Tabletop Throwdown
GamingTrend’s tabletop podcast where Mark Streed, Sean Brown and Mike Dunn chat with game designers, game publishers, and other gaming adjacent folks about, well, games and other nerdy pursuits. Spoiler- sometimes we get a little silly and we can almost guarantee that the conversation will veer into whatever we are geeking out about at any moment during the last half of the show.
Tabletop Throwdown
Hues & boops with game designer Scott Brady | TTTS2E9
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Scott Brady has designed and co-designed several of the most compelling games of the last few years and shares with us some behind-the-scenes info on how they got made and his design process in general. Learn how even the Covid pandemic couldn't keep Hues & Cues from becoming a smash hit! Hear the origins of the thinky cat game boop. and it's many spin-offs. Marvel at Scott's wall of components!
#boop #gamedesign #huesandcues
0:00 - Intro & Welcome Scott Brady
2:00 - The Prototype Piece Wall: Scott's Game Design Workshop
5:00 - How Scott Got Into Game Design: From Mom Blog to Tabletop
10:00 - Pantone the Game & Why IP Matters in Design
15:00 - Hues & Cues Origin: Publishing During COVID
20:00 - Mass Market Success: Target, Walmart & 13 Languages
24:00 - Designing for the Social Experience, Not Just Mechanics
26:30 - Failed Prototypes: Pacifier Mouthpieces & COVID's Impact
29:00 - Collaboration in Game Design: Caution Signs & Out of Words
32:00 - Boop Origin: The Shockwave Mechanic No One Had Done
37:00 - Gekitai to Boop: Naming, Theming & Smirk & Dagger
42:00 - National Boop Tournaments & Hearing "Boop" Across the Hall
45:00 - Boop Shuffle: Shared Deck Design & Board Visualization
51:00 - Scott's Boop Shuffle + Mike's Boop Variant (Boop Shuffle Boop)
54:00 - Star Wars vs. Star Trek: Scott's Top 3
58:00 - Deep Space Nine, Farscape & the Monetization of Meanness
1:03:00 - Kevin Sussman, Big Bang Theory & Why Nerds Are Now Cool
1:08:00 - Outro & Where to Find Scott at Gen Con
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