At this year’s GDC, I mentored Justin Gary on his Tabletop Summit talk on SolForge Fusion and, afterwards, he invited me onto his excellent game designer podcast Think Like A Game Designer. It’s a bit like my podcast except its 90% tabletop designers (although I will be having more tabletop designers on in the future). As I’m not afraid of going too long, he had to split my recording into two parts, but they serve as a pretty good overview of my career. Take a listen if you’ve got some free time!
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In part 2, you were explaining how the map mod with few trees but lots of gold pointed you towards making Offworld, but then the conversation moved on. Have you explained/explored more of that thinking elsewhere (blog/podcast)? I’ve watched several of your talks but I think this is the first time I have heard that come up.
Thanks
I sort of allude to it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=o2C4z_apu2I
Also, maybe in the podcast? https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes/episodes/offworld-trading-company-1