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A podcast about topics in game design featuring the many people who come together to make games possible.

Sep 17, 2014

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...

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Sep 2, 2014

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...

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Aug 17, 2014

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...

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Aug 8, 2014

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...

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Jul 26, 2014

Editor's Note: this is the second part of our interview with Rob Daviau. Hope you enjoy it.

Our discussion in the second half of the interview continued to focus on Rob's approach to the Star Wars Epic Duels game. Rob is also gracious enough to whet our appetites a little more about his upcoming legacy games,

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