Interviews - GAMINGTREND (Page 22)

Crazy 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 or resources. However, sometimes you have to look

By Keith Schleicher

/ 16 Nov 2018

Crazy Eights: Tim Heerema on Archmage: Ascendant

Crazy 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 and several other additions. In late 2015 the

By Keith Schleicher

/ 9 Nov 2018

Crazy Eights: Roberto di Meglio from Ares Games on Sword and Sorcery Ancient Chronicles

Remastering 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 opportunity to sit down with Stephan Vankov,

By Sean Anthony

/ 8 Nov 2018

Remastering a masterpiece — Interview with Stephan Vankov on remixing the music for Spyro Reignited Trilogy

Crazy 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 Deck Building Game to Trains and Clank!, there’

By Keith Schleicher

/ 6 Nov 2018

Crazy Eights: Sen-Foong Lim and Jessey Wright on Mutants

Crazy 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 come out where multiple people play their turn

By Keith Schleicher

/ 5 Nov 2018

Crazy Eights: Sean Jacquemain of CMON on Project ELITE

Crazy 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 have melee combat, it doesn’t have the

By Keith Schleicher

/ 30 Oct 2018

Crazy Eights: Adam and Brady Sadler on Street Masters Aftershock

Crazy 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 a while, board games are starting to bring

By Keith Schleicher

/ 24 Oct 2018

Crazy Eights: Thomas Dagenais-Lespérance on Anomaly

Crazy 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 and a leg on the secondary market.

By Keith Schleicher

/ 23 Oct 2018

Crazy Eights: William Schoonover on Level 7 [Omega Protocol] Second Edition

Crazy 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. The Mayans aren’t used very often,

By Keith Schleicher

/ 18 Oct 2018

Bringing 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 can get caught up on our thoughts on

By Nathan Anstadt

/ 1 Oct 2018

Bringing it all together — Banner Saga Trilogy interview with Arnie Jorgensen and Andy Johnson

Crazy 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 the game, and an audience to bring in

By Keith Schleicher

/ 19 Sep 2018

Crazy Eights: Jamie Noble Frier on Hero Master

We 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 about player choice, family, the roots of

By Ron Burke

/ 10 Sep 2018

We interview Mel MacCoubrey, Narrative Director of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey