The Mechanics of Theme
One of the major differences between the video game and board games is their ways of treating "Theme". It's something that I touched upon during my IndieCade talk, (I swear, I'll get that recorded one of these days) but it's really a topic that we could talk about for hours and still have more mysteries than answers. Video games have a number of tools at their disposal. They have expensive voice actors, fancy cut scenes, scrolling text boxes, beautiful graphics and visuals an
