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PODCAST

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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01:12:39

S11.E07 :: Warning! Don't Eat Components!

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2015/10/07

Mint Tin games, designed by David Miller, is a series of (currently) 3 games that fit entirely in small Altoid-sized tin. The 3 games are Pirates, Aliens, and Mini Apocalypse. These are games that you can play anywhere whether waiting for dinner at a restaurant or on line at the DMV. The charm of these games is that they are component-lite yet provide enjoyable game experiences. The added bonus is that they fit in your pocket. In Pirates, each player wants to use pairs of mini cards and dice to

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01:04:24

S11.E06 :: I Want My N(etwork)TV!

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2015/09/26

The Networks, designed by Gil Hova, is a game about running a t.v. station, developing shows, and scoring the most viewers after 5 full seasons. The game has a unique setup that helps to simplify all of the action. Players take one action on their turns either developing a new show, adding a star or ad to another show, drawing a network card (action card), or ending their season. Shows degrade from season to season, so those initial shows one develops will have to be replaced. The game offers a lot

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W3.E04 :: Who, What, Why and Eduardo Baraf

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2015/09/23

Who, What, Why presents our fourth episode of Designing Games with Game Designers featuring Eduardo Baraf, designer of GemPacked Cards, Lift Off, and Murder of Crows. In this episode we forego the Channel A premise cards for our inspiration and instead use the themes and mechanics found on the cards in Unpub the card game from Doug Levandowski and J.R. Honeycut. Ed's three themes and mechanics were Victorian, Kaiju, food, press your luck, pvp, and traitors. GemPacked Cards is still on Kickstarter

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01:01:12

S11.E5 :: Train Robbin', Cowboy Shootin', French...

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2015/09/17

Colt Express, designed by Christophe Raimbault, is a programmed movement game where the coolest feature is not the fun artwork or awesome cowboy meeples. The game comes with a 3-dimensional train where cowboys get to punch, shoot, and steal from each while avoiding the marshall. In the game, players will play action cards either face-up or face-down depending on the round card. Players gather the cards together and resolve the action one card at a time. Players can try to plan carefully, but those

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W3.E03 :: Who, What, Why and Ewen Cluney

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2015/09/11

Who, What, Why presents our third episode featuring Ewen Cluney, designer of Channel A and blogger at Yaruki Zero Games. His four premises were pirates, England, grotesque aliens, and alien babes. 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 these segments on their own. We record a lot of interviews, so we will have a lot of these game design exercises. The purpose of the segment is to brainstorm about

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S11.E04 :: An AudioPacked Podcast About a GemPacked Game

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2015/09/08

GemPacked Cards, designed by Eduardo Baraf, is a game that brings swipe-three-style app games to the tabletop. In this game players use the primary and secondary color spectrum to try to change geminos into gems and gems into diamonds in an effort to walk away with the most points once the gemino supply is exhausted. Players have a variety of ways that they can spend their tokens and cards on their turn. Each player has complete control over the board. Geminos can be exchanged in pairs either with

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S11.E03 :: There's Gold in Them Hills!

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2015/08/26

Pay Dirt, designed by Tory Niemann, is an auction and engine building game about mining for gold in Alaska. Players must bid on new equipment, workers, and land claims to turn those claims into profitable gold. Every round starts with an auction and ends with a worker assignment phase. At the end of the round, players draft hardship cards hoping to draw the least punishing one. The head miner's card also forces players to drop the temperature by a preset number of degrees. When the temperature

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W3.E02 :: Designing Games with John Ariosa

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2015/08/22

Our second episode features John Ariosa, well-known board game artist. Some of his games include Mice and Mystics, Floating Market, and Bullfrogs. His four premises were cute school girls, dolls, blood sport, and heartwarming. 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 these segments on their own. We record a lot of interviews, so we will have a lot of these game design exercises. The purpose of the

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S11.E02 :: It's Not a Trick Dad; It's an Illusion

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2015/08/16

Smoke & Mirrors, designed by Chip Beauvais, is a bluffing style micro-game on Kickstarter now. The game is being published by Jason Tagmire (Pretense, Pixel Lincoln) as part of his wallet game series. Each player is a magician who must create better and better tricks than his or her opponent. The game play is similar to games like Liar's Dice or B.S. The first player must use his or her limited hand to play cards that add up to '1' facedown. The next player places cards that add to '2'. Players keep

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W3.E01 :: Designing Games with Jamey Stegmaier

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2015/08/11

Our first episode featured Jamey Stegmaier of Stonemaier Games. His four premises were time travel, psychic powers, cafe, and street culture. 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 these segments on their own. We record a lot of interviews, so we will have a lot of these game design exercises. The purpose of the segment is to brainstorm about a game design with a published or soon-to-be published

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42:56

S11.E01 :: Super Fun Time Audio Recording Z

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2015/08/06

Channel A, designed by Ewen Cluney, is a party game about pitching anime television shows to a single producer. Each player is given 10 cards with words that can be used to make up the title. The producer chooses 2 of 5 premise cards and reads them aloud. These cards may say "robotic" and "hamsters" or "chinese fantasy" and "cooking". Players use up to 4 (according to the base game) title cards to pitch a show idea. The producer chooses which one he or she likes and awards that player with a

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S10.E10 :: Pretty Pretty Pictures

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2015/07/27

Reknowned board game artist John Ariosa joins us to discuss how he creates the art many of us look at as we play our board games. You will know his art from Mice and Mystics, Bullfrogs, Hocus, and Floating Market among the many games he has put his creative stamp on. This interview is different from our standard episodes because we get to learn more about the behind-the-scenes of making board games but from a new kind of voice. We learn how John broke into the world of board game art and about his

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01:15:50

S10.E09 :: The Best Laid Schemes O' Mice an' Mystics

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2015/07/16

Mice and Mystics, designed by Jerry Hawthorne, is a campaign game that puts players in the roles of a prince and his friends after they are turned into mice. These mice must battle rats, spiders, and cockroaches to undo the plans of the evil sorceress Vanestra before she takes over the kingdom. To win the day, players will have work together using their strategy and cunning to outwit the evil sorceress. This game provides great depth for seasoned gamers, but is also so easily accessible by young

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01:24:17

S10.E08 :: New Dicetopia Needs Your Obedience

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2015/07/07

Euphoria, designed by Jamey Stegmaier, is a dice-powered worker placement game set in a dystopian future. The goal of the game for each player is to place 10 of his or her stars before anyone else. Euphoria is unique because the dice represent a player's workers' collective intelligence, and the greater the cumulative value of the dice, the more likely a worker is to defect (lose 1 worker). Players need to balance between grabbing lots of workers and keeping their workers blissful and ignorant. The

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S10.E07 :: A French Gem Set in a Crucial Period of...

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2015/06/27

Lewis and Clark, designed by Cédrick Chaboussit, is resource and hand management game with an historical racing twist. The characters are real figures from history such as Meriweather Lewis, William Clark, and Seaman the dog. Each player is leading an expedition to map the Lousiana Purchase starting in St. Louis and ending in Fort Clatsop in what is now Oregon State. Players will have to carefully manage how they utilize their cards and resources because reckless overloading of either may result in

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S10.E06 :: Dice Management in the Court of Kings

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2015/06/18

King's Forge, designed by Nick Sibicky, is a dice management game about becoming the best craftsman in the king's court. Play happens over the course of 3 phases: gather, craft, and clean-up. In the first phase, players use their dice on gather cards that will allow them to acquire more dice. During the crafting phase, players roll those dice they have collected in hopes of crafting beautiful items that they king has requested. These cards represent the items needed to win the game. In the final

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01:13:08

S10.E5 :: What's Your Play Style?

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2015/06/06

Chip Beauvais is writing a series of articles on board game player psychographic profiles for the website Whose Turn Is It Anyway. The purpose of these articles is as a resource for game designers who wish to understand the types of players who play their games. Chip is the designer of the game Chroma Cubes. Our discussion focused on his motivation behind writing this series and where the series started off. We explored the ideas behind the second article, which analyzes two specific gamer types he

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01:26:18

S10.E04 :: A Specter Slips Slyly Through Shadows

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2015/05/27

Specter Ops, designed by Emerson Matsuuchi, is a deduction and hidden movement game pitting two groups of players against each other: the agent and the hunter(s). One player takes on the role of the agent whose goal is to sabotage 3 of the 4 potential sites on the board while evading the other players who play as hunters. This sounds easy for the agent except that the agent has to successfully escape the board after completing his or her mission. Each turn the agent moves secretly (marking down his

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01:05:16

S10.E03 :: Your Love Is Like ....

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2015/05/16

Bad Medicine, a party game designed by Gil Hova, recently funded via Kickstarter and is looking forward to a Fall release. The game is simple: players take on the roles of drug reps pitching new drugs to deal with outrageous maladies like "Teeth fall out and replaced by little tongues". After everyone pitches, players will vote for which drug is funniest (or maybe most effective). Points are handed out and play continues until 4 people have been the surgeon general (start player). Our discussion

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01:31:26

S10.E02 :: Dark Magic Deep in the Forest of Moonbears

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2015/03/27

Hocus Poker designed by Josh Buergel and Grant Rodiek is a riff on the game of Texas Hold 'Em style poker. Players are mages sitting around a table of fellow mages using spells to manipulate their hands, communties, pots, and pockets. The typical French suited cards have been ditched for four new suits, one including a magical suit with its own spells to activate. Players play cards into the shared communties or pots as well as their own personal pockets. When each community has four cards, players

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