Interviews
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1.2KCrazy 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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1.2KCrazy 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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1.5KRemastering 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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667Crazy 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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602Crazy 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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782Crazy 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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734Crazy 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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864Crazy 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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925Crazy 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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814Bringing 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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969Crazy 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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1.2KWe 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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1.3KCrazy 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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873Crazy 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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683Talking 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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538The 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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1.2KCrazy 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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963Crazy 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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813We 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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543We 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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467Exploring 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...
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967Crazy Eights: Alex Kessler on Battle Bosses
If you ever got a chance to play Heroscape, then you know it is a mishmash of characters from different genres and...
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1.2KCrazy Eights: Brad Pye answers questions on Terrors of London
The horror genre seems to be relegated to either Jack the Ripper, zombies, or Cthulhu when it comes to board and card...
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4.1KYou call hamburgers steamed hams — Baldi’s Basics in Education and Learning creator on development, burgers
Ever since its debut earlier this year, Baldi’s Basics in Education and Learning has been a massively popular hit among the Let’s...
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543Dangerous deliveries with a side of Mecha mayhem — Breakfall co-founder Mike Keogh on Pizza Titan Ultra development
For those that are hungry for some zany PlayStation 4 titles this summer, Breakfall recently announced that it will release its mecha...
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6.5KDemocratizing Music — an Electronauts interview with Nathan Burba, Hunter Kitagawa and Jade Hirtle
With the release of Survios' new immersive music creation tool, Electronauts, fast approaching, I got to sit down with Nathan Burba, Hunter...
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1.1KCrazy Eights — Lead Designer Jack Murray answers questions on Radiant: Offline Battle Arena
It's not unheard of for video games to mimic board games and for board games to mimic video games. The MOBA (multiplayer...
