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Listen "Victory Pointers 008 – CanCon, Looking Back at 2015 and Ahead to 2016"
Episode Synopsis
We are at yet another board game convention, recording at CanCon 2016. We take some time to take stock of what we’ve achieved in our game design journeys in 2015 and look ahead to what excites us in 2016.
Kim Brebach – @secretbasegames / secretbasegames.com
Aaron Lim – @ehronlime / theactionpointspodcast.com
Sye Robertson – @syelon / syelon.com
What we talked about
2:30 The impact of timing and the lag between designing and publishing games
9:40 Designing with the constraint of an existing IP (Sye’s been working on a board game design tying in to Rule & Make’s Rise to Power)
11:00 Playtesting games at a general board gaming event, managing expectations of prototypes
15:40 Planning ahead and setting output goals for making board game design a career
19:20 Connecting with the board game community and building networks
21:20 Global Game Jam
29:00 The importance of board game communities and conventions for designers
33:30 Good Games Publishing to bring Unfair to Kickstarter in 2016
36:00 Being a game designer vs a game developer
41:10 Learning about global distribution, retail and attending events overseas
43:30 Taking successfully Kickstarted games to retail
49:10 Portal Games announced First Martians; app integration in board games
53:00 Hoping for cross-pollination of board game and video game creators
54:40 Tabletopia and online virtual tables, for playtesting and promotion
56:30 Legacy games and narrative design in board games; meta-Legacy games
Links to what we talked about
CanCon
Good Games Publishing
Art & Graphic Design for Tabletop Games
Global Game Jam
Concentric Games (September 2016)
PAX Australia (4 – 6 November 2016)
BorderCon (10 – 13 June 2016)
Looking for Gamers (9 – 10 July 2016)
MeepleCon (9 – 11 December 2016)
Malaysian Table Top Game Designers
Games Laboratory Incubator Playtesting Meetup
Tabletopia
VASSAL
Tabletop Simulator
Games we mentioned
Monstrous
Lanterns: The Harvest Festival
Robots & Rockets
Rise to Power
Just Chocolate
Giant Snail Will Not Prevail
Unfair
Camel Up
First Martians: Adventures on the Red Planet
Pandemic Legacy: Season 1
XCOM: The Board Game
Alchemists
World of Yo-Ho
Wits & Wagers
Cards Against Humanity
Jackbox Party Pack
Tharsis
Battlestar Galactica
A Game of Thrones
Ophir
Chronicles: Origins
Explorers of the North Sea and The North Sea Runesaga
Guns & Steel
Music: Something Small (Instrumental) by Minden is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License. Based on a work at http://needledrop.co
Kim Brebach – @secretbasegames / secretbasegames.com
Aaron Lim – @ehronlime / theactionpointspodcast.com
Sye Robertson – @syelon / syelon.com
What we talked about
2:30 The impact of timing and the lag between designing and publishing games
9:40 Designing with the constraint of an existing IP (Sye’s been working on a board game design tying in to Rule & Make’s Rise to Power)
11:00 Playtesting games at a general board gaming event, managing expectations of prototypes
15:40 Planning ahead and setting output goals for making board game design a career
19:20 Connecting with the board game community and building networks
21:20 Global Game Jam
29:00 The importance of board game communities and conventions for designers
33:30 Good Games Publishing to bring Unfair to Kickstarter in 2016
36:00 Being a game designer vs a game developer
41:10 Learning about global distribution, retail and attending events overseas
43:30 Taking successfully Kickstarted games to retail
49:10 Portal Games announced First Martians; app integration in board games
53:00 Hoping for cross-pollination of board game and video game creators
54:40 Tabletopia and online virtual tables, for playtesting and promotion
56:30 Legacy games and narrative design in board games; meta-Legacy games
Links to what we talked about
CanCon
Good Games Publishing
Art & Graphic Design for Tabletop Games
Global Game Jam
Concentric Games (September 2016)
PAX Australia (4 – 6 November 2016)
BorderCon (10 – 13 June 2016)
Looking for Gamers (9 – 10 July 2016)
MeepleCon (9 – 11 December 2016)
Malaysian Table Top Game Designers
Games Laboratory Incubator Playtesting Meetup
Tabletopia
VASSAL
Tabletop Simulator
Games we mentioned
Monstrous
Lanterns: The Harvest Festival
Robots & Rockets
Rise to Power
Just Chocolate
Giant Snail Will Not Prevail
Unfair
Camel Up
First Martians: Adventures on the Red Planet
Pandemic Legacy: Season 1
XCOM: The Board Game
Alchemists
World of Yo-Ho
Wits & Wagers
Cards Against Humanity
Jackbox Party Pack
Tharsis
Battlestar Galactica
A Game of Thrones
Ophir
Chronicles: Origins
Explorers of the North Sea and The North Sea Runesaga
Guns & Steel
Music: Something Small (Instrumental) by Minden is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License. Based on a work at http://needledrop.co
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