From: turbopuns | #014
Question: when building a game from the ground up, what's the basic process? Do you want to make basically the whole set-up of roles and then go and add flavor to it, or start by listing all the characters you might put in the game, and try to build a set of roles from that?
Usually, I'll be playing a game or watching a tv show/movie and my brain will go into mafia mode for a minute and make a connection between a character and a role, and then from there other connections keep springing up, and after a while I'm like halfway to a game. Then I list any character I don't have a firm idea on, put possible roles in the next column, and craft a setup from that.
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