{"id":26899,"date":"2015-01-04T05:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T05:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/via-538-so-how-do-you-design-the-worlds-best\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T08:55:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T15:55:34","slug":"via-538-so-how-do-you-design-the-worlds-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/via-538-so-how-do-you-design-the-worlds-best\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-26899 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/via-538-so-how-do-you-design-the-worlds-best\/attachment\/26900\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nhn0c1S7do1qescwho1_640-100x100.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>via 538: So, how do you design the world\u2019s best board game? The first lesson is persistence. Twilight Struggle traces its roots to the early 2000s and a board gaming club at George Washington University. That\u2019s where Gupta and co-designer Jason Matthews met. Not GW students themselves, they were friends with some, and would go to the school to play and also to bemoan the increasing complexity of historical games \u2014 a genre especially dear to them. The rulebooks were overlong, the game mechanics baroque. Simplification, to Gupta and Matthews, was the name of their design philosophy. Rather than overwhelm players with a fat rulebook at the start, the designers spread the information required throughout the gameplay, on cards. A typical Twilight Struggle card reads, \u201cTruman Doctrine: Remove all USSR Influence from a single uncontrolled country in Europe.\u201d The Twilight Struggle rulebook is a relatively slender 24 pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via 538: So, how do you design the world\u2019s best board game? The first lesson is persistence. Twilight Struggle traces its roots to the early 2000s and a board gaming club at George Washington University. That\u2019s where Gupta and co-designer Jason Matthews met. Not GW students themselves, they were friends with some, and would go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6ZR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26901,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26899\/revisions\/26901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}