I think it is fairly dedicated to stewarding this one game! I can’t speak for the whole org, but I am aware of individuals/small groups within NSG that have riffed on new game ideas set in our world, nothing official though. Cool as it would be I wouldn’t expect it

So here for this

That’s a great shout - Smoke definitely helped with sequencing. Did you find that you played stealth packages with other IDs, or did you avoid it for that reason?

3/3 Aim for elegance. Often this means simple (cards with 10-20 words total), but not always. The trick is to avoid “shoe leather”, or as PCH says don’t add any rule that doesn’t add +10 fun. Every line is a barrier to your game, it has to pull its weight or be cut, no matter how cool it reads 🎲✂️

2/3 Both of these cards do similar effects & quest the player to engineer an asymmetrical board wipe. The key difference is elegance and text density. Split Up needs only 10 words vs Birdcage’s 54 to convey nearly identical content. As designers we should strive to mean a lot while saying little 🎲✂️

3/3 Fully Operational play conditions players to exist in the tense space between glacier & asset spam (where we observe them having the most fun) by offering big value for building & icing several remotes. Identify the best parts of your core loop and make cards that funnel your players to it. 🎲✂️

2/3 In Elevation, an intermediate product, it was important to make “level up moment” cards with “hidden curriculum” that taught players how to have more fun playing Netrunner. Ritual demonstrates this principle in action, signaling the benefits of drawing early in your turn and planning ahead. ✂️🎲

This is such a good shout - I think of this often as a designer who acts as a liaison to members of the development/balance teams, and playtesters. “Tuning” is a great way to convey that numbers and balance don’t count for much if they aren’t promoting the right moments, play patterns, and feelings.