Ryan Langewisch, designer of Tasty Humans, discusses how to create and update a game quickly and efficiently.
Ryan recently won a 48-hour game jam and has gotten really good at the iteration process.
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Luke Laurie, designer of Energy Empire, discusses all the ins and outs of creating a worker placement game.
Luke has a ton of experience with the genre with 4 more worker placement games set to come out over the next 2 years.
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Ian Zang, developer for Deep Water Games, discusses 4 different types of gamer experiences.
Ian has simplified and categorized different ways that people experience games, and he shares a lot to think about as designers.
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Nikki Valens, designer of Mansions of Madness, discusses how to design a narrative driven game.
Nikki has designed some of my absolute favorite games and is a master of creating games that tell good stories.
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Bob and Ryan Craig, founders of One Day West Games, discuss how to design a tile-laying game.
Their game, Monster Highway, is a fast-playing tile laying game about escaping from a Godzilla style monster, and they have several other tiling games in the works.
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Geert Sillevis, founder of Mystery City Games, discusses how to design an outdoor escape room type of game.
Geert’s game, “A Secret Sender,” is designed to help tourists experience Amsterdam while also enjoying a mystery game. (And it has a 5-star rating on Trip Advisor.)
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Elizabeth Hargrave, designer of Wingspan, discusses how to design engine building games.
Wingspan is ranked in the top 100 on Board Game Geek, and we talk a lot about Elizabeth’s design process for creating the game.
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Evan Derrick, designer of Detective: City of Angels, discusses his own journey and his advice on how to go pro in the gaming industry.
Evan works for Van Ryder Games and has been a full-time pro for over a year.
And be sure to check out Hostage Negotiator: Career on Kickstarter HERE.
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Daryl Andrews discusses designing games based on licensed IPs.
Daryl has designed a TON of games based on comics, TV shows, and movies, and he goes through lots of ins and outs on how the process works.
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Darren Terpstra, designer of Ignite, discusses designing games with multiple moving parts and several mechanisms integrated together.
Ignite has quite a few mechanisms working together, so Darren has had to figure out how to make this concept work in a streamlined way.
And be sure to check out Ignite on Kickstarter HERE.
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