The Magic of Language

The story of the design of Babel is very much that we intentionally made it dirty. It started out in our minds as the super elegant, scrabble thing where there's no extra mechanics at all. In a lot of ways, Babel is like an attempt to trick people into playing like a high APM StarCraft style game. We did try to make it very, very like chalky, you know, like it's got a lot of like, it's bodily.