More Playtesting Advice That Varies - Tea & Table (podcast)

Musings on Dice and Randomness

13 Feb 2024

In this episode, I explore how I might represent hacking and the associated “luck factor” in my game. “Infiltration” is a cooperative game about hacking into a computer network. My contacts: Email: teaandtablegames@gmail.com Discord: anniannianni@ Twitter/X: anniisgame@

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Making My Game More Interactive and Less Bureaucratic

5 Mar 2024

In this episode, I’ll finally tell you how (part of) my game works, yay! This episode is focused on the card play and I’ll talk about how I try to make it more interactive and less bureaucratic, but you already knew that from the title. My contacts: teaandtablegames@gmail.com / Discord: anniann ...

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Other Hacking Games (Part 1) - Android: Netrunner

26 Feb 2024

This is Part 1 of a short series of episodes that I'll throw in occasionally and in which I'll look at other hacking-themed games, to understand how they bring the theme to life and how my game compares to them. The game I'm working on, working title “Infiltration”, is a cooperative game about ...

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Making a Simple AI

12 Mar 2024

Album with pictures for this episode: https://imgur.com/a/TauAqHf In this episode, I explain how the AI in my game works. It’s a cooperative game after all, so we need some sort of opposing force! A major design goal for me is to minimize the upkeep and additional components for the AI, and to ...

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