Blanks & Bits

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Hosted by aspiring designer Brandon Garver, Blanks & Bits is a behind-the-scenes, journal style podcast that follows the start-to-finish creation process of his first tabletop game. Follow along and learn with Brandon as he iterates on the prototype of his game and explores his thoughts on game des…

B. L. Garver


    • Jun 16, 2019 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 32m AVG DURATION
    • 6 EPISODES
    • 1 SEASONS


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    Entry 5: The Grand Detour

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2019 38:57


    Host and aspiring designer Brandon Garver returns after a long hiatus to discuss an accidental game design that detoured him from his main worker-survival project.

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    Entry 4: Cubes, Squared

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2018 25:38


    Host and aspiring designer Brandon Garver discusses the progression of resources, tile laying mechanisms and further pondering of the deity mechanisms in his village-building, worker-survival game set in a fictitious age of mythology and chaos.

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    Entry 3: Deity Downsize

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2018 21:03


    Host / designer Brandon Garver discusses changes to the deity mechanisms, and updates some Blanks & Bits business.

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    Entry 2: Catch Me Up If You Can

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2018 30:29


    Finally the show catches up with the game design. Host Brandon Garver covers the updates since last design session on his worker-survival, tableau-building board game. Highlights: A slight alteration of theme, a new combat & deity power system, worker actions, and new tile-placement mechanisms!

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    Entry 1: Board Game, Begin Again

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2018 45:43


    The first true journal entry of Blanks & Bits. Your host dives deeper into the game he will be creating over the course of this podcast and talks about the developments of the first official design session since he dug it up out of hiatus.

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    Entry 0: Meet Your Game Maker

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2018 31:01


    Meet your host and aspiring game designer Brandon Garver and learn the origins of this podcast, his interest in game design overall, and hear a brief introduction to the game he will be creating over the course of this podcast. Everyone loves an origin story, right?

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