Design Thinking Games

Listen now (45 min) | Our heroes kick-off season 3 of the podcast discussing changes to the podcast, what they've been playing, the Devil In Me, and the Season Challenge: Outlast Trials! Read the transcript . Things discussed on this episode: 02:44 What we've been playing since last season 02:56 Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within 03:21 Titanic: Adventure out of Time 03:54 Regency Call of Cthu...

Listen now (2 min) | Our fantastic and new season 3 intro for the Design Thinking Games podcast! Read the transcript . Support the show on Patreon ! Follow us on Twitter @DTGamesPodcast . Follow us on TikTok @designthinkinggames . Subscribe on Twitch at DesignThinkingGames . Tim Broadwater is @uxbear on Twitter. Michael Schofield is @schoeyfield on Twitter. Send us stuff, contact us, get merc...

Listen now (51 min) | The big fish is revealed to be Sophia Prater, Chief Evangelist of OOUX. Our heroes learn about the history of object-oriented UX and the design of Sophia's new game. We finally review the results of this season's great challenge: Moonlighter! Read the transcript . Things discussed on this episode: 01:10 Sophia Prater 02:15 Axure 09:14 Object Orientated UX (OOUX) 13:17 At...

Listen now (24 min) | Having overcome the collective horde, our heroes are confronted with their greatest challenge: a really big ****ing space fish. Read the transcript . Games discussed on this episode: 3:05 Elden Ring 4:06 Resident Evil Village 9:00 It Takes Two 12:48 Mad Max 13:18 God Of War 15:27 Stray 17:32 Simon's Quest 17:51 Dying Light 21:46 Breath of the Wild Support the show on Pat...

Listen now (34 min) | After having an allergic reaction to the sci-fi feline, our heroes return to space and are immediately confronted by a gamer collective armada! Read the transcript . Games discussed on this episode: 2:11 Dragula 4:42 PopCon 7:22 LPGWV 17:21 Motown Tilt 17:47 Mortal Kombat 19:16 Pac-Man 20:51 PewDiePie 21:19 Pokemon Go 23:14 Okami 24:41 Evil Within 27:07 Sailor Moon R 28:...

Listen now (33 min) | Surviving the asteroid field, our heroes pass a nearby planet, and run into a friendly sci-fi feline and his robot companion. Read the transcript . Games discussed on this episode: 0:53 Stray 5:44 Death Stranding 17:53 Elden Ring 24:24 Horizon Forbidden West 25:41 Splatoons 3 27:09 Tunic 27:36 Evil Dead 27:47 Ghostwire Tokyo 28:06 Bioshock 29:02 Moonlighter 29:15 Cult of...

Listen now (34 min) | After communing with the game designer, our heroes blast through a dense asteroid field made up of simulator, voice chat, collaboration, totaling, karma, and other game mechanic rocks. Read the transcript . Games discussed on this episode: 1:33 Stray 2:21 Goat Simulator 2:35 Maneater 4:20 Fly Simulator 7:34 Hell Let Lose 9:40 Battlefield 4 10:39 Friday the 13th 13:14 Dea...

Listen now (37 min) | After leaving summer camp, our heroes have a chance encounter with a game designer of some renown. Read the transcript . Games discussed on this episode: 1:53 AEGIS Combining Robots 12:15 Magic the Gathering 12:42 Warhammer 40K 20:02 Gloomhaven 23:15 Protospiel Support the show on Patreon ! Follow us on Twitter @DTGamesPodcast . Follow us on TikTok @designthinkinggames ....

Listen now (36 min) | After exploring heroic tropes and struggles, our adventurers receive an urgent distress signal. Tracing the origins of the signal, our heroes travel to a strange and unknown mining planet, where the source of the signal is coming from a summer camp. Read the transcript . Games discussed on this episode: 1:33 The Quarry 9:23 House of Ashes 10:32 Until Dawn 27:34 The Devil...

Listen now (32 min) | Bidding the space adventurers a good journey, our heroes explore what it is about last stands and struggles against oppressive forces that makes a great hero.

Listen now (32 min) | Narrowly escaping the asteroid field, our heroes are joined by space adventurers Christopher Kincaid and Jared Kaplan of Lonely Hero Games. The four explore designing games and starting a game design studio. Read the transcript . Games discussed on this episode: 17:44 Codenames 17:48 5 Minute Mystery 18:21 Bank Heist 18:45 Hungry for Humans Support the show on Patreon !...

Listen now (34 min) | After leaving PAX East on planet royale, our heroes must carefully navigate an asteroid field made up of geocaching, augmented reality, and location-based games. Read the transcript . Games discussed on this episode: 02:18 Sea of Thieves 02:49 Letterboxing 11:36 Ready Player One 13:30 Rabbids 16:29 Pokemon Go 18:09 Ingress Prime 19:32 Harry Potter Wizards Unite 20:48 Wor...

Listen now (37 min) | In a tiny realm on the planet royale our heroes discover a town called Boston, knee-deep in a festival of games called PAX East. Read the transcript . Games discussed on this episode: 05:09 Aron's Gift 09:50 Dead Cells 16:31 Rescue Pets 20:59 Aegis 22:55 Pocket Paragons 26:08 Dragoon 26:25 Life Siphon 29:02 Reap 30:49 Drinking Quest Six Pack 35:21 Stream Queens Support t...

Listen now (32min) | After exiting the Roguelike-Like star system, our heroes stop by a neighboring planet to study the native battle royale games like PUBG, Fortnite, Apex Legends, Fall Guys, and Tetris 99. Read the transcript . Games discussed on this episode: 00:43 Vampire the Masquerade Bloodhunt 02:33 Fortnight 05:18 Vampire the Masquerade 07:20 PUBG 10:43 Apex Legends 11:52 Battlefield...

Listen now (38min) | Our heroes successfully escape the asteroid field but find themselves on the precipice of a new challenge… the Roguelike-Like star system! Read the transcript . Games discussed on this episode: 02:32 Rogue 04:57 King's Quest 10:50 Hades 12:07 Binding of Isaac 14:04 Faster Than Light 19:36 Crypt of the Necrodancer 19:48 Tomb of Horrors 20:19 BIT.TRIP RUNNER 22:41 Cadence o...

Listen now (34min) | As our heroes navigate through an asteroid field of single-player RPGs they discuss Thousand Year Old Vampire, Unknown, and player difficulty settings. Read the transcript . Games discussed on this episode: 5:22 One Thousand Year Old Vampire 13:52 MAGfest 14:46 Sailor Moon 15:27 Betrayal at House on the Hill 16:13 Unkown 17:38 Pandemic 19:55 Forbidden Desert 23:02 Casting...

Listen now (29 min) | Our heroes discuss players going off the rails, what tools people use to run games, community support for games, and an app to deal with the stress of working in UX and technology. Read the transcript . Games discussed on this episode: 1:35 Dungeones & Dragons 11:09 Roll 20 13:08 Owl Bear 15:27 Tabletop Audio 20:12 Jocks Machina 20:48 Dungeons & Daddies 20:53 Queens of A...

Listen now (47 min) | After many months in cryogenic sleep, our heroes emerge from their pods and record the first captain’s log of this adventure. So much of the world passed them by: GOTY Awards, Microsoft acquiring Activision, and Nintendo’s 2022 announcements. Read the transcript . Games discussed on this episode: 1:32 It Takes Two 10:50 Horizon: Zero Dawn 12:37 Mass Effect: Legendary Edi...

Listen now (8 min) | As our heroes get ready to blast into space, they discuss the changes that are happening with their communiqué over the next year. Read the transcript . Support the show on Patreon ! Follow us on Twitter @DTGamesPodcast . Follow us on TikTok @designthinkinggames . Subscribe on Twitch at DesignThinkingGames . Tim Broadwater is @uxbear on Twitter. Michael Schofield is @scho...

Listen now (37 sec) | Our fantastic and new season two intro for Design Thinking Games, a Gaming and User Experience podcast. Read the transcript . Support the show on Patreon ! Follow us on Twitter @DTGamesPodcast . Follow us on TikTok @designthinkinggames . Subscribe on Twitch at DesignThinkingGames . Tim Broadwater is @uxbear on Twitter. Michael Schofield is @schoeyfield on Twitter. Send u...

Listen now (43 min) | Upon entering the castle our heroes are instantly transported to a universe of advanced technologies, odd alien species, and sentient artificial beings. Could this be home to the most usable game? Read the transcript . Games discussed on this episode: 0:50 Mass Effect 7:54 Until Dawn 10:27 Call of Cthulhu 13:20 Final Fantasy 16:50 Starfinder 20:42 The Witcher 31:40 Mass...

Listen now (32 min) | After bidding farewell to the village, our heroes spot a castle in the distance. In order to get the caste, our heroes must survive a series of narrative choices, leading them to the castle gates. Read the transcript . Games discussed on this episode: 1:09 House of Ashes 2:00 Until Dawn 5:26 Man of Medan 8:31 Silent Hill: Shattered Memories 15:49 Resident Evil 20:47 Litt...

Listen now (112 min) | Just as our heroes walk down the street of a newly found village, suddenly a pair of drunken adventurers (Michael Fienen and Aaron Hill) stumble out of the Drunken UX tavern, knocking them all down. Read the transcript . Games discussed on this episode: 6:12 Monopoly 10:40 Chinatown 17:12 Diablo 2 20:28 Sonic the Hedgehog 22:18 For Honor 26:14 Betrayal at House on the H...

Listen now (39 min) | The camera pans away from our heroes and focuses on a life in the day of a wee little skill tree from Episode 10. Why? Because sequels don't have to make sense. Read the transcript . Games discussed on this episode: 1:12 Vampire: the Masquerade 4:41 Legend of Zelda 8:38 Grand Theft Auto 16:30 Monster Hunter 19:46 Resident Evil 22:55 Evil Within 23:47 Final Fantasy 25:24...

Listen now (29 min) | Our heroes are suddenly interrupted by a jump scare, which forces them to run, hide, and navigate various horror mechanics. Read the transcript . Games discussed on this episode: 5:11 The Thing 6:31 Call of Cthulhu 7:19 Silent Hill 8:58 Lit 10:00 Outlast 16:00 Resident Evil 17:39 Thief 20:32 Zombies Ate My Neighbors 21:17 Dead Rising 24:42 Fury of Dracula 25:50 Outlast 2...