I find social deduction games one of the harder types of tabletop games to design and in this blog I’m going to explore some things I’ve learned in analyzying and designing them. Once upon a time, I had a hard … Continued
In my last blog post, we discussed the different kinds of economies in games, the Action Economy, and New Action Advantage. For this post we are going more into detail into the concepts of an Action Economy as well as … Continued
In the last Unpub PH meetup, there was a game which had a problematic dominant strategy. The theme of the game was you are all cooking food in a shared pot. Players used Actions to place food in the pot. … Continued
This week, I gave an introductory talk on how to design board games at my alma matter: Philippine Science High School. There was a board game workshop during the YMSAT Week (Youth, Mathematics, Science, and Technology Week) where the students … Continued
While you may know of Balangay because of the commercial games we’ve released like Darna at ang Nawawalang Bato and Lastikman: Tagu-taguan, the majority of Balangay’s game design work is in designing what we like to call “Advocacy Games”. From … Continued
Trading card games (or TCGs) are some of the most fun and complex games in existence. Not only is there an actual game to play, but there is also the meta game of deck construction which can come in a … Continued