The Game Designers (Saturday Review)
Tabletop Games Blog
English - March 21, 2020 11:44 - 6 minutes - 10.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGames Leisure Hobbies Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We all love to play board games. We each have our favourite genres, themes and mechanisms, and ultimately our favourite games. Over time our favourites change of course, as new games come out and we get a chance to play them. Yet, when we play a board game, we don't usually think about how this game came into being in the first place. Chances are we know the designer of the game. In fact, we might have chosen the game because we like other games by the same designer. Yet, very few will have any inkling of the hard work the designer has put into taking a spark of an idea and turning it into a working game. In the film The Games Designers written and directed by Eric Rayl, Mike Selinker phrases it really well: "Board game design is hard, like, I mean, real hard."
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Links
The Game Designers: http://thegamedesignersmovie.com/Eric Rayl: https://twitter.com/zoomoutmediaMike Selinker: https://twitter.com/mikeselinkerDesign challenges Topic Discussion article: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2020/03/17/design-challenges-topic-discussionChris Faulkenberry: https://twitter.com/ccfaulkenberryDoug Schepers: https://twitter.com/shepazuKelly North Adams: https://twitter.com/boardofplayingMatt Leacock: https://twitter.com/mattleacockAntoine Bauza: https://twitter.com/ToinitoIf you want to support this podcast financially, please check out the links below:
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