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Dustin Staats, founder of Board Gaming with English, talks about using and designing games in the classroom.

Dustin has taught all over the worlds and regularly uses games to reinforce different concepts his students are learning.

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askfirestarterspitfire:

hey check it out i’m gonna be at Bronyscot in a couple of weeks! I know it’s kinda way too late for this to influence anyone’s weekend plans but HEY look for me there if you wanna hang out! I’ll be in the games room and doing an animation thing and probably doing something similar to what I did at Galacon where I just walk around blasting Eurobeat from a speaker.

See you there!

Hey there table friendos! It may interest you to learn, if you are heading to Bronyscot, that I’ll be bringing a couple of custom horse™ conversions of Popular Board Games® to inflict on the general public: Changelingfall (a FiM-themed version of social deduction farce Spyfall), and Crossfire: Fallout Equestria (who knew, it’s a Fallout Equestria-themed version of social deduction accusation machine Crossfire).

In addition to these games, I should be bringing everything I brought to Galacon plus more:

• Pandemic: The Cure & Experimental Meds Expansion
  
• Magic Maze & Maximum Security Expansion (new!)
  
• Splendor
• Crossfire (regular version as well as the FoE version)
• Skull
• Love Letter (regular version, though I know a pony version exists!)
  
• A Fake Artist Goes To New York (new!)
  
• Welcome to the Dungeon (new!)
  
• Buck: Legacy (new!) (maybe! It’s not my copy!)

The post [BONUS] Jamey & Gabe on Designing The Final Flicktier appeared first on Board Game Design Lab.

Jamey Stegmaier is guest hosting, and we’re celebrating 100 episodes of the show!

We’re talking past, present, and future with lots of interesting things thrown in.​​

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Calum Taylor, designer of Motora, talks about balancing luck with player agency.

It’s good to have luck to keep a game unpredictable, but if it goes too far, players will feel like the game is playing them. You need to make sure players feel in control while also allowing for cool “plot twist” moments.

And be sure to check out Calum’s game on Kickstarter HERE.

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Carla Kopp, founder of Weird Giraffe Games, talks about designing light (or filler) games.

Carla’s company focuses on this type of games, and she’s designed several herself, so she definitely understands the topic well.

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Julio Nazario, winner of the HABA Games design challenge, talks about game components and interesting ways to use them.

Julio has been designing some really innovative games using components in really cool ways.

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We love RPGs, but we love them more for the RP than the G. The unique aspect of roleplaying games is the way the players collaborate to steer the story and create situations out of whole cloth, and the mechanics provide a framework - be it more or less rigid - to facilitate the creativity of the players. We don’t mean to dunk on people who love RPGs for the combat puzzles provided by the mechanics, that’s just not what we turn to RPGs for. As such, we don’t really care that much about the minutia of differences between systems. We’ll happily sit down with either.

Isaac Vega, designer of Dead of Winter, Ashes, and many others, talks about how to balance a game.

Isaac has designed some of the best games in the world and has really figured out how to make sure a game feels balanced to its players.

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Alex Macklai, designer of Sea of Nadia, talks about augmented reality and board games.

Alex has been working on an AR-centric game for 2 years and has some interesting insight on the topic.

For more info: www.maclaysgames.com

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For all the details about Ignite, check out boardgamedesignlab.com/ignite/.

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Curt Covert, designer of Tower of Madness and owner of Smirk & Dagger Games, talks about take-that games.

Curt has been designing back-stabby games for years and is a wealth of information and insight on the topic. And he’s a ton of fun to talk to!

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