making games

Chris Backe (rhymes with hockey) is the founder of Entro Games. His games typically play in under 30 minutes, feature a wide variety of player counts, and a diverse range of themes. The thing they all have in common: they're easy to learn, easy to play, and offer plenty of strategy and replayability.

Chris is the co-creator of No Box Games alongside Kristian Fosh and Roque A. Deleon, and Virtual Playtesting alongside Ian Brocklebank. He also runs Tabletop Publishers, a database of publishers to help designers pitch their games better.

Links to my games:
99 Ninja
Rise of Babel on Kickstarter coming in 2024

Brett and Trevor are both board game designers, who have an amazing portfolio of games.  Mandala, Undaunted, Guild of Merchant Explorers are all games one or both of them have worked on. In this episode, we talked about their community of game designers, and how they design and co-design games. If you listen closely you're sure to hear some well-kept secrets of board game success.

Links to my games:
99 Ninja
Rise of Babel on Kickstarter coming in 2024

Check out Mayan Curse on Kickstarter!

Joe Slack is the designer and publisher of Relics of Rajavihara and the Montalo's Revenge expansion, the designer of King of Indecision and Zoo Year's Eve, and the co-designer of Four Word Thinking, and Kingdom's Candy: Monsters.

Many of his current designs are on display at www.crazylikeabox.com.

Joe is also a game design instructor and author of 4 books on game design, including the #1 best-seller, The Board Game Designer's Guide. He previously taught at Laurier University in the Game Design & Development Program and now runs his own online course for new game designers, The Board Game Design Course.

Links to my games:
99 Ninja
Rise of Babel on Kickstarter coming in 2024

Scott Rogers has helped design many successful video games including: Pac-Man World, the Maximo series, God of War, Drawn to Life series and Darksiders. A former Disney Imagineer and VR designer, Scott currently teaches game design at the New York Film Academy and the University of Southern California's interactive media department. His segment "Biography of a Board Game" can be heard on the award-winning Ludology Podcast (and back episodes of the Dice Tower Podcast).

Link to Scott's Amazon page. Be sure to check out Scott's new book "Your Turn! The Guide to Great Tabletop Game Design"

Links to my games:
99 Ninja
Rise of Babel on Kickstarter coming in 2024

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

Links to my games:
99 Ninja
Rise of Babel on Kickstarter coming in 2024

Welcome to the Mobile GameDev Playbook! In this first episode, we review the main game development trends in 2019 and what to expect in 2020! Host Jon Jordan is joined by Chief Game Analyst at GameRefinery Joel Julkunen, and a special guest from Square Enix, Albert Custodio Martinez, to provide insights into what makes a good mobile game. 

The amazing Zoe Quinn hangs out with our EIC Tanya to talk about the new game based off Chuck Tingle's works, new book that's out soon, becoming a cyborg and more.

There’s tees, mugs and other items in the I Need Diverse Games spreadshirt shop. Any profits are split 50/50 with @Chachibobinks who created the logo and banner. There’s a blog to compliment the show! Feel free to drop a note to freshoutoftokens@gmail.com if you have questions, compliments, episode or guest feedback. The site is outoftokenscast.com or outoftokenscast on tumblr. Keep up with guest announcements and show news at @OutOfTokensCast

Note: Though the questions sent in by listeners are in the show notes, we had some technical difficulties and have to re-record the Q&A portion of the show. Part II will air later in May.

Questions for Zoe

Jarryd Huntley: What's your favorite metal band(if applicable😉)? Jk, but what's your favorite band(s)?

Jamie Jeans: Sorry if this is so simple but... how are you? Are you doing okay?

What was behind the decision to go old school for the live action video game design of the Chuck Tingle Digital Adventure game? I hadn't seen that in a LONG long time.

TimpoAdante: You have done a lot of incredible things, and you constantly advocate for others even in those moments when most people would just be seeking to shore up support for themselves. What is something you've done (that you can actually talk about) that you are proudest of, whether a lot of folks already know about it or not?

Out of all the folks you've worked with, who do you still hope you'll get the opportunity to work with, and what kind of thing would you like to make or do with them?

What was the most surprising thing you were able to notice or do after getting your magnetic implant? Is this implant the harbinger of the cybernetic revolution?

Where to find our guest online

Twitter: @UnburntWitch

Kickstarted in the Butt - The Tingler

Pre-Order Crash Override on Amazon

Zoe's GDC Talk on Comedy in Games Video autoplays on open

Crash Override

UnburntWitch.com

Zoe on Patreon

Where to find your host online:

Tanya D. - @cypheroftyr // @INeedDivGms

Twitch: twitch.tv/cypheroftyr // twitch.tv/INeedDivGames

Support the show via I Need Diverse Games Patreon

Support Tanya's other work via Patreon

Shownotes: http://spielend-programmieren.at/de:podcast:biertaucher:2013:087

Inhalt:
0:01:05 Worüber wir reden werden (Inhalt der Sendung), Flattr-Einnahmen
0:03:30 Florian berichtet über den Metaday 56 im Wiener Metalab: Niko Alm (Spagettimonsterführerscheinfoto) und Wilfred Handl (Ex Boss von Scientology Österreich und Scientology Aussteiger) sprachen u.a. über Religion
0:12:33 Ankündigung: Cryptoparty im Metalab
0:17:41 Wiener Linien SMS Ticket
0:20:30 Florian berichtet vom Create-Camp der Wiener Linien
0:35:23 Horst hat ein Probe-Exemplar der Zeitschrift Making Games gelesen ( Schwerpunkt Kickstarter )
0:45:03 Meldung: Illumi-Room von Microsoft
0:47:30 Meldung: Kein Compiz (Grafikeffekte) für Wayland ( X-Nachfolger )
0:52:14 Meldung: Nachruf auf Aaron Schwarz
0:54:14 Meldung: Anonyomous Österreich veröffentlicht Kreditkartennummern von österr. Politikern
0:55:55 Gregor berichtet vom Pen und Paper Rollenspiel Paranoia und hat versagt beim Würfelkaufen im Rollenspieler-Fachgeschäft
1:03:37 Florians Bier(brauerei)empfehlung aus Hamburg: Gröninger
1:07:00 Thomas hat einst in in der Brauerei Göss gearbeitet
1:10:50 Horst hat viele interessante Projekte auf Kickstarter und Indiegogo gefunden: Video Games Highschool (Web-TV Serie), Torque 3D Engine für Linux, portable Gamestick, linux-gaming-handheld
1:14:00 Podcastbelauschung: Susanne Mandl hat eine neue Folge vom Naturklug-Podcast veröffentlicht
1:16:00 Felix Bally (siehe Biertaucher Folge 80) hat auf Radio Helsinki eine eigene Sendung: Headroom
1:18:02 Thomas liest eine Meldung aus dubiosen Quellen vor: Apple verliert bei Teens Coolness gegen Microsoft
1:24:00 Kino: Horst war nicht sehr begeistert von 7 Psychopaths (Amazon-Link)
1:27:54 TV: Gregor empfiehlt Broadwalk Empire (Amazon-Link)
1:30:00 Konzert: Thomas empfiehlt Kabarettkonzert von Mike Supanic
1:31:07 Politik: Avaaz Kampagne gegen WarOnDrugs, gute Dokumentation auf Youtube: Breaking_the_Taboo
1:33:47 TV Thomas mache eine ORF-Empfehlung: Jahresrückblick von Stermann und Grissemann „Wilkommen Österreich“, Maschek, Ruskaia. Außerdem: Staatskünstler
1:36:60 App-Empfehlung von Gregor: Evernote
1:37:00 App-Empfehlung von Thomas: Videoicous
1:39:50 Buchtipp: Garip verkauft auf Nachfrage in der Zypresse das 2sprachige Kochbuch: kurdisch kochen ( Amazon Link)