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The Dice Tower

TDT - Episode # 320 - Gen Con 2013 Designer's Panel

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Tower, Catan, Boardgame, Game, Board, Leisure, Dice, Card, Games, Vasel, Summerer

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2013

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

In this show, Tom talks with Stephen Buonocore of Stronghold Games, Geoff Englestein - designer of Space Cadets, Richard Launius - designer of Arkham Horror, Rob Daviau - designer of Risk Legacy, and ignacy Trzewiczek - publisher of Portal Games. Recorded before a live audience who asked questions - we look into what makes a successful designer.

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The Dice Tower episode 320, GenCon Designers Panel. Oh, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them.

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In this special episode, we present the designers panel recorded live at GenCon 2013.

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I'm Eric Somerer, and here's your host from the Stronghold Game Studio in Indianapolis Indianapolis the James Lipton of board

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gaming Tom Vassle. Hey folks Tom Vassil here welcome to this show this is a

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bit of a departure from our normal show.

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This is partially because I am traveling in Korea actually why this show is being put out.

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But this is a show that we recorded at GenCon.

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Maybe some of you were there.

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There was about 50 or so people who came to this panel and we had some really

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great designer stuff and I'm not going to introduce them now let them introduce

1:20.3

themselves in the panel we tried to record it best we could. There may be some

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stuff that didn't make it onto the recording as well as possible, but I hope that you enjoy

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this. There was some really good insights that were given by these designers slash publishers.

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Now one of the things that I do want to mention is that if you'd like this, if you want

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to learn more about designing and publishing, then listen to Boardgame University, you can find that at Boardgame University.com.

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And it is a podcast that I put out weekly where I interview designers and publishers and

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artists and all sorts of folks about what it's like to be in the board

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gaming business. I think the interviews are really interesting and you can find

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it out there. But anyhow, without further ado, let's continue on to the

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