Peter Adkison — Building Gen Con, Empowering Game Designers, and the Thrill of Gathering the Gaming Tribe (#30)
Think Like A Game Designer
The Importance of Economic Constraints in Design
"I came from a very poor background just since I was raised on a farm in Idaho. Most of my, I didn't know anybody who was wealthy really didn't know even how to raise money." "Our constraints at the beginning were to just do role playing game products and to do them fairly cheap, fairly modestly," he says. "There's plenty of these design pitch programs out there where it can say, okay, design a game that only uses 12 cards and has a theme about nature"
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