Contemporary Trends in Board Game Design

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Video game designers are constantly taking inspiration from board games, especially as modern board games boom. Digital games like Slay the Spire and Hearthstone wear their analog influences proudly on their sleeves. But the board game industry is growing at an enormous pace. With that growth, trends and design techniques emerge and become embraced at a dizzying speed. It’s incredibly intimidating to someone who doesn’t have perspective in the board game rabbit hole. This class will go through modern tabletop mechanisms and techniques, enabling the student to quickly follow and digest the past few years in board and tabletop game design. It is assumed that the students understand more proven and fundamental concepts in board game design, like area control, worker placement, and deckbuilding.