12. Old Frontiers - Race for the Galaxy, Roll, & New Frontiers Triple Review

Apr 29, 2019 · 57m 15s
12. Old Frontiers - Race for the Galaxy, Roll, & New Frontiers Triple Review
Chapters

01 · What we've been playing: Men at Work

1m 26s

02 · What we've been playing: Carpe Diem

3m 37s

03 · What we've been playing: Orléans & Rococo

5m 34s

04 · What we've been playing: Tony beat Gloomhaven!

9m 3s

05 · FEATURE REVIEW: Race for the Galaxy, Roll for the Galaxy, and New Frontiers

11m 9s

06 · Discussion: Tom Lehman, San Juan, and Puerto Rico

11m 30s

07 · Discussion: Designing simultaneous action games means no map - New Frontiers vs. Empires of the Void II

22m 59s

08 · Discussion: Iconography and -- oh yeah! -- Jump Drive

34m

09 · FEATURE DISCUSSION: Iteration by board game designers

35m 37s

10 · Discussion: Tom Lehman's iterative designs

36m 15s

11 · Discussion: Fixing games - 1846 and 2038

39m 23s

12 · Discussion: Designing into different play spaces - Res Arcana

40m 32s

13 · Discussion: Designing for curiosity - Uwe Rosenberg, Feast for Odin, Patchwork, Cottage Garden, and Indian Summer

42m 17s

14 · Agricola

43m 3s

15 · Discussion: Why we love designers - Designer personality, Uwe Rosenberg, and Michael Kiesling

44m 53s

16 · Discussion: Ryan Laukat's long journey to Empires of the Void II & Islebound

46m 38s

17 · Discussion: Simone Luciani's design iterations in the Voyages of Marco Polo, Tzolkin, Lorenzo, Newton, and Barrage

48m 55s

18 · Discussion: The adaptive designer - Vital Lacerda, Escape Plan, and Lisboa

50m 59s

19 · Discussion: The adaptive designer - Vlaada Chvátil, Space Alert, Mage Knight, and Codenames

52m 18s

20 · Discussion: Norwegians, the smallest iteration

54m 11s

21 · Easter Egg

56m 17s

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We couldn't help ourselves and review just one game. Instead, we looked at Race for the Galaxy, Roll for the Galaxy, and New Frontiers, Tom Lehman's three variations on a...

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We couldn't help ourselves and review just one game. Instead, we looked at Race for the Galaxy, Roll for the Galaxy, and New Frontiers, Tom Lehman's three variations on a theme.

Speaking of variations, in our feature discussion, we discuss how designers reuse their core mechanics and core themes from one game to a next, including designers like Tom Lehman, Uwe Rosenberg, Michael Kiesling, Ryan Laukat, Simone Luciani, Vital Lacerda, and Vlaada Chvátil.

What we've been playing:
01:26 Men at Work
03:37 Carpe Diem
05:34 Orléans & Rococo
09:03 Tony beat Gloomhaven!

FEATURE REVIEW:
11:09 Race for the Galaxy, Roll for the Galaxy, and New Frontiers
11:30 Tom Lehman, San Juan, and Puerto Rico
22:59 New Frontiers vs. Empires of the Void II
34:00 Iconography

FEATURE DISCUSSION:
35:37 Iteration by board game designers
36:15 Tom Lehman's iterative designs
39:23 Fixing games - 1846 and 2038
40:32 Designing into different play spaces - Res Arcana
42:17 Designing for curiosity - Uwe Rosenberg, Feast for Odin, Patchwork, Cottage Garden, and Indian Summer
43:03 Agricola
44:53 Why we love designers - Designer personality, Uwe Rosenberg, and Michael Kiesling
46:38 Ryan Laukat's long journey to Empires of the Void II & Islebound
48:55 Simone Luciani's design iterations in the Voyages of Marco Polo, Tzolkin, Lorenzo, Newton, and Barrage
50:59 The adaptive designer - Vital Lacerda, Escape Plan, and Lisboa
52:18 The adaptive designer - Vlaada Chvátil, Space Alert, Mage Knight, and Codenames
54:11 Norwegians, the smallest iteration
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