Lyn Phillips, Josh Bowman, and Mark McGee get together to discuss what value games offer, and whether games should exist. It’s not nearly as Nihilistic of an episode as that sounds! We also discuss how to pitch games to Allplay.

• 2:48 – What are Games Good For?
• 13:16 – Pitch Perfect: Allplay
• 25:30 – Should Games Justify Themselves?

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Kevin Ude (@UdeGames and udeudeude), Josh Bowman, and Mark McGee (@mmark40) get together to discuss Designer Diaries, Carcassonne farmers, and look into why Josh doesn’t like Humanity (the board game, he like humanity just fine in general).

• 1:20 - Make A Designer Cry
• 17:10 - Designer Diary Diary
• 28:39 - My Favorite [Most Controversial?] Rule

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Isaac Shalev (@kindfortress), Josh Bowman, and Mark McGee (@mmark40) get together to try new things on this episode of the Game Designers of North Carolina Podcast.

• 5:55 – Iterative Design
• 26:40 – Do Games Offer Choice?
• 44:29 – Eclipse and Dice

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Mark McGee (@mmark40) and Kevin Ude (@UdeGames) join Matt Wolfe (@mattwolfe) to talk about starting a new publishing company How To Steam Broccoli.

• Tell Me Something Good
• Main Topic - Designers Becoming Publishers

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Ashwin Kamath (@BoardGameGhee) and Clarence Simpson (@stoichamster) join Mark McGee (@mmark40) to talk about their journey designing their game The Wolves.

• 1:02 – Getting to know Ashwin
• 8:15 – Main topic: Talking About The Wolves

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Matt Wolfe (@mattwolfe) joins Mark McGee (@mmark40) to talk about designing games in different genres.

• -- Tell Me Something Good
• -- Main topic:  Designing Games in Different Genres

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Clarence Simpson (@stoichamster) and Mitch Wallace (@MitchWgames) join Mark McGee (@mmark40) to talk about PAX Unplugged.

• 0:37 – First Timer Palooza with Mitch
• 6:54 – Tell Me Something Good
• 10:10 – Main topic: PAX Unplugged

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Mike Belsole and Grace Kendall from the Tabletop Mentorship Program (Tabletopmentorship.org and @tabletopmentor) join Mark McGee (@mmark40) to talk about their mentorship program.

• -- First Timer Palooza
• -- Main topic: Tabletop Mentorship Program

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Ian Phillips (@crunchwrapgames) joins Mark McGee (@mmark40) to talk about inherent properties of board games.

• 1:01 -- Tell Me Something Good
• 3:30 -- Main Topic: Inherent Weaknesses of Board Games

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Ian Zang  (@IanZangDesign, @GravGames, and gravitation.games) joins Mark McGee (@mmark40) to talk about all sorts of things that Ian Zang likes.

• 2:30 -- Tell Me Something Good
• 19:32 -- Main Topic: Zanged

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