The Game Design Round Table
The Game Design Round Table
Dirk Knemeyer & David V. Heron
#262 Diving into Co-op Card Games with MJ Newman
57 minutes Posted Sep 8, 2021 at 1:54 pm.
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MJ Newman joins Dirk and David to discuss co-op card games and her work on the Lord of the Rings and Arkham Horror LCGs published by Fantasy Flight Games. They talk about how these co-op games are designed compared to a competitive collectable card game, and how MJ's love for narrative led to a stronger RPG-like aspect to the games she worked on. Finally, the game discusses some of the considerations when designing a Lovecraftian game—from the question of how to incorporate combat to the question of how to adapt the genre while avoiding the horror author's problematic ideas.