Interviews
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517Crazy Eights—Elizabeth Hargrave on Wingspan
When Stonemaier Game's latest release Wingspan went up for pre-order on January 2nd, nobody had a clue as to how popular a...
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649Of parodies and Pikmin — 64Bits on Super Smash Heaven and their animated video channel
Released yesterday, Super Smash Heaven is Netherlands-based animation team 64Bits’ latest video, with the concept meshing together Super Smash Brothers with Rhythm...
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580Crazy Eights: Ted Alspach on Suburbia Collector’s Edition
Bezier Games is probably most well known for their One Night Ultimate Werewolf and associated games, but one of their initial titles...
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882Crazy Eights: Travis Chance of Kolossal Games on Western Legends: Ante Up
While it's not uncommon to find games based on westerns, but when it's done well it stands out. That has been the...
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739Beloved country, beloved land — CEO of Ranida Games talks Bayani Kickstarter campaign, Filipino FGC
Filipino developer Ranida Games recently released its Kickstarter last week for the fighting game Bayani, which aims to be released on PC...
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2.6KCrazy Eights: Az Drummond on Reichbusters: Projekt Vril
Mythic Games has been known for going big. Their Mythic Battles: Pantheon had huge miniatures. The Solomon Kane Kickstarter campaign opened several...
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1.4KCrazy Eights: Tim Heerema on Archmage: Ascendant
Sometimes looks can be deceiving. A game with a hex tiles is common, as well as flipping them over to reveal terrain...
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1.4KCrazy Eights: Roberto di Meglio from Ares Games on Sword and Sorcery Ancient Chronicles
Ares Games had a hit with Galaxy Defenders from Gremlin Project. It was so successful it came out with two campaign expansions...
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1.6KRemastering a masterpiece — Interview with Stephan Vankov on remixing the music for Spyro Reignited Trilogy
Recently, we had a chance to visit Toys for Bob’s studio to check out Spyro: Reignited Trilogy. While there, I had an...
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723Crazy Eights: Sen-Foong Lim and Jessey Wright on Mutants
The deck-building genre was created with Dominion, and since then the number of games implementing it has exploded. From Thunderstone and DC...
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670Crazy Eights: Sean Jacquemain of CMON on Project ELITE
Most of the time when people think of board games, players take turns in order. However, real-time board games have started to...
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888Crazy Eights: Adam and Brady Sadler on Street Masters Aftershock
When you look at fighting games, it seems like a lot of the tabletop ones are one-on-one brawls. While some dungeon crawlers...
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819Crazy Eights: Thomas Dagenais-Lespérance on Anomaly
Halloween seems like a time where scares and tense moments are popular. While video games have had horror elements to them for...
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936Crazy Eights: William Schoonover on Level 7 [Omega Protocol] Second Edition
There are times when a game doesn't get discovered right away, and it becomes difficult to get except by paying an arm...
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1.0KCrazy Eights: Travis Chance on Mezo
When you look at ancient civilizations, it's not uncommon for Greek, Norse, and Chinese mythologies to be used as backdrops for gaming. ...
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905Bringing it all together — Banner Saga Trilogy interview with Arnie Jorgensen and Andy Johnson
The Banner Saga recently reached the end of the road earlier this year with the release of The Banner Saga 3. You...
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1.0KCrazy Eights: Jamie Noble Frier on Hero Master
Creating a game and putting up on Kickstarter can be a nerve-wracking affair. You need to have the game playtested, art for...
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1.3KWe interview Mel MacCoubrey, Narrative Director of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
I sat down with Mel MacCoubrey, Narrative Director (not Narrator!) for Assassin's Creed Odyssey for an extensive chat. We talked at length...
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1.4KCrazy Eights: Kerberos Productions on Control!
Kerberos has been most well known for their Sword of the Stars series. That series started in 2006 and spawned several expansions...
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949Crazy Eights: Sean Jacquemain from CMON on Starcadia Quest
CMON had several surprises at Gen Con this year. Newton, a heavy-looking Euro, isn't something expected from them. The fact they are...
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769Talking Tanglewood with Matt Phillips
Recently, I was given the opportunity to ask questions of Matt Phillips, designer and programmer of Tanglewood, about his game. Tanglewood, for...
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613The man behind the Lucha mask — We interview Drinkbox Studios co-founder Graham Smith
After the success of Guacamelee, it was only a matter of time before we returned to Pueblucho for another round. With the...
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1.3KCrazy Eights: Ted Alspach on One Night Ultimate Super Villains
Some people really enjoy Werewolf for the social deduction aspect of the game. However, it could drag on for far too long...
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1.0KCrazy Eights: Tim Criswell on Nexus
These days games seem to be repetitive, whether from theme or mechanics. Sometimes a designer will tweak a mechanic to make it...
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930We Interview Jonathan Dumont, Creative Director for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
I sat down with Jonathan Dumont, Creative Director for Ubisoft Québec talk with him about the improvements in the upcoming title, Assassin’s Creed...
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614We talk to Ubisoft Producer Kévin Racape about Transference
During our run up to gamescom, I got to sit down with Ubisoft Montréal's Kévin Racape, Producer for the upcoming mind-bending game, Transference. Playable in...
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538Exploring the Three Kingdoms — A Total War: Three Kingdoms interview with Al Bickham and Pawel Wojs
The next game in the Total War series is coming out in Spring 2019, so I got a chance to sit down...
