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Rule of Carnage - Designing Better Miniatures Games

Game designers Mike Hutchinson and Glenn Ford talk about how, why and if they design tabletop miniatures games. With discussions, tips, reviews and interviews.

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00:34:41

Ep 40: Miniatures Game Design - Template or Tape...

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2022/07/18

In this episode Glenn and Mike respond to a comment asking for their opinion on movement templates as opposed to movement based on measured distances. They talk about the use of templates in Gaslands and measurements in A Billion Suns and all sorts of other systems.Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design tabletop miniatures games with discussions, tips,

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01:23:41

Ep 39: Miniatures Game Design - Hobgoblin List Building.

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2022/07/11

In this episode Glenn and Mike take a closer look at the army list building process in the game Mike is currently working on, Hobgoblin. As they do they talk about the nature of the designer and developer relationship, talk about defining the purposes of a design and consider who army building can or should work.Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design

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01:12:09

Ep 38: Miniatures Game Design - World Building.

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2022/07/04

In this episode Glenn and Mike talk about world building, creating a story to explain where your game is happening, and often why. They talk about why you might want to world build, what you should put in when you do and just a little bit about how to actually do it.Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design tabletop miniatures games with discussions, tips,

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01:03:54

Ep 37: Miniatures Game Design - Cognitive Load.

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2022/06/27

In this episode Glenn and Mike talk cognitive load and complexity budget. Complexity budget being the mental strain that learning your game puts players under and cognitive load the mental strain that playing it puts them under. They talk about good ways to lessen both and why you should care about them.Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design tabletop

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00:29:39

Ep 36: Miniatures Game Design - Damage modelling.

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2022/06/20

In this episode Glenn and Mike talk about representing damage in your game, whether forces should degrade with damage, how to note it and whether you should even have it at all.Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design tabletop miniatures games with discussions, tips, reviews and interviews. Check out Man O' Kent Games here:

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00:46:07

Ep 35: Miniatures Game Design - Synergy and Emergence.

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2022/06/13

In this episode Glenn and Mike talk about synergy and emergence in games, hopefully with a few tips on how to engineer them into your designs. They suggest that synergy is something you want players to see so that they can engage with and enjoy building it and that emergence is an unseen bit of story building for players.Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to

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00:59:43

Ep 34: Miniatures Game Design - Inherent Truths.

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2022/06/06

In this episode Glenn and Mike talk about whether there are some things that absolutely must be true about miniatures games design, or designs. A lot is up for grabs here and there's not a lot that they conclude is sacred.Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design tabletop miniatures games with discussions, tips, reviews and interviews. Check out Man O' Kent

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00:35:26

Ep 33: Miniatures Game Design - Audience question time.

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2022/05/30

In this episode Glenn and Mike answer questions from comments left by viewers of their YouTube channel. More of it is about D4s than is probably usual in life, but that's just how the pyramid tumbles.Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design tabletop miniatures games with discussions, tips, reviews and interviews. Check out Man O' Kent Games here:

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01:20:38

Ep 32: Miniatures Game Design - Dice Mechanics.

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2022/05/23

In this episode Glenn and Mike talk dice mechanics, how dice can be controlled, moderated and modulated in your game. They even talk about some of the odd and interesting uses dice can be put to other than just random number generation.Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design tabletop miniatures games with discussions, tips, reviews and interviews. Check

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00:33:58

Ep 31: Miniatures Game Design - Terrible rules.

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2022/05/16

In this episode Glenn and Mike talk about some rule that often come as assumptions in the world of miniatures gaming but that probably shouldn't be assumptions anywhere, or even anything anywhere.Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design tabletop miniatures games with discussions, tips, reviews and interviews. Check out Man O' Kent Games here:

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00:42:01

Ep 30: Miniatures Game Design - Game or Process.

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2022/05/09

In this episode Glenn and Mike get quite philosophical and ramble on about the line between game and process, what makes something one or the other, when a game is a puzzle and when a puzzle is a game. They try to relate it back to narrative miniatures games and the difference between sit forward and sit back gaming, but they might not really have succeeded. It might all just be an example of process podcasting.Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands,

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01:15:28

Ep 29: Miniatures Game Design - Activation and...

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2022/05/02

In this episode Glenn and Mike chat about activation and initiative systems, beginning with the differences between IGOUGO and alternating activations. They discuss the many, varied and fascinating ways to decide the order of player activations and that of their units.Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design tabletop miniatures games with discussions, tips,

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01:10:29

Ep 28: Miniatures Game Design - Psychology.

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2022/04/25

In this episode Glenn and Mike chat about psychology effects in miniatures games, fear, terror, disorder, panic, frenzy and all sorts of methods for simulating the psychology of troops on the tabletop and removing control from players. Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design tabletop miniatures games with discussions, tips, reviews and interviews. Check

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00:39:15

Ep 27: Miniatures Game Design - Something out of...

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2022/04/18

In this episode Glenn and Mike investigate how to make something out of nothing in your designs. Chaos over control and turning everything up to eleven rather than shutting down the fun. Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design tabletop miniatures games with discussions, tips, reviews and interviews. Check out Man O' Kent Games here:

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00:37:06

Ep 26: Miniatures Game Design - Dice Pools.

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2022/04/11

In this episode Glenn and Mike take a deep dive into dice pools, methods for controlling the spread of probability within a game's design. They talk about how pools work and the different dice that might be used in them. Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design tabletop miniatures games with discussions, tips, reviews and interviews. Check out Man O' Kent

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00:37:25

Ep 25: Miniatures Game Design - Victory Conditions.

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2022/04/04

In this episode Glenn and Mike talk about victory conditions, what form they might take, what they're for and if you really need them or not. Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design tabletop miniatures games with discussions, tips, reviews and interviews. Check out Man O' Kent Games here: https://www.manokentgames.com Check out Planet Smasher Games here:

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00:39:20

Ep 24: Miniatures Game Design - Bloat.

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2022/03/28

In this episode Glenn and Mike talk about bloat in games, what it is, how to recognise when its creeping into your games and how to stop it. Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design tabletop miniatures games with discussions, tips, reviews and interviews. Check out Man O' Kent Games here: https://www.manokentgames.com Check out Planet Smasher Games here:

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00:28:23

Ep 23: Miniatures Game Design - Features and Flaws.

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2022/03/21

In this episode Glenn and Mike talk about flaws in games, how to recognise them, when to accept them and the ways in which they can become some of the best and most popular features in your game. Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design tabletop miniatures games with discussions, tips, reviews and interviews. Check out Man O' Kent Games here:

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00:35:46

Ep 22: Miniatures Game Design - Gaslands RnD: Resilience

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2022/03/14

In this episode Glenn and Mike talk about some recent tinkering and testing that they've been doing in relation to some possible alternative version rules tweaks for Gaslands, in this case for the making cards more resilient and able to finish races more consistently. Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design tabletop miniatures games with discussions, tips,

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00:31:55

Ep 21: Miniatures Game Design - A Billion Suns: Warzone.

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2022/03/07

In this episode Glenn and Mike talk the recent release of a new set of contracts for A Billion Suns, the Warzone contracts, built to encourage massive battles with gargantuan spaceships. Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design tabletop miniatures games with discussions, tips, reviews and interviews. Check out Man O' Kent Games here:

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