Miscellaneous
I sit down with James to talk about his excellent debut game, Magnate: The First City, as well as his next project, cleverly titled Boardgames: The Board Game (The Card Game), and his podcast called Producing Fun. Magnate is such a bold and interesting first design and I'm completely on board for whatever he makes down the road. 1:07 -- James' start in board games 4:57 -- Starting to design 8:19 -- Creating Magnate: The First City 13:20 -- Developing the "crash" mechanism in Magnate 19:21 -- Different styles of eurogame 24:01 -- Advanced vs basic rules in Magnate 31:38 -- First time game publishing experience 35:03 -- Boardgames: The Board Game (The Card Game) 53:32 -- Adapting a theme to a set of mechanisms 56:35 -- Art strategy 1:00:33 -- Future Naylor Games projects 1:07:32 -- The Producing Fun podcast 1:11:38 -- Comparing the state of games to film history 1:22:25 -- Marc once again floats his pet mechanism by a podcast guest Music: Sailing The Solar Wind by Abstraction Like the podcast? Want to watch it being recorded, live? Consider supporting it on Patreon.