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The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast

Michael Bonet & Alex Erde

On Who, What, Why? I discuss game design with those who make games and try to learn more about the game design process. Each episode I interview a designer, publisher, developer, artist, etc. of tabletop games such as card, board, or role playing. Some episodes discuss big ideas in design rather than individual games. I have both mainstream and independent developers as guests.

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57:26

Who, What, Why S14.E01 :: Publishing On the Beat

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2016/06/07

Common Man Games, founded by Karl Fenner, is a publisher most noticeable for the co-op hit Police Precinct. What is remarkable about this publisher is that Karl has chosen to only publish games about police. It's interesting to meet a publisher who has chosen to specialize in such a niche theme (in the board gaming world). While Common Man has published K2 and Broad Peak, those games were part of distribution deals rather than created from the ground up from Common Man. My discussion with Karl

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50:38

Who, What, Why S13.E10 :: A Down Time Filler That...

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2016/05/26

Eduardo Baraf of Pencil First Games and Jon Gilmour have collaborated on a trick taking card game that uses an interesting box design as a major component in the game. In most trick taking games players know all of the information played out on the table, but in this one the box obscures the previously played cards adding in a deduction element that gives this one a unique twist. Our discussion focused on the box and the intricacies to designing and prototyping this component. I learned that Jon

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W3.E20 :: Who, What, Why and Brandon Patton

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2016/05/22

Who, What, Why presents our twentieth episode of Designing Games with Game Designers featuring designer Brandon Patton. He is one of the designers of the Super PACs Card Game. In this episode we use the themes, components, and mechanics found on the cards in Unpub, the card game from Doug Levandowski and J.R. Honeycutt. The three themes and mechanics were Cold War, kaiju, pirates, acting, traitor, and player elimination. Alex and I participate in the discussion, so it is a collaborative venture

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49:58

Who, What, Why S13.E09 :: He's Gonna Print You a Game...

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2016/05/17

Stronghold Games burst onto the scene in 2009 with reprints of Code 777 and Survive: Escape from Atlantis. Now 7 years later Stronghold Games has so many titles under its belt, even a game with of its own namesake (Stronghold from Ignacy Trzewicek). One of the initiatives Stronghold Games has embarked on over the last few years has been creating partnerships with foreign publishers like Artipia and Eggertspiel to bring over games that North American gamers had to previously acquire from Essen or

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07:40

W3_E19_Designing_Games_with_Peter_Newland

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2016/05/11

Who, What, Why presents our nineteenth episode of Designing Games with Game Designers featuring Peter Newland, designer of Wizard Dodgeball and Flapjack Flipout. In this episode we use the themes, components, and mechanics found on the cards in Unpub, the card game from Doug Levandowski and J.R. Honeycutt. The three themes and mechanics were sacrifice, Napolean, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, acting, pattern building, deduction. Alex and I participate in the discussion, so it is a collaborative venture

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Who, What, Why S13.E08 :: Are You Not Entertained,...

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2016/05/06

Volt, designed by Emerson Matsuuchi, is like robo-gladiators fighting in an arena to see who can be the first to score 5 points. The game is simple. There are 3 dice: red, white, and blue. Players use these dice to assign actions to their robot (shoot and move). The dice are resolved from lowest to highest in red, white, and blue order, which adds an excellent level of unpredictability to the game. While players might be able to plan their moves, they cannot know how their opponents will mess up

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01:29:51

Who, What, Why S13.E07 :: Turn This Interview to 11

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2016/04/28

Castle Dice is a castle-building, dice-drafting game whereplayers get to roll handfuls of dice in order to collect resources and build pieces of a castle. What makes this game unique is the dice-drafting mechanic. Players' eyes are kept glued to the table where those dice lay because not only will the dice you choose help you build your castle, but dice from your opponents may also provide avenues to win. Our conversation focused on how Luke's company Fun to 11 approaches the games it publishes

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W3.E18 :: Who, What, Why with Scott King

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2016/04/22

Who, What, Why presents our eighteenth episode of Designing Games with Game Designers featuring Scott King, writer and photographer. He is the creator of the board game calendars. In this episode we use the themes, components, and mechanics found on the cards in Unpub, the card game from Doug Levandowski and J.R. Honeycutt. The three themes and mechanics were Cthulhu, magic, space, roshambo, card throwing, dice rolling. Alex and I participate in the discussion, so it is a collaborative venture

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01:30:50

Who, What, Why S13.E06 :: To Infinity and Beyond the...

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2016/04/16

Space Cadets Away Mission is the third game in the Space Cadets series, but the first game not designed by the Engelstein family. It is a cooperative dungeon crawl minis game where players work together to meet an objective set by the scenario book. What distinguishes this game from other dungeon crawls is the Overkill system use to resolve everything from combat to skill checks. Players rolls an amount of dice equal to a number printed on the weapon or reference card. Each 1, 2, or 3 is a success

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W3.E17 :: Who, What, Why with JT Smith

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2016/04/12

Who, What, Why presents our seventeenth episode of Designing Games with Game Designers featuring JT Smith, owner of the Game Crafter and designer of The Captain Is Dead. In this episode we use the themes, components, and mechanics found on the cards in Unpub, the card game from Doug Levandowski and J.R. Honeycutt. The three themes and mechanics were prehistory, mafia, trains, drafting, drinking, co-op. Alex and I participate in the discussion, so it is a collaborative venture. I hope you enjoy!

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Who, What, Why S13.E05 :: Chocolate Chip Pancakes!...

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2016/04/07

Flappin' Jack's Flipout is an unpublished game from Peter Newland and Chris Rowlands. It is a dexterity game about filling pancake orders faster than your fellow chefs. Chefs pick up face-down pancakes placing them face-up on their griddles. Chefs must flip those pancakes face-down to cook them. Any pancakes that fall during the flipping process are discarded. The first chef who thinks the he or she has filled the order rings the bell and tries to present the correct pancakes. There is a memory

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Who, What, Why S13.E04 :: Witchcraft? Gamecraft!

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2016/03/26

J.T. Smith is both the designer of The Captain is Dead and owner of The Game Crafter. He joined me for a discussion of both his game and his company. Our discussion focused on the origins for The Captain is Dead. We learned what kind of things are in store for the future of the Game Crafter and prototyping (different sized tokens on 1 sheet!). If you have any interest in learning more about J.T.'s game or his services, please visit TheGameCrafter.com.

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W3.E16 :: Who, What, Why with Jason Tagmire

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2016/03/23

Who, What, Why presents our sixteenth episode of Designing Games with Game Designers featuring Jason Tagmire, owner of Button Shy Games, creator of the Board Game of the Month Club, and designer of Pretense. In this episode we use the themes, components, and mechanics found on the cards in Unpub, the card game from Doug Levandowski and J.R. Honeycut. The three themes and mechanics were alien invasion, medieval, fairy tales, hand management, asymmetrical, and leveling up. Alex and I participate in

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Who, What, Why S13.E03 :: Say Cheese, Agricola...

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2016/03/18

Scott King is well known for his fantastic pictures of board games that have been turned into 3 successfully funded calendars. We invited Scott on to talk about how he got involved in creating these calendars and to discuss his experience with Kickstarter. Scott talked about how he has turned the calendar into some nice work with publishers. If you are interested to learn more about Scott's photography or read some of his books, check out ScottKing.info.

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W3.E15 :: Who, What, Why with Bruno Faidutti

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2016/03/12

Who, What, Why presents our fifteenth episode of Designing Games with Game Designers featuring Bruno Faidutti, renowned designer of Citadels, Mission Red Planet, and Isla Dorada. In this episode we use the themes, components, and mechanics found on the cards in Unpub, the card game from Doug Levandowski and J.R. Honeycut. The three themes and mechanics were kung fu, food, aviation, press-your-luck, secret deployment, and tactile. Alex and I participate in the discussion, so it is a collaborative

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Who, What, Why? S13.E02 :: Design and Critique,...

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2016/03/07

Bruno Faidutti, designer of games like Citadels and Raptor, has been designing games for 20 years and is one of the most well-known game designers today. We invited him on the show to talk about his thoughts on the game design process. We also discussed a blog post he wrote about the language of game critics in France who frequently use scientific language like test and inventor when referring to games, which Bruno thinks are more akin to cultural artifacts than inventions. If you wish to read

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Who, What, Why? S13.E01 :: Let's Talk About Politics,...

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2016/02/26

Super PACS, co-designed by Brandon Patton, is a card game on Kickstarter right now about gaining the most political power in an election year. The game relies heavily on political cartoon satire, which makes it a beautiful game to look at. Game play is simple. Players draw and play faction cards (representing various voting blocs) and try to win the House, Senate, and White House. After each player takes a turn drawing/playing cards, an event is drawn which dictates whether someone loses some votes

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W3.E14 :: Who, What, Why with Chip Beauvais

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2016/02/24

Who, What, Why presents our fourteenth episode of Designing Games with Game Designers which features Chip Beauvais, designer of Chroma Cubes. In this episode we use the themes, components, and mechanics found on the cards in Unpub, the card game from Doug Levandowski and J.R. Honeycut. Chip's three themes and mechanics were work place, police and firefighters, farming, set collection, roll and move, worker placement. This episode differs from our normal Designing Games segments because Chip

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S12.E10 :: Two Computers Walk Into a War

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2016/02/17

Resistor_, designed by Nicole Kline and Anthony Amato, is a two-player game where players take on the roles of opposing computers trying to hack each other's network to drop the other to Defcon 1. The game is played in turns consisting of the same 3 actions though the order of those actions may differ from turn to turn. A player wants to connect his or her colored circuits in a continuous line to score a hit, while keeping other player from being able to do the same. Because the cards are

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W3.E13 :: Who, What, Why with Ignacy Trzewiczek

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2016/02/13

Who, What, Why presents our thirteenth episode of Designing Games with Game Designers which features Ignacy Trzewiczek, designer of Robinson Crusoe, Imperial Settlers, and owner of Portal Games. In this episode we use the themes, components, and mechanics found on the cards in Unpub, the card game from Doug Levandowski and J.R. Honeycut. Jason and Charles' three themes and mechanics were nautical, podcasting, space, dice rolling, trick taking, drawing. The rules of this segment have changed

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