by Justin Gary | Jan 31, 2023 | Business, Elements of Good Design, Gaming, Publishing, Show Notes, Uncategorized
Isaac Vega has been designing board games for over a decade. Isaac has sold over 500,000 copies of his games worldwide and is an award-winning designer. He co-founded Rose Gauntlet Entertainment and is the designer of the hit game Dead of Winter. There are so many...
by Justin Gary | Dec 7, 2022 | Business, Design Fundamentals, Elements of Good Design, Gaming, Show Notes, Uncategorized
Ben Brode worked for Blizzard for 15 years, working his way up from a low-level position to become one of the lead designers of the monstrously successful game Hearthstone. He is now the Chief Creative Officer at his own game studio called Second Dinner, which created...
by Justin Gary | Oct 10, 2022 | Business, Motivation
As a gamer, I’m always looking for ways to streamline my play and be more efficient with my resources. The same is true with my creative work. I’m always looking for the best way to optimize my time to create the best games in the least time while having...
by Justin Gary | Jul 27, 2022 | Business, Design Fundamentals, Gaming, Show Notes
Luke has done a lot of incredible work as a game designer, working on indie games like Miskatonic School for Girls all the way up to massive games like Bakugan. He’s worked for a lot of awesome companies (Games Workshop, AEG, SpinMaster, Wizards of the Coast) in a...
by Justin Gary | Mar 28, 2022 | Business, Design Fundamentals, Elements of Good Design, Gaming, Publishing, Show Notes
Alan Phan and his team recently launched a million-dollar Kickstarter for a trading card game called The Grand Archive. What’s amazing is that he and his friends had never made a trading card game before, so today we’re going to learn a little bit more about Alan and...
by Justin Gary | Mar 1, 2022 | Business, Design Fundamentals, Elements of Good Design, Gaming, Philosophy, Show Notes
Richard Bartle is a legend among game designers. He has a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence and is the co-creator of the first virtual world ever to exist, a game called Multi-Use Dungeon or M.U.D. Richard authored the book Designing Virtual Worlds and his most recent...