| Session Name: | Board Game Design Day: Designing 'Race for the Galaxy': Making a Strategic Card Game |
| Speaker(s): | Tom Lehmann |
| Company Name(s): | Independent |
| Track / Format: | Design |
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| Overview: | In this talk, designer Tom Lehmann discusses his acclaimed card game 'Race for the Galaxy', touching on the title's design, history, and mechanisms. He will walk through its use of cards as resources, simultaneous play, luck mitigation via card-sifting, use of icons, and how ideas from economics and optimization theory influenced its design. |
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