How to Make a Theme Game Work for You

A lot of people that play games, they want to feel like they're part of something. Even if it's not a story-centric game, if you have a theme that's on there, and farming or something like that, this story can kind of unfold. And I think that's one of the best definitions I've ever heard or used for theme. Stuff like that just kind of makes the game make sense,. It provides a way for players to just get into the experience of a game as opposed to... checkers where you're just moving your little tokens on the board? "I actually came up with this idea when I was on sabbatical," he says about Distilled