Probably Designed

In this week's episode, I had a conversation with Gabe Carleton-Barnes. Gabe is actually an old friend of mine, and this conversation is a little bit different from what you've heard so far on the podcast because Gabe isn't a game designer. Gabe is a professional Magic the Gathering player. So we've talked a lot about collectible card games, drafting, and these sorts of things, and I thought it'd...

In this week's episode we have a conversation with Fabian Fisher. Fabian is a game designer and developer here in Germany, and he's worked on quite a few games. Some highlights are Crimson Company, Hyperdome, and his most recent game Rack and Slay, which is a roguelike billiards game. Fabian has also done a ton of writing. I recommend you check out his, his website, Ludokultur.de . I'm really exci...

This week's episode is a continuation of our conversation with Dan DiIorio of Luck Be A Landlord and Maze Mice, and Brian Long, dev and designer of Ballionaire. Our conversation kicks off from my, at this point, repeated take about roguelike deck builders and board games, and leads us somewhere in the zone of the vibe-y-ness of PUBG. Luck Be A Landlord on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/...

This week we have a really interesting conversation for you. It's a three-way conversation with myself, Brian Long, the developer and designer of Ballionaire, and Dan DiIorio, the designer and developer of Luck Be A Landlord and Maze Mice. There's an interesting backstory here. Brian is someone that I've known for a long time and someone that I've talked to quite a bit about games and game design....

For this week's episode we drifted a bit from the show's MacGuffin and had a slightly different conversation. I spoke with Julian Schumacher, the developer of The Quizard's Domain who goes by Calm Pewter Games. The topic of our conversation was multiplayer–designing and developing multiplayer experiences for player interaction and how player interactivity influences design. You can find more from...

This epside is the second of an epic two part conversation with Eddie Cai and Kev Chang. Eddie is the lead designer at Pengonauts who released Star⭐Vaders earlier this year. Kev is the director of Box Dragon Studios in Sweden. Their game, As We Descend, went into Early Access at the end of May. You can find both games on Steam. A transcript of the episode is here: https://my.playful.work/probably...

This epside is the first of a two part conversation with Eddie Cai and Kev Chang. Eddie is the lead designer at Pengonauts who released Star⭐Vaders earlier this year. Kev is the director of Box Dragon Studios in Sweden. Their game, As We Descend, went into Early Access at the end of May. You can find both games on Steam. A transcript of the episode is here: https://my.playful.work/probably-design...

Links from the episode: Ezra's Itch Page - https://ezra-szanton.itch.io/ Mr Magpie's Harmless Card Game - https://giantlight.itch.io/mr-magpies-harmless-card-game Fergus Ferguson's portfolio - https://fergusdraws.com/ Rebel Jester Studios - https://www.rebeljesterstudios.com/ Petricore - https://petricoregames.com/ Input / Output Randomness Article - https://ezraszanton.substack.com/p/output-rando...

Just a brief intro to the podcast. Welcome to the show!