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Rule of Carnage - Designing Better Miniatures Games
Glenn Ford
Frequency: 1 episode/11d. Total Eps: 136
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Ep 119 Pt 2: Celebrating 2000 subscribers: Questions from our Discord.
lundi 19 août 2024 • Duration 01:01:35
In Episode 119 Part 2 our weird little niche channel has recently hit 2000 subscribers. In celebration of this occurring we have asked our discord channel to come up with some intelligent questions. They did this in fine style and now we have enough of them for several videos. Well, three. This is the first one. Check out Man O' Kent Games here: https://www.manokentgames.com Check out Planet Smasher Games here: http://planetsmasher.games The Rule of Carnage discord server: https://discord.gg/Gb4aK7uECh If you want to support the channel financially you can join Mike's Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/planetsmashergames If you want the number on Glenn's Patreon to go up one, you can join his Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/manokentgames
Ep 119 Pt 1: Celebrating 2000 subscribers: Questions from our Discord.
Season 1 · Episode 119
lundi 12 août 2024 • Duration 01:04:45
In Episode 119 Part 1 our weird little niche channel has recently hit 2000 subscribers. In celebration of this occurring we have asked our discord channel to come up with some intelligent questions. They did this in fine style and now we have enough of them for several videos. Well, three. This is the first one. Check out Man O' Kent Games here: https://www.manokentgames.com Check out Planet Smasher Games here: http://planetsmasher.games The Rule of Carnage discord server: https://discord.gg/Gb4aK7uECh If you want to support the channel financially you can join Mike's Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/planetsmashergames If you want the number on Glenn's Patreon to go up one, you can join his Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/manokentgames
Ep 110: Miniatures Game Design - More Solo Mode!
lundi 27 mai 2024 • Duration 31:15
In Episode 110 Mike has been playtesting Pacific Command, and he's been doing it solo mode, as much playtesting is, and has developed a set of rules for doing that. So he's been wondering, is a solo mode that you use for playtesting the same as one you should present to your players? And if not, why not? So the guys chat about that. Check out Man O' Kent Games here: https://www.manokentgames.com Check out Planet Smasher Games here: http://planetsmasher.games The Rule of Carnage discord server: https://discord.gg/Gb4aK7uECh If you want to support the channel financially you can join Mike's Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/planetsmashergames If you want the number on Glenn's Patreon to go up one, you can join his Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/manokentgames
Ep 23: Miniatures Game Design - Features and Flaws.
Season 1 · Episode 23
lundi 21 mars 2022 • Duration 28:23
In this episode Glenn and Mike talk about flaws in games, how to recognise them, when to accept them and the ways in which they can become some of the best and most popular features in your game. Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design tabletop miniatures games with discussions, tips, reviews and interviews.
Check out Man O' Kent Games here: https://www.manokentgames.com
Check out Planet Smasher Games here: http://planetsmasher.games
Take a look at the podcast as a video on YouTube: Rule of Carnage - YouTube
Ep 22: Miniatures Game Design - Gaslands RnD: Resilience
Season 1 · Episode 22
lundi 14 mars 2022 • Duration 35:46
In this episode Glenn and Mike talk about some recent tinkering and testing that they've been doing in relation to some possible alternative version rules tweaks for Gaslands, in this case for the making cards more resilient and able to finish races more consistently. Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design tabletop miniatures games with discussions, tips, reviews and interviews.
Check out Man O' Kent Games here: https://www.manokentgames.com
Check out Planet Smasher Games here: http://planetsmasher.games
Take a look at the podcast as a video on YouTube: Rule of Carnage - YouTube
Ep 21: Miniatures Game Design - A Billion Suns: Warzone.
Season 1 · Episode 21
lundi 7 mars 2022 • Duration 31:55
In this episode Glenn and Mike talk the recent release of a new set of contracts for A Billion Suns, the Warzone contracts, built to encourage massive battles with gargantuan spaceships. Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design tabletop miniatures games with discussions, tips, reviews and interviews.
Check out Man O' Kent Games here: https://www.manokentgames.com
Check out Planet Smasher Games here: http://planetsmasher.games
Take a look at the podcast as a video on YouTube: Rule of Carnage - YouTube
Ep 20: Miniatures Game Design - Gaslands RnD: Evades
Season 1 · Episode 20
lundi 10 janvier 2022 • Duration 34:36
In this episode Glenn and Mike talk about some recent tinkering and testing that they've been doing in relation to some possible alternative version rules tweaks for Gaslands, in this case for the Evade rule. Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design tabletop miniatures games with discussions, tips, reviews and interviews.
Check out Man O' Kent Games here: https://www.manokentgames.com
Check out Planet Smasher Games here: http://planetsmasher.games
Take a look at the podcast as a video on YouTube: Rule of Carnage - YouTube
Ep 19: Miniatures Game Design - Gaslands RnD: Wipeouts.
Season 1 · Episode 20
lundi 20 décembre 2021 • Duration 31:20
In this episode Glenn and Mike talk about some recent tinkering and testing that they've been doing in relation to some possible alternative version rules tweaks for Gaslands, in this case for the Wipeout phase. Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design tabletop miniatures games with discussions, tips, reviews and interviews.
Check out Man O' Kent Games here: https://www.manokentgames.com
Check out Planet Smasher Games here: http://planetsmasher.games
Take a look at the podcast as a video on YouTube: Rule of Carnage - YouTube
Ep 18: Miniatures Game Design - Luck and Skill.
Season 1 · Episode 18
lundi 13 décembre 2021 • Duration 01:05:45
In this episode Glenn and Mike talk about luck in games and how it aligns, or sits contradictory to, skill. They discuss types of randomness, and to a degree types of skill and chat a little about why tabletop miniatures games are so obsessed with luck. Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design tabletop miniatures games with discussions, tips, reviews and interviews.
Check out Man O' Kent Games here: https://www.manokentgames.com
Check out Planet Smasher Games here: http://planetsmasher.games
Take a look at the podcast as a video on YouTube: Rule of Carnage - YouTube
Ep 17: Miniatures Game Design - Hobgoblin, development diary.
Season 1 · Episode 17
lundi 29 novembre 2021 • Duration 01:18:44
In this episode Glenn and Mike talk about Mike's project Hobgoblin, particularly the design principles that have been developed for it since their last conversation on the subject. They talk a bit about design principles in general, while applying them in practice to a live design. In the second half of the chat they engage in a live development discussion for the game. Glenn and Mike are the developer and designer respectively of games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled and A Billion Suns and here they talk about how, why and sometimes if to design tabletop miniatures games with discussions, tips, reviews and interviews.
Check out Man O' Kent Games here: https://www.manokentgames.com
Check out Planet Smasher Games here: http://planetsmasher.games
Take a look at the podcast as a video on YouTube: Rule of Carnage - YouTube
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