Player Lair Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

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Ori Kagan is the creative force behind Kagan Productions, a renowned agency specializing in high-quality animated trailers for board games. With a proven track record of helping campaigns raise over $19 million, Ori collaborates with both established publishers and first-time creators to bring their tabletop games to life with captivating storytelling and marketing expertise.


Main Kagan Productions website: https://kaganproductions.com/
Kickstarter Health Scorecard: https://ori-y8ghfgfd.scoreapp.com/
Kagan Duckademy Waitlist sign up: https://kaganproductions.com/lp-kagan-duckademy/

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Andrew Bosley is one of the co-designers of Planecrafters by Paisley Board Games and the artist behind Everdell, The River, Mission: Red Planet, and Citadels. He is a freelance illustrator, game designer, and writer working primarily in the board and video game industries.

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Adrian Adamescu has been designing games for the last decade! He is known for designing light-to-midweight games with clean mechanics. He co-designed Sagrada, Dice Theme Park,  Mistwind, and so many more great games! Enjoy the conversation!


Check out my games! :
99 Ninja - Currently on Kickstarter!
Rise of Babel - Coming Q1-Q2 2024

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Sandy Petersen has been creating RPGs, video games, and board games for over 40 years!

He's been on the team of successful video games like Age of Empires, Civilization, Doom, and Quake.

In 2013 he returned to the tabletop realm with the successful Kickstarter project Cthulhu Wars.

He is now the founder of Petersen Games, and in addition to the Cthulhu Wars game line, has designed the Orcs Must Die board game, Glorantha: The Gods War, and upcoming projects.

Episode hosted by Ivan Alexiev and Nikola Petrov. Thanks for listening!

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We talk to Nicolas Fournier about game design, loss aversion, player interaction, racing and his debut board game - Megapulse.

Learn more about Megapulse here! - www.jeux-orion.com/megapulse

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Zachary Smith and Sam Macdonald tell us about their upcoming game - Circadians: Chaos Order. We talk about game design, development, player interaction, and making a game feel balanced for both new and experienced players. 

Circadians: Chaos Order is coming to Kickstarter on October 19th, along with a second printing of Circadians: First Light. 

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Matt and Josh from Budgie Smuggler Games tell us about their upcoming project Renegade Legion: Centurion. We talked about acquiring intellectual property, working in a team, war games and much more!

Check them out on their social media platforms:

Twitter:                                                 https://twitter.com/GamesBudgie
Facebook:                                             https://www.facebook.com/budgiesmugglergames/
Instagram:                                           https://www.instagram.com/budgiesmugglergames/

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Ben is the creator of Micro Dojo and Prometheus Game Labs. We talked about his process running his first successful Kickstarter project and what he learned in the past year of making Micro Dojo.

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Bruno Faidutti joins us to talk game design! Bruno has worked on games including Citadels, Mission: Red Planet, Raptor,  Queen's Necklace and many more!

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