Hardcore or bust: New wave of mobile strategy games target the core gamer

Shawn Foust doesn’t want to design casual games. As the vice president of game design at Quark Games, he made the upcoming Champs: Battlegrounds specifically for the hardcore gamer, the type of person who prioritizes their games over any other hobby or past time.

“I’m not making this so that every single person who never cared about games can pick up my thing and then all of a sudden understand everything about it,” said Foust. “I want this game to be a thinking game for people who care about games.”