Ep 023: Dane Beltrami Interview - Living Rules Reference

Space Cats Peace Turtles

Matt Martens and Hunter Donaldson

Games, Leisure:games, Hobbies, Leisure

4.9 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

We have an incredibly special treat for everyone this week. Matt Martens and Hunter Donaldson sat down with the developer of TI4, Dane Beltrami, to discuss his history with Fantasy Flight, the development of Twilight Imperium 4th Edition, and exploring the recently released Living Rules Reference. This episode is PACKED with information about previous iterations of your favorite races, what it was like tackling the mammoth that is TI, and the crazy questions that arise from this dense board game. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	This is Spacecats Peace Turtles, the unofficial podcast for Fantasy Flights Twilight Imperium.
0:11.6	Episode 23 Living Rules Reference Interview with Dane Beltrami.
0:15.8	Music by Ben Prunty, featuring Matt Martins and Hunter Donaldson.
0:23.6	Hello, hello, hello, Twilight Imperium fans.
0:44.3	It's just Matt right now.
0:46.3	I wanted to give you guys a quick introduction today.
0:48.3	We have a special treat of an episode for you all.
0:51.3	The FAQ slash errata for Twilight Imperium 4 was released last week. They're calling
0:57.4	it the Living Rules Reference. And as part of that release, we wanted to do some sort of episode
1:03.2	about it, and we thought the best way to do that was to have the person who wrote it helped
1:08.1	present it with us. And that is Dane Beltrami, the developer
1:11.3	for Twilight Imperium 4 and we did an interview with him and we talked through kind of his history
1:16.8	with the company, his experience developing Twilight Imperium 4, and then we went into a lot of detail
1:21.9	about the specifics of the FAQ, some of the big changes, some of the big answers to big questions.
1:28.6	And that's what we've got for you today.
1:30.8	It's a really big deal to us to have gotten to do this.
1:33.8	We've been really excited for it.
1:35.0	It's kind of been in the works for quite a while real quick and then we'll go into the interview and that'll be the whole meat of the episode.
1:48.8	So just to say it off the top, we also want to thank Scott for all of his help with the FAQ and the errata and specifically helping me prep some show notes for this interview.
2:00.6	He was a big influence in in helping kind of focus in on what are the biggest changes.
2:06.4	We also want to say follow us on Facebook, Space Cats Peace Turtles, on Twitter, SpaceCats Pod.
2:12.8	Email is SpaceCatspeatles at gmail.com.
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