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Harry Dean Hudson

A podcast about designing for randomness, and designers who use, abuse, or manage chance and variance in their work.The podcast explores systems and design that are built around chance.While the podcast isn"t exclusively about games, game design spends a lot of time in this space. Beyond games, conversations with other kinds of designers: composers and instrument designers who use random elements, speed and no-hit runners (who design routes to minimize variance), various engineers, process designers

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Conversation with a Ludokultist (Fabian Fischer)

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2025/10/29

In this week's episode we have a conversation with Fabian Fisher. Fabian is a game designer and developer here in Germany, and he's worked on quite a few games. Some highlights are Crimson Company, Hyperdome, and his most recent game Rack and Slay, which is a roguelike billiards game. Fabian has also done a ton of writing. I recommend you check out his, his website, Ludokultur.de. I'm really excited to bring you this episode with Fabian because I think that he's a really interesting person and he's

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44:25

Bonks in a Lucky Maze: Brian Long and Dan DiIorio...

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2025/10/14

This week's episode is a continuation of our conversation with Dan DiIorio of Luck Be A Landlord and Maze Mice, and Brian Long, dev and designer of Ballionaire. Our conversation kicks off from my, at this point, repeated take about roguelike deck builders and board games, and leads us somewhere in the zone of the vibe-y-ness of PUBG. Luck Be A Landlord on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/14...Ballionaire on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/26...Dan's Blog:

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41:45

Luck Be A Ballionaire (Brian Long and Dan DiIorio)

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2025/10/07

This week we have a really interesting conversation for you. It's a three-way conversation with myself, Brian Long, the developer and designer of Ballionaire, and Dan DiIorio, the designer and developer of Luck Be A Landlord and Maze Mice.There's an interesting backstory here. Brian is someone that I've known for a long time and someone that I've talked to quite a bit about games and game design. And I knew from our conversations that he was a pretty big fan of Luck Be A Landlord. So I thought this

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54:23

Episode 4: Multiplayer with Calm Pewter

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2025/09/30

For this week's episode we drifted a bit from the show's MacGuffin and had a slightly different conversation. I spoke with Julian Schumacher, the developer of The Quizard's Domain who goes by Calm Pewter Games. The topic of our conversation was multiplayer–designing and developing multiplayer experiences for player interaction and how player interactivity influences design.You can find more from Julian/Calm Pewter out in the wild:The Quizard's Domain on Steam: The Quizard's DomainCalm Pewter

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36:23

Episode 3: Kev Chang and Eddie Cai pt. 2

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2025/09/23

This epside is the second of an epic two part conversation with Eddie Cai and Kev Chang. Eddie is the lead designer at Pengonauts who released Star⭐Vaders earlier this year. Kev is the director of Box Dragon Studios in Sweden. Their game, As We Descend, went into Early Access at the end of May.You can find both games on Steam.A transcript of the episode is here: https://my.playful.work/probably-designed-eddie-cai-and-kev-chang-part-2/Pengonauts: https://pengonauts.com/Star⭐️Vaders:

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41:54

Episode 2: Kev Chang and Eddie Cai pt. 1

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2025/09/16

This epside is the first of a two part conversation with Eddie Cai and Kev Chang. Eddie is the lead designer at Pengonauts who released Star⭐Vaders earlier this year. Kev is the director of Box Dragon Studios in Sweden. Their game, As We Descend, went into Early Access at the end of May.You can find both games on Steam.A transcript of the episode is here: https://my.playful.work/probably-designed-eddie-cai-and-kev-chang/Pengonauts: https://pengonauts.com/Star⭐️Vaders:

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50:12

Episode 1: Ezra Szanton

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2025/09/09

Links from the episode:Ezra's Itch Page - https://ezra-szanton.itch.io/Mr Magpie's Harmless Card Game - https://giantlight.itch.io/mr-magpies-harmless-card-gameFergus Ferguson's portfolio - https://fergusdraws.com/Rebel Jester Studios - https://www.rebeljesterstudios.com/Petricore - https://petricoregames.com/Input / Output Randomness Article - https://ezraszanton.substack.com/p/output-randomness-game-designersIsaac Shalev's Article -

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Episode 0: Welcome and Intro

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2025/09/05

Just a brief intro to the podcast. Welcome to the show!

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