Player Lair Podcast
In the Player Lair podcast, we delve into the process of making games and interview various game designers, publishers and people involved in the gaming community.
Episodes
37 episodes
36: Finding Your Board Game's Superfans with Ori Kagan
Ori Kagan is the creative force behind Kagan Productions, a renowned agency specializing in high-quality animated trailers for board games. With a proven track record of helping campaigns raise over $19 million, Ori collaborates with both estab...
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Episode 36
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35: Andrew Bosley
Andrew Bosley is one of the co-designers of Planecrafters by Paisley Board Games and the artist behind Everdell, The River, Mission: Red Planet, and Citadels. He is a freelance illustrator, game designer, and writer working primarily in the boa...
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Episode 35
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1:03:15
34: Richard Garfield
Richard Garfield is a game designer and mathematics professor known for creating the immensely popular card game Magic: The Gathering.In our conversation, we d...
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Episode 34
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1:06:22
33: Andrew Stiles
Andrew is an American game designer and co-host of the Tabletop Submarine podcast. His new game Wine Cellar is coming to Ki...
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Episode 33
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32: Daniel Piechnick
Daniel is a former Magic: The Gathering external developer and designer of Radlands.He also writes illuminating board game design articles, which can be found at
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Episode 32
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31: Chris Backe
Chris Backe (rhymes with hockey) is the founder of Entro Games. His games typically play in under 30 minutes, feature a wide variety of player counts, and a diverse range of themes. The thing they all have ...
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30: Daryl Andrews
Daryl is a game designer and a member of the Game Artisans of Canada (GAC).He has published over 30 board games, actively visits conventions, offers consultations, and much more!Twitter:
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29: Brett J. Gilbert and Trevor Benjamin
Brett and Trevor are both board game designers, who have an amazing portfolio of gam...
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Episode 29
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1:20:17
28: Joe Slack
Check out Mayan Curse on Kickstarter!Joe Slack is the designer and publisher of Relics of Rajavihara and the Montalo's Revenge expansion, the designer of King ...
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Episode 28
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27: Scott Rogers
Scott Rogers has helped design many successful video games including: Pac-Man World, the Maximo series, God of War, Drawn to Life series and Darksiders. A former Disney Imagineer and VR designer, Scott currently teaches game design at the New Y...
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Episode 27
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26: Adrian Adamescu
Adrian Adamescu has been designing games for the last decade! He is known for designing light-to-midweight games with clean mechanics. He co-designed
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Episode 26
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57:39
Episode 25: Sandy Petersen
Sandy Petersen has been creating RPGs, video games, and board games for over 40 years! He's been on the team of successful video games like Age of Empires, Civilization, Doom, a...
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Episode 25
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Episode 24: Megapulse with Nicolas Fournier
We talk to Nicolas Fournier about game design, loss aversion, player interaction, racing and his debut board game -
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Episode 24
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1:05:18
Episode 23: Circadians: Chaos Order with Sam and Zach
Zachary Smith and Sam Macdonald tell us about their upcoming game -
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Episode 23
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1:37:23
Episode 22: Renegade Legion with Budgie Smuggler Games
Matt and Josh from Budgie Smuggler Games tell us about their upcoming project Renegade Legion: Centurion. We talk...
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Episode 22
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Episode 21: Micro Games with Ben Downton
Ben is the creator of Micro Dojo and Prometheus Game Labs. We talked about his process run...
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Episode 21
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57:25
Episode 20: Making Artwork with The Mico
Mihajlo Dimitrievski shares his experience making artwork for board games, comic books, animated movies and more! He's worked on games like
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Episode 20
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53:17
Episode 19: Bruno Faidutti
Bruno Faidutti joins us to talk game design! Bruno has worked on games including Citadels, Mission: Red Planet...
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Episode 19
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48:00
Bonus Episode: Questeros with Wes Woodbury
Wes comes on the Player Lair Podcast to tell us about his new project - Questeros. Wes runs FunDaN...
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27:42
Episode 18: Targi with Andy Steiger
We talk to Andreas Steiger, designer of Targi and
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Episode 18
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1:09:26
Episode 17: Eduardo Baraf and Pencil First Games
Eduardo Baraf from Pencil First Games joins us to share his experience as a se...
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Episode 17
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59:53
Episode 16: Dexterity games with Aron West
Aron West, co-designer of Catacombs and CEO of Elzra Games, joins us to share his experience from over 10 years in the industry. W...
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Episode 16
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1:05:22
Episode 15: Spirit Island with R. Eric Reuss
We chat with R. Eric Reuss, designer of Spirit Island, about game design. He tells us about the process he went through in the making of Spirit Island and it's expansions, h...
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Episode 15
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