Hey folks – this week we have a continuation of last week’s interview with T. Julian Bell. Last time you found out about the RAEX system, and this time we hear from Julian’s experience in getting games published and sold.

If you’re an aspiring games designer, or even if you’ve been in the industry a little while, you should find something interesting here. Julian gives us his thoughts on Kickstarter too and his plans to use the platform for their current project.

In other news, Colin chats briefly about XCom: Enemy Unknown – his attempt to get nostalgic and remember the old Amiga days – and he gives a quick update on recent games of Eternal Contenders.

We’ve been trying to play a few different games online recently, using Google Hangouts and the Roll 20 system, but haven’t found anything perfect so far. We’d love your feedback on what you use to play remote games. What have you found that works well?

We’d love to know – please drop a comment below.

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In this episode Colin’s talking to T. Julian Bell from RAEX Games. They’re soon releasing a new setting for their RAEX gaming system called Kromore 2145, a Cyber-Steam setting as they call it. It’ll be coming out in Q1 2014.

You can try out an abridged version of the game in the meantime though – there’s free public version of their Core Rulebook available on the RAEX games website. In the interview Julian takes us through the RAEX system and tells us his thoughts on game design, and how to make an engaging game.

Here are a couple of links to find out a bit more information on both Julian and RAEX Games, and make sure to look out for the Kromore 2145 Kickstarter when it releases later this month.

This is actually only part 1 of the interview – Julian and I had a pretty long chat!

Part 2 will be released soon and is all around how to go about setting yourself up as a pro games designer. Julian tells us his tips and tricks for getting into the games industry, getting a producer and getting yourself published. Make sure to check back for that in the next episode.

In the meantime enjoy the interview!

00:10 to 15:00 – Colin, Grant and Julian talk about their thoughts on the RAEX System.

15:00 to 1:00:04 – I

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0:00:00 Intro and updates

0:11:50 Our favourite characters

0:43:20 Character creation systems

Another episode in quick succession! This time it’s all about characters. First of all we talk about our own favourite characters from games and fiction and what makes them so great. Then we move on to character creation systems, including Joe’s brand new hotness Eternal Contenders!

Apologies for the dip in audio quality in this episode, there were a couple of technical issues that were sorted for tomorrow’s (yes, that fast!) episode. Enjoy!

Things what we talked about today:

Warhammer Fantasy Battle

Agricola

Dungeon Duellists

Wappinshaw

Space Hulk

The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Rolemaster

The Wheel of Time

Feng Shui

Sorcery

My Life with Master

Enjoy your burrito, everyone.

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0:00:00 Intro and updates

0:06:30 Main topic: designing the game

In this episode we continue to hammer out our live design of Cthulu’s Cosmic Kobold Commandos. We’re aiming for a light-hearted comedy game, so we spend some time discussing just what makes a comedy game. We’re still putting the game together, so if you have any ideas for the game we’d love to hear from you – get us on [email protected], @grantsensei, @joejprince and @gamercolin.

I won’t lie, this episode won’t be for everyone as there’s a lot of brainstorming and hammering out of details. For those of you brave enough to come along, here’s a list of things we talked about today:

Stitch by Iain McAllister

Dwarf King’s Hold

Tweet RPG

Joe on Indie+ Hangouts: GMless Games

Mortal Coil

Space Pirates

Inspectres

Impro ,Impro for Storytellers

Archipelago

Play Unsafe

Pantheon

3:16

Hungry Troll and the Gobbos

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Episode 7 – Mobile Frame Zero and Rules Heavy vs Rules Light

In this episode Joe and Grant discuss their experiences at Conpulsion, followed by a review of the rules-light Lego-based minis game, Mobile Frame Zero (16:15). This leads onto a discussion of rules light vs. rules heavy games (38:20)

Things we discussed in this episode:

Warhammer Fantasy Battles

Blood Bowl

Dungeon Duellists

Pro Wrasslin’ Battle Royal

Game of  Thrones LCG

Conpulsion

Mobile Frame Zero

Eternal Contenders

Hell for Leather

Knights of Trinity Aberdeen

Elder Sign

Malifaux

Tartan Skirmish Radio

Nearly Enough Dice Podcast

Memoir 44

Warhammer 40,000

Dreadball

Magic: The Gathering

Dungeons and Dragons

Ygdrassil

Over the Edge

Leave us a comment to let us know what you think of the episode, hope you enjoy!

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A Monopoly “variant”, from boardgamegeek.com

Our main topic this week is starting designing a game LIVE on air! We need YOU to help us, so make sure and let us know what you think of our design as it stands. Here are some things we talk about:

XCOM – Enemy Unknown

Civilization – Revolution

Alas Vegas

Hell 4 leather

Tweet RPG

Nearly Enough Dice Podcast

Monopoly

Eternal Contenders

Yggdrasil

Burning Empires

Vassal

Lackey CCG

Bearswarm Podcast play Hell 4 Leather

The Mighty Boosh Radio Series

Prime Time Adventures

Aye, Dark Overlord

Baron Munchausen

Central Belt Pick-Up Gamers

Knights of Trinity

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In this episode we discuss what games we’ve been playing recently, before launching into our main topic:  The Role of the GM.

I broke it down into 8 roles:

We talked about a huge number of games this episode, here are the links:

Joe’s article: Is the Era of the GM over? On Geeknative

Joe’s article: Dicing with Design on Geeknative

Sedition Wars

Project Pandora

X-COM: Enemy Unknown

Eternal Contenders by Chronicle City Games

Eternal Contenders Actual Play thread by Grant

Knights of Trinity, Aberdeen Facebook page

Legacy of Frankenstein

Nearly Enough Dice Podcast

Warhammer Fantasy Battle

Hamlet’s Hit Points by Robin D.Laws at drivethru rpg

Hill Folk by Robin D. Laws on Kickstarter

World War by Harry Turtledove

Magic the Gathering

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying Game

Battlestar Galactica the board game

The D6 Generation

Shadows over Camelot

Wrath of Ashardalon

Rolemaster

Inspectres

A Taste for Murder

Over the Edge

Descent

Heroquest

3:16

Labyrinths and Lycanthropes

Alas Vegas on Kickstarter

Hell 4 Leather

Hell for Leather

Episode 5 – What do we need a GM for

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Episode 4 – Advanced Heroquest Advanced

Welcome to another episode of the Dicing with Design podcast, with Colin, Grant and Joe.

In this episode we start off with an update on our recent gaming, followed by our main topic: Heroquest!

We begin the discussion with a history of Games Workshop / MB Games’ classic Heroquest. That’s followed by GW’s own Advanced Heroquest and a comparison with other dungeonbash games. Then we explain our homebrew rules which we’ve been working on and playing with recently, before some in-depth examples of actual play.

We round off with news of exciting future topics on the show.

We love feedback, so please get in touch on Twitter: @grantsensei, @gamercolin and @joejprince, leave a comment on our website, www.thepodcasthost.com/dicingwithdesign or leave a positive review on itunes.

Enjoy your games!

Joe’s Article on Geeknative

Battlestar Galactica

Advanced Heroquest

Master Builder

Static Games, Glasgow

Magic the Gathering

Prince of Darkness Games

Forbidden Island

Texas Hold ’em Poker

Warhammer Fantasy Battle

Warhammer 40K

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

Space Crusade

Advanced Space Crusade

Space Hulk

Wrath of Ashardalon

Warhammer Quest

Dwarf King’s Hold

Project Pandora

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DWD-Episode-3-PvP

In this episode Colin, Grant and Joe talk about the most recent session in their epic Rolemaster roleplaying campaign. This is followed by the main topic of PvP. We discuss, “What if” conflicts we play for fun, examples where PvP has arisen in our games, managing nonphysical conflicts between party members, traditional D&D PvP conflicts, deliberately designing PvP into games, PvP in digital games, balance between character classes and LARPing

We hope you enjoy the show. Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any feedback – you can get us on Twitter: @gamercolin, @grantsensei and @joejprince or post a comment on our website, www.thepodcasthost.com/dicingwithdesign

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