Developing a new board game isn't all fun, as the Prout family have discovered.

It has cost them £100,000 and they have endured countless hiccups along the way.

But after two years' hard graft, their creation is finally on the shelves in time for Christmas.

Jagabongo was launched this week at Hanningtons, in Brighton, where 50 sets are on sale. Others have already been snapped up by famous toy store Hamleys.

Manufactured in the Prouts' tiny base in High Street, Rottingdean, Jagabongo is tipped to be the next big thing in the games world.

Colin Prout, 50, was the driving force behind the idea while wife Anne and daughter Vanessa, 30, helped out in the background. Son Nicholas, 28, made the boards.

At times they feared it would not get off the ground and sometimes leaned on their friends and families for support and funding.

But this week they finally unveiled the game to the world.

Now the Prouts reckon the game, a mixture of chance and strategy, will go down a storm in pubs and cafes.

Jagabongo is aimed at over-sevens and can be played by up to eight people.

Players move round the board with objects called jates, which are like eight-sided dice.

The aim is to completely fill the coloured areas on the board with objects called jabongs and take out as many of the opposition's pieces as possible.

Colin said: "I suppose it is a risk with the amount of money involved but we think it will be a big success.

"I think the game would hold its own with things like tiddlywinks. People can play it for half an hour to an hour and it is very simple.

"We just thought the name up over the years and then fitted the game round it."