Building the Game

By Jason Slingerland

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Episode Date
Episode 622: Schrodinger’s Euro
Apr 28, 2024
Episode 621: For 2 Players Only
Apr 21, 2024
Episode 620: Emily Has a Tiny Pirate Hat
Apr 14, 2024
Episode 619: Not Your Mom’s Watercolor
Apr 07, 2024
Episode 618: Jamie Wants You to Know They Threw Coffee at YMC
Mar 31, 2024
Episode 617: RIP Horse Hotel
Mar 24, 2024
Episode 616: YO GAMA GAMA
Mar 17, 2024
Episode 615: 2 Steps Forward, 1 Step Back
Mar 10, 2024
Episode 614: Oops All Play to Win
Mar 03, 2024
Episode 613: The Definition of a Park
Feb 25, 2024
Episode 612: No Notes
Feb 18, 2024
Episode 611: One Donkey in Four Forests
Feb 11, 2024
Episode 610: A Check Engine Light For Your Beeble Bop
Feb 04, 2024
Episode 609: A Brain Fire is Not Cozy
Jan 28, 2024
Episode 608: A Surprisingly Uncontroversial Topic
Jan 21, 2024
Episode 607: Don’t Just Ask Cousin Vinny and Hope for the Best
Jan 14, 2024
Episode 606: An Episode Where Two People Talk About Life, Community, and Games
Jan 07, 2024
Episode 605: Dolphins are Part of Nature but They Don’t Wear Socks
Dec 31, 2023
Episode 604: BTG 2023 Year in Review
Dec 24, 2023
Episode 603: Don’t Tell Us How to Strategize
Dec 17, 2023
Episode 602: Get Yourself a Mike Viglione
Dec 10, 2023
Episode 601: One Game Per Shipping Container
Dec 03, 2023
Episode 600: Define: Success
Nov 26, 2023
Episode 599: Sometimes it Doesn’t
Nov 19, 2023
Episode 598: Christmas in a Box on Your Porch
Nov 12, 2023
Episode 597: When the Frogs Come Out
Nov 05, 2023
Episode 596: Gut Check
Oct 29, 2023
Episode 595: Blargle the Deck
Oct 22, 2023
Epsiode 594: Good, Gooder, Goodest, Great
Oct 15, 2023
Episode 593: Should I Try Everything? A Discussion…
Oct 08, 2023
Episode 592: Wacky Funny Party People
Oct 01, 2023
Episode 591: Diatoms Sound Super Fake but are Actually Super Real and Super Cool
Sep 24, 2023
Episode 590: Crispy Fried
Sep 17, 2023
Episode 589: Lying to Your Playtesters
Sep 10, 2023
Episode 588: This Episode Was Not Written By AI
Sep 03, 2023
Episode 587: This Episode is Best Experienced Simultaneously
Aug 27, 2023
Episode 586: We Should Have Said Rule Books Were Like a Recipe
Aug 20, 2023
Episode 585: Gencon Live Scoot to the Hoot
Aug 13, 2023
Episode 584: Player Aides Are TL/DR
Aug 06, 2023
Episode 583: I’m a Climber, I’m a Shedder, I’m a Tri-ick Taker
Jul 30, 2023
Episode 582: Add, Cut, Or Harmonize
Jul 23, 2023
Episode 581: Imposter Syndrome Just Sucks, It’s True
Jul 16, 2023
Episode 580: Ovation and it is Actually 1.5 Million Rakes
Jul 09, 2023
Episode 579: Origins Live
Jul 02, 2023
Episode 578: Let’s Get Stupid
Jun 26, 2023
Episode 577: You Have Joined the Weekly Update
Jun 18, 2023
Episode 576: Jamie’s Long Lost Updates
Jun 11, 2023
Episode 575: Haphazardly Designing Games in Person
Jun 04, 2023
Episode 574: Go Touch Grass and Other Stupid Goals
May 28, 2023
Episode 573: I Deduce This is a Trick Taker
May 21, 2023
Episode 572: You Think You Wanna Shop Photos But Really You Wanna Illustrate Pictures
May 14, 2023
Episode 571: A Board Game, RPG, Game Show, and an Escape Room Walk Into a Bar
May 07, 2023
Episode 570: It Ain’t About The Money But Let’s Talk About The Money
Apr 30, 2023
Episode 569: Local Maximums and Backstabbing Auctions
Apr 23, 2023
Episode 568: Motor City Updates
Apr 16, 2023
Episode 567: A Lot of Design Thoughts and a Little About Ideas Stuck in Your Head
Apr 09, 2023
Episode 566: Development and Tir Na Nog
Apr 02, 2023
Episode 565: Horses, Parking Lots, and Unpub
Mar 26, 2023
Episode 564: Location, Location, Relation(ship)
Mar 19, 2023
Episode 563: Games Sing a Blast From the Past
Mar 12, 2023
Episode 562: Let the Failure Floor Drop Out
Mar 05, 2023
Episode 561: Judging Games
Feb 26, 2023
Episode 560: Perfect is the Enemy
Feb 19, 2023
Episode 559: Dig Up the Roots
Feb 12, 2023
Episode 558: Vanilla is My Favorite Flavor
Feb 05, 2023
Episode 557: This Episode was Run by a Dungeon
Jan 29, 2023
Episode 556: Life as a Legacy Game
Jan 22, 2023
Episode 555: The Why of 2023
Jan 15, 2023
Episode 554: The Opposite of the Steel Tesla Prize
Jan 08, 2023
Episode 553: Marshmallow Money – The BTG Year in Review
Jan 01, 2023
Episode 552: Development Job: Part Two: That’s a Funny Note to End on
Dec 25, 2022
Episode 551: The Siren’s Call of Crowdfunding
Dec 18, 2022
Episode 550: PAXU or The Friends We Made Along the Way
Dec 11, 2022
Episode 549: Shifting Gears and Slowing Down
Dec 04, 2022
Episode 548: Games and Winning
Nov 27, 2022
Episode 547: Isomorphic is Not the Same Thing as Isometric
Nov 20, 2022
Episode 546: Games Get Cozy
Nov 13, 2022
Episode 545: A Rating Rubric and a Hexy Murder
Nov 06, 2022
Episode 544: All The Topics That Fit
Oct 30, 2022
Episode 543: Essen and a Whole Bunch of Other Stuff With Bez
Oct 24, 2022
Episode 542: Cut, Print, Laminate
Oct 16, 2022
Episode 541: Dissonance vs Consonance
Oct 09, 2022
Episode 540: Nicole Amato is a Human Being
Oct 02, 2022
Episode 539: Pivot!
Sep 25, 2022
Episode 538: The Long Awaited and Very Long Grandcon 2022 Recap
Sep 18, 2022
Episode 537: We Never Say Polynomials
Sep 11, 2022
Episode 536: Development Job: Part One: The Expectations
Sep 04, 2022
Episode 535: A Presence at the Table
Aug 28, 2022
Episode 534: A Lively Gencon 2022 Recap
Aug 22, 2022
Episode 533: A World Champ and a Rorschach Test
Aug 14, 2022
Episode 532: A Meandering Conversation That Starts With Fear and Ends With a Walled City
Aug 07, 2022
Episode 531: Designing in Person Again and Gencon Prep
Aug 01, 2022
Episode 530: Which Pitch?
Jul 24, 2022
Episode 529: All The Research
Jul 17, 2022
Episode 528: Designing Games With Kids
Jul 10, 2022
Episode 527: Many Paths to Crowdfunding and Other Stuff
Jul 03, 2022
Episode 526: Big Changes During Design and Development
Jun 26, 2022
Episode 525: Kickstarting Outside the Lines
Jun 19, 2022
Episode 524: When Games Get Personal
Jun 12, 2022
Episode 523: A Brazilian Rabbit Walks Into a Podcast
Jun 05, 2022
Episode 522: A Gaggle of Geekwayers
May 29, 2022
Episode 521: Working Hard or Hardly Working, Two Ways to Podcast
May 23, 2022
Episode 520: Fire Streaming From an RPG Farm
May 15, 2022
Episode 519: Tools and Conventions and Catching Up
May 09, 2022
Episode 518: We Are All Imposters
May 01, 2022
Episode 517: Kindness is Cool
Apr 24, 2022
Episode 516: Spieling Online About Protos
Apr 17, 2022
Episode 515: Games as a Secondary Experience
Apr 10, 2022
514: Controlling Chaos With Creativity Systems
Apr 03, 2022
513: Tactical Phoenixes and Other Advice
Mar 27, 2022
512: Project Management is Probably a Good Idea
Mar 20, 2022
Episode 511: Stress With Bez
Mar 13, 2022
Episode 510: Is Your Theme Living in a Simulation Are Your Mechanics Just an Abstraction
Mar 06, 2022
Episode 509: An Ouroboros in a Slipstream
Feb 27, 2022
Episode 508: This Episode has a Companion App
Feb 20, 2022
Episode 507: Flavors of Failure
Feb 13, 2022
Episode 506: Gataria and More From Brazil
Feb 06, 2022
Episode 505: All The Information Is On The Task
Jan 30, 2022
Episode 504: Finding, Creating, and Missing Opportunities
Jan 23, 2022
Episode 503: 99 Problems and It’s Definitely a Rectangle
Jan 16, 2022
Episode 502: Cautiously Sliding Into 2022 Goals
Jan 09, 2022
Episode 501: A Good Place to Start on the Next 500
Jan 02, 2022
Episode 500: 500 Episodes and ALL THE HOSTS!!!
Dec 26, 2021
Episode 499: PAX Gets Unplugged and How to Prepare for a Playtesting Event
Dec 19, 2021
Episode 498: Traditional Games, New Ideas, and Potions
Dec 12, 2021
Episode 497: Powered By The Adorablins
Dec 05, 2021
Episode 496: Cardboard Edison, Quad Squad, and Your Odds of Being Struck by Lightning
Nov 28, 2021
Episode 495: Thankfulness and Updatefulness
Nov 21, 2021
Episode 494: Scars, Feedback, and That One Mechanic
Nov 14, 2021
Episode 493: Golden Rules and Organic Audiences
Nov 08, 2021
Episode 492: The Journey Forward
Oct 31, 2021
Episode 491: Work Parties, Redos, and Capital Twos
Oct 24, 2021
Episode 490: If You Like Splitting and Choosing and Going Trick-or-Treating
Oct 17, 2021
Episode 489: Use Your Intuition
Oct 10, 2021
Episode 488: Three Sisters on a Boat
Oct 03, 2021
Episode 487: When the Story is Driving
Sep 26, 2021
Episode 486: An Almost Gencon Preview and Board Game Adjacent
Sep 19, 2021
Episode 485: When to Stop and When to Start Again
Sep 12, 2021
Episode 484: Welcome to Green Hollow
Sep 05, 2021
Episode 483: Set Your Ideas on Fire
Aug 29, 2021
Episode 482: Game Design Retreat 2
Aug 22, 2021
Episode 481: Decoupling the Rejects
Aug 15, 2021
Episode 480: Designing to Different Specs
Aug 08, 2021
Episode 479: Journey Through The Foggy Woods
Jul 31, 2021
Episode 478: Building Sovereign Decks
Jul 25, 2021
Episode 477: Manufacturing Magic and It’s Hammer Time
Jul 18, 2021
Episode 476: Be Kind, The Wolves Are Coming
Jul 11, 2021
Episode 475: Returning to Cons
Jul 04, 2021
Episode 474: Placing Workers and Baking Historically
Jun 27, 2021
Episode 473: Formal Design Education or How I Learned We Are Neither Friends Nor Co-Designers
Jun 20, 2021
Episode 472: Creating Content That Causes Connections
Jun 13, 2021
Episode 471: Returned Games and Custom Prints
Jun 06, 2021
Episode 470: Grubs Get Contested
May 30, 2021
Episode 469: You Got RPG in My BG, No You Got BG in My RPG
May 23, 2021
Episode 468: Gold Stars and Chocolate Vegetables
May 16, 2021
Episode 467: Solo Modes are Splendorous
May 09, 2021
Episode 466: Real Tabletops and A Lot Of Doors
May 02, 2021
Episode 465: How to Market to Markets with Marketing
Apr 25, 2021
Episode 464: The Good, The Bad, The Lessons Learned
Apr 18, 2021
Episode 463: Bangers Only
Apr 11, 2021
Episode 462: The Madness of Mine Karts
Apr 05, 2021
Episode 461: Mechanics We Thought We Hated
Mar 28, 2021
Episode 460: IGDN and RNW and NOLA
Mar 21, 2021
Episode 459: Micro, Macro, Goal Setting Mayhem
Mar 14, 2021
Episode 458: Let’s Hire A Graphic Designer
Mar 08, 2021
Episode 457: The Patron Saint of Punk Rock Games
Feb 28, 2021
Episode 456: Operating Jellybeans and Gifting Tulips
Feb 21, 2021
Episode 455: A Game Of Feelings
Feb 14, 2021
Episode 454: Users Interfacing With Villainous Books
Feb 07, 2021
Episode 453: Macaron Mania
Jan 31, 2021
Episode 452: Grubs Gotta Pupate
Jan 24, 2021
Episode 451: Sequencing Fights
Jan 18, 2021
Episode 450: Mentors and Tables and Mentees and Tablees
Jan 10, 2021
Episode 449: Here Comes 2021
Jan 03, 2021
Episode 448: BTG 2020 Year End Recap
Dec 27, 2020
Episode 447: So You Want To Be A Publisher: Part 3
Dec 20, 2020
Episode 446: We Prefer Our Sums Non-Zero
Dec 13, 2020
Episode 445: Let’s Help Each Other
Dec 06, 2020
Episode 444: Constraining Games and Aligning Fates
Nov 29, 2020
Episode 443: I Don’t Know What I Expected
Nov 22, 2020
Episode 442: Science Gets Sneaky
Nov 15, 2020
Episode 441: Kids Get Questing
Nov 08, 2020
Episode 440: Prototypes Get Graphic
Nov 01, 2020
Episode 439: Raps, Hoops, Godz, and Risks
Oct 25, 2020
Episode 438: Keeping Games Small and Mud
Oct 18, 2020
Episode 437: Playtesting Puzzles Can Be Problematic
Oct 11, 2020
Episode 436: The Sleuth, The Sleevs, The Games, The Vote, and The Sweet Potato Pie
Oct 04, 2020
Episode 435: Games, Uh Find A Way
Sep 27, 2020
Episode 434: So You Want to be a Publisher Part 2
Sep 20, 2020
Episode 433: Drafting With Winston and Studying With Sorcery
Sep 13, 2020
Episode 432: A Little Bit Of NONEPUB and A Whole Lot Of Catching Up
Sep 06, 2020
Episode 431: So You Want To Be A Publisher Part 1
Aug 30, 2020
Episode 430: Three Sisters in the Motor City
Aug 23, 2020
Episode 429: Designing Costs and Adventuring Cards
Aug 15, 2020
Episode 428: Better Than an Hour of Static
Aug 09, 2020
Episode 427: Markets With Mass
Aug 02, 2020
Episode 426: Why Don’t People Play Games
Jul 26, 2020
Episode 425: Make My Game An Express
Jul 19, 2020
Episode 424: Culture and Opposites
Jul 12, 2020
Episode 423: Hopping Vampires and Bigfoot and MLM
Jul 05, 2020
Episode 422: Codes of Conduct and 18XX
Jun 28, 2020
Episode 421: Games as Institutions and Smashed Orbits
Jun 21, 2020
Episode 420: Topics Get Serious and Games Get Weird
Jun 15, 2020
Episode 419: This Is Where We Stand
Jun 07, 2020
Episode 418: Julio Explains The Rules
Jun 01, 2020
Episode 417: Where Ideas Come From and How to Master Weapons
May 24, 2020
Episode 416: Eventually We Do Talk About Games
May 18, 2020
Episode 415: Bands Battle and Maps Are Terrifying
May 11, 2020
Episode 414: If You Find This Episode, Video Chat With a Friend
May 03, 2020
Episode 413: We Killed a Proto and Buried Its Guts Sprouted a Game Now We Have Coconuts
Apr 26, 2020
Episode 412: The Age of the Universe and the Potential of Games
Apr 19, 2020
Episode 411: Punks on the Road and Gamers at Home
Apr 12, 2020
Episode 410: My Friend, My Friend, and Me
Apr 05, 2020
Episode 409: Bringing Design Online
Mar 29, 2020
Episode 408: Physical Distancing and Helping Others
Mar 22, 2020
Episode 407: Word (Game) to Your Mother
Mar 15, 2020
Episode 406: Along Came A Spider
Mar 08, 2020
Episode 405: A Weird Giraffe Walks Into A Bar
Mar 01, 2020
Episode 404: 500 Miles of Fools
Feb 24, 2020
Episode 403: Convos Concerning Cheaper Cons
Feb 16, 2020
Episode 402: Always Stick The Landing
Feb 10, 2020
Episode 401: Get Ideas Out Of Your Head Faster
Feb 03, 2020
Episode 400: Those Dam Beavers
Jan 26, 2020
Episode 399: Questions About Questing For Quality And Quantity
Jan 19, 2020
Episode 398: Expectations Are A Dish Best Served Managed
Jan 12, 2020
Episode 397: The Ballad of Kelly Hougland
Jan 05, 2020
Episode 396: BTG 2019 Year in Review
Dec 30, 2019
Episode 395: Ghost Parties and Battling Boy Bands
Dec 22, 2019
Episode 394: Comprehending Contracts and Riding Rainbows
Dec 16, 2019
Episode 393: Tabletop Networks and Building Blocks
Dec 09, 2019
Episode 392: No Spoilers and Teaching Games
Dec 01, 2019
Episode 391: Cutting Corners and Dancing Dice
Nov 25, 2019
Episode 390: Social Issues and Carnival Games
Nov 17, 2019
Episode 389: Social Bonding and Inside Jokes
Nov 10, 2019
Episode 388: When Paul Bunyan Built The PNP Arcade
Nov 04, 2019
Episode 387: Dead Games and Vampire Robots
Oct 27, 2019
Episode 386: Blind Playtesting and Spike!
Oct 20, 2019
Episode 385: Co-Design Update and Rum Row
Oct 13, 2019
Episode 384: Counterfeiting and Forecasting Fashion
Oct 06, 2019
Episode 383: Cribbage Gets Race-y
Sep 29, 2019
Episode 382: Considering Clear and Considerate Communication
Sep 22, 2019
Episode 381: Grandcon and the Really Big Amazing Very Good Weekend
Sep 15, 2019
Episode 380: Kickstarter, Publisher, or Telestrater
Sep 08, 2019
Episode 379: Full Time and Other Stuff
Sep 01, 2019
Episode 378: Design What You Know and Zancudo
Aug 25, 2019
Episode 377: BTG Two: Designer Boogaloo
Aug 18, 2019
Episode 376: Gencon 2019 and Goodbye Norma Jean
Aug 11, 2019
Episode 375: Rob Was Right About The Mustard
Aug 05, 2019
Episode 374: Gencon 2019 Prep
Jul 28, 2019
Episode 373: Larping with Banana Chan
Jul 21, 2019
Episode 372: Nat Levan Hates Hexes
Jul 15, 2019
Episode 371: Jovember Voicemails
Jul 07, 2019
Episode 370: IDC Judging and Gray Detrick
Jul 01, 2019
Episode 369: Origins 2019 Live
Jun 23, 2019
Episode 368: Design Weekend
Jun 16, 2019
Episode 367: Zombicorns and Dump Stats
Jun 09, 2019
Episode 366: Romantic Weekends and Ancient Designs
Jun 03, 2019
Episode 365: Jason vs Rob vs Nicole
May 26, 2019
Episode 364: Julie Ahern and The Greenbrier Experience
May 19, 2019
Episode 363: Co-Design and Origami
May 12, 2019
Episode 362: All Aboot Froot
May 05, 2019
Episode 361: OCD and Neil Roberts
Apr 29, 2019
Episode 360: Departures
Apr 21, 2019
Episode 359: Poison Karate
Apr 14, 2019
Episode 358: 3 Is Worse Than 5
Apr 07, 2019
Episode 357: Dilly-O
Mar 31, 2019
Episode 356: 2019 Cons and Belly Dice
Mar 25, 2019
Episode 355: Community Connection and Coronation
Mar 17, 2019
Episode 354: RPG Worlds and Guess Who
Mar 10, 2019
Episode 353: Why Design and The Boardwalk
Mar 03, 2019
Episode 352: Personal Update
Feb 25, 2019
Episode 351: JT is Cool and Tavis is a Jerk
Feb 17, 2019
Episode 350: A New Direction
Feb 10, 2019
Episode 349: Escape Rooms and a Cat Fight
Feb 03, 2019
Episode 348: The Ice Storm
Jan 27, 2019
Episode 347: A Constant Flow of Bikini Wax
Jan 21, 2019
Episode 346: Deconstructicon and Fishinator
Jan 14, 2019
Episode 345: The Year of Pablo
Jan 07, 2019
Episode 344: Goodbye 2018
Dec 31, 2018
Episode 343: Smudge The Magic Circle
Dec 24, 2018
Episode 342: Horn-ee Not Horn-ed
Dec 16, 2018
Episode 341: Attracting Testers and Flicking Squares
Dec 09, 2018
Episode 340: The Dark Farts
Dec 03, 2018
Episode 339: Vegas Adventure and Business Fatigue
Nov 25, 2018
Episode 338: Men’s Fashion and Misunderstood Corgis
Nov 18, 2018
Episode 337: Old Ideas and Older Rap
Nov 12, 2018
Episode 336: Avoiding Work for a Hipster Dinner Party
Nov 05, 2018
Episode 335: I Didn’t Edit This Because I Am Hungover Happy Halloween
Oct 29, 2018
Episode 334: Mind Garbage
Oct 22, 2018
Episode 333: Kingdoms and Bingo
Oct 14, 2018
Episode 332: Walter the Defiler
Oct 07, 2018
Episode 331: We Are In A Car
Sep 30, 2018
Bonus Episode 69: Into The Black Forest Designer Diary
Sep 27, 2018
Episode 330: GrandCon 2018 Live!!!
Sep 23, 2018
Episode 329: GrandCon Prep and Flooding Cubes
Sep 17, 2018
Episode 328: Italian Stereotypes and Terrifying Dances
Sep 09, 2018
Episode 327: Simulating Life and 10 Wild Honeys
Sep 03, 2018
Episode 326: What the Fun with Ian Moss
Aug 26, 2018
Episode 325: Gencon Wrap-Up 2018
Aug 20, 2018
Episode 324: Gencon Live 2018
Aug 13, 2018