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Monthly Archives: May 2008

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Back in the earlier Internet days, about a dozen ago (that’s 1996-97-ish, for those of you who are either math-addled or from the future), I had fancied myself a bit of a web game developer. I had a website with couple medium-sized multiplayer online games, your standard strategic exploration and combat and tech tree stuff, [...]

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Coalescence Contest!

Friday, May 23, 2008

Hey, do you want to win a free copy of Coalescence? I know you do. Well, how about that, and a free copy of Honeypot, to boot? There is no resisting a deal as sweet as that, right? So, what you need to do is get on over to BoardGameGeek, and check out the contest [...]

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Suit Up!

Monday, May 19, 2008

Over the weekend, I realized an important aspect of suits in game design. They restrict options and therefore increase tension.
Imagine a game of Lost Cities where all of the cards were of the same suit and they could be played on any expedition. Now instead of a 20% chance of drawing the suit you need, [...]

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Control Panel

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Last night at our design meeting, I mentioned a game that I thought related to the topic at hand. We were discussing designing a game with a space ship control panel, when I remembered this game called Wormhole that had that very thing.
According to the entry on BoardGameGeek.com:
‘Wormhole’ by www.worldworksgames.com is a tabletop space combat game which [...]

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