137: Amulet of the Ages: Board Game Storytelling with Bruce Glassco

The Cru sit down with board game designer Bruce Glassco, author of Betrayal at House on the Hill, to chat about narrative game design and literary inspiration in board games. Bruce shares his inspiration for a haunted house game, as well as the challenges (and tricks to overcome them) of writing a horror-genre board game. It's a fun conversation ranging from Wuthering Heights to the challenges of playtesting.

Stories begin at the 25:45 mark and include a cursed bargain and the price of eternal youth; a wizard's quest for a magical artifact; survival horror in a...zoo?, and a family's moral reckoning; and a psychological horror about addiction and memory.

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