Mindful Games Lab

Clay visits with Sarah Trager from Meeples On The Ground. We talk about some amazing games for you to check out and important game convention advice that is not easy to follow.

Clay visits with Carla Kopp from Weird Giraffe Games. We talk about Gift of Tulips and the amazing team of women who worked on it. We dive into what to do if you’re stuck on a game design and what you must know if you want to pitch a design to a publisher.

Clay talks with Ryan Schneider from Saint Paul Games about Electric Orchard. Find out the most important skill you need to go from idea to Kickstarter launch.

Clay talks about the board game Dune Imperium by Dire Wolf. Find out what it's like to play and get some strategy tips to give you an edge.

Clay visits with designer Ian Moss and developer Marshall Britt of Bunkers & Badasses published by Nerdvana Games. Find out why it's the Coolest est game in the world. Based on the game-within-a-game from Gearbox  Entertainment’s Borderlands series, Bunkers & Badasses is a tabletop roleplaying game!

Clay and special guest talk about Don't Starve Together by Klei Entertainment. Find out what it's like to play and why it's a great game for couples.

Clay visits with Minnesota-based award-winning filmmaker, actor and game industry fan Ed Linder. During this episode you will learn: What makes a good story? Qualities that make a great film director A list of excellent games to introduce new people to Great advice for getting starting making video content Find out which Star Wars movie is the best one

Timestamps 1:48 TMJ Productions 4:15 Zipperman 5:50 Martin Scorsese, The Coen Brothers, Terry Gilliam 6:53 The Greatest Movie Director 7:33 Qualities that make a great director 11:40 Love Craft Country https://www.hbo.com/lovecraft-country 12:23 The Umbrella Academy  https://www.netflix.com/title/80186863 14:07 What makes a good documentary film 16:46 What makes a great story 17:03 The Big Lebowski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Lebowski 18:30 Avengers - The Russo Brothers 19:25 Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back 20:00 New shit has come to light - https://youtu.be/gbIv7W7rhx4 21:33 Origins, Gamehole Con, Pax Unplugged 23:09 Engaging with a good story 24:09 List of excellent games to introduce new people 25:33 Mariposas https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/297978/mariposas 29:07 The Game https://youtu.be/MClFxGRkTMU 31:39 Bringing too much joy into the world 33:40 Advice for making video content 35:04 The best advice 35:43 http://www.tmjproductions.com/ - https://www.youtube.com/user/tmjproductions1 37:13 The importance of a good story 38:10 Just do it

In this November 2020 Episode Clay talks about the party game Bye, Felicia! Find out what it's like to play Bye, Felicia You can even play along right during the podcast!

1:03 Zapotec Publisher Board&Dice 2:36 Star Wars™: Squadrons https://www.ea.com/games/starwars/squadrons 3:11 Endless Winter - Paleoamericans https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fantasiagames/endless-winter-paleoamericans?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=endless%20winter 3:58 Blood Bowl 3 https://www.bloodbowl.com/

4:40 Bye, Felicia! , Designer: Peggy Brown, Artist: Nate Duval, Publisher: Big G Creative 10:00 What Were You Thinking? Designer: Richard Garfield

In this October 2020 Episode Clay visits with Megan and Tristan from the "Girl Meets Nerd" Podcast.

Find out all about the Nerdverse Find out Megan’s favorite part of the Nerdverse You will learn about the best game to play as a couple as well as a great video game to play as a couple Find out what valuable life skills you can gain from playing video games Find out what makes Star Wars amazing is it laser swords? Learn how to get someone into gaming for the first time

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1:20 Lets make nerd culture accessible to everyone 4:02 Tristan's Favorite Fictional worlds 5:01 A conversation with Prince Zuko 6:29 Nightwing or Spiderman? 7.01 What is the Nerdverse 9:06 Megan's favorite part of the Nerdverse 10:15 Best game to play as a couple 11:50 Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime https://www.loversinadangerousspacetime.com/ 13:42 Why Tristan loves games 15:52 Megan's favorite type of RPG character to play 17:30 The best video game of all-time Star Wars Battle Front and Starwars Battlefront 2 https://www.ea.com/games/starwars/battlefront/star-wars-battlefront-2 18:32 Legend of Zelda breath of the wild https://www.zelda.com/breath-of-the-wild/ 18:54 Valuable Life Skills (Dedication, practice and skill) Constantly learning and constantly improving 20:41 Megan on connecting with people on a deeper level 22:06 What makes Star Wars amazing 24:37 Impact of Games 26:23 How to get someone into gaming for the first time 29:49 Sarah Nicole Landry https://www.thebirdspapaya.com/the-papaya-podcast

https://girlmeetsnerd.com/ Instagram: @girlmeetsnerdpodcast Twitter: @girlmeetsnerd

Clay talks about the deck building game Fort by Leder Games where kids collect pizza, toys and build the coolest fort.

1.09 Bonfire 2.48 Fantastic Factories: Manufactions 4.14 Prince of Persia The Sands of Time 5.04 Fort 5.28 SPQF 6:00 Fort Theme 6:27 Macaroni Sculpture 7:00 What's a deck builder game 7:56 Iconography 10:20 Fort cards breakdown 12:53 Fort player boards 14:10 Lookout 15:55 Made up rules 17:00 Perks 19:27 Strategy Tip 20:50 Best Friends 21:36 Girl meets nerd podcast

Bonfire https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/304420/bonfire

Fantastic Factories: Manufactions https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deepwatergames/fantastic-factories-manufactions?ref=discovery&term=fantastic%20factories

Prince of Persia The Sands of Time remake https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/prince-of-persia/sands-of-time-remake

SPQF https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/249106/spqf

Leder Games Fort https://ledergames.com/products/fort

Girl Meets Nerd https://girlmeetsnerd.com/