I sit down with James to talk about his excellent debut game, Magnate: The First City, as well as his next project, cleverly titled Boardgames: The Board Game (The Card Game), and his podcast called Producing Fun. Magnate is such a bold and interesting first design and I'm completely on board for whatever he makes down the road.
1:07 -- James' start in board games
4:57 -- Starting to design
8:19 -- Creating Magnate: The First City
13:20 -- Developing the "crash" mechanism in Magnate
19:21 -- Different styles of eurogame
24:01 -- Advanced vs basic rules in Magnate
31:38 -- First time game publishing experience
35:03 -- Boardgames: The Board Game (The Card Game)
53:32 -- Adapting a theme to a set of mechanisms
56:35 -- Art strategy
1:00:33 -- Future Naylor Games projects
1:07:32 -- The Producing Fun podcast
1:11:38 -- Comparing the state of games to film history
1:22:25 -- Marc once again floats his pet mechanism by a podcast guest
Music: Sailing The Solar Wind by Abstraction
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Ep 104: PAX Unplugged 2022
Ep 103: Q’s and A’s
Review - Catch the Moon
Review - Can’t Stop
Review From The Archives - Mysterium
Review - Spades and the Appeal of Trick-Takers
Review - Anno 1800
Ep 102: A Conversation With Jackson Pope and Paul Willcox about FlickFleet
Review - Shobu
I Need Your Help For The Thoughtful Gamer to Continue
Review - Through the Ages
Ep 101: Sports as Game Design
Review - EXIT: The Forgotten Island and The House of Riddles
Review: Babylonia
Review: Pan Am
Review: Blackbrim 1878
Ep 100: Pax East 2022
Review: That Time You KIlled Me
Bonus Episode: ”The Mind” Liveplay
Review: Codenames Duet
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