On the 10th episode of Board Game Times, Clark goes to Protospiel Chicago and talks with four board game designers about their hopes for the game playtesting event.
Valerie and Nick Schrag have been to multiple Protospiel events. They talk about designing and developing board games as a married couple and testing their game Capacity which uses area control and worker placement mechanisms to deliver on environmental themes.
Andrew Stiles is attending Protospiel for the first time. He’s a long-time player but first-time board game designer and attendee looking to tune his designs for pitching to publisher. He talks about testing multiple game designs, including the fishing-themed Intersecting Anglers and Wine Cellar’d, a set collection and card ordering game.
And Steven Ungaro has played his games Curbside (co-designed with Danielle Reynolds) and Assassin 8, a trick taking game with a twist, multiple times on digital platforms. He talks about the experience of playing his games for the first time in physical form for the Protospiel audience.
And of course, no episode would be complete without the minigame questionnaire: this episode it’s super-sized!
Interview Times
4:35 Nick and Valerie Shrag – Day One
12:33 Steven Ungaro – Day One
17:31 Andrew Stiles – Day One
22:16 Nick and Valerie Shrag – Day Two
25:19 Steven Ungaro – Day Two
28:42 Andrew Stiles – Day Two
31:41 Board Game Times Minigame Questionnaire
Reach out to Nick and Valerie Schrag on Twitter at https://twitter.com/nick_schrag and https://twitter.com/v_vschrag
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Andrew Stiles is on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/andrew.stiles) and Discord (Andrew Stiles #6272)
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