Today on the show I have a conversation with Jeremiah Reid, a software dev and indie Rogue-like game developer. Jeremiah first came on my radar when he wrote this article on the topic of the “Indie Game Apocalypse”, wherein he mentioned my work and its difficulty getting press and sales, despite the fact that I … Continue reading "Prospects for Indie Devs, with Jeremiah Reid"
Read MoreToday I spoke with Elizabeth Hargrave. After playing her game Wingspan and reading some interviews with her, I thought she’d be a great person to have on to talk about some of the stuff I’ve been exploring in terms of strategy games and their relationship to violence, both mechanically and thematically speaking. She had a … Continue reading "A conversation with Elizabeth Hargrave"
Read MoreI’m deep in the weeds of setting up the Dragon Bridge Kickstarter, which should hopefully launch next week or so. But I wanted to share this quick bonus episode with you: a conversation with Jenny Bee, who has a masters in visual storytelling, is a creator of games, films and other narrative work, and—full disclosure—is … Continue reading "BONUS: Humane Storytelling with Jenny Bee"
Read MoreThis is one of our longer episodes, coming in at 1 hour 10 minutes, and it’s chock full of both theory and practice! For the theory bit, check out my conversation with Hopenager, a game developer and frequent chatter over at the kbgames discord, wherein we talk about binary goals versus score goals. Hopenager believes … Continue reading "Binary Goals with Hopenager, and Kickstarting an 18 Card Game with Adam Wilk"
Read MoreA few weeks ago we ran the first KBGames game-jam and it went SO WELL! All told, we got 14 submissions, and they’re all super awesome! A few of these are getting made into more serious productions, including my own Dragon Bridge which I’ll be writing about soon. But today I wanted to share with … Continue reading "The first KBGames Jam – #18CardStrategyJam"
Read MoreHello everyone! Today I come to you bringing yet another great board game designer: Rob Daviau, probably best known at this point for his Legacy series games, particularly Pandemic Legacy, which is indeed awesome, and which even inspired an article of mine. But he’s an extremely prolific designer overall who has dozens and dozens of … Continue reading "Rob Daviau"
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