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In-game image · Manor Lords

The ambition is to build the world’s leading live platform for strategy game design.Book a class · Follow a developer · See the next build

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Build deeper strategy.

Watch a designer build and playtest a system live. Ask questions and take an exercise back to your own game.

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Can you balance
the opening moves?

Your settlement can secure food or expand early. In the first playtest, expansion wins almost every time. Change the economy and see what happens to both strategies.

An in-game settlement from Against the Storm — Against the Storm reference image · Original teaching exercise

Economy design · Settlement openings

Change the economy

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Follow the next build.

Follow a designer’s project across a series of live builds and playtests. Try a free episode preview, then get a series pass to follow the project and ask questions live.

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Let’s build a home for live strategy design.

A Hooded Horse LIVE concept by GAWP® for paid masterclasses and live playtests with independent strategy game developers.