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Designing Games Based on Real-Life Systems with Ben Rosset

The Board Game Design Lab

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The Importance of Casual Gaming

The farming game is a fantasy. I can see very few farmers wanting to come in after a long day of farming and go, let's play a gricula. And so you get the chance to sit down at a gaming table and do it in a very just kind of casual, fun way. So when I look for systems to model, I actually look for things that are not really easy to do in the real world, but that people would like to do if they could. The same thing with lots of other systems like, I don't like ticket a ride,. Even like some of these other games where you're building a route.

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