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How Tabletop Design Helped Shape 'UFO 50'

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This talk chronicles how Jon Perry leveraged his background as a published board game designer to create novel 8-bit strategy games for the 2024 indie video game UFO 50. In it, he focuses on some of the collection's most popular and tabletop-influenced games: Party House, Avianos, and Bug Hunter. He does deep dives on how the designs of those games drew upon tabletop influences and principles. Along the way, he also shares some of the design tools he's developed while working on board games, and how those tools can be applied to video games.

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