
How to Make a Super Thematic Game and Do Research with Dave Beck
The Board Game Design Lab
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Theme and the Mechanics of Distilled
Tombow is a game that was created based on a vision I had for telling a certain story. And then from there, I let that theme as best as I possibly could drive the mechanics of the game. For instance, when you distill alcohol, not talking about beer, this is not talking about wine, it's not talking about spirits. So kind of things like whiskey or gin or vodka. The head and the tail are actually cut automatically from the spirit but what they do is because it's toxic, they don't put it in the bottle, but they do reuse it. That mechanic teaches people the game even more because they understand a world scenario once they've fulfilled your recipe
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