D6G Ep 178: Mulling User Experience Mechanics & High Heavens Thoughts

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4.8 • 613 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2015

⏱️ 225 minutes

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Summary

Ryan Lesser is in the third Chair! Ryan has been helping build great rhythm games (Rockband, Dance Central) at Harmonix for years. And he's also designed and released High Heavens, an innovative two player strategy game. Since we've got Ryan on the show we thought we'd talk about something common to both video games and board games, the user experience. How does his video game experience impact the user experience in board games he designs and plays. Later we dive into High Heavens. What inspired Ryan to build the game, how does it play, and what to Craig and Russ think of it? And don't miss the exciting results of our Stronghold Games "Space Cadets: Away Missions" contest. With a special cameo from Stephen Buonocore. All that plus: - Total Fan Girl - Do You Ever Notice - The Hollywood Minute - App of the Ep - & More If you'd like to discuss the show with us and others in our forum thread: . The following fine organizations help make this show possible: ==Quick Reference== App of the Ep: 1 hr 11 min Mulling UX Mechanics: 1 hr 16 min Total Fan Girl: 2 hr 0 min Hollywood Minute: 2 hr 6 min Contest Results: 2 hr 11 min High Heavens: 2 hr 27 min Links Discussed in the show: Craig's Blog: Russ's Blog: Total Fan Girl Blog: Dice Tower Network:

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0:00.0	This is the D6 generation with your hosts Craig DLont.
0:16.1	No, no, no, cut that, keep that.
0:17.6	Some day it's going to be worth something.
0:19.2	Russ Wakeland.
0:20.7	You put me in an ATST with freaking Wookiekees attacking me and whatnot?
0:24.4	Now you're talking.
0:26.1	And Ryan Lesser in the ur-chair.
0:31.6	It's crap.
0:34.3	With contributions from Total Fan Girl.
0:37.8	Vampires do not sparkle.
0:39.5	And our loyal listeners.
0:41.6	Are you crazy?
0:43.2	That's like 400 hours of gamer nonsense.
0:46.0	Welcome to another edition of Rapid Fire, the roundtable discussion of all things gaming,
0:49.9	coming at the speed of a yo-yotex X-D-N-A-O-Rum 24K.
0:53.9	Today's edition is brought to you by all of our fine friends over at Patreon. Check out our page by clicking on the link at our website or go to patreon.com. And a special thanks today to Dave Monroe, Andrew Gray, Kyle Grupenhoff, Evan Inman, and Vincent. Just Vincent could be our Vincent. Anyway, I'm Ginkley McNardigan, your host today. Our Penelers are Russ Northwest, Tiki Wakeland.
1:14.1	What?
1:14.3	And rhythmic computer game, Raj and Master of the High Heavens, Ryan, origin millennium lesser. Let's begin.
1:21.1	Issue number one. At the very foundation of Western civilization lies the ancient gods of Olympus. And if we go even further back, the truly ancient gods of Egypt and beyond.
1:30.0	The tales of these divine beings are so central to our culture that almost no school child escapes unscathed.
1:36.0	In fact, most of us know far more ancient Greek mythology than we even realize.
1:40.5	Question.
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