As I mentioned in my previous post, the Happy Mitten team has really focused on a handful of clear goals with the games they want to publish: easy-to-learn, engaging player interaction, and allowing players to be clever. That “Magic Sauce” … Continued
If you’ve listened to or read any of the player commentary about Aether Magic — like the player quotes on the Kickstarter page, or this succinct review on BGG — you will see a lot of references to player interaction, bidding/bartering, … Continued
As I mentioned in my previous post, Grant Rodiek is one of the designers whose blog I read on a regular basis. He recently wrote an intriguing post on the idea of purposefully designing joy into games. It got me … Continued