The Play to Win Podcast from Aconyte Books – Series 1: Everybody Wins by James Wallis

The Play to Win Podcast from Aconyte Books – Series 1: Everybody Wins by James Wallis

This is the Play to Win Podcast from Aconyte Books. This first series of the podcast accompanies the book Everybody Wins: Four Decades of the Greatest Board Games Ever Made by James Wallis, charting the rise of the modern board game over the past forty years. In this accompanying podcast series, James chats with some of the people who were there to see it happen.

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December 18, 2025 44 mins

“30 Years of Legend of the Five Rings” is a series of interviews celebrating 30 years since the debut of L5R. This second series of the Play to Win podcast from Aconyte Books explores the perspectives of the people who had a hand in L5R’s making, past and present. In Episode 4, host Katrina Ostrander is joined by Steve Horvath. He’s been involved with Legend of the Five Rings for its entire history, from before the game’s official ...

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“30 Years of Legend of the Five Rings” is a series of interviews celebrating 30 years since the debut of L5R. This second series of the Play to Win podcast from Aconyte Books explores the perspectives of the people who had a hand in L5R’s making, past and present.

In Episode 3, host Katrina Ostrander is joined by D.J. Trindle, wearer of many hats at AEG during the card game’s early years, and line editor for the first edition of th...

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“30 Years of Legend of the Five Rings” is a series of interviews celebrating 30 years since the debut of L5R. This second series of the Play to Win podcast from Aconyte Books explores the perspectives of the people who had a hand in L5R’s making, past and present.

In Episode 2, host Katrina Ostrander continues her conversation with Legend of the Five Rings co-creators John Zinser and Ryan Dancey of Alderac Entertainment Group.

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“30 Years of Legend of the Five Rings” is a series of interviews celebrating 30 years since the debut of L5R. This second series of the Play to Win podcast from Aconyte Books explores the perspectives of the people who had a hand in L5R’s making, past and present.

In Episode 1, host Katrina Ostrander is joined by two of the people responsible for the collectible card game’s creation, John Zinser and Ryan S. Dancey.

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March 6, 2023 58 mins

This is the Play to Win Podcast from Aconyte Books. This first series of the podcast accompanies the book Everybody Wins: Four Decades of the Greatest Board Games Ever Made by James Wallis. In this episode, James wraps up a look at the last four decades of board games with guests Tim Harford, Christopher John Eggett and Holly Nielsen. 

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February 20, 2023 60 mins

This is the Play to Win Podcast from Aconyte Books. This first series of the podcast accompanies the book Everybody Wins: Four Decades of the Greatest Board Games Ever Made by James Wallis. In this episode, James discusses party games, co-op games and more with Jenga creator Leslie Scott and Pandemic designer Matt Leacock.

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February 6, 2023 54 mins

This is the Play to Win Podcast from Aconyte Books. This first series of the podcast accompanies the book Everybody Wins: Four Decades of the Greatest Board Games Ever Made by James Wallis. In this episode, James is joined one of the world's best-known games designers, Reiner Knizia, as well as author and board game reviewer Tim Clare, to discuss the era when board games went mainstream. 

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January 23, 2023 61 mins

This is the Play to Win Podcast from Aconyte Books. This first series of the podcast accompanies the book Everybody Wins: Four Decades of the Greatest Board Games Ever Made by James Wallis. In this episode, James discusses tabletop gaming's Golden Age of the 1990s with two of its central figures – Peter Adkison, founder of Wizards of the Coast and the man who first published Magic: The Gathering, and John Kovalic, designer of Apple...

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January 10, 2023 89 mins

This is the Play to Win Podcast from Aconyte Books. This first series of the podcast accompanies the book Everybody Wins: Four Decades of the Greatest Board Games Ever Made by James Wallis. In this episode, James chats with two of the most significant figures in the British games industry from the 1980s onwards – legendary Games Workshop games designer Jervis Johnson and Fighting Fantasy editor and founder of Black Library Mar...

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December 19, 2022 55 mins

This is the Play to Win Podcast from Aconyte Books. This first series of the podcast accompanies the book Everybody Wins: Four Decades of the Greatest Board Games Ever Made by James Wallis. In this first episode, James chats with two giant figures from the gaming world of the 1970s – Sir Ian Livingstone, founder of Games Workshop, and David Parlett, designer of Hare & Tortoise, the first game ever to be awarded the prestig...

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