Brains Behind Games: Recent Episodes
The Unicorn Collective
Interviews with Board Game Designers for Board Game Designers. (Now with Illustrator and Graphic Designer Interviews)
New designer Josh tells us about his visually appealing prototypes and how he approached their designs.
I don't have room to list this mans many accomplishments so I have put his BGG link below.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamede...
A great mind, wonderful interviewee and professional frizbee'er.
Indy designer and self publisher in the process of hand making over 200 games for her recent KS. Going from strength to strength with a dedicated following and an absolute pleasure to talk to.
https://atikingames.com/
The mind behind Rocket Express, a game we played on Designer Playtesting and I loved (and won).
Some brilliant insights from a hobby designer with some great ideas.
Creator of fruit based, fast paces, take that, card game Funkifruit!
Played on Designer Playtesting.
funkifruit.cards
Designer of Arcana Magica, an inventive game based around a beautiful tarot deck. Great guy to talk too, great interview.
Co-creator of Token Terrors, a game built around sets of tokens made for use with CCG's, RPG's and much more. Token Terrors is actually top notch and we liked it a lot when we played it on Designer Playtesting.
With credits as designer or developer on some of the biggest games out there we get to speak to David Turczi and his energy and passion is as infectious as a playthrough of pandemic.
The Artist and illustrator of new game Dogs Bond talks to me about working with designers and creating art for games.
You can Pre-Order Dogs BOND now :-
https://app.crowdox.com/projects/dogsbondgame/dogs-bond
Sarah's favourite game currently is an unpublish prototype by channel friend Fabricio Leotti called Robosomes, watch an explanation of the game below :-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tViut1FLHd8&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=FabricioLeotti
Designer and publisher Ellie Dix of The Dark Imp talks to me about game design and self publishing games through her website.
https://www.thedarkimp.com/
The mind behind sheepdogs and many other great concepts. Find his other great games ideas at www.thegamespeople.co.uk a sire he runs for the use of all budding designers out there.
Designer of SSO and co-developer of Gaslands, Glenn come and tells us how he approaches making games.
Apologies for my mic quality, no idea what happened but will endeavor to get it fixed for next week.
Our first ever three-way interview, loved it and these guys are great. Their game, After the Empire, will be heading out to backers soon. Check it out on BGG or pre-order through KS.
Creator of Regency and career academic James Fazio joins us to explain how he approaches making games.
Designer and self-publisher , maker of abstract, social games that really get the brain working. Host of the daily BBBB livestream on his FB, YT and Twitch channels.
Designer, content creator and video games streamer (GalacticKodiak) joins us with a different take on boardgame design.
Talented designer of many many hit games including Raiders of the North Seas and Paladins of the Western Kingdom talks to me about designing games.
The funniest guy in the industry. Grant tells us how he approached his first game, Curmudgeon. The first in hopefully a long line of hilarious and entertaining games.
Buy the game now here :-
https://www.25thcenturygames.com/store/curmudgeon
Find Grant's stuff here :-
https://www.instagram.com/grantlyon1/
https://www.youtube.com/user/GrantLyon
Fabricio is the designer behind Hyperwars, a great new real-time cyberpunk game coming to KS soon. We played it on Designer Playtesting and loved it (Though it broke David a bit) :D
Author, Designer, Engineer and Podcaster. A legend in the gaming industry and he came and talked to me about designing games.
Creators of the new Spy Thriller game, Facility 07 which is on KS now.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/neverenginegames/facility-07
Freelance Designer and Author. Brought us Vampire : Prince of the City and Waggledance. A wonderful mind that I thoroughly enjoyed picking.
Co-founder and head developer at Luminary games and video games designer at Bungie. A wonderful interview packed full of wisdom!
With a long list of development credits on BGG, including classics such as Herbacious and Skulk Hollow, Eduardo is a boardgame designer with roots in video games. He takes some time to tell us how he does it.
Watch his amazing video's on YouTube here :-
https://www.youtube.com/user/EdoBarafu
Now bringing terrifying koala bears into your nightmares, Matt is an Australian games designer, artist, graphic designer, publisher, kitchen sink :D
Designer and publisher of games aimed at making maths fun for kids but with enough depth to keep the parents entertained too, Matt tells us how he does it.
Designer of the wonderful and beautiful Fluttering Souls game. Lewis takes time to speak to us about his creative process.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/258154/fluttering-souls
Designer of the amazing Wingspan, a treasure trove to talk too and with a new game, Mariposas, out now (It's got beautiful butterflies in it). So glad she could find the time to talk to me :D
Breakaway Football is a passion project of Arthur's and his method of print on demand through the gamecrafter works perfectly for his needs. Find out how he does it in this video.
Head man at Stonemaier Games, creators of Viticulture, Scythe and many more great games. How does he do it, listen and find out :D
CEO of Mantic Games, Ronnie Renton, tells us how he approaches games development and overcomes issues in the design process.
Designer of the recently funded game, dogsBOND, a game with adorable artwork based on the rescue of dogs and bonding them with their new owners.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dogsbondgame/dogs-bond
of juanmoorefineart and Odd Artworks
Artist, Animator and Illustrator Juan Moore, tells us his tips and tricks for working in the board game industry. Check out the amazing new artwork channel he has created on youtube called Odd Artworks (link below).
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPeiyWdegVpokd1NWETErIQ
A link to his instagram where you can see the D&D book covers he did for True Detective S3
https://www.instagram.com/p/BtQPu7DACGs/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
David Digby Board Games.
David is a designer, developer and rulebook editor and took some time out of his very busy schedule to come and talk to us.