The Cardboard Herald

Nick Murray, coowner of Bitewing Games and host of "The Bits with Joe and Nick" comes to talk Gold Country and Bitewing's work with Reiner Knizia, spanning hits from Zoo Vadis to Illiad.
00:00 - Intro
01:46 - Gold Country Excitement
07:08 - Did Bitewing set out to work with Knizia?
12:57 - Reiner's self awareness of current resurgence?
19:18 - Is there a Knizia bubble?
26:25 - Challenges with Gold Country
32:24 - Why doesn't Bitewing do expansions?
35:35 - The games that got away?
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Trevor Benjamin is co-designer of numerous hit games including Undaunted, Warchest, Resist and Mandela, frequently collaborating with David J. Thompson and Brett J. Gilbert.
00:00 - Intro
01:10 - Getting involved with Bitewing
02:26 - Approach to following up Iliad & Ichor
06:29 - Intentionally subverting genre?
07:52 - Late addition of solo & coop
09:47 - Why always codesigning?
14:47 - Approach to Azure
18:11 - State of the hobby trending to more shallow experiences
21:50 - Historical accuracy vs. practical game design
25:09 - Expanded scope of Undaunted
29:01 - How do you know when a game is done?
31:51 - Recent inspirations
37:35 - Next up, For the Gods
Links:
Our Site - https://www.cardboardherald.com
Our Video Channel - https://www.youtube.com/TheCardboardHerald
Our Twitter - https://twitter.com/CardboardHerald
Our Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/user?u=9669551

It’s time to butt heads and create enemies that will last a lifetime! That’s right, we’re talking about conflict, baby, and the different ways conflicts are represented in board games.
0:00 - Introductions and What We’ve Been Playing This Week!
34:22 - Conflict in Board Games
1:13:10 - Outro!

Jack and Eric haven’t chatted in a while, so we thought this would be a good time to discuss the channel, where we’re at and what we’re working on now that we’re both back from all of our trips, and what’s coming up for the channel!

0:00 - Introductions and What We’ve Been Playing This Week!
29:55 - Call to Order of the Cardboard Herald Board Meeting
1:21:45 - Meeting Adjourned and Outro!

Cameron Art (developer of Harvest, owner of PickPocket Games) comes on the podcast to chat with Eric about his time as a developer for Keymaster and what’s on the horizon for PickPocket Games

PickPocket Games: https://pickpocketgames.com/

0:00 - Introductions and What We’ve Played This Past Week
12:07 - Cameron Talks About Developing Harvest
19:25 - Was There Feedback Cameron Got Where The Feedback Disagreed With the Data?
24:18 - Cameron Discusses The Differences Between Designing A Game and Developing A Game
37:13 - Cameron Discusses What’s Different From Working Internally to Develop for a Company versus Being Contracted to Develop?
40:54 - How Does Cameron Approach Developing a Solo Mode for a Competitive Game?
47:50 - What Pushed Cameron to Republish Thief’s Market with PickPocket Games?
56:00 - Cameron Talks Starting Up PickPocket Games
1:03:15 - Cameron’s Most Influential Games
1:07:18 - The Games Cameron Thinks You Must Play As an Aspiring Board Game Designer?
1:11:22 - Outro