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From Hearthstone to MARVEL SNAP with Second Dinner's Ben Brode

The AIAS Game Maker's Notebook

CHAPTER

The Strange Attractor in Tabletop Games

The snap mechanic is called the strange attractor. It's a single mechanic in a game that changes the whole experience. This gives a persona or a personality like I love when I get into a snap game and someone immediately snaps, I'm like, oh, this fucking guy. The cube will exist on a layer above the game you're playing, right? And this is actually something we're really worried about because for most of the development, like we've been all over the place on this cube.

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