So good evening and welcome to the Three Moves Ahead panel on Interface Design,

worth a thousand words. And I want to welcome you to what is surely the wonkiest possible

subject you could have chosen for the 730 talk at Pax. So congratulations. You are all like

Uber nerds to the point where it's like not even cool.

We're going to skip introductions because I'm just a little bit concerned about time because we all got a lot of demonstrations to go through.

So each panel is going to introduce himself as he sort of highlights some examples of good

and disastrous interface design and information

design in games. So we'll start off with my friend and the CEO of Ironwall Games, Rob Davio.

Hello? Just getting my notes up.

Hello, I am anchoring the board game portion of this.

We're going to start out kind of old school with some cardboard and some plastic

and then move through technology as we go to the right.

The idea of interface design for board games or tabletop games in general is kind of interesting.

I've been in the industry

for almost 15 years now as a designer. I spent most of that time at Hasbro, which is Parker Brothers

and Milton Bradley, and then left just about six months ago to kind of do my own thing, doing

game consulting and publishing some of my own designs or will be publishing. It takes a little

while to design them. So what I want to talk about today is what exactly interface design is for a board game. There's

obviously no screens. There's no hut keys. There's no buttons that you're pushing or

buttons that you're mashing. But underneath all that, it remains the same, which is how does a player

interact with the vision of the designer? Designer comes up with a series of systems and wants you to have a great time with them.

And for the sake of this example,

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