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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Art Waring" data-source="post: 9431026" data-attributes="member: 7037141">Hi folks, Hope you are having a good day.Today I would like to talk a bit about game design, but not specifically limited to ttrpg's, as I personally find that studying as many different kinds of games can help to become a better creator of games in general. Understanding game mechanics from a variety of games (IMO) can help to grant you a wider range of problem solving techniques that you can apply to your game design.For example, the first game I designed was a tiny little zombie card game, complete with extensive rules covering characters, locations, and how monsters behave. While it never did get published, I learned a lot about designing games that incentivize certain types of play-loops.Anywho, this thread is about other kinds of games (like card games & board games & even video games), and how you can learn from their designs to better understand how to create a game that can focus on achieving what you want.To start off, I will post a video by a new(ish) youtube channel the "Distraction Makers," a pair of game designers (one is a AAA game dev, the other is an indy designer). I think that they have a lot of good insight into game design, mechanical interactions, and evaluation of game designs. Here is a video discussing their attempts to make a system to evaluate game design. It is just an interesting approach so I thought I would post it here.+Special shout out to [USER=6807152]@Scribe[/USER], as I know you were once into MTG, I thought you might like to see what designers are talking about these days (about how the game has changed). I don't personally engage with MTG products anymore, but I do still have a few EDH decks, and I still occasionally like to play a game with friends to take a break from ttrpg's.P.S. Final Thought: As complex as MTG has gotten recently, ttrpg's look much easier to run in regards to having to remember the board state (something which can now become quite difficult with walls-of-text cards becoming the norm).[MEDIA=youtube]xkkc9KYpWhE[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

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