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08: Designing Tharsis with Zach Gage

The Secret Lives of Games

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The Importance of Dice in Video Games

Tharsis is a game where you can assign your dice to the problem, to the character's special ability, to the specific room. And so there's all these different ways and different dice are valued well in all these different situations. So it becomes hard as a player to fully ever calculate the odds because there's so many things you could be putting the dice towards that the simple probabilities are always very murky.

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