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“Sometimes, in the quest for elegant simplicity, designers over-abstract to the point where the game is actually harder to grok.”
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AEG seeks games set in Tempest, a fictional city-state whose characters will inhabit board games that the company is soliciting from designers.

Todd Rowland (@toddrowland) explains on The Little Metal Dog Show (@idlemichael):

http://littlemetaldog.com/2012/07/13/episode-43-salutempest/

SEE ALSO: AEG’s Tempest Designer Resource page: http://www.alderac.com/tempest/designer-resource/

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