Interviews - GAMINGTREND (Page 11)

Crazy Eights: John Clair answers questions on Edge of Darkness

In 2016 AEG introduced the concept of card crafting in Mystic Vale. The deck-building concepts we had seen in other games were present. However, as players received a card they

By Keith Schleicher

/ 19 Feb 2018

Crazy Eights: John Clair answers questions on Edge of Darkness

Crazy Eights: Jared Miller from CMON answers questions about HATE

CMON is known for having record-breaking Kickstarter board game campaigns with large minis and tons of stretch goals. HATE is their most recent project and it also contains very mature

By Keith Schleicher

/ 17 Jan 2018

Crazy Eights: James Wilson on Everdell

Publishing a game from a new designer is often a risky proposition. However, even Richard Garfield, Eric Lang, and Reiner Knizia had to start somewhere. James Wilson’s first game

By Keith Schleicher

/ 8 Jan 2018

Decemberists, Phoenixes, and Action Cats–Twogether Studios and how a two person team has one of the most diverse portfolios in gaming

Twogether Studios is something special in the gaming world. Keith Baker and Jenn Ellis manage to balance married life with game design, and that design covers a lot of ground.

By John Farrell

/ 23 Dec 2017

Decemberists, Phoenixes, and Action Cats–Twogether Studios and how a two person team has one of the most diverse portfolios in gaming

Crazy Eights: Rob Dougherty and Darwin Kastle answer questions about Sorcerer

I still remember being lucky enough being asked to try out a prototype of a deck-building game one day before Origins at a hotel nearby. That day I was introduced

By Keith Schleicher

/ 6 Dec 2017

Crazy Eights: Rob Dougherty and Darwin Kastle answer questions about Sorcerer

Crazy Eights: Jon Gilmour and the disappearing Dinosaur Island prototype

This year’s Gen Con was one of busiest ever since it was the 50th Anniversary and completely sold out for the entire show. While most people are there to

By Keith Schleicher

/ 5 Dec 2017

Crazy Eights: Jon Gilmour and the disappearing Dinosaur Island prototype

Crazy Eights: Jon Gilmour answers questions on Dinosaur Island

Dinosaurs have an amount of mystery to them, as no living human being has seen one for real. Jurassic Park made us wonder what it would be like if they

By Keith Schleicher

/ 28 Nov 2017

Crazy Eights: Jon Gilmour answers questions on Dinosaur Island

Crazy Eights: Doug Hettrick on the superhero dice building game Kapow!

At Origins a publisher wanted to make sure that I checked out a game that he was working on with a new designing group. I was able to check it

By Keith Schleicher

/ 10 Nov 2017

Crazy Eights: Doug Hettrick on the superhero dice building game Kapow!

Ross Watson, lead developer on Warhammer 40k: Wrath and Glory, shares insights on the past and future of his career

Ross Watson, a designer with a storied career in design, shares some hints aobut the future of Warhammer 40k roleplay and touches on what it takes to be a professional RPG designer. His work has touched gaming far and wide, including Shadowrun, Rifts, Star Wars, Marvel Superheros, and his own settin

By John Farrell

/ 16 Oct 2017

Ross Watson, lead developer on Warhammer 40k: Wrath and Glory, shares insights on the past and future of his career

Practical advice for indie RPG production: a discussion with Dario Nardi on Radiance RPG from start to finish

In a very real sense, everyone who has played a role-playing game is a designer. We have all tweaked rules or made new ones whole cloth to fit our games.

By John Farrell

/ 19 Sep 2017

Practical advice for indie RPG production: a discussion with Dario Nardi on Radiance RPG from start to finish

Crazy Eights: Adam Jacobson answers questions on Emergence: Dark Ops

While the cyberpunk theme is popular in the world of science fiction, it’s not heavily used. The merging of technology with humankind is becoming more reality, so you’d

By Keith Schleicher

/ 8 Sep 2017

Crazy Eights: Adam Jacobson answers questions on Emergence: Dark Ops

Crazy Eights: Greenbrier Games’ Walter Barber on Champions of Hara

Sometimes you see a game on Kickstarter that looks good but just doesn’t have the hype behind it because it doesn’t have an established publisher. Sometimes these games

By Keith Schleicher

/ 30 Aug 2017

Crazy Eights: Greenbrier Games’ Walter Barber on Champions of Hara

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