The Game Design Round Table

Dirk Knemeyer & David V. Heron

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Covering the full breadth of digital, tabletop, and role playing games, The Game Design Round Table inspires and educates aspiring and experienced game designers.

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Episodes (384)

#235 Diving Into MOBA Foundations

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#234 Sen-Foong Lim Designs Edge Cases Out of the Game

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#233 Round Table on the Challenges of Pleasing Customers

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#232 Chris Bourassa Talks Darkest Dungeon

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#231 Tim Fowers Talks Burgle Bros 2

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#230 Rob Daviau Talks Return to Dark Tower

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#229 Round Table on the Essence of a Theme

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#228 Shawn Main Talks Legends of Runeterra

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#227 Meguey Baker Talks Apocalypse World

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#226 David Dunham Talks Six Ages

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#225 Round Table on Thematic Games #1

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#224 Scott Nicholson Talks Escape Rooms

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#223 Kynan Pearson Talks Nintendo Themes

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#222 Elizabeth Hargrave Talks Wingspan

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#221 Nikki Valens Talks Eldritch Horror

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#220 New Directions with Dirk and David

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#219 Cole's Thoughts on Pax Pamir: Second Edition

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#218 Geoff Engelstein and Isaac Shalev: Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design

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#217 Soren Johnson and his 4X Game: 10 Crowns

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#216 Playtest Groups and Guilds with Tony Tran

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#215 Tabletop RPGs and Streaming with Adam Koebel

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#214 Game Themes with Will Thompson

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#213 Carla Kopp, Kickstarter and Big Easy Busking

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#212 Tabletop Prototyping Highlights

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#211 Slay The Spire - A Designers Deep Dive with Anthony Giovannetti

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#210 Listener Questions from SaltCON with Skye Larsen

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#209 Kevin Kulp - Swords of the Serpentine

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#208 Game Designer Jennifer Scheurle

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#207 Emily Grace Buck

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#206 Jon Shafer of Conifer Games - At the Gates

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#205 Deep Dive - Root: A Game of Woodland Might and Right

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#204 Listener Questionnaire Results and the Future of TGDRT

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#203 TL Simons - Bloc by Bloc

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#202 Listener Questions - Accessibility and Get-Back Mechanics

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#201 Tim Burrell-Saward and Smart Speakers

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Nov 8, 201830:16pending

#200 Reflections on 200 Episodes of TGDRT

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Oct 23, 201840:09pending

#199 Tabletop Game Designer - Scott Almes

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Oct 5, 201830:54pending

#198 Michael Woods, 38 Studios and Subatomic Studios

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#197 Megagames with Ben Kanelos and Leslie Loy

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#196 Admired Designers, Unlikely Games Enjoyed and Listener Questions

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#195 Game Designer Alex Roberts

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#194 Kickstarter Results and Listener Questions

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#193 Game Designer Kellee Santiago

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#192 Engineering Game Design with Aljernon Bolden

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#191 Fireball Island

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#190 Listener Questions - Cons, Kids, Games and Names

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#189 Gaming the Past with Jeremiah McCall

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#188 Listener Question - You Don't Blind Test a Painting

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#187 Listener Question - Acronym Edition

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#186 Looking forward and back, 2017 to 2018

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