#1023: Frames & Icons with Daniel Holt

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Games, Magic The Gathering, Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Ccg, Mark Rosewater

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In this podcast, I sit down with Senior Game Designer and Graphic Designer Daniel Holt to talk about how the frames and icons for March of the Machine were designed.

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0:00.0	I'm not pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for other drive to work at home edition.
0:06.0	So I've been getting a lot of people online asking all about frames and the making of frames.
0:12.0	So I decided to go to the source. So I have Daniel Holt with us today.
0:16.0	He's a senior game designer in R&D, and he is in charge of making frames.
0:22.2	So who better to talk about frames?
0:23.6	So, hey, Daniel.
0:25.5	Hey, Mark.
0:26.3	Excite to be here.
0:27.6	So Daniel does, has a lot of hats on.
0:29.6	He does actual, he does a lot of game design in addition to doing all the framework, but
0:33.6	he is in charge of the frame.
0:35.7	So we thought what we do is we would look at March of the Machines as our lens today
0:40.1	to talk about like the making a frame.
0:42.9	So really today's topic is we know we want a frame.
0:46.9	How does that happen?
0:48.5	How in the world do we get a frame?
0:50.5	So why don't we start talking about probably the most dramatic frame in all of March of the Machines?
0:56.7	Let's talk about how battles came to be.
0:58.3	From a frame standpoint, let's just dive in.
1:01.6	How did battles come to be?
1:03.7	Jumping right in with a big one.
1:05.4	Yeah.
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