Jarren's Development Blog #3 - The End Game

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🗓️ 15 February 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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This week Jackson and Zammit talk about a much maligned aspect of board game design: The End Game aka how do you make the last round not boring aka I have glanced down at the score and I cannot feasibly win so what now? Who knew the answer was simply give people stuff to do which may also include wrecking their friend's day.

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0:45.1	Hello, welcome to episode three of the Jaron's Outpost Development Blog podcast.
0:47.5	I think it could be two things.
0:47.8	Yeah.
0:52.4	I'm sad we didn't start calling it like the development vlog.
0:55.3	Oh, this is kind of a vlog. I mean it is.
1:02.3	Far out. Vloggers? Where did they go? What about all the vloggers? That's something to think about.
1:08.6	Anyway, today, I'm Jackson. Oh, I'm Joel. Yeah, and today we thought what we would talk about is the end game, which is like monumentally huge,
1:14.2	like such an integral part of developing a board game, but one you might not think about
1:18.5	initially.
1:19.5	And that is how do you know when you've won?
1:21.7	What does it mean to win?
1:23.0	How do you win?
1:24.5	What do you do there?
1:25.9	Well, because I think this also comes back to a lot of other board games that almost disappointing feeling you have in the last round or when things are about the finish out.
1:36.1	Absolutely.
1:36.5	And then what happens?
1:37.8	Yeah, like even before we started developing Jaron's Outposts, we're in the really early days.
1:42.2	Because we played a lot of board games.
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