Ancient Robot Games

Ancient Robot Games

Ancient Robot Games is an independent board game shop/café on Leith Walk in bonnie Edinburgh. On the Ancient Robot Podcast, hosts Dougal Freir (Owner, Ancient Robot Games) and Robert Gelb (board game designer) talk trends, design, and development of all things tabletop! Each episode features guests from the industry sharing their insights into the world of game development and the ever-growing community of game designers in Scotland. Tune in for your bi-monthly dose of board game nerdisms! Ancient Robot Games - https://ancientrobotgames.co.uk Midnight Trading Co - https://midnighttradingco.com Podcast Producer Ryan Scott - https://www.ryanscottfilm.com/ Making or want to make tabletop games in Edinburgh? A new community and coworking space opens May 2025 in Edinburgh! https://ancientrobotworkshop.co.uk

Episodes

June 4, 2025 57 mins
Dougal and Gelb sit down with early career psychologist, Joe Murphy, to discuss his paper on the coming and goings of players in group roleplaying games and the overall effect that social gaming can have on individuals.

Ancient Robot Games - https://ancientrobotgames.co.uk
Midnight Trading Co - https://midnighttradingco.com
Podcast Producer Ryan Scott - https://www.ryanscottfilm.com/

Making or want to make tabletop games in Edinburg...
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Dougal and Gelb sit down to discuss the change in game design for older audiences and go in depth on reskinning and reimplementation of popular games (Gelb doesn't need anymore Star Trek Monopoly's!) and how this could be affecting the development of original ideas in the industry. 

Ancient Robot Games - https://ancientrobotgames.co.uk
Midnight Trading Co - https://midnighttradingco.com
Podcast Producer Ryan Scott - https://www.ryan...
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Dougal and Gelb sit down with "Deep Regrets" designer, Judson Cowan, to discuss his process as a solo game designer and his change from a corporate background to being a completely self-employed game designer.

Judson's latest release "Deep Regrets" is a phenomenal strategic horror fishing game completely designed and developed by himself, and is NOW available at Ancient Robot Games. 

See more of Judson's work at https://tettixgames.c...
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In this episode of the Ancient Robot Games podcast, Dougal and Gelb dicuss what brought them into the world of tabletop gaming and some of the quirks and culture around the board game community of Japan. As well as in depth reviews of some original games from incredible Japanese publishers, and this barely even scratches the surface of the many, many, many games Dougal brought back with him!

Ancient Robot Games: https://ancientrobot...
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Ancient Robot Games is an independent board game shop/café on Leith Walk in bonnie Edinburgh.

On the Ancient Robot Podcast, hosts Dougal Freir (Owner, Ancient Robot Games) and Robert Gelb (board game designer) talk trends, design, and development of all things tabletop! Each episode features guests from the industry sharing their insights into the world of game development and the ever-growing community of game designers in Scotland...
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