Erica and Scott welcome graphic designer, production superhero, and prototype craft wizard Lindsay Daviau to the show. We talk about her experience at Hasbro making (among many other things) fake games for fake stores. We also bring up her favorite games that she worked on, and her job at Restoration Games (with her husband Rob, who you may have heard of), where she works on games like Unmatched, Fireball Island, Stop Thief, and the soon-to-come Return to Dark Tower.
SHOW NOTES
04m10s: This is Don Norman's legendary book, Design of Everyday Things. It frequently comes up in this show, although despite what Scott says, we have never done a dedicated episode on it. We did discuss it a lot with game designer and graphic designer Daniel Solis on Ludology 204 - The Eyes Have It.
05m09s: The prestigious Rhode Island School of Design (RISD, pronounced "RIHS-dee").
12m57s: For those of you outside the US, the functional metric equivalent to 11"x17" paper is A3.
16m12s: The most recent Pandemic Legacy game is Pandemic Legacy: Season 0.
16m56s: Laser cutters emit toxic fumes; please only ever use them with proper ventilation!
17m48s: The Brother ScanNCut.
18m34s: Gil's tip for making quick tokens: get a bunch of circle labels, and a bunch of poker chips! 1" diameter labels work well for standard poker chips, 0.5" diameter labels work well for mini poker chips. Once you set up to print to the circle template, you can make a bunch of tokens very quickly. And to replace them, simply print new labels and stick them above the old labels. It's great for early prototypes where the shape of the token is not hugely important!
21m08s: Heroscape
42m09s: The web suggestion form Lindsay mentions is right on Restoration's front page!
45m24s: The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
46m41s: Pillars of the Earth is both a well-known book by Ken Follett and a solid worker-placement board game with a polarizing turn order mechanism.
49m00s: This cake discussion actually came relatively early in the interview. It was a bit too much of a tangent to include in the main episode, but we've put it here as a bonus. Enjoy!
53m24s: For more on edible board games, check out Ludology 210 - The Way to a Gamer's Heart, in which we chat with Jenn Sandercock about her cookbook/rulebook where she gives recipes and instructions for several edible games.
Biography of a Board Game 208.5 - Space Cadets
Ludology 208 - Playing With Purpose
GameTek Classic 207.5 - Information
Ludology 207 - Card Advantage
Ludology 206.5 - Live at Gen Con 2019
Ludology 206 - Ahead of the Curve
GameTek 205.5 - Research Triple Play
Ludology 205 - All's Well That Ends Well
Biography of a Board Game 204.5 - Dune & Rex
Ludology 204 - The Eyes Have It
GameTek 203.5 - Asmodee Research
Ludology Episode 203 - Winging It
Biography of a Board Game 202.5 - Icehouse
Ludology Episode 202 - Forgive Me Not
GameTek Classic 201.5 - The Yips
Ludology Episode 201 - Are We Having Fun Yet?
Biography of a Board Game 200.5 - Cluedo
Ludology Episode 200 - Auld Lang... Engelstein?
GameTek Classic 199 - Crystallography
Ludology Episode 199 - What's In the Box?
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