Category: CGE games
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Mining for Prosperity in Kutná Hora
Mining was an essential part of the city ecosystem in Kutná Hora, and the city might not exist today without having brave miners who were willing to harvest ore to smelt into silver. It was a dangerous job that paid extremely well, considering the risks involved of delving far underground…
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Designing the New Campaign Meta Game in The Missing Expedition
Adding in more layers of replayability, and giving players the opportunity to make choices that can unlock surprises, is an important piece of the puzzle in the upcoming expansion. That’s where the all-new meta game elements come in. They introduce more weight to the choices you make as you navigate…
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Revisiting and Expanding the Professor Kutil Campaign in The Missing Expedition
Each of the two new leaders we previously introduced brings a fresh, unique new play style to the table, but they’re also only a portion of the exciting content you’ll find in this upcoming expansion. Let’s take a look at the behind-the-scenes process of developing and broadening the story-driven campaign,…
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Building the City in Kutná Hora
Though there are multiple ways to score and create combos in Kutná Hora: The City of Silver, a big focus of the game—both thematically and mechanically—hinges on how well you build out the city itself. At the start of the game, the city’s infrastructure is empty, but it will gradually begin…
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A Closer Look at Kutná Hora’s Dynamic Economy System
A lot of classic euros tend to skew towards players plotting out and executing their own plans each turn, without much interaction or connection between what they’re doing and what their opponents are doing. That’s not necessarily a bad thing of course, but the designers behind Kutná Hora: The City of…
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Kutná Hora: The City of Silver – Official FAQ
Hot on the heels of our exciting new game announcement today, we wanted to share some FAQs and behind-the-scenes info for you about our next big upcoming heavy euro, Kutná Hora: The City of Silver. Curious to learn more? Read on for details! Q: Errr…a Kutná-whatna now? What’s that? Kutná…
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Meet the Mechanic – A New Leader for Lost Ruins of Arnak
Anyone who has explored our previous Expedition Leaders expansion for Lost Ruins of Arnak will already be familiar with just how much playing Arnak with the asymmetrical leaders injects a fresh strategic element to the experience. It nudges players to focus in specific directions, which makes certain resources and options…
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Playtesting Lost Ruins of Arnak: Expedition Leaders (part 3)
Read Part 1Read Part 2 In this third and last part of our report, we’ll talk about how we finalized the game design, and at the end also share some interesting stats and give our thanks to the people who helped us on this endeavor. DATA BECOMES ACTION Based on…
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Playtesting Lost Ruins of Arnak: Expedition Leaders (Part 2)
In this part, we’ll talk a bit more about what information we were actually tracking and looking into, and why digital playtest is not everything and real-world tables actually matter. If you’ve missed Part 1 of this series, you can check it out here. PROCESSING (AND EVALUATING) THE DATA During…
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Playtesting Lost Ruins of Arnak: Expedition Leaders (Part 1)
Today, after a month of wild playing, experimenting, and iteration, the online playtesting of Expedition Leaders is over. Now seemed like a good time for us to look back and reflect on this challenging yet so interesting and rewarding process that we’ve been engaged in for the past few weeks.…