Spotted Online – Designer Kevin Wilson Talks “The X-Files” Boardgame
IDW’s upcoming The X-Files boardgame (first mentioned here) releases next month, and this GTM article by designer Kevin Wilson gives us a little peek at what we can expect from the new game. I’d thought it was a completely cooperative game, but the article now has me thinking it’s a group against one game along the lines of Fury of Dracula*. Sweet!
I designed the two sides in the game to be very asymmetrical. The agents play as a team – talking with each other, trading cards, and working to solve the X-Files cases that they think will best help their goal. The Syndicate player, on the other hand, lurks in the shadows behind his player screen, quietly mocking them as he lays cards face down to spring on them later (such as sending Fox on a wild goose chase after his missing sister Samantha), or pollutes the evidence bag with cigarette tokens that can slow down the agents’ overall progress.
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