Podcast appearances and mentions of dino dunk

Emma and Gil welcome game designer and publisher Omari Akil to the show to discuss the plight of the sports-themed board game. What kinds of unique challenges do we face when designing one of these games? Omari's game Hoop Godz will be on Kickstarter soon. SHOW NOTES 1m21s: Board Game Brothas, Tabletop Backer Party, Pathways Fellowship 4m55s: Gil was 5 years off - Mike's game is Baseball Highlights: 2045. 12m09s: Football Strategy 12m47s: Gil would like to shout out Arthur Franz IV's self-published game Breakaway Football as a game with a really nice mix of play deciding versus output randomness. 15m32s: Gil will defend the term "soccer," seriously. It's a perfectly good way to refer to association football! 16m06s: Strat-O-Matic Baseball, released in 1962. 17m41s: Dino Dunk 18m07s: Crokinole 18m25s: Nok Hockey, Air Hockey, Electric Football. We also neglected to mention the flicking game family Subbuteo, which represents all sorts of sports. 22m43s: Gil eventually gets to his curling thoughts at 39m22s. 25m48s: Madden is EA's long-running NFL gridiron football video game sim (named for legendary player, coach, and broadcaster John Madden). 28m58s: Ultimate is a competitive sport using a throwable disc (like a Frisbee) instead of a ball. 29m50s: In 2017, Geek and Sundry launched a "T-Sports" league for competitive tabletop games (strangely, announcing it on April 1, and then having to explain that it was real). Sadly, it did not go far. 30m57s: Bennett Foddy's talk "Making it Matter: Lessons from Real Sports". Foddy is known for making punishingly-hard digital games like QWOP and Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy. 38m36s: Omari is referring to the common sports term GOAT, an acronym of Greatest Of All Time. 41m28s: Hystericoach 43m16s: Bottom of the Ninth 45m09s: Blaseball. RPG designer Meguey Baker's thread on it. 46m56s: Omari wrote more about how his lived experience affected the design of Rap Godz. 48m24s: More info about how Omari and YouTuber (and all-around excellent person) Danny Plays Gamez raised $80,000 for BLM:  56m25s: Paula Deming's channel, Things Get Dicey, is absolutely amazing to behold. Top-notch writing, performing, and filming. 57m11s: For those of you who don't have the honor of consuming Capri Sun in the part of the world where you live, it's a (vaguely) fruit-flavored beverage.  1h01m16s: The GIF Omari is referring to, featuring young Brazilian skater Rayssa Leal. The GIF Gil is referring to, linked to from famous skater Tony Hawk. 

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Dinosaurs may be extinct, but board games featuring them are as alive as ever. We took a huge list and dropped a K-T boundary inducing hunk of rock on the list to see which ones were the best. I'm also really sorry about those jokes.

On our latest pip, we catch up with Gabe Barrett, the mind and hustle behind the Board Game Design Lab (or BGDL for short) whose podcast, mailing list, and website’s mission is to help tabletop designers create fun and engaging board games. Gabe has interviewed some of the best in the biz from Tom Vasel to Jamey Stegmaier and many in between on topics that run the full gamut of making games a reality. It is one of the most widely recognized podcasts on board game design, and Gabe is also a budding game designer working on several games including The Final Flicktier! We dive into his latest game and get the lowdown on balancing content creation with game design!We talk about:D&D, Time Stories, Eldridge Horror, Ameritrash, creating experiences, storytelling, Stuffed Fables, super behind-the-scenes superhero games, crunchy puzzles, Board Game Design Lab, The Final Flicktier, dexterity games, Dino Dunk, Ascending Empires, Jamey Stegmaier, working with constraints, Rob Daviau, Gil Hova, design theory, Kickstarter, Peter Hayward, finishing bad games, developing taste before developing skills, Matt Colville, Joseph Campbell, the hero’s journey, Buttonshy, Jason Tagmire, and dungeon crawls.Check out The Final Flicktier here:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/105507699/the-final-flicktier-relaunch

Welcome to Episode 23 of All The Bits wherein Shaun and Michelle go all Cult of the New. It's all of Origins 2018's hottest games in one place. They Drive By Luxor, Reef, Endeavor, Century: Eastern Wonders, Coimbra and more! The dynamic duo then run-down how their 10x10 is going at the mid-point (hint: not good). In the All The Bits bit, Shaun talks about the incredible art of Dino Dunk (duh) and Michelle messes with your head as she talks about all the wood in Origin. Finally, Next Up gets literal again as Shaun gushes over Lords of Baseball and Gizmos, while Michelle losers her mind over Merlin and Great Western Trail: Rails to the North. All this, and so much more! Seriously, this episode is jam-packed with so much entertainment you are going to lose your bits! **A big thank you to our show sponser, Board Game Bliss (www.boardgamebliss.com). A store where you can find an amazing selection of games from around the world! Bringing joy to you and your love ones!** *Visit our brand new website: www.allthebitspod.com* Like us and follow us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/allthebitspod/ Tweet us: @allthebitspod Follow us on Instagram: @allthebitspod Email us: allthebitspodcast@gmail.com Leave us an itunes review: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-bits-board-game-podcast/id1254767438?mt=2 Time Stamps 0:01 – Intro 04:34 - Anniversary Bit 06:55 - Ask Me Anything Bit 14:10 - Guess The Game Bit 18:28 - Drive By Bit 55:38: Hot Topic Bit 66:00 - All The Bits Bit 71:00 - Next Up Bit

Welcome to Episode 23 of All The Bits wherein Shaun and Michelle go all Cult of the New. It's all of Origins 2018's hottest games in one place. They Drive By Luxor, Reef, Endeavor, Century: Eastern Wonders, Coimbra and more! The dynamic duo then run-down how their 10x10 is going at the mid-point (hint: not good). In the All The Bits bit, Shaun talks about the incredible art of Dino Dunk (duh) and Michelle messes with your head as she talks about all the wood in Origin. Finally, Next Up gets literal again as Shaun gushes over Lords of Baseball and Gizmos, while Michelle losers her mind over Merlin and Great Western Trail: Rails to the North. All this, and so much more! Seriously, this episode is jam-packed with so much entertainment you are going to lose your bits! A big thank you to our show sponser, Board Game Bliss (www.boardgamebliss.com). A store where you can find an amazing selection of games from around the world! Bringing joy to you and your love ones! Visit our brand new website: www.allthebitspod.com Like us and follow us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/allthebitspod/ Tweet us: @allthebitspod Follow us on Instagram: @allthebitspod Email us: allthebitspodcast@gmail.com Leave us an itunes review: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-bits-board-game-podcast/id1254767438?mt=2 Time Stamps 0:01 – Intro 04:34 - Anniversary Bit 06:55 - Ask Me Anything Bit 14:10 - Guess The Game Bit 18:28 - Drive By Bit 55:38: Hot Topic Bit 66:00 - All The Bits Bit 71:00 - Next Up Bit

Cody Stevens, the designer of Dino Dunk, discusses dexterity games.We talk about lots of different dexterity style games, how they work, and what makes them good. The post Designing Dexterity Games with Cody Stevens appeared first on Board Game Design Lab.