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

Brand Game Development

My first creation was a demo of Blight Chronicles: Agent Decker for their Kickstarter which was simple but functional. Shuffling decks, dealing tiles, and assigning first player at a push of a button is very useful. I continued importing games for 7 months into Tabletop Simulator before commissioned to create Chai by Steeped Games.

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Zugzwang as a pole dance upward unto heaven

Radiator Blog

A broughlike is a variation on a roguelike named after designer Michael Brough , who has spoken before on his design patterns like square tiles, orthogonal movement, turn parity, glitching, limited info, simple maze designs, minimal resources. A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters.

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