Pax Pamir

Her professional background is in political communications and advocacy, and the game translates the campaign for ratification of the 19th Amendment into a car-driven strategy game.

Carl Worley is the designer of Pax Pamir and John Company.

His historical designs use systems to model political and economic structures rather than simply representing historical events.

Emma Bell Holland is a designer and co-founder of Holland Spiele.

Cole Worley's historical designs approach reality through systems.

In his interview on Game Design Deep Dive, Worley talks about the difference between building a historical model and making a polemical argument.

His games Pax Pamir and John Company use rules to put players into political and economic structures that are representative of their historical time periods, rather than treating history as a sequence of events that players can watch.

John Company places players within the British East India Company's political and economic world.

And it was a LaCroix, which is just so funny considering he's French.

You guys should have been playing Pax Pamir because then if you spill it, you just use that rag of a game board to just mop it up.

To mop everything up, yeah.

Honestly, outside of the cards, Pax Pamir is pretty water-resistant.

It's

a good thought, yeah.