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2021

Dark Winter: Designing a Survival Board Game

A four-player cooperative board game about surviving a pandemic collapse in one house. The core loop is deliberate positive feedback – every recovery costs resources, and resources only come from characters who are still in shape. Full rules, the three playtests that reshaped them, and my own analysis of why the small mechanics carry the experience.

March 4, 2021
Design

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