Episode 5: Interview with Roberta Taylor (designer of the tabletop game Creature Comforts)

History & Games Lab Podcast @ University of Edinburgh

English - March 25, 2021 02:00 - 47 minutes - 109 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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Previous Episode: Episode 4: Interview with Joshua Gillingham (designer of the card game Althingi)

Next Episode: Episode 6: Interview with Erika Svanoe and Erik Evensen (Marrying Mr. Darcy)

Interview with Roberta Taylor

In this episode, veteran game designer Roberta Taylor (Octopus’ Garden, Creature Comforts) joins host Eduard Gafton to discuss cozy and historical games alike, the role of history in making games and the compromises made between historical accuracy and game design.

Time Stamps

00:00:00 – Start

00:01:25 – How does a game like Creature Comforts come to be?

00:03:53 – A game shaped around coziness

00:22:39 – How and why Roberta got into game design

00:28:30 – What is the role of history in making games

00:37:31 – Where do you compromise? Historical accuracy or fun?

Mentioned in this Episode

Creature Comforts’ Kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kidstablebg/creature-comforts-0

Learn more about Creature Comforts: https://www.kidstablebg.com/creature-comforts

Learn more about Octopus’ Garden: https://www.valleygames.ca/archive/our-games/octopus-garden/

Roberta’s Website: https://robertataylor.ca/

Roberta’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/infiniteroberta

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Seminar and Events

A recording of the seminar “All hail the Stormcloaks, the true sons and daughters of Skyrim”: White Nationalism in Neo-Medieval Tropes in Bethesda Games delivered by Thomas Lecaque from Grand View University on 26 March is available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPoemU_CP8tniXBy6Vj0uiwKHiH5_meqz

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Intro/Outro Music:

Call to Adventure by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3470-call-to-adventure

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Twitter Mentions

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