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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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01:05:19

S12.E09 :: O' Fear? Oh, fir? Ophir!

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2016/02/06

Ophir, designed by Jason Kingsley and Charles Wright, is a resource management, pick-up-and-deliver game that uses dice in a really neat way. Players are merchants trying to trade good for money to buy silver and gold in order to build the temple of Ophir. Players move around a small 7-hex map that offers lots of replayability through the use of walls that give the map a lot of possible combinations. One of the coolest features of the game is the 3-D temple that players construct. While it serves

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S12.E08 :: Beautiful Artwork From an Accomplished Artist

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2016/01/27

Vincent Dutrait, the well-known board game artist and illustrator, joined us for a chat about the process of illustrating art for board games. Vincent has illustrated a lot of popular board games like Discoveries, Lewis and Clark, Tschak!, the 2nd edition of Medici, and many, many more. Our discussion focused on Vincent process for creating board game art. We learned a lot about the tools that Vincent uses in his art. Finally, we talked about games that Vincent worked on as well as games he did not

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W3.E12 :: Who, What, Why with Ludonaute and Cedrick...

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2016/01/23

Who, What, Why presents our twelfth episode of Designing Games with Game Designers which features Cédrick Chaboussit, designer of Discoveries and Lewis & Clark, as well as Anne Cecile and Cédric Lefebvre, owners of Ludonaute. 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 Civil War, colonization, magic, storytelling, role selection,

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S12.E07 :: Thoughts On Design From Across a Portal

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2016/01/16

Ignacy Trzewiczek, owner of Portal Games and designer of games like Robinson Crusoe and Imperial Settlers, shared his thoughts with us on board game design and publishing. Our discussion focused on his process for designing and publishing games. We explored the idea of how games create narrative experiences and why that is so important to designing games. Ignacy was kind enough to give us some of his valuable time right before recording his own podcast. If you are interested in learning more from

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W3.E11 :: Who, What, Why with Jason Kinglsey and...

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2016/01/12

Who, What, Why presents our eleventh episode of Designing Games with Game Designers which features Jason Kingsley and Charles Wright, designers of Ophir. 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 hunting, wild west, advertising, engine building, charades, memory. The rules of this segment have changed considering the switch to the Unpub card game

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S12.E06 :: Innovation Comes in Taking Risks

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2016/01/06

Jason Tagmire, owner of Button Shy Games and designer of Seven 7's among others, brings to the hobby a concept similar to a Wine of the Month Club. Starting this January Button Shy brings a monthly board game club to Patreon for board gamers. Every month of this year Button Shy is organizing both kickstarter and Patreon campaigns that will work hand-in-hand with each other. The Patreon, which provides subscribers with a postcard-sized game every month, also provides discounts on Button Shy's wallet

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S12.E05 :: Jeu de société

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2015/12/26

This episode is jammed pack with guests. We have Cédrick Chaboussit, designer of Discoveries along with Anne Cecile and her husband Cédric Lefebvre, owners of Ludonaute. Cédric Lefebvre is also known for Yggdrasil. Our discussion focused on Ludonaute's process for publishing games, the relationship between designer and publisher, and French board gaming culture. We delve into Discoveries for a bit but spend more time talking in general about game design, publishing, and playing. This was a very

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W3.E10 :: Who, What, Why and Alexander Argyropoulus

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2015/12/22

Who, What, Why presents our tenth episode of Designing Games with Game Designers which features Alexander Argyropoulus, general manager of Mage Company. 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. Alex's three themes, components, and mechanics were dinosaurs, chainsaws, football, press-your-luck, pick-up-and-deliver, set collection. In an effort to bring more content to our listeners, we have

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S12.E04 :: Design Thoughts From Across an Ocean

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2015/12/16

Bruno Cathala is a French game designer responsible for such games as Abyss, Five Tribes, 7 Wonders Duels, and Shadows Over Camelot. He was kind enough to come on our show to discuss his thoughts on game design in relation to some of his games. Our discussion focused on how Bruno approaches his game design and discussed some of how he implemented those ideas in his latest games Abyss and Five Tribes. If you wish to learn more about Bruno's design thoughts, then visit his blog at

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W3.E09 :: Who, What, Why and Jon Gilmour

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2015/12/11

Who, What, Why presents our ninth episode of Designing Games with Game Designers which features Jon Gilmour, co-designer of Dead of Winter. 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. Jon's three themes, components, and mechanics were pirates, mythology, Civil War, spinner, suction cups, coffee beans, role selection, player elimination, and yelling louder. In an effort to bring more content to our

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S12.E03 :: If Mike Cho is in your podcast feed ...

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2015/12/06

Dead of Winter, co-designed by Jon Gilmour and Isaac Vega, is a cooperative betrayer game like Battlestar Galactica but set in a zombie apocalypse. In Dead of Winter players work together to accomplish a particular goal while surviving the apocalypse. Each player controls a small group of survivors who must use their actions to best help the group. The twist to the game is that one player may be a betrayer working against the common goal. Each player is given a secret objective card, which

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S12.E02 :: Good luck with layoffs, all right?

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2015/11/25

You're Fired, designed by Doug Levandowski, is a 2-player small box game like Love Letter where each player is trying to fire the other player's boss. The two decks in the game are exactly the same except for 2 consultant cards added at the beginning to throw a little uncertainty into the decks. Most cards consist of ways to look at the other player's hand or eliminate things from it. The game ends when one player cannot save his or her boss from the chopping the block. Our discussion focused on how

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W3.E08 :: Who, What, Why and Ben Rosset

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2015/11/23

Who, What, Why presents our eighth episode of Designing Games with Game Designers which features Ben Rosset, designer of Brewcrafters and the Brewcrafters Card Game. In this episode we use the themes and mechanics found on the cards in Unpub, the card game from Doug Levandowski and J.R. Honeycut. Geoff's three themes and mechanics were spies, great depression, school, modular board, co-op play, and bag building. In an effort to bring more content to our listeners, we have subtracted the game design

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S12.E01 :: Dexterity and Dice Aboard the Starship

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2015/11/18

Space Cadets, designed by Geoff Engelstein and his kids, is a series of games set in a cartoon Star Trek-inspired universe. The series consists of two games with expansions: Space Cadets & Space Cadets Dice Duel. Space Cadets is a coop game where players must work together to solve small dexterity puzzles in an effort to complete an overarching mission objective. Each station on the ship is given its own dexterity task like flicking a disc, playing Memory, or finding small Tetris shapes in a bag

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W3.E07 :: Who, What, Why and Geoff Engelstein

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2015/11/11

Who, What, Why presents our seventh episode of Designing Games with Game Designers which features Geoff Engelstein, designer of Space Cadets, Space Cadets: Dice Duels, and the forthcoming Survive: Space Attack! In this episode we use the themes and mechanics found on the cards in Unpub, the card game from Doug Levandowski and J.R. Honeycut. Geoff's three themes and mechanics were world wars, time travel, holiday, role playing, trading, and auctioning/bidding. In an effort to bring more content to

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S11.E10 :: The Wizard of Publishers

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2015/11/06

MAGE Company, managed by Alexander Argyropoulos, is a board game publisher that has brought the community games such as Raid & Trade, 12 Realms, Hoyuk, and Res Publica: 2230 A.D. MAGE Company is located in Europe and primarily uses Kickstarter to fund most of its games. The company has been at conventions such as UK Games Expo and Essen Spiel but is looking to make a splash in the US convention market. My discussion with Alexander focused on how his company decides what games to produce and how much

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S11.E09 :: To Game or Not to Game?

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2015/10/27

Kill Shakespeare is a comic series created by Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery. In 2014 IDW published a game of the same name based on the comic series. The comic story follows the adventures of some of the bard's most famous characters as they search for the bard himself. Some characters have only good intentions (Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, etc) while others have evil ones (Richard III and Lady MacBeth). The game puts the players in the world of the comic. The game is semi-cooperative. The players

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W3.E06 :: Who, What, Why and David Miller

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2015/10/23

Who, What, Why presents our sixth episode of Designing Games with Game Designers which features David Miller, designer of the handmade Mint Tin series of games. In this episode we used the themes and mechanics found on boardgamizer.com. David's three themes and mechanics were cathedral, illuminati, tournament, word game, action programming, and dexterity. In an effort to bring more content to our listeners, we have subtracted the game design segment from the end of our episodes and are releasing

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S11.E08 :: Agricola for Beer Lovers!

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2015/10/19

Brewcrafters, designed by Ben Rosset, is a worker placement game about designing a brewery, brewing beer, and selling that delicious beer to win the game. Brewcrafters can be compared to Agricola in terms of style and complexity, and that is not a knock on the game. Players use their workers to, among some of the actions available, collect ingredients, upgrade their brewery, and buy more shift workers. After the public actions are completed, players use shift workers to brew beer or research better

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W3.E05 :: Who, What, Why and Christophe Raimbault

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2015/10/13

Who, What, Why presents our fifth episode of Designing Games with Game Designers which features Christophe Raimbault, designer of the 2015 Spiel des Jahres winner Colt Express. In this episode we use the themes and mechanics found on the cards in Unpub, the card game from Doug Levandowski and J.R. Honeycut. Chris' three themes and mechanics were food, commerce, cinema, push your luck, card throwing, and tile rotation. In an effort to bring more content to our listeners, we have subtracted the game

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