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Dan Bullock interviews game designers with a focus on the challenges of historical board game design.
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Come Out Fighting with John Carnahan
Season 5 · Episode 8
samedi 29 novembre 2025 • Duration 27:25
Our guest is designer John Carnahan. His latest, Come Out Fighting will be on Kickstarter on November 30th. I am not sure how many listeners have dipped their toe in miniature games, but I had to invite John to discuss his latest design, because it incorporates something extraordinary and radical in that space.
Come Out Fighting on Kickstarter
Outro Music: Gene Autry "Don't Fence Me In"
Live from SD HistCon: Narrative in Solitaire Games
Season 5 · Episode 7
mercredi 19 novembre 2025 • Duration 01:01:59
Recorded live at SD HistCon, our esteemed panel was comprised of designers John Butterfield (RAF, Enemy Action Series, D-Day Omaha, Ambush), David Thompson (Valiant Defense Series, War Story, Undaunted), and Jeremy White (Skies Above Series, Enemy Coast Ahead Series, Atlantic Chase). We discuss embedded vs emergent narrative in historical games and how one leverage mechanisms to achieve the desired play experience in solitaire design.
Outro music: Might Hannibal "All Nite Long"
Interview with John Butterfield
Season 4 · Episode 6
lundi 16 septembre 2024 • Duration 01:09:32
As a designer, John Butterfield is a bit of a troublemaker. He likes to insert friction in his designs where wargamers aren’t used to finding it. His games don’t just tell stories, they host a space for players to make their OWN stories. His titles include Ambush, RAF, Enemy Action: Ardennes & Karkov, the D-Day Series, Hell’s Highway and so many more. We discuss solitaire design, the evolution of his work, and his collaboration with Kai Jensen on Downfall.
Outro music: Jessica Ackerley All Of the Colours Are Singing | Jessica Ackerley (bandcamp.com)
Chicago '68 with Yoni Goldstein
Season 4 · Episode 5
mardi 6 août 2024 • Duration 54:58
For this episode, we chat with filmmaker and game designer Yoni Goldstein about his upcoming game Chicago '68 from The Dietz Foundation about the 1968 DNC protests and his journey in game design.
Chicago '68 on Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dietzfoundation/chicago-68
Jean Genet in Chicago:
https://vimeo.com/78486625
Outro Music: "Popular Myth and the Destruction of Sodom" by Peter Thomas Sound Orchester
Narrative in Boardgames with Dan Thurot
Season 4 · Episode 4
mardi 23 juillet 2024 • Duration 01:14:57
We decided to break from our usual format. Dan Thurot of Space Biff joins us for a discussion about narrative and storytelling in board games, particularly how it relates to historical boardgames.
SPACE-BIFF! | Fiercely Independent. Independant? Crap. (spacebiff.com)
Outro Music: Sun Ra Arkestra - Between Two Worlds
Interview with Maurice Suckling
Season 4 · Episode 3
dimanche 23 juin 2024 • Duration 01:19:22
Maurice Suckling is a screenwriter, author, teacher of design as well as vast experience in various roles of video game production. We discuss his recent design Crisis 1914 from Worthington, the upcoming Peace 1905 from Fort Circle, and Operation Barclay (currently on Gamefound).
Interview with Sebastian Bae
Season 4 · Episode 2
jeudi 9 mai 2024 • Duration 01:14:12
Sebastian Bae is a research scientist and senior game designer for the Center of Naval Analyses' Gaming and Integration Program as well as a faculty advisor for the Georgetown University Wargaming Society. He has two commercial designs, Littoral Commander: Indo-Pacific with Dietz Foundation and a multi-pack Crisis In Korea being released through Catastrophe Games.
We discuss the challenges of designing on the topic of North Korea, the value of modeling hypothetical war, and the frontier of designing for modern conflicts.
Interview with Carlos Marquez Linares
Season 4 · Episode 1
jeudi 18 avril 2024 • Duration 01:11:50
Carlos Marquez Linares is the designer of TWO upcoming games, The Other Side of the Hill from NAC Wargames and Imperial Fever from GMT (currently on the P500). We discuss his controversial topics and his design approach in each of the aforementioned games.
Interview with Natalia Wojtowicz
Season 3 · Episode 7
samedi 9 décembre 2023 • Duration 01:00:42
Natalia Wotjowicz has written an excellent book called Wargaming Experiences about approaches to professional wargame design informed by her experience with the NATO Civil-Military Cooperation Center of Excellence. Her book offers a lot of guidance relevant to both historical games and wargames, so I invited her to discuss it along with differences between professional and commercial design.
Books by Natalia Wojtowicz:
Wargaming Experiences (2 book series) Paperback Edition (amazon.com)
Outro music: Marnie Stern "Plain Speak"
The Comeback Kid | Marnie Stern (bandcamp.com)
Interview with Gina Willis
Season 3 · Episode 6
mercredi 22 novembre 2023 • Duration 57:53
Gina Willis has designed A Glorious Chance, an excellent solitaire game about naval operations during the War of 1812 and collaborated with Jeremy White on the design of Skies Above Britain. We discuss both of these games, the emphasis on narrative in solitaire design, age of sail, and much more.
A Glorious Chance (mybigcommerce.com)
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