This week on the SnakesCast, we turn the focus on designers from Canada, many of whom are friends and visitors at the café. Today, Friday June 22nd 2018, we look at Toronto-based designers, including Paul Tseng, Steve Tassie, Jonathan Moriarty, Eric M. Lang (now in Singapore), Daryl Andrews and Christopher Chung. We also look at game designers' nights and how key they can be in the development process.

This week on the SnakesCast, we turn the focus on designers from Canada, many of whom are friends and visitors at the café. Today, Wednesday June 20th 2018, we discuss games by Scott Abbott, Chris Haney, Laura Robinson, Paul Toyne, Tom Quinn, Ted Quinn, Mark Sherry, and Conor McGoey.

This week on the SnakesCast, we turn the focus on designers from Canada, many of whom are friends and visitors at the café. Today, Monday June 18th 2018, we discuss games by Daryl Andrews, Christopher Chung, Jay Cormier and Sen-Foong Lim.

Choose your cards carefully this week on the SnakesCast, as we take a close look at trick-taking games. Today, Friday June 15th 2018, we discuss some other games, look at the use of theme in trick-taking games, and talk about where the mechanism could go in the future.

Choose your cards carefully this week on the SnakesCast, as we take a close look at trick-taking games. Today, Wednesday June 13th 2018, we continue by looking at some excellent examples of contemporary trick-taking games, and start observing things that may have been inspired by them.

Choose your cards carefully this week on the SnakesCast, as we take a close look at trick-taking games. Today, Monday June 11th 2018, we begin by asking what trick-taking is, where it came from, giving some examples of well-known games, and looking at why we think it is not more prevalent in modern board gaming.

This week's SnakesCast examines gaming without speaking, whether that is a part of the game, or ways of teaching and learning a game without speech. Today, Friday June 8th 2018, we finish up the week by discussing some more games that could be good for non-verbal gaming, and looking at other non-verbal scenarios and language barriers, as well as some suggestions of how to overcome them.

This week's SnakesCast examines gaming without speaking, whether that is a part of the game, or ways of teaching and learning a game without speech. Today, Wednesday June 6th 2018, we continue by talking about methods of teaching games without speaking, and also games that would not be too difficult to teach that way.

This week's SnakesCast examines gaming without speaking, whether that is a part of the game, or ways of teaching and learning a game without speech. Today, Monday June 4th 2018, we begin by talking about games in which at least one player - if not all of them - is not allowed to speak.

We look at one of the most divisive questions in gaming this week on the SnakesCast: "How important is theme?" Today, Friday June 1st 2018, we finish up the week by discussing a few games that have some theme that is not central to the game, talking about emergent storytelling in games, and examine using theme to help learn and teach games.