Game Design Deep Dive
Dan Bullock interviews game designers with a focus on the challenges of historical board game design.
Podcasting since 2022 • 35 episodes
Game Design Deep Dive
Latest Episodes
Radical Rulebooks with Greg Loring-Albright, PhD
Greg Loring-Albright is the designer of Ahoy, Keep the Faith, and co-designed Bloc by Bloc: Uprising with T.L. Simmons. Moreover, he teaches Game Studies and Game Design at Harrisburg University. We discuss his recent zine RULEBOOKS FOR RADICAL...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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46:50
Trench Raid with Lisa Smedman
Lisa Smedman is a best-selling author, journalist, and designer of many RPG games and modules. We discuss Trench Raid, her first solitaire tabletop wargame for Compass, the tactical approach to the topic of WW1, and the relationship between ser...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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53:02
Interview with Fred Serval
In this episode, a proper interview with Fred Serval, designer of A Gest of Robin Hood, Red Flag Over Paris, and A Very Civil Whist. Fred is also the host of an excellent channel dedicated to historical tabletop gaming, Homo Ludens. We discuss ...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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1:00:42
Playing Oppression with Mary Flanagan
Mary Flanagan, is a game designer, professor, and an author. She joins us to discuss her book, co-authored with Mikael Jakobson, PLAYING OPPRESSION: THE LEGACY OF CONQUEST AND EMPIRE IN COLONIALIST BOARD GAMES. We discuss representation ...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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1:06:13
Interview with Brian Asklev
Brian Asklev designed my favorite wargame of last year, 1812: Napoleon's Fateful March. We discuss what went into his phenomenal design, his upcoming game Baltic Empires, event design, and the challenges of playtesting multiplayer games. <...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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57:01