Game Designers of North Carolina Podcast
The Game Designers of North Carolina is a guild of tabletop game designers who, shockingly, reside in North Carolina. We’ve been meeting regularly since April 2013 and when we started most of us did not have a lot of exposure or experience in tabletop game design. We’ve learned a lot as a group since we started and this podcast is a way to share some of that knowledge. Our goal for the podcast is to present a lot of information pertinent for new designers but hopefully also offer content that any designer can find useful. We’ll also be sharing news of what group members are up to in the design world.
Episodes
Lyn Phillips, Josh Bowman, and Mark McGee get together to discuss what value games offer, and whether games should exist. It’s not nearly as Nihilistic of an episode as that sounds! We also discuss how to pitch games to Allplay.
- 2:48 – What are Games Good For?
- 13:16 – Pitch Perfect: Allplay
- 25:30 – Should Games Justify Themselves?
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Kevin Ude (@UdeGames and udeudeude), Josh Bowman, and Mark McGee (@mmark40) get together to discuss Designer Diaries, Carcassonne farmers, and look into why Josh doesn’t like Humanity (the board game, he like humanity just fine in general).
- 1:20 - Make A Designer Cry
- 17:10 - Designer Diary Diary
- 28:39 - My Favorite [Most Controversial?] Rule
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Isaac Shalev (@kindfortress), Josh Bowman, and Mark McGee (@mmark40) get together to try new things on this episode of the Game Designers of North Carolina Podcast.
- 5:55 – Iterative Design
- 26:40 – Do Games Offer Choice?
- 44:29 – Eclipse and Dice
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Mark McGee (@mmark40) and Kevin Ude (@UdeGames) join Matt Wolfe (@mattwolfe) to talk about starting a new publishing company How To Steam Broccoli.
- Tell Me Something Good
- Main Topic - Designers Becoming Publishers
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Ashwin Kamath (@BoardGameGhee) and Clarence Simpson (@stoichamster) join Mark McGee (@mmark40) to talk about their journey designing their game The Wolves.
- 1:02 – Getting to know Ashwin
- 8:15 – Main topic: Talking About The Wolves
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Matt Wolfe (@mattwolfe) joins Mark McGee (@mmark40) to talk about designing games in different genres.
- -- Tell Me Something Good
- -- Main topic: Designing Games in Different Genres
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Clarence Simpson (@stoichamster) and Mitch Wallace (@MitchWgames) join Mark McGee (@mmark40) to talk about PAX Unplugged.
- 0:37 – First Timer Palooza with Mitch
- 6:54 – Tell Me Something Good
- 10:10 – Main topic: PAX Unplugged
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Mike Belsole and Grace Kendall from the Tabletop Mentorship Program (Tabletopmentorship.org and @tabletopmentor) join Mark McGee (@mmark40) to talk about their mentorship program.
- -- First Timer Palooza
- -- Main topic: Tabletop Mentorship Program
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Ian Phillips (@crunchwrapgames) joins Mark McGee (@mmark40) to talk about inherent properties of board games.
- 1:01 -- Tell Me Something Good
- 3:30 -- Main Topic: Inherent Weaknesses of Board Games
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Ian Zang (@IanZangDesign, @GravGames, and gravitation.games) joins Mark McGee (@mmark40) to talk about all sorts of things that Ian Zang likes.
- 2:30 -- Tell Me Something Good
- 19:32 -- Main Topic: Zanged
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TC Petty III (@PuppyShogun) joins Mark McGee (@mmark40) to talk about inherent properties of board games.
- 1:37 -- Tell Me Something Good
- 7:49 -- Main Topic: Inherent Strengths of Board Games
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Isaac Shalev (@KindFortress and www.kindfortress.com) and Josh Mills (@JoshuaJMills) join Mark McGee (@mmark40) to talk about Player Expectations.
- 00:56 First Timer Palooza with Isaac Shalev
- 11:22 Tell Me Something Good
- 18:25 Main topic: Player Expectations
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Nate Bivins (@natebivins) joins Mark McGee (@mmark40) to go into a deep design dive about his game The Silver River.
- 1:46-- First Timer Palooza with Nate Bivins
- 8:51-- Tell Me Something Good
- 11:52-- Main topic: The Silver River
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Kevin Ude (@UdeGames and udeudeude) and Tony Miller (@beardedrogue) join Mark McGee (@mmark40) to talk about Redcap Ruckus and Kabuto Sumo, two games that share a similar inspiration but wound up being significantly different.
- 1:59 -- Tell Me Something Good
- 12:40 -- Main topic: Simultaneous Design Inspiration
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Josh Mills (@JoshuaJMills) and T.C. Petty III (@PuppyShogun) join Mark McGee (@mmark40) to talk about designing for the first-time experience.
- 1:14 -- Tell Me Something Good
- 9:21 -- Main topic: First Time Experience
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Kevin Ude (@UdeGames and udeudeude), Emilia Zywot, and David Marron (@emdadesign) join Mark McGee (@mmark40) to talk about codesigning games.
- 0:57 -- Double Time First Timer Palooza
- 7:28 -- Tell Me Something Good
- 12:42 -- Main topic: Codesigning Games
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Josh Mills (@JoshuaJMills) and Seth McCormick (@CardboardProf and cardboardprofessor.com) join Mark McGee (@mmark40) to talk about avatars and how they relate to games.
- 1:18 -- Tell Me Something Good
- 8:37 -- Main topic: Avatars in Games
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James Meyers (@apollocontinuum), Chris Kirkman (@dicehateme), and Chris Faulkenberry (@ccfaulkenberry) join Mark McGee (@mmark40) to talk about fiddly games.
- 0:57 -- Tell Me Something Good
- 6:15 -- Main topic: Fiddliness
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Matt Wolfe (@mattwolfe), Julio Nazario (@Junazaru), and Clarence Simpson (@stoichamster) join Mark McGee (@mmark40) to talk about designing, testing, and pitching games virtually.
- 01:12 - First-Timer-Palooza with Clarence
- 06:55 - Tell Me Something Good
- 14:05 - Main topic: Designing in a Virtual World
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Ian Phillips (iansloatphillips@gmail.com) and Kevin Ude (@UdeGames and udeudeude) join Mark McGee (@mmark40) to talk about Mean Games.
- 01:17-- First Timer Palooza with Ian Phillips
- 08:33-- Tell Me Something Good
- 15:22-- Main topic: Mean Games
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