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08: Designing Tharsis with Zach Gage

The Secret Lives of Games

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Spelunky and Randomness

Zach: I think that's a big similarity here with Tharsis and arguably other board games like Tharsis think about pandemic, which we talked about. The question is how do we get the players through pacing or whatever tricks to emotionally be super invested in the role of the dice or in the random results? And so you have this quote, you know, like dice should never decide and you push back on that and you go, hold on, it's actually fun to submit yourself to random decisions sometimes. All that matters is actually how much you care about the results. But then I think it's also worth thinking about the differences because I don't think Tharsis is

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