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Ep 35: Miniatures Game Design - Synergy and Emergence.

Ep 35: Miniatures Game Design - Synergy and Emergence.

FromRule of Carnage - Designing Better Miniatures Games


Ep 35: Miniatures Game Design - Synergy and Emergence.

FromRule of Carnage - Designing Better Miniatures Games

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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Jun 13, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this episode Glenn and Mike talk about synergy and emergence in games, hopefully with a few tips on how to engineer them into your designs. They suggest that synergy is something you want players to see so that they can engage with and enjoy building it and that emergence is an unseen bit of story building for players. Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design tabletop miniatures games with discussions, tips, reviews and interviews.
Check out Man O' Kent Games here: https://www.manokentgames.com
Check out Planet Smasher Games here: http://planetsmasher.games
Take a look at the podcast as a video on YouTube: Rule of Carnage - YouTube
Released:
Jun 13, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Game designers Mike Hutchinson and Glenn Ford talk about how, why and if they design tabletop miniatures games. With discussions, tips, reviews and interviews.