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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#927: Worldbuilding with Emily Teng

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

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

I sit down with Creative Team Member Emily Teng to talk about worldbuilding and the making of Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not putting on the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work at home edition.

0:07.0

Okay, so using my time at home to do lots of fun interviews. Today I have Emily Tang from the creative team.

0:14.0

Hello, Emily.

0:16.0

Um, so one of the things I've been doing these interviews is I want the audience to get a sense of other aspects of making magic.

0:24.6

So we're going to talk about world building with you today, and we're going to use Neon Dynasty as our example.

0:31.1

Okay.

0:32.1

So let's first explain it.

0:33.5

What do you do for magic?

0:36.7

Explain to the audience, like what what, what is your responsibility?

0:40.5

I mean, the jokey answer is, I make up lies for other people to believe.

0:47.2

But, um, more seriously, uh, so the world building team, basically the responsibility is

0:53.2

make up the flavors and the worlds that we

0:56.2

stick on cards um so that you know you get this whole complete set and it feels like this one

1:03.1

immersive big immersive world and that ties into the mechanics and sort of expresses it through

1:08.1

the art and the world building and flavor text.

1:13.6

Yeah, just to... Okay, so one of the things...

1:16.8

So, for example, you and I work closely together because when I'm designing a set,

1:21.2

we want to make sure the mechanics of the set and the flavor of the set are blending well.

1:28.3

Right.

1:28.8

So I led Neon Dynasty, the vision designed for Neand Dynasty, and you were in charge of

1:33.9

the world building for Neand Dynasty.

1:35.8

So I want to sort of, let's walk us through the making of Neand Dynasty so we can

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