The Cardboard Herald

00:00 - Intro

02:40 - The forming of a "board game design collaborative"

07:07 - Are conventions still relevant?

10:48 - Perennial and biting your own apple

17:55 - Discovering theme through mechanics

20:52 - Killing your darlings

23:31 - Origins and aspirations of Whisperstone

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00:00 - Intro

01:14 - Starting as an intern

04:04 - Background in games

06:19 - Earliest pitches

08:03 - Downhill development

12:30 - A career unplanned

13:48 - First project since Kyle & Cole left

18:49 - Aspirational weirdness

21:20 - What makes it special?

24:21 - Hardest design nut to crack?

27:20 - What darlings were killed?

30:02 - Advice for those who come after?

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Jarratt Gray is the co-designer along with Carl de Visser of Endeavor, Endeavor: Age of Sail and Endeavor Deep Sea.

00:00 - Intro (taking TCbH by storm)

02:49 - The sense of exploration

06:09 - History of Endeavor

12:27 - An academic bent

16:50 - Designing a balance between coop & competitive

21:31 - Working partnership with Carl

25:56 - Avoiding bad expansions with uncharted waters

34:10 - Endeavor's future

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Jamey Stegmaier is the cofounder & owner of Stonemaier games, as well as designer of many of their hits like Viticulture, Scythe and Tapestry.

00:00 - Why release 2 new expansions at once?

03:22 - Do you buy expansions for your games?

07:11 - How have your views on expansions changed over time?

12:23 - Do you think about expansion potential when publishing a game?

15:48 - Simultaneous release expansions

20:14 - Why not repackage expansions into Tokaido?

23:03 - What metrics do you consider on if it's worth it?

25:00 - Balancing release schedule?

26:39 - Expansions that could have been?

31:48 - Types of expansions (Jamey's question for Jack)

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Pat Race & Aron Suring are the co-owners / co-founders of Alaska Robotics Gallery among many other businesses and projects in Juneau, Alaska, and are just all around great dudes.

00:00 - Intro "what is this shop?"

01:41 - When did games come along?

03:57 - Selling expansions

06:24 - Encouraging buying local

08:50 - Stale product

11:11 - Are expansions a boon or bane

14:12 - Closing out with favorite games

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Nick Murray, coowner of Bitewing Games and host of "The Bits with Joe and Nick" comes to talk Gold Country and Bitewing's work with Reiner Knizia, spanning hits from Zoo Vadis to Illiad.

00:00 - Intro

01:46 - Gold Country Excitement

07:08 - Did Bitewing set out to work with Knizia?

12:57 - Reiner's self awareness of current resurgence?

19:18 - Is there a Knizia bubble?

26:25 - Challenges with Gold Country

32:24 - Why doesn't Bitewing do expansions?

35:35 - The games that got away?

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Trevor Benjamin is co-designer of numerous hit games including Undaunted, Warchest, Resist and Mandela, frequently collaborating with David J. Thompson and Brett J. Gilbert.

00:00 - Intro

01:10 - Getting involved with Bitewing

02:26 - Approach to following up Iliad & Ichor

06:29 - Intentionally subverting genre?

07:52 - Late addition of solo & coop

09:47 - Why always codesigning?

14:47 - Approach to Azure

18:11 - State of the hobby trending to more shallow experiences

21:50 - Historical accuracy vs. practical game design

25:09 - Expanded scope of Undaunted

29:01 - How do you know when a game is done?

31:51 - Recent inspirations

37:35 - Next up, For the Gods

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It’s time to butt heads and create enemies that will last a lifetime! That’s right, we’re talking about conflict, baby, and the different ways conflicts are represented in board games.

0:00 - Introductions and What We’ve Been Playing This Week!

34:22 - Conflict in Board Games

1:13:10 - Outro!

Jack and Eric haven’t chatted in a while, so we thought this would be a good time to discuss the channel, where we’re at and what we’re working on now that we’re both back from all of our trips, and what’s coming up for the channel!

0:00 - Introductions and What We’ve Been Playing This Week!

29:55 - Call to Order of the Cardboard Herald Board Meeting

1:21:45 - Meeting Adjourned and Outro!

Cameron Art (developer of Harvest, owner of PickPocket Games) comes on the podcast to chat with Eric about his time as a developer for Keymaster and what’s on the horizon for PickPocket Games

PickPocket Games: https://pickpocketgames.com/

0:00 - Introductions and What We’ve Played This Past Week

12:07 - Cameron Talks About Developing Harvest

19:25 - Was There Feedback Cameron Got Where The Feedback Disagreed With the Data?

24:18 - Cameron Discusses The Differences Between Designing A Game and Developing A Game

37:13 - Cameron Discusses What’s Different From Working Internally to Develop for a Company versus Being Contracted to Develop?

40:54 - How Does Cameron Approach Developing a Solo Mode for a Competitive Game?

47:50 - What Pushed Cameron to Republish Thief’s Market with PickPocket Games?

56:00 - Cameron Talks Starting Up PickPocket Games

1:03:15 - Cameron’s Most Influential Games

1:07:18 - The Games Cameron Thinks You Must Play As an Aspiring Board Game Designer?

1:11:22 - Outro