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I Make Board Games in Tabletop Simulator (A Guest Post)

Brand Game Development

After a year of playing games, I decided to make board games in Tabletop Simulator from publicly available print-and-play games. My first creation was a demo of Blight Chronicles: Agent Decker for their Kickstarter which was simple but functional. The Unheard-of Benefits of Tabletop Simulator.

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You Have No Idea How Hard It Is To Run A Sweatshop, Part 2

Designer Notes

Game designers would just be guessing. So, what can games simulate? Strangely, the best example I can think of is a game trying to recreate a situation MUCH more difficult to simulate than baseball, life as a border agent in a totalitarian country. However, Wright was not making a game in the abstract.

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Zugzwang as a pole dance upward unto heaven

Radiator Blog

This points to a general problem with treating sexual moods like immutable video game character classes. So in hindsight, a better game design analogy for sexual roles would've been "stances" or "buffs" that freely change and/or stack. Cops are just like the rest of us, except they have their sexuality set to "cop."

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