How to Design a Game Based on a System

When designing a game based on a real world system, I do research kind of like a writer or a novelist might doResearch into their topic for a novel. Talk to people who know about the system that you're trying to model. For brew crafters, I took tours of craft breweries and I talked to the people that actually ran craft breweries. And I also think reading books and watching documentaries about your topic is great.