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Copyright: © Geoff Engelstein, Sen-Foong Lim, and Erica Bouyouris
Mike and Geoff are pleased to welcome designer Andrew Parks to discuss taking a second shot at a design, whether it's revisiting a mechanic or taking an entire system into a new direction.
Duration: 1:15:42
In this classic GameTek Geoff looks at how choosing a color may affect how you play.
Duration: 06:17
Mike and Geoff discuss multi-use cards - their history, and how they can be used by designers.
Duration: 1:03:53
In this classic GameTek, Geoff discusses the use of pronouns when writing rules.
Duration: 06:17
Mike and Geoff are pleased to welcome returning guest Stephen Buonocore of Stronghold Games to discuss the state of the gaming industry going into 2017.
Duration: 1:19:43
In this classic GameTek Geoff pays tribute to game theorist John Nash.
Duration: 06:35
How do different player counts affect the design process? How important is it that a game support a variety of player counts?
Duration: 1:08:06
Mike and Geoff are pleased to welcome slot machine game design Jeremy Hornik. Jeremy has been designing slots for over 15 years, including Money Burst, Willy Wonka, Monopoly, and Baron von Bacon's Million Credit Bonus.
What are the special considerations for slot machine design, and what do they learn from video and board games?
Duration: 1:16:28
In this classic GameTek, Geoff wraps up his discussion of entropy and statistical mechanics by exploring the way that disorder and energy flow through a game system.
Duration: 6:19
Mike and Geoff dive into real time games. What design techniques work for this mechanism? What does it do to the player experience?
Duration: 1:00:50
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