After playing a game, the first thing I want to know is, “How did they make me feel that?” The modern tabletop game designer operates at an obscure pinnacle of design practice, orchestrating a symphony out of players’ natural proclivities around competition, optimization, risk aversion, deception, conflict resolution, and more. I call it “magic” because the modern tabletop game evokes incredible levels of emotional and intellectual engagement based on little more than the players’ agreement to follow the rules and use the same set of pieces. I’ve had a lifelong love of playing games, but since co-designing a board game at a Global Game Jam event in 2011, I’ve discovered an even deeper joy in exploring the why and how of a tabletop game’s magic. Instead, talented game designers will present in-depth case studies of unique tabletop games.Īfter exploring game mechanics and theme in detail, attendees experience each game in group play sessions - with tons of time for discussing the art and practice of game design.Īfter reading the blurb, I swept my calendar clean and started counting pennies - this was the board game conference I’ve always wanted to attend. Here is the organizers’ description for the two-day event:Īt TableFlip, there’s no exhibit hall, no tournaments and no huge crowds. I spent the past weekend attending the first TableFlip tabletop game design conference in San Francisco.
DAN TABLEFLIP SERIES
Volko Ruhnke and Brian Train unpack the underlying principles of the COIN series of transformative wargames.
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