Welcome to a special episode of Dads on a Map: COIN Collectors! Today, we're thrilled to be joined by two incredible designers behind the COIN Collector favorite, Vijayanagara: The Deccan Empires of Medieval India. Join us as we dive deep into the fascinating creation of this game, gaining insights from the people who brought it to life.

Our guest designers for this episode are Saverio Spagnolie and Cory Graham.

Vijayanagara is currently available on the GMT P500 pre-order system, with a scheduled release in Q4 2023.

00:44 - Guest Introductions 03:15 - Origins of Vijayanagara: Consim Game Jam 05:40 - COIN Title: Gandhi as inspiration 07:15 - Theme/Setting/Time Period Choice 09:00 - 3 Player Design 13:00 - Historical Modeling of Medieval India 16:50 - Game Visuals 18:20 - Shipping Status 20:30 - Previous COIN Collector Podcast 23:30 - Advice for first time designers 25:30 - Design goals for the game 31:30 - Battle Mechanics 40:00 - Favorite Card/Favorite Mechanic 42:53 - ICS series 46:50 - "Whats on the table?" 48:36 - Outro

This podcast episode uses these sounds from https://freemusicarchive.org/: The Circle of Fifths - Bus Window Clap freesound.org/s/509526/ licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

For a full playthrough of the game. We recommended checking out our friend's channel Guerric Samples Games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS7mLj_eU7k&t=6s https://www.twitch.tv/GuerricSamplesGames

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