Award-winning tabletop designer Ben Lehman will discuss four groundbreaking tabletop games: Polaris, Hot Guys Making Out, Amidst Endless Quiet, and A Real Game. Like all tabletop games, these games manipulate your emotions to draw you into their mechanics and story. But how do they work? We'll look at each in turn and analyze how it's trying to make you feel, and how the mechanics work to make you feel that way.