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That commentor on the audio sounds like someone very wise... and probably handsome... Keep up the good work guys! 👌

:( Sunshine City is my favorite design of yours. It makes me sad that it's not published.

Forget the audio mixing. Priority número uno is to get AJ a booster seat!

Hey I'd love for you to discuss sometime why so many mediocre to bad games manage to get published (not self-published). I think a big reason that designers feel like their good (but not great) game will get published is because they see so many mediocre games get published. Every time I play a "meh" game from a big publisher it infuriates me.

I'm like Peter, I'm very drawn to strong opinions. In fact, that's part of why I like playtesting with Peter. (And I really like the Daniel.gamaes blog so I appreciate the coverage)

Hi Peter and AJ, I've been enjoying your podcast a lot. Glad you guys manage to put out more episodes lately. This vid had great sound but the last few episodes AJ has been very soft which made it harder to listen. Just wanted to share that small piece of feedback. Keep up the good work! - Martin van Rossum

Amazing talk, thanks a lot. Regards from an Argentina's game designer.

This was a very helpful episode. Definitely top 5 for the podcast (As an aside, I've played Overpowered, which is a fantastic game. The name is very wrong for the game in my opinion. Overpowered sounds like the type of game Peter was describing as opposed to the actual game)

Regarding the initial definition, I'd have thought that fidelity is about accuracy, not just about precision. (or maybe both, if we must include precision). That would also make more sense etymologically. I like the concept discussed, but maybe granularity would have been the better term. In maths, low granularity can lead to lower accuracy via quantization errors, but that's more a symptom than a cause.

AJs audio quality is pretty awful in this episode.

Hierarchy of resources is something I wish I knew earlier In addition to what you mentioned, a hierarchy speeds up the game in many cases. Giving players an action to take any resource can be daunting for a player's first play when it's not obvious which resource is nominally better. (Though of course, when resources don't have a hierarchy letting players chose a resource is a way to twist knobs without increasing fidelity) Good episode

"What are the comps for your game?" is one of the most important questions to ask yourself as a designer. I think it's more important than people think. You need to know who to pitch to and a key part of that is knowing "people who really like game x will certainly like my game"

Cascadia is not abstract, lol. The publishers should be ashamed of themselves for doing that.

Backgammon has been breaking the abstract genre for over 100 years

I like this episode . I've been having similar thoughts on genre. I work at a FLGS. For what it's worth, the store is organized into "genres". I'm the one that created the categories and did the organizing. How many games we carry of a type played a significant role in determining the genre categories I chose. We have a wall of standard board games (Catan, Azul, etc) and aisles with genre sections. The genre sections are Cooperative, Classic, Party (which I strictly define as "plays at least 7 players), 2-player only, deck builders, deduction, kids, and japanime.

Oh yeah discord. I'm a member of that. But I find discord so cumbersome

The audio version published that is accessible through Apple Podcasts only has audio for one of the two speakers.

By the way, I love the TH-cam format, it's way more accessible for me (I'm old) And AJ - I've been inspired by cube format as well to design a board game but all my attempts have failed. I'd love to playtest with you and see what you're doing with this inspiration. (Also this is Nate Woll) I've watched every season of Taskmaster as well but I've also watched a lot of Critical Role which are 4-5 hour videos so probably CR is my top TH-cam channel. But I watch a lot of TH-cam.

Just One is in your third category more than the first category, in my opinion. I don't like this style of co-op, personally because the end is so ambiguous. Did we win? I don't know, we got some points. (Hanabi is the same way, as is The Mind - I really don't like this style. ) I only play Just One as a competitive game nowadays and it works so much better. Now that I'm looking at it through this lens, I bet I would like Hanavi and The Mind as competitive games as well. By competitive, I simply mean you split into two teams and play the game normally, but the goal is to outscore the other team - so your team plays at one table and we play at another table (though the advantage of Just One is you can all play at the same table, just take turns) and compare scores at the end.

I suspect that campaign games are a subtype of 'against the game' with some different design implications. And of course, as soon as you define genres people will start blending them.

This was super helpful. You all are my favorite board game design podcast, and I really appreciate the info you put out into the space. If I might, you tossed out a couple of potential episode topics in this episode that I'd like to humbly suggest you follow through on: 1. Conventions. Would be super helpful. What am I supposed to do there besides run my games in the playtest area? How do I network there? 2. The Pitch Process. What's it like? How does a new designer begin pitching to publishers? What's a sell sheet? What are contracts typically like? How much money is typically involved? I'm guessing a lot of this stuff varies publisher to publisher, but it's a super intimidating thing to go into blind.

Looks as beautiful and amazing as the first edition! I'm looking forward to picking up a new copy of the game with some fun new games!

If you haven't heard of Fun Problems before, it's a board game design podcast available pretty much everywhere.

Do we need a deck per player? Or just one is ok?

My family and I really enjoy this game. We sometimes get confused as to how to interpret certain cards, though. Is there a resource somewhere online where we could find more detailed instruction of how the individual cards play? For example, if I play the hook 6 (kraken) card, it says “Destroy all permanents.” Does this literally mean destroy ALL permanents, including my own, or only everyone else’s? Again, we love this game, but we sometimes don’t know how to interpret certain cards, since the instructions are pretty brief. Thanks!

Picked this up when I backed Cartouche. Just arrived, can’t wait to play.

How much is a set of these beautiful cards? What is the book they are based about?

And how do you find play testers?

How did you manage to find each other to collaborate on these games?

Gram is tough thanks for playthrough

Very nice playthrough :) just printed this out glad generator is up looking forward to using it

Hello! is the PARTY PACK for NOTM & Dracula Feast under Jellybean Pledgemanager still available? Would like to make purchase to it!

You've got a ton of good tips for a newbie! It was a really clear video to follow along

I’m sorry but this is by far the most confusing and boring game I’ve ever attempted to play.

Osudu

I’m in! I see Bluebeard, I back.

Similar to Skull.

I'm allergic to bananas. Am I, therefore, not allowed to set Killer Sudoku due to legal reasons?

Found the link on the CTC Discord. Thank you for sharing.

"Home stretch" @1:10:45. :) Thanks for the video, very interesting! Fairly different from what I've done so far, I've got a lot to learn and practice.

I’m 3 years late but this is very helpful! Thanks!

Can you play solo mode?

Very interesting, thanks! I also just solved your Hang Ten puzzle, which was very enjoyable (though I'm not going to admit how long it took me...)

35:40 Oh you poor soul... I noticed this error here itself being more of a solver than a setter and was like "Oh, he'll realise soon let's continue"

With Eric's Garden Sudoku, are the stones a part of the eight regions or not?

Interesting video as always, cheers for this.

You missed an opportunity to joke about this video being a clone of the other one.

Great puzzle! And yes, as you know, the clone bug was fixed before this was even uploaded :P P.S. I'd love to see a video about how you use Photoshop to make them pretty!