Designing Friends & Dragons

Friends & Dragons is a fun little chess game with a thousand little kitchen sinks thrown in. In this talk the lead designer Markus Montola offers an under-the-hood view on why all the little bits in the game work the way they do. While this talk is about a digital game designed for mobile phones, most of the discussion applies to all systems design in board, card, and role-playing games. The talk covers topics such as systems design, modular game design, game balance modelling, and designing games in Google Sheets.