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The Board RetreatWhizz Bang and Starlit Take to the Skies! Author: James Mapes and Paul Susi
The Board Retreat is the entire creative process of making a board game, and James and Paul are here to stumble, tangent, and inspire their way to a full game. Come along for the journey if that's, like, um, your thing. Language: en-us Genres: Arts, Design, Games, Leisure Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Episode 5 - the Specifics
Episode 5
Wednesday, 16 May, 2018
Games"The Field Game of Tag" and its variant Everybody's ItRo Sham Bo / Rock-Paper-ScissorsScotland YardMysteriumBattlestar GalacticaPandemicSushi GoThe game of Poker and floppin'Chess and Perfect Information Games (Please note that chess is, indeed, the first example at the top of the page.)Space AlertArabian NightsSpace TeamThree of those games were published in 2008, how strange!Mesopotamian Gaming: "Watch the world's oldest board game, the Royal Game of Ur, being played" on boingboing.netFor reference, I brought up Moby Dick and Don Quixote as a joke that failed to land. Here is the history of the stranger/town dichotomy thing - it's a quote that is often misattributed. Also, we have discovered that when you google the title of literary classics, google auto-adds "movie" to the end of your query. How notable!Hero's Journey! We especially talked about the Call to Adventure, which in modern writing pedagogy is often called the Inciting Incident.Thanks!Portland Institute for Contemporary ArtBodyVoxTheme Music by Gary GrundeiAnd to you! Thanks!
