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What Do I Do in the Mr. President Demo?
Our demo has been live for two days now, and the overall response has been wonderful and encouraging. But a common sentiment among players - especially players unfamiliar with the board game - is often expressed as: “Wh…
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Mr. President – Steam Next Fest Demo Now Live!
Hey everyone, We’re thrilled (and a little nervous) to announce that the demo for Mr. President: The American Presidency 2000–2020 is now available as part of Steam Next Fest! We plan for this demo to be live only durin…
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Inside the Oval Office: Live Demo Gameplay & Dev Commentary
Come watch Ananda Gupta, the game designer for digital Mr. President, play through the Steam Next Fest Demo at 4pm Pacific on Tuesday, June 10!
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Simulating Crisis: When Games Mirror Current Events
In the real world, India and Pakistan had a sequence of violent confrontations. There’s still a lot we don’t know about those events: the casualties and air kills, the course of the mediation and the degree of U.S. invo…
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Disasters, Chaos, and Terror
I’ve already written about the Crisis deck in Mr. President, but that post covered just the basics, and the concept of Cascading Events. Here I want to talk about even more specific types of Crisis cards: Natural Disast…
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Portraits of Possibility
Mr. President is a game about putting yourself in the Oval Office. We want to do as much as possible to ensure that players can envision themselves as POTUS, which means a variety of player avatars. Many strategy games…
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It's Always the Economy
The stewardship of the U.S. economy is one of the most important political concerns for modern U.S. presidents, and American economic performance has a large and undeniable impact on election outcomes. Yet Mr. President…
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Portrait of Power: Inside the Office of the President of China
China and Russia are major geopolitical competitors for the U.S. in Mr. President and as such, they have their own dedicated segments within the game turn called China Acts or Russia Acts. Like our Oval Office painting,…
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