Like any other project, I created a plan, conducted extensive research, prototyped, analyzed, strategized, and iterated.

• Read more than 22 TTRPG books (16 rule books and 6 adventure modules, most being over 200 pages long - great creative output requires great creative input)
  

• Secondary research (read and watched dozens of articles and videos and prowled through hundreds of forums and blog posts about game design, adventure design, and rule systems)
  

• Watched & analyzed countless 80s horror movies (as well as horror films from different decades)
  

• Prototyped 8 different game systems for the Black Box

• Created 5 unique story scenarios, confining settings, and terrifying monsters

• Playtested with 6 different rulesets (each with 3-7 players, some were TTRPG experts and others were newcomers)
  

• Conducted 6 focus groups (feedback sessions from players in each playtest)
  

• Made 6 post-mortems (assessing how the playtests worked, unexpected outcomes, and how well the rulesets completed the desired design objectives)

^{Example of one of my favorite TTRPGs. Blades in the Dark is about a group of scoundrels pulling off Ocean’s 11-style heists set in a dark fantasy city (most easily described as Peaky Blinder’s Birmingham, but haunted).}