Design Diary

Design Diary

Episodes

March 1, 2019
Today we look at board game design based on the word "perennial".

1 : present at all seasons of the year

2 : persisting for several years usually with new herbaceous growth from a perennating part

3 a : persistent, enduring

b : continuing without interruption : constant, perpetual

c : regularly repeated or renewed : recurrent

http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD176-Perennial.mp3

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Today we look at board game design based on the word "dossier".

: a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject

http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD175-Dossier.mp3

Today we look at board game design based on the word "noisome".

1 : noxious, harmful

2 a : offensive to the senses and especially to the sense of smell b : highly obnoxious or objectionable

http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD173-Noisome.mp3
January 15, 2019
Today we look at board game design based on the word "malinger".

: to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work)

http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD172-Malinger.mp3

Today we look at board game design based on the word "tomfoolery".

: playful or foolish behavior


Today we look at board game design based on the word "derring do".

: daring action : daring


Today we look at board game design based on the word "lycanthropy"

1 : a delusion that one has become a wolf

2 : the assumption of the form and characteristics of a wolf held to be possible by witchcraft or magic


Today we look at board game design based on the word "indoctrinate".

1 : to instruct especially in fundamentals or rudiments : teach

2 : to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle

Today we look at board game design based on the word "acceptation".

1 : acceptance; especially : favorable reception or approval

2 : a generally accepted meaning of a word or understanding of a concept


Today we look at board game design based on the word "weltschmerz".

1 often capitalized Weltschmerz : mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state

2 often capitalized Weltschmerz : a mood of sentimental sadness

Today we look at board game design based on the word "Luddite".

: one of a group of early 19th-century English workmen destroying laborsaving machinery as a protest; broadly : one who is opposed to especially technological change

Today we look at board game design based on the word "atone".

1 : to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome — usually + for

2 : to make reparation or supply satisfaction for : expiate — used in the passive voice with for

Today we look at board game design based on the word "enigmatic".

: of, relating to, or resembling an enigma : mysterious

http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD162-Enigmatic.mp3

Today we look at board game design based on the word "exigent".

1 : requiring immediate aid or action

2 : requiring or calling for much : demanding


Today we look at board game design based on the word "taciturn".

: temperamentally disinclined to talk

http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD160-Taciturn.mp3

Today we look at board game design based on the word "nonchalant".

: having an air of easy unconcern or indifference


Today we look at board game design based on the word "debunk".

: to expose the sham or falseness of


Today we look at board game design based on the word "behemoth".

1 often capitalized : a mighty animal described in Job 40:15-24 as an example of the power of God
2 : something of monstrous size, power, or appearance

http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD156-Behemoth.mp3
Today we look at board game design based on the word "salvo".

1 a : a simultaneous discharge of two or more guns in military action or as a salute
b : the release all at one time of a rack of bombs or rockets (as from an airplane)
c : a series of shots by an artillery battery with each gun firing one round in turn after a prescribed interval
d : the bombs or projectiles released in a salvo
2 a : a sudden burst
b : a spirited attac...
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