A bonus episode to keep you company during your social distancing. Thank you to Platypus Con for bringing up Mike Selinker. We’ll have a regularly scheduled interview next week.
03:30 Introduction
08:20 - Finding the fun in your games
10:20 - What is elegance?
12:40 - The long process of designing Apocrypha
15:00 - What are my game’s 3 things?
16:40 - Vetting your games
21:30 - What I look for in a designer
22:50 - Q: Once you have an idea, where do you go from there?
34:00 - Q: What about when a game design is cost prohibitive?
38:40 - Q: Do you ever work on video games?
41:15 - Q: How do you reduce setup time on games?
46:45 - Q: Can you tutorialize a board game?
50:10 - Q: Advice for breaking into the industry?
53:40 - Q: How protective are you as a game designer?