In what is probably the final guest blog of the season (so many shirkers), my old friend Alan Au steps up to write about the comforts and meaning of “home” in gaming. Alan and I have known each other for a long time and try to make the effort to connect in person on those […]
Entries Tagged as 'Guest Blog'
Holiday Guest Blog 6: Alan Au – “Home Field Advantage”
January 9th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Guest Blog
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Holiday Guest Blog 5: Dirk Knemeyer – “Theme and Mechanics”
January 3rd, 2012 · 6 Comments · Design, Guest Blog
I “met” game designer Dirk Knemeyer through our Out of the Park Baseball league. He’s had marginally more success than I have mostly through not finishing 30 games back four seasons in a row. Dirk is also an employer and collaborator, since I am doing research and consulting for him in the evenings and on […]
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Holiday Guest Blog 4: Rob Daviau “Elements of Risk”
December 30th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Board Games, Guest Blog
Rob Daviau has been a friend of the podcast for a while, and a friend of Julian Murdoch even longer. He works for Hasbro and his appearance on Episode 144 to talk about his design of Risk: Legacy was one of the more popular shows of 2011. Risk gets a lot of flak on the […]
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Holiday Guest Blog 3: Michael Barnes “Strategy Games on Tap”
December 22nd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Guest Blog
Michael Barnes is one of the quintet at No High Scores, a gaming blog run by my friends and former colleagues at Gameshark. Barnes is the site’s board game authority and his Cracked LCD column is something I regularly read if Bill Abner can’t answer my question immediately over Google Talk. But Barnes is also […]
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Holiday Guest Blog 2: Jon Shafer “The Middle Market”
December 20th, 2011 · 11 Comments · Guest Blog, Industry
Stardock’s Jon Shafer is one of those developers who thinks very hard about everything except joining our Out of the Park Baseball League, which he did as a “Why not?” more than anything else, it seems. Best known as the designer of AAA title Civilization 5, Jon wanted to use this space to again push […]
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Holiday Guest Blog 1: Bruce Geryk “Countermix”
December 19th, 2011 · 15 Comments · Guest Blog
Bruce Geryk needs no introduction to readers of Flash of Steel or listeners of Three Moves Ahead. He is my friend, my combatant and one of the people I can count on for totally honest feedback on pretty much anything. Also, one of my favorite wargame writers. His guest post is about a game you […]
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