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Decision Space explores decisions in games across the board game hobby and beyond. By exploring tactics, strategy, and the subjective experiences of decisions in games, we hope to provide insights into the specific games we cover and the games in general.
Chunky Decisions and Other Design Lessons with Jon Perry
Decision Space
1 hour 14 minutes
1 month ago
Chunky Decisions and Other Design Lessons with Jon Perry
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Episode 235 - Design Lessons with Jon Perry
Tabletop and video game designer Jon Perry joins us for a discussion of the tabletop design lessons that inspire his own work.
Check out the GDC talk that inspired the episode here: https://gdcvault.com/play/1035154/How-Tabletop-Design-Helped-Shape
Timestamps
8:50- multi-use components18:00- cutting complex rules27:15- modular rules40:15- chunky decisions54:30- mechanism vs genre
Jon Perry games discussed in the episode
Hot Streak, Spots, Air Land and Sea, Scape Goats, UFO 50
Preplanners
Next up is our component draft! Also Brendan cannot wait to discuss the new fighting game Tag Team, so you may want to get some plays in for that one.
Music and Sound Credits
Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s
You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.
Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA
Intermission Music:music elevator ext part 1/3 by Jay_You -- https://freesound.org/s/467243/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
Bell with Crows by MKzing -- https://freesound.org/s/474266/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
hammer v2.wav by blukotek -- https://freesound.org/s/337815/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
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Decision Space
Decision Space explores decisions in games across the board game hobby and beyond. By exploring tactics, strategy, and the subjective experiences of decisions in games, we hope to provide insights into the specific games we cover and the games in general.
