Really appreciate both of your insights!

Well thanks for that. Looks easy enough but strategic as hell. Interested.

2025 is year of 2p games for me. Iliad & Ichor are on top of my list for simplicity & durable components. Wish Azul (both Queen Gardens and Duel) used sleevable cards instead of carboard tiles. Another niche title on my anticipation list is Algomancy - feels like MtG without cashgrabing element :D

Thank you for the unboxing video and your honesty in the beginning 😊

I think you guys rather badly misunderstood Modern Art. It almost sounded like you think its a game about making buying low and selling high. Its not! The game is about manipulating the market (i.e. your fellow players) so that the artists you want are the top ranked artists in the last two rounds, when prices are high. Then, late in the game you sell off valuable paintings of the those top artists.The game is about strategizing from the start so you are on the right side of those sales at the end-you want to be selling those premium paintings, not buying them.

Really well done video🎉

RE: Joker quartet melds, you meld them from your hand? Or you meld them when you’ve collected 4 in front of you? It wasn’t clear to me from the video, since “hands” of cards are laid out on the table, just like the jokers are put in front of you.

Great how to play, and useful examples, thanks!

Great talk!

Great rules explanation. Better than the Dized tutorial

Love this channel. Perfect tone. Great, clear, easy to understand explanations and examples. Just enough hilarious lines too. I'd surely be interested in a solo-play explanation video for Cascadia. Thanks for your great work !! 🤘

We just played the game and I think the whole building next to a water source is confusing. It appears to only be where you place the moon tokens but I feel the starting chasm is definitely a water source. A lair should be able to go next to it. They also should have got rid of the rivers cause those are also water sources. It really confused us for a while.

This was an awesome first episode!! Will definitely be tuning in to future episodes 😊

I’m no game designer, just merely a content creator but this is really insightful as to what publishers are looking for and I genuinely enjoyed it! Looking forward to more!

Whale, this is very helpful! You earn a full sub. 💪 Can't wait for the next one.

Your topic is our focus for next year, thanks for this!

This is fantastic, and so insightful. As publishers, your sharing of your thoughts is so important for us designers to hear! Not only that, both of your companies are fantastic companys. Thank you for sharing! Already waiting for the next episode, and will definitely listen to this again (:

As a new game designer that has just started my piching journey, it is so useful to hear your perspectives on pitching and publishing! Really appreciate you two taking the time to record these conversations!

Yellow and Yangtze is the greatest game ever designed. It's okay to like Tigris better. However, it feels intellectually dishonest to consider one a masterpiece and dislike the other. Both 10/10 games for me. I agree about Rheinländer! I'd love to see Bitewing bring this one back.

Sorry I didn't get to come and talk to you guys at PAXU. It was a busy event! Love the podcast. Thank you.

This is awesome!! Very excited for this series. As a content creator and game designer myself, love to hear from the ppl behind the dopest games out there. Love all of AllPlay stuff and I’m very very excited about Bebop. Need to get my hands on a copy!

Ooolala!! Congrats on the first episode!!

I love that the set up for this version is much easier to remember than the first version. Also, the square makes it easier to knocking off bits. Thanks for the how to 😊

STEPHENSONS ROCKET IS GOLD TIER WHAT ARE YOU DOING

How about Marabunta and Witchstone, do you have any opinions on those?

How would you compare the new Callisto vs. the original Callisto: The Game?

Is Botswana / Wildlife Safari on this list? Couldn't find it anywhere and curious what you guys think

Yes! Rheinlander is amazing. Bump that baby up

I believe Desperados was originally self published in 1980 to some extent before 1990 when he had the wider release. He also had Goldrausch (Gold Digger) release that year with a similar theme, and that one was more successful (5th in DSP voting).

4:15 you say “22 points from tokens” and display 22, but there are 23 points of tokens displayed. 🤔🤔

This is a really good game and you have a great teaching video. Thank you.

Great video and instructions

How can I back if I missed the kickstarter?

Still want to try Mori and Sail. Thanks for your impressions.

The example at the end of the video covered all the gameplay and edge cases so smoothly! Thank you!

"Flavor Text"

Title idea: All Bite and No Play Makes Jack a Wings Boy

isnt this just similar to sheriff of Nottingham ?

Kinizia games are crap

Thank you for a concise and useful video.

I really enjoyed your insight! Great podcast! As a designer that has pitched to Joe, he is a wealth of industry knowledge and it’s nice to see the inside scoop on how the decisions for the games journey come about. I look forward to learning more about Nicks process as well. Perhaps I will see both you guys at PAXU in a few weeks!

Great meeting you both at the CMON expo in Bangkok. This podcast is a cool initiative and we’re looking forward to future episodes. Subscribe 🎉

For best name: (see full list) Beyond the Box The Box and Beyond Pub-Talk DevOpsPublish Boardgame DevOps Corner 2 corner

“Tabletop Process”

Another name idea, how about “Open up the box,” to play on opening up about industry detail and also looking at details and components in the end product! It’s also got a dentist angle with the open up part ;)

I like the idea of "Board Game Blueprints" (or BGB for short) 'Blueprints' indicates behind the scenes 'Board Game' points to the target market (and makes for easier searching of new podcasts etc)

How about ‘On the table’ or ‘To the table?’ The first is a play on cards on the table, since you’re honestly sharing, the second is a play on farm to table, discussing the whole process to actually getting a game ready for play.

The Pub Process: an insiders perspective on board game publishing

For a name, how about “Thinking Inside the Box” (as opposed to the cliche of thinking outside the box)?

Could be more removed from Board Games specifically, like "TableTopics". Should the cast outlast the Vision to Product journey, then the name covers any other areas you may shift into. Or "The Game Components", covers what goes into the game, what it's made up of, and you also get to call yourselves The Game Components.