Patrick Rauland, designer of Fry Thief, discusses product management and how it relates to game design.
Patrick has worked as a pro product manager in the software industry, and there are tons of ways that understanding product management will make you a better designer in everything from prototyping to playtesting to running a Kickstarter.
Patrick’s game, Fry Thief, is on Kickstarter right now and is already fully funded. Check it out HERE.
Hey Now! It's time for some more Secret Cabal Nonsense! Today we chat about some games and hobby junk we've been getting into including: Shadows of Brimstone, Nemesis, Discover Lands Unknown, Hand of Fate Ordeals, Hand of Fate on Steam, Architects of the West Kingdom, Auztralia, Chronicles of Crime, Villainous, Magic the Gathering: Arena, and Evolution Digital on Steam. Then we get into an overview and review of Wendake from Renegade Games and a look back at Gaslands from Osprey Publishing. After Tony T goes through all the most important news items in the entire world, we get into a discussion about player interaction and goes off the rails as usual. Wendake Overview 01:14:14, Wendake Review 01:18:56, Gaslands Look Back 01:47:30, News with Tony T 01:50:50, Player Interaction Discussion 02:28:10
This Game is Broken is released every two weeks and features Matthew Jude, Dave Luza, Christina Aimerito and Nick and Mike Murphy.
The show is devised by the whole gang and is produced and edited by Matthew Jude. If you would like Matthew to help you edit your podcast then contact him at: Matthewjudecooper@gmail.com
Art by our secretive sixth member Gary. If you would like to commission Gary then email him at: Graphics@deadcatdreaming.co.uk
The Peter Principle observes that people tend to get promoted to their level of incompetence. Namely if someone does a job well, they'll be promoted, until such time as they cease doing a job well and persist at that level of ineptitude. We mention this not because it accurately describes the arc of Mark's life both professionally and personally--which, let's face it, it does--but rather because we have decided to promote the AYURIS from off-hand remark into Full Fledged Segment (AYURIS, FFS [tm]). Time stamp and everything! If it does well, it'll get it's own podcast; if it does poorly, all hail the Peter Principle.
AYURIS: 51st State: Master Set (Ignacy Trzewiczek, Portal, 2016) 1m31s
Games Played Last Week: -Kingdom Death: Monster 5m28s (Adam Poots, Kingdom Death, 2015) -Reykholt 9m02s (Uwe Rosenberg, Frosted Games, 2018) -Bargain Hunter 15m35s (Uwe Rosenberg, Valley Games, 1998) -Meltwater: A Game of Tactical Starvation 17m34s (Erin Lee Escobedo, Hollandspiele, 2018)
News (and why it doesn't matter) -The Orville Clix 19m34s -Samuel Bailey's Stars a little less Forbidden 19m59s -Samuel Bailey digs Deep 21m17s -Rooting around for more factions 22m22s -KeyForging on 22m46s -Being on the same Wavelength 23m14s -Even deeper Descent 24m31s -Rushing into the Kingdom of boardgames of apps 25m19s
Feature Game: Cerebria: The Inside World 25m58s (Richard Amann, Viktor Peter, István Pócsi, Frigyes Schőberl, Nick Shaw, & Dávid Turczi, Mindclash Games, 2018)
In this episode, we hear a bittersweet tale of Amazement, listen to Geoff talk about rituals, discuss Dinogenics, Wingspan, Big Money, the Brigade, Showtime, and Monster Crunch, and answer a pile of questions. We end the episode talking about our favorite games that start with the letter "A".
Reviews of Everdell, Newton, Cabo, Wildlands, and many more. Featured review: Gugong by Tasty Minstrel Games. Reroll: Calimala by Stronghold Games. Board game discussion starts at 25:30.
This week Shelley and I enjoy some sand castle building from Stronghold Games, then have a bit less fun (possibly due to playing it 2-player) trying to win the favor of the Emperor.
Fine Sand by Friedemann Friese from Stronghold Games
A flock of little songbirds gather at the feeder to eat. One by one, different birds hop on the perch and carry away their meals, large and small. Can you gather the best collection of bird and seed cards while avoiding greedy squirrels and angry crows?
One year, baby! We did it. It's our first anniversary, and we're celebrating by ... putting out an episode of the podcast. We got a couple of reader questions that we thought would be especially pertinent for this occasion, as we look back on the impact Board Game Barrage has had on us. Before we pop the champagne, we talk about The Quacks of Quedlinburg, Forum Trajanum, and Narabi.
04:37 - The Quacks of Quedlinburg 08:57 - Forum Trajanum 15:08 - Narabi 21:00 - How has Board Game Barrage impacted us? 32:08 - Do review copies make us less impartial? 33:45 - Hyperspace 35:24 - Shouldn't Mark be the Red Tank? 39:08 - Guest reviews!
Hey Now Cabalists! Today the lords start out by reviewing the recently released book called Dungeons and Dragons Art and Arcana: A Visual History and present a contest to win a copy of the book. Then the gang takes a question from a listener wondering how we manage getting in gaming while life continues to get in the way which transitions into playing role playing games online via video conferencing. Then the main topic of the show regards playing characters with humanity and understanding the ramifications of your actions and how your characters would actually feel doing what they're doing.
Chad, Clef, and Richie talk about their recent plays, announce the winners of the dice tray contest, review Wingspan designed by Elizabeth Hargrave and published by Stonemaier Games and draft their favorite Exciting/Stand Up moment games.
Music by HookSounds
Sometimes categories are useful taxonomical tools, and sometimes they are so blunt as to be confusing and unhelpful. What gets parsed as "worker placement" can get downright murky at times. To Walker, though, the world is clear and simple. Tolstoy tells us that "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Walker has a modified view--all fun games are fun and thus good and interchangeable, and all unfun games are bad and thus the same. It's a good thing he's not a critic or anything.
Games Played Last Week: -Welcome to... 3m47s (Benoit Turpin, Blue Cocker Games, 2018) -A Feast for Odin: The Norwegians 6m19s (Gernot Köpke & Uwe Rosenberg, Feuerland Spiele, 2018) -Architects of the West Kingdom 9m55s (Shem Phillips & S. J. Macdonald, Garphill Games, 2018) -Byzantium 16m06s (Martin Wallace, Warfrog, 2005)
News (and why it doesn't matter) -Sushi Go Rolls on 20m13s -New Quest for El Dorado? Expansion? Hybrid? 21m21s -Scotland Yard: Now with dice, uncertain haberdashery 22m25s -Who wants to license Talisman? 22m59s -Ignorance is Bliss 24m36s -Time for more T.I.M.E. Stories 24m55s
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