Designing Race for the Galaxy: Making a Strategic Card Game

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In this 2018 GDC talk, game designer Tom Lehmann discusses his acclaimed card game Race for the Galaxy, walking through through its use of cards as resources, simultaneous play, luck mitigation via card-sifting, use of icons, and how ideas from economics and optimization theory influenced its design.
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11 ноя 2018

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@simonanderson4858 3 года назад

or, "Why my game is better than Magic: The Gathering and Puerto Rico"

@OneMoreCaptain 5 лет назад

This game is one of the best ever made. It packs an engine building, euro game with lots of depth in a deck of cards. No cubes needed but everything is there...different resources, production, exploration, tough decisions, more interaction than in many euros. Plays quickly but gives in 30 minutes the tactical and strategical depth many euro games take hours to provide.

@bbblackwell 2 года назад

Excellent presentation! A rare nuts-and-bolts look under the hood, instead of the usual, elementary "playtest/iterate/repeat" kind of advice we get on design talks.

@revimfadli4666 2 года назад

MtG actually has an official Japanese "sequel" called Duel Masters which implements opportunity cost, since instead of using dedicated lands, all cards can be played upside-down as "land", but you'd abandon their use as monsters or spells that way

@ElectricSweater Год назад

This is one of my favorite games of all time, but the graphic design on the cards makes this game really hard to understand. He tries really hard to justify it here, but I can't help but wonder how much easier this game would be to teach if they had more graphical clarity around things like halo vs production worlds, or military vs card costs. Color coding different borders is not great visual clarity.

@joshestes6427 2 года назад

Going to disagree on the symbology not being the problem for entry, many games such as Imperial Settlers, Underwater Cities, Dune imperium and Lost Runes of Arnak also use cards with multiple abilities, and are much easier to understand than the symbology within Race. I think RfG is a great game, lots of fun, but those symbols make learning the game a struggle!

@Pinstar 3 года назад

I wonder if the "Former Penal Colony" Card is Australia, based on his "Iceland" comment.

@Peteruspl 5 лет назад

I can't play Race anymore. I've played lots of it with cards but that required having people to play with and was slowed down a bit by shuffling. Then I've got the PC version and that was pure crack. I've played thousands of games on it. Sure as hell I'm not downloading it on the phone, I'd probably sink back in.

@Nimora 3 года назад

Tom is such a natural presenter. I wonder why he is so good at it?!

@JustABrokenToy 4 часа назад

Race for the Galaxy is one of my favorite games, the design feels so clean to me. Phase selection (with minor bonuses) and using cards in-hand as resources are two of my favorite mechanics. The ability to force your opponent into a suboptimal play since tableaus are face-up and you need to telegraph most plays creates great tension. Huge inspiration in my own game design, so I was glad to find this video!

@Jescribano1

This has given me a greater appreciation on how many deliberate choices the designer makes in a game! Huge respect and great talk!

@revimfadli4666 Год назад

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@Holistic-songwriting 4 года назад

This was very interesting, thank you Tom!

@mmikoff 5 лет назад

I got New Frontiers (the board game version of Race) and I enjoy that a lot too. It misses the tight opportunity cost contention of the single resource (cards in Race), but it makes up for it with the variable phase order and better immersion in the theme. Great video, great games, great design! :)