Gaming the Past Designer Talks

Episode 6 (5/2/2020) Henrik Fåhraeus, Paradox Development Studio, Designer of many Paradox Games, talking about Crusader Kings II and the upcoming  CK III

On Spotify, Apple, and Google 

Resources

• Crusader Kings II Free on Steam 
• Crusader Kings II Wiki 
• Crusader Kings III Dev Diaries

Episode 5 (2/2/2020) Owen Gottlieb, RIT MAGIC Spell Studios, (Lost and Found; Lost and Found Order in the Court: The Party Game)

Also on Spotify, Apple, and Google 

Lost and Found Main Site

Resources mentioned during the podcast

• Lost and Found at Gamecrafter
• Lost and Found Order in the Court: The Party Game at Gamecrafter
• The Middle Ages in the Modern World (Themamo.org)
• Gottlieb, O. (2017). Introduction: Jewish Gamevironments – Exploring Understanding with Playful Systems. Gamevironments  7, 1-4.
• Gottlieb, O. (2017) Finding Lost & Found: Designer’s Notes from the Process of Creating a Jewish Game for Learning.RIT Scholar Works.
• Gottlieb O and I Schreiber. (2018). Prosocial Religion and Games: Lost & Found. Well Played: A Journal on Video Games, Value, and Meaning 7(2), 17-41
• Gottlieb, O (2018). Re-playing Maimonides’ Codes: Designing Games to Teach Religious Legal Systems. Teaching Theology & Religion
• https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/teth.12453

In this episode I talk with designer Richard Bodley Scott about his ancient battle game, Field of Glory 2.

Richard is an active participant on the Slitherine forums, so you can reach him via https://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=477

Field of Glory 2 is available at Slitherine https://www.slitherine.com/game/field-of-glory-ii

and Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/660160/Field_of_Glory_II/

Reviews and Commentary

8/12/19 – I had the pleasure of talking with Philippe Malacher, lead designer at Ageod, who has released Ageod/Slitherine’s Field of Glory: Empires. FoG:E is a turn-based strategy game where players guide one of the states of the third century BCE Mediterranean in a struggle against other powers. The episode will be available soon on Spotify, Google, and Apple.

Field of Glory: Empires at Slitherine Games   and at Steam

Reviews and Commentary

https://gamingthepast.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/gtp-designer-talk-3-philippe-malacher.mp3

Jon Shafer of Conifer games talks about history and historical game design in Civilization V and At the Gates

At the Gates is available at Conifer Games  and on Steam

Civilization V is available on Steam

https://gamingthepast.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/gtp-designer-talk-2-jon-shafer.mp3

https://gamingthepast.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/gtp-talk-w-soren-johnson-4-9-19-2.mp3