Chasing Shadows! Primarily based on your review. Such a smart and engaging design

For TTRPGs, currencies, resources, items, but also major character moments or plot developments is what I find myself consistently tracking in the chaos of play. For design notes, idk what it would look like but a section or layout specifically for play test notes would be amazing

There seems to be an imperceptible threshold for how much novelty players will allow from a trick taking game. Players (enthusiasts really) want twists but not too many. Curious what games folks think are on the edge of straying too far from the light

I wouldn’ sell yourself too short. To my untrained eye this seems close. And there is something intuitively complementary about the minimal/practical styling and your prospective gameplay system. Excited to see where this lands!

The graphic design is so slick 🔥

Override takes the best parts of the original rules while making the overall game punchier and smoother. More deets here: finalfinalgames.com/blogs/news/w...

Regardless if you’re in the San Jose area come check out all the other cool indie games at the market.

By walking through how you felt during a playtest, you allow the designer to figure out what went wrong and how to address that.

As a playtester, you are only going to see a fraction of their game & their vision. Let them focus on solutions, and don't distract yourself by redesigning their game.

Yooo I missed this. What a refresh

Similar taste in dictatorial bodies I see

Anyway, you can read more about overcoming hate for a card game genre in my designer diary for Takeover: boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp...

There’s probably some lesson about understanding dismantling hate in there, but I’m just happy I can enjoy playing Pusoy Dos with my non-gamer friends now

The general sentiment that board games can’t art is such a weirdly reductionist pov. This video is a good antidote to that thinking, strongly making a case for why discussing how games create meaning matters at all. It’s also never pretentious or didactic, a feat in itself for this subject

All her video essays are great, but this one feels like a master thesis that encapsulates what her own game designs are doing. As someone who tried to use their lit degree to analyze video games on a now defunct blog, the thrust of her argument really resonated with me