&#8211; CPO Chief playtesting officer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"770\" src=\"https:\/\/upgames.fi\/uselesscowards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20250222-WA0012-1024x770.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upgames.fi\/uselesscowards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20250222-WA0012-1024x770.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/upgames.fi\/uselesscowards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20250222-WA0012-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/upgames.fi\/uselesscowards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20250222-WA0012-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/upgames.fi\/uselesscowards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20250222-WA0012-1536x1156.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/upgames.fi\/uselesscowards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20250222-WA0012-399x300.jpg 399w, https:\/\/upgames.fi\/uselesscowards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20250222-WA0012.jpg 1599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The design and playtesting team in Hamburger Tactica 2025<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Useless Cowards is designed by a group of Finnish wargamers. The ruleset was originally created for our own use to play condottieri battles, but after receiving encouraging feedback we decided to publish it. The game is published by U&amp;P Games &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/upgames.fi\/uselesscowards\/design-team\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-181","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upgames.fi\/uselesscowards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upgames.fi\/uselesscowards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upgames.fi\/uselesscowards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upgames.fi\/uselesscowards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upgames.fi\/uselesscowards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/upgames.fi\/uselesscowards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/upgames.fi\/uselesscowards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upgames.fi\/uselesscowards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}