Alex Kostopoulos joins Jonathan to discuss how he crafts a homebrew game. The two discuss some game design before diving into a larger topic of tabletop gaming & the Lord of the Rings.
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The Home Brewery
The premise of Alex’s game puts players into a miniatures dungeon crawl in the style of the old school video game Gauntlet. Players must destroy monster spawn points in order to trigger the arrival of a monster lieutenant. After destroying enough monster lieutenants the enemy boss appears. Once the players kill the boss they’ve won!
Along the way they need to kill rank & file monsters, earn golf coins, seek treasure in aptly-named treasure chests, and potentially go on interesting quests. Working in a team is a necessity if the players are to have any hope of winning this cooperative game.
Alex’s Game Design Goals
- Make the game quick and easy to play
- The game should require very few miniatures
- Players are given respawns to allow extended gameplay with fewer figures
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