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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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52:53

S10.E01 :: Get Together. Get the Loot. Get the Podcast.

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2015/03/17

Burgle Bros designed by Tim Fowers is a cooperative heist game where players must work together to find 3 safes, crack the codes, and escape through the roof before the guards can find them. If one player is caught, the game is over. Each player takes on a unique role that has its own power that benefits the group. Players must uncover rooms and attempt die rolls when trying to crack the safes. The guards move rather randomly around the floors of the building unless an alarm is triggered. What is

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01:29:02

S9.E10 :: 8-Bit Indines Never Looked So Good

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2015/03/06

Pixel Tactics designed by D. Brad Talton Jr. is a tactical card game based in the world of Indines. What makes this different from other games based in this world is that players take the role of a leader attempting to recruit the best heroes in order to defeat the other leader(s). Players create a 3x3 grid of heroes with the leader in the middle. The game uses an interesting mechanic where players activate each row before moving onto the next row, which provides a lot of depth and variety as each

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01:29:02

S9.E09 :: Staaarrr Reaaalms, Nothing But Staaarrr...

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2015/02/27

Star Realms designed by Darwin Kastle is an easy to learn, quick to play deckbuilder with an incredible print point ($15 retail). Players build their decks with cards from a common card row and attack each other. Cards fall into 4 different factions with their advantages and disadvantages. The goal of the game is to knock one player down to 0 authority (health). What make Star Realms different from most Magic-inspired deckbuilders is that the cards can be linked together if multiple cards of one

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01:27:41

S9.E07 :: Let's Play Mayor For a Day

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2015/02/07

City Hall designed by Michael Keller is an role selection game about gaining political influence and building up New York City. Players have the choice of seven equally important roles in their quest for victory. The surveyor allows players to buy new plots of land. The public works commissioner allows the players to increase their population. These are only some of the roles available to players. Selecting the role isn't enough because it possible for other players to steal the action byspending

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01:05:20

S9.E08 :: Roll Two Dice and Call Me In the Morning

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2015/02/07

Pandemic The Cure designed by Matt Leacock is a dice version of the popular game about saving the world from disease. Players tackle familiar roles but in an unfamiliar setting (dice). Each role has specially crafted dice with different symbols that help the players derive their own stategies. Players can roll and re-roll any dice as long as it doesn't land on a biohazard symbol. The diseases have also taken on the form of dice that are rolled to determine which region suffers. The dice bring a

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02:09:09

S9.E06 :: The Lord of War, Fantasy Edition

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2015/01/26

Battle Merchants, designed by Gil Hova, is a game where players take on the unscrupulous role of war profiteers in a fantastical conflict between the orcs, hobgoblins, elves, and dwarves. Players craft weapons to sell to either (or both) sides of a specific conflict in an effort to have the most money by winter's end. The game is an economic Euro-style game despite its fantasy setting. Players buy cards to increase their crafting abilities, which allows them to sell stronger weapons that may last

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01:34:33

S9.E05 :: The Classic Quarter-Waster Blasts Its Way...

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2015/01/16

The Battle at Kemble's Cascade designed by Olle and Anders Tyrland is a throwback to the old arcade shoot 'em ups from the 80s and 90s. Anyone around the ages of 25-35 will remember spending quarter after quarter on these games where everything on screen wanted to make that quarter a waste, and the player had only his or her reflexes and 3 bombs to deal with the onslaught. Kemble's Cascade recreates this feeling with an innovative threat system that calculates how many things at one time are trying

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01:09:14

S9.E04 :: Earth's Mightiest Enemies

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2015/01/06

Venus Needs Men is an action selection game where players take the roles of one of five aliens races invading Earth to abduct or destroy the human population. One player has the option to play as the Earthlings defending its population. Players may build new ships, move through space, attack other players, abduct or transport population, or research new technologies in their quest to win the game. Each race has its own unique advantages and disadvantages. For example, the Venutians (from Venus) gain

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01:23:37

S9.E03 :: Kerplink! Kerplonk! Kerthulhu!

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2014/12/28

Tower of Madess designed by Curt Covert from Smirk and Dagger Games is a mash-up of Kerplunk and Elder Sign. This game is a prototype that has not yet been produced but absolutely should be produced. It is light and silly chaotic fun set in the world of Cthuhlu. Each player takes on the role of an investigator trying to score the highest roll to win the location. Players roll 5 dice on their turns. Each die roll has 3 required results (a gate, a sanity, and a stamina) and 2 results that determine

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01:04:33

S9.E02 :: A Chair Shot to the Head of All Other CCGs

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2014/12/16

The Supershow is a high-intensity, unpredictable card game like the exciting world of the wrestling that it draws its theme and mechanics from. The game bills itself as the world's first UCG (unpredictable card game). Players choose to compete as wrestlers from the Legendary Fighting Federation in the SRG Universe or as real life wrestlers from the independent circuit to see who is the best in the ring. The base game comes with 2 wrestlers and 2 base decks, but each wrestler has his own special

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40:38

W3 Local Conventions :: This One Time At Game Camp...

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2014/10/28

This episode features myself, Alex, John (designer of Venus Needs Men), and Alec of the Westchester Gaming Group and organizer of our local WGG Con playing Alien Frontiers at 4 a.m. after nearly everyone has left the con. As we play the game we discuss things that happened at the con. I hope you enjoy us playing a game and talking about games. Editor's Note: all of the die rolling sounds are fake. New Editor's Post-note: the previous editor has been sacked for his poorly executed joke. Please

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01:58:32

W3 GenCon Coverage :: Podcasting in Cars With Game Nerds

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2014/10/16

I say 'nerd' as a term of endearment because I've been enjoying listening to Alex's trip to GenCon. Now everyone gets to listen to the group's trip home on the long drive from Indianapolis, IN to Westchester, NY. Alex and co. recap their experiences at GenCon and generally enjoy themselves on their long trip home. Note from the editing room: both car cast 1 and 2 have been edited into one episode. There is a bit of music that marks the break between recordings. I'm sure you won't notice the break at

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01:21:52

S9.E01 :: A Recipe for a Distilled 4x Experience

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2014/10/02

Quantum brings the 4x experience to the tabletop without engulfing other games in its wake of space exploration and expansion. The game pairs down the experience in every way possible without losing the essence of the 4x game. Players take on the roles of fleet commanders bent on controlling the cosmos by placing their quantum cubes on planets. Instead of plastic miniatures, the game uses dice to represent the ships at the players' disposal. Each ship has a special power that can be activated on top

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49:58

S8.E10 :: Mesdames et Messieurs, Welcome to the Bazaar

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2014/09/17

Ladies and Gentlemen is a lighthearted game designed by Loic Lamy. Players play in pairs with one side playing the lady while the other plays the gentleman. The gentlemen are tasked with earning the money that the ladies need to buy pretty outfits and accessories. This may seem like an odd pair of tasks, but the strategy of the game runs much deeper than the surface. The ladies drive the strategy needed to win the game while the gentlemen provide the resources necessary to put that strategy into

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01:25:36

S8.E09 :: The Most Important Part of Any Dungeon Crawl

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2014/09/02

Pack the Pack is a spatial organization game currently on Kickstarter from Games by Play Date about fitting all of that beautiful loot you've collected from the dungeon into your backpack to bring home. Based somewhat on the inventory screen from Diablo (an excellent game), Pack the Pack feeds that itch to organize requiring speed and efficiency. The game utilizes domino tiles to represent the loot and a player to represent the pack to draw on the kinestetic and tactile feel of actually packing for

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37:41

W3 GenCon Coverage :: The Super Friends Super Duper Show

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2014/08/28

Alex sits down with Herb and Jen from Game and a Curry to breakdown Saturday at the con. They talk about games they have played, meeting people from different podcasts and game publishers, and some of the scheduling strategies they used while at the con. I do not need to sit and weep tonight as I post this because GenCon is over. We are all back here on the East Coast, but I'll never have those memories... weep, weep. Lastly, Alex points out that Tom Vasel is tall. I can confirm this after seeing

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01:08:43

S8.E08 :: The Classic Love Story: Hero Meets Dungeon,...

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2014/08/17

Boss Monster is a retro-style video game inspired card game where players take on the role of bosses in a dungeon building rooms to attract heroes to vanquish. The art takes its inspiration from the 16-bit games of our (25-30 year olds') childhood. If any of our listeners enjoyed playing SNES or Genesis, then this game has an art style for you. Players play dungeon rooms that have varying effects on the heroes (some deal damage, some enhance the damage dealt by other rooms, etc.). The expansion adds

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36:27

W3 GenCon Coverage :: The Super Friends Super Show

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2014/08/17

Alex sits down with Herb and Jen from Game and a Curry to breakdown Friday at the con. They talk about games they have played, games they are excited for, and food they have enjoyed. I sit in NY weeping for all these amazing times I am missing. I hope you enjoy Alex's recap. The English nerd in me is excited by Alex's reference to Godot, a play I am wildly fond of. If you are participating in #GenCant2014, send me a comment via Twitter or Instagram. Let's GenCant together.

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16:06

W3 GenCon Preview :: Have Action Points, Will Travel

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2014/08/16

In this bonus episode we discussed Alex's impending trip to the mother of all conventions in America, GenCon. Alex talks about some of the games he is excited to preview. I talk about what games I hope he buys me when he is there (because I'm such a super guy), and we discuss some games we played the night of the recording. This episode was recorded on August 12th. If you cannot attend GenCon this year, please parttake in #GenCant2014 on Twitter or Instagram. It is the convention for those who were

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01:34:25

S8.E07 :: Board Games Are Experiences

The Who, What, Why? Game Design Podcast ·

2014/08/08

Editor's note: we had some audio troubles during the recording, so keep that in mind while listening. Going, Going, Gone is an auction game by designer and game professor Scott Nicholson. Players simultaneously bid on auctions by dropping cubes into cups to win cards that display items from various countries. Collecting sets of these items (either by item type or country) allow players to score points at the end of the game. This game is an experience. One player at a time plays the role of the

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