Latest Game design Podcast Episodes
Making a TTRPG Career (w/ Sebastian Yue)
Yes Indie'd Pod - April 29, 2024 12:00 - 47 minutesSupport the show! On today's show, we're talking ship with Sebastian Yue, a game designer, writer, and editor. Apart from their own self-published games and DMs Guild modules, They work full-time at Hit Point Press which is best known for various very succesful third party D&D 5e products like...
Game Devs Are Worried About Live Service Games, Binge Vs Weekly Releases and Gaming for Science
Nerds Amalgamated - April 23, 2024 23:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe Australian Stop Killing Games Petition is now active. Sign it here: https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6080 Live service games seem like the future of gaming, but the tide seems to be changing. A survey of game developers says that the majority are concerned about the future of l...
Getting Weirder Than Lovecraft (w/ Graham Walmsley)
Yes Indie'd Pod - April 15, 2024 10:35 - 49 minutesSupport the show! Today, we're talking to Graham Walmsley, the celebrated game designer behind tabletop RPGs like Cthulhu Dark and A Taste for Murder, larps like Will That Be All, and lovecraftian scenarios for games like Trail of Cthulhu. He's also the author of two non-fiction books called St...
35: Andrew Bosley
Player Lair Podcast - April 12, 2024 16:00 - 1 hourAndrew Bosley is one of the co-designers of Planecrafters by Paisley Board Games and the artist behind Everdell, The River, Mission: Red Planet, and Citadels. He is a freelance illustrator, game designer, and writer working primarily in the board and video game industries. Support the show Lin...
#1128: Outlaws of Thunder Junction Play Design with Jadine Klomparens
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast - April 12, 2024 14:30 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 657 ratingsIn this podcast, I sit down with Outlaws of Thunder Junction Lead Play Designer Jadine Klomparens to talk about the play design of the set.
#1127: Same But Different
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast - April 12, 2024 14:29 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 657 ratingsIn this podcast, I talk about a concept I learned from my days in Hollywood and how I apply it to Magic design.
Episode 81: What's The Point?
Game Designers of North Carolina Podcast - April 10, 2024 01:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsLyn Phillips, Josh Bowman, and Mark McGee get together to discuss what value games offer, and whether games should exist. It’s not nearly as Nihilistic of an episode as that sounds! We also discuss how to pitch games to Allplay. 2:48 – What are Games Good For? 13:16 – Pitch Perfect: Allplay 2...
Stop Killing Games, The Case of the Missing Anime and The New Lunar Time Zone
Nerds Amalgamated - April 07, 2024 23:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsRoss Scott's Campaign to save games has kicked off, and we're sharing his battle plans. This is something we can all do to help prevent games from being destroyed. With the death of Funimation, anime is also at risk of being taken away from you. Paid products aren't showing up on CrunchyRoll's ...
#1126: Outlaws of Thunder Junction Set Design with Dave Humpherys
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast - April 05, 2024 14:30 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 657 ratingsIn this podcast, I sit down with Dave Humpherys, set design lead for Outlaws of Thunder Junction, to talk about the set design of the latest expansion.
#1125: Mercenaries
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast - April 05, 2024 14:29 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 657 ratingsIn honor of Outlaws of Thunder Junction, I did a card-by-card design podcast on cards with creature type Mercenary.
A Nerds Amalgamated 200th Episode Special - An Interview with Worthy Chaos Comics Creator : Corissa Grant
Nerds Amalgamated - March 31, 2024 23:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsFor our 200th episode, we've interviewed Corissa Grant from Worthy Chaos Comics to talk about their series Redemption, a comic about love, a war involving the ancient Egyptian and Celtic pantheons, demon hunters, and a whole lot of gore. Corissa tells us about how she got into writing comics, ho...
The Awards (w/ Nico MacDougall and Tan Shao Han)
Yes Indie'd Pod - March 30, 2024 11:48 - 38 minutesSupport this show! This week, we're talking to Nico MacDougall and returning guest Tan Shao Han about The Awards, an alternative tabletop RPG awards project. Show Notes: 03:56 Introductions 13:31 Being a judge 16:09 The process of picking a winner 21:30 Who should be a judge? 25:36 Infec...
#1124: Outlaws of Thunder Junction Vision Design
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast - March 29, 2024 14:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 657 ratingsIn this podcast, I talk about the early design of Outlaws of Thunder Junction.
#1123: Every Set
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast - March 29, 2024 14:29 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 657 ratingsBefore I get into Outlaws of Thunder Junction, I see if I can name every non-core expansion set in order with a bit of trivia about each one.
34: Richard Garfield
Player Lair Podcast - March 26, 2024 12:00 - 1 hourRichard Garfield is a game designer and mathematics professor known for creating the immensely popular card game Magic: The Gathering. In our conversation, we delve into topics such as game design, discovering fun where we don't initially feel it, playtesting, auto battlers, and much more! Addi...
Don't Reboot The Crow, Neuralink Success, and Pokemon Law
Nerds Amalgamated - March 24, 2024 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe Crow is one of BPM's favourite movies, as well as a Brandan Lee's final film role. There's talks about rebooting it with a new storyline and BPM, along with the original director, are not very happy about it. Neuralink has begun human trials, beset with animal testing issues and beaten to m...
#1122: Top 20 Evergreen Mechanics, Part 2
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast - March 22, 2024 14:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 657 ratingsDuring my MagicCon: Chicago talk where I listed my top 20 mechanics of all time, I also showed a slide for my top 20 evergreen mechanics and said that one day, I'd do a podcast on it. Today is that day. This is part two of two.
#1121: Top 20 Evergreen Mechanics, Part 1
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast - March 22, 2024 14:29 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 657 ratingsDuring my MagicCon: Chicago talk where I listed my top 20 mechanics of all time, I also showed a slide for my top 20 evergreen mechanics and said that one day, I'd do a podcast on it. Today is that day. This is part one of two.
WB Kills Another Company, The Oscars and Razzies, and How Stress Makes You Dumber
Nerds Amalgamated - March 17, 2024 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWarner Bros seem to be intent on killing everything they own. The latest casualty is Adult Swim's Games library. Professor reminisces about some of his favourite games from this publisher that will no longer be available to customers. The Oscars and Razzies happened again this week, so the Nerd...
#1120: The Early Days of Magic
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast - March 15, 2024 14:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 657 ratingsIn this podcast, I explain what it was like to play Magic in 1993.
#1119: The Elephant in Boots Problem
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast - March 15, 2024 14:29 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 657 ratingsIn this podcast, I share what Magic R&D refers to as the "elephant in boots" problems and how we work to solve it.
33: Andrew Stiles
Player Lair Podcast - March 14, 2024 17:00 - 53 minutesAndrew is an American game designer and co-host of the Tabletop Submarine podcast. His new game Wine Cellar is coming to Kickstarter in April 2024. Support the show Links to my games: 99 Ninja Rise of Babel on Kickstarter coming in 2024
Reading The F**king Manual (w/ Max Lander & Aaron King)
Yes Indie'd Pod - March 14, 2024 10:30 - 56 minutesSupport this show! Today we're talking to Max and Aaron from RTFM. Maxwell Lander is a game designer, photographer, visual artist, and also musician with an album of dungeon synth. Aaron King is a game designer whose works including Patchwork World Sixth Edition. They are both the co-hosts of R...
Yuzu and The Crew Updates, Executive Meddling and Teaching Children to Talk
Nerds Amalgamated - March 10, 2024 23:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis week we bring you the latest updates in the Nintendo vs Yuzu case, the first shots in the war to save games from deletion, and the push towards even more live service games. Executives are ruining movies. We discuss the reasons and the solutions to escape executive meddling. Finally, we p...
#1118: Top 20 Mechanics, Part 3
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast - March 08, 2024 15:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 657 ratingsThis is my third podcast in a three-part series talking about the 20 best non-evergreen mechanics of all time. It's based on a talk I gave at MagicCon: Chicago.
#1117: Top 20 Mechanics, Part 2
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast - March 08, 2024 15:29 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 657 ratingsThis is the second of a three-part series talking about the 20 best non-evergreen mechanics of all time. It's based on a talk I gave at MagicCon: Chicago.
32: Daniel Piechnick
Player Lair Podcast - March 07, 2024 12:00 - 1 hourDaniel is a former Magic: The Gathering external developer and designer of Radlands. He also writes illuminating board game design articles, which can be found at daniel.games. "This (referring to daniel.games) is an excellent resource for people who want to get into game design; it is filled ...
Nintendo Vs Yuzu, Marvel's Future, and The Benefits of Green Space
Nerds Amalgamated - March 03, 2024 23:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsNintendo are suing a Fruit company. The Yuzu emulator is under attack. The Professor has some thoughts on how this affects the future of games preservation. Marvel are trying to recover from a few big failures recently. The DJ ponders their future projects and what they need to do to bring the ...
#1116: Top 20 Mechanics, Part 1
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast - March 01, 2024 15:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 657 ratingsRecently at MagicCon: Chicago, I did a talk called "The 20 Best Mechanics of All Time," which you can watch here. This podcast covers part one of that talk.
#1115: MagicCon: Chicago
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast - March 01, 2024 15:29 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 657 ratingsIn this podcast, I talk about my time at last weekend's MagicCon: Chicago.
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