Games With Garfield
By Richard Garfield/Three Donkeys
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Podcast Description
Richard Garfield (creator of Magic: the Gathering) and veteran game designer Skaff Elias discuss various gaming topics with special guests. Jessica Price (community PM with Microsoft Flight) hosts and Javier Garavito (game design director with Microsoft) produces.
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CleanPodcast #23: Expansions and Submissions | In this extra long episode of Games With Garfield, the gang discusses the upcoming King of Tokyo expansion and the design process and philosophies around expansion creation. In addition, Richard shares his thoughts on the submission process for games t... | 5/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast #22: Deck Building Games | New game genres come around more often than we seem to think. The most recent trend in board gaming is the deck building game - popularized by Dominion. These game design "revolutions" often lead to evolutionary games - like Quarriors - that twist the ... | 11/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast #21: PAX Dev (REPOST) | ---REPOST---Apologies to those of you who get this podcast again. We've been having some problems with iTunes posting so we're hoping the repost fixes this issue. Thanks for your understanding. On August 24th in Seattle, | 6/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGame Glimpse #11: Classic Game 1 | In the first of a series of Classic Game Reviews, Richard challenges himself and his audience by tackling one of his personal favorite games. Although it's no secret of this game's profound effect on Richard's design career, | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast #20: King Of Tokyo | After the four of us played a rousing game of Richard and Iello's (a French publisher) new release "King of Tokyo", the crew took some time to record their first podcast in almost 4 months. Various gaming topics are covered including politics, | 3/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGame Glimpse #10: Shadow Hunters | Identify! You are a Shadow, a creature of the night, or a Hunter, a human whose job is to destroy supernatural creatures, or a civilian, a normal human just caught in the middle of this ancient battle. But your identity remains secret until someone ou... | 2/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGame Glimpse #9: Catacombs | Catacombs is an action/dexterity based adventure board game. One player controls the Overseer, controlling the monsters of the catacombs. The other player(s) control the four heroes who cooperatively try to defeat the monsters and eventually the Cataco... | 2/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGame Glimpse #8: Crokinole | Crokinole is an action board game similar in various ways to pitchnut, carrom, marbles, and shove ha'penny, with elements of shuffleboard and curling reduced to table-top size. Players take turns shooting discs across the circular playing surface, | 1/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGame Glimpse #7: Innovation | This new game by Carl Chudyk is a journey through innovations from the stone age through modern times. Each player builds a civilization based on various technologies, ideas, and cultural advancements, all represented by cards. | 1/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGame Glimpse #5: Magical Athlete | It is the annual athletic festival in a fantasy world. The most popular event in this festival is the team foot race, with fantasy and mythological creatures participating in this race, such as the Siren, Witch, Centaur and many others. | 1/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGame Glimpse #4: Dice Town | Welcome to Dice Town, the city of luck and prosperity! Here, we admire the Brave and Love Winners; especially those willing to bet their future on a dice roll! Opportunities are everywhere in our proud town: you find gold nuggets knee deep in the mine, | 12/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGame Glimpse #3: Word On The Street | The Hilarious Tug of Words! On each turn, one team flips over a category card. Team members frantically brainstorm words that fit the category while the opposition tries to sidetrack them. The team must agree on a word and pull each letter of that wor... | 12/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGame Glimpse #2: Dixit | In Dixit, each player takes a turn as a storyteller. On a given player's turn, he or she selects a picture card from his or her hand. Then, that player says aloud a sentence or a word connected to his or her picture. | 12/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGame Glimpse #1: 7 Wonders | Welcome to the first of many Game Glimspes! In this new featurette, Richard will spend a few minutes discussing a single game that he is playing with his friends and family. The basics of gameplay and some simple strategy will be covered as well as a... | 12/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast #19: Jason Kapalka | Popcap's Co-founder and Creative Director, Jason Kapalka, stops by Games With Garfield HQ for a very special DOUBLE episode. Richard, Skaff, and Jessica spend over an hour talking with Jason about: - 1. Older, Current, and Future Popcap games, 2. | 11/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast #18: Quadradius | Richard, Skaff, Jessica, and Tyler chat with Jimmi Heiserman, creator of Quadradius - an internet game which plays with the feel of a board game. - Topics of discussion include gameplay balancing, skill vs. luck, and forbs. - LINKS: Quadradius | - | 10/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast #17: Steve Jackson | As PAX Seattle wrapped up Labor Day weekend, Steve Jackson paid us a late night visit to chat about games and his career. - Responsible for such classics as Munchkin, Car Wars, GURPS, Illuminati, OGRE, and countless others, | 9/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast #16: Jason Bulmahn | Paizo Publishing's Pathfinder RPG, which extends and modifies the rules of the 3.5 edition of D&D, has continued to grow in popularity since it started its open playtest in March 2008. In this episode of Games With Garfield, Jessica, Richard, | 8/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast #15: Marc LeBlanc | This week, Richard, Skaff and Jessica chat with Marc LeBlanc, a video game designer and educator. Marc talks about the games he's worked on and his framework for analyzing game design. - LINKS: Oasis | Mind Control Software | 8 Kinds of Fun - | 7/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast #14: Spectromancer | Skaff and Richard discuss their new expansion to Spectromancer. Richard tries to do a Belorussian accent and the crew ponders the need for more fart jokes. Also, Skaff wants you to visit www.spectromancer.com. - | 6/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast #13: Puzzle Hunts | Surprise! Skaff and Richard introduce the new host of the Games With Garfield podcast, Jessica Price, and everyone muses on how to fix puzzle hunts. - LINKS: MIT Mystery Hunt | Microsoft Puzzle Hunt - EMAIL: info@threedonkeys.com | 5/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast #12: Agricola | The first Games With Garfield audio game review harvests a popular board game called Agricola. From zero level strategy to the passive aggressive German player interaction, game designers Tyler Bielman, Skaff Elias and Richard Garfield cover it all. Oh, | 4/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast #11: Balance | The most recent edition of the Games With Garfield podcast walks the tightrope between love and hate as the guys take on the touchy topic of Balance. Join game designers Tyler Bielman, Skaff Elias and Richard Garfield as they discuss negative feedback ... | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast #10: The Ding | Level up with game designers Tyler Bielman, Richard Garfield and Skaff Elias as they discuss the Ding. Is this podcast skill-based? Why are undead the only real enemy? When is persistent chunkiness a good thing? | 1/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast #9: Nerfing | We're back and sounding better than ever! Join game designers Tyler Bielman, Skaff Elias and Richard Garfield for an in-depth exploration of "nerfing." When is something "broken?" Which is more important, power level or player perception? | 12/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast #8: James Ernest | NOTE: Due to technical difficulties beyond our understanding, the audio quality of this podcast is not up to our usual high standards. We’ve elected to post the podcast despite the slight audio problems and we hope you can enjoy the show. - | 11/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast #7: Scrabble | NOTE: Due to technical difficulties beyond our understanding, the audio quality of this podcast is not up to our usual high standards. We’ve elected to post the podcast despite the slight audio problems and we hope you can enjoy the show. | 10/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast #6: Casual Randomness | Randomness, indeterminacy and Richard doing a French accent! All this can be yours as game designers Tyler Bielman, Skaff Elias and of course, Richard Garfield delve into one of the most important characteristics of games. | 8/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast #4: Magic News | Games With Garfield gets personal this week when we discuss the upcoming rules changes to Magic: The Gathering with the game's creator, our own Richard Garfield. Alongside game designers Tyler Bielman and Skaff Elias, | 7/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast #3: Translation into Digital | The third installment of Games with Garfield opens with humorous stories from GDC, extolling the virtues of analog presentations and . But after the giggling subsides, game designers Tyler Bielman, | 6/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast #2: Variations in Game Setup | Listen in on game designers Tyler Bielman, Skaff Elias and Richard Garfield as they talk about the many differences between games that have the same setup every time (like chess) versus games where the setup changes vastly from game to game (like Magic... | 5/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast #1: Cooperative Games | The first Games with Garfield podcast is like your first glass of scotch; a little rough at first but then it smoothes out and eventually you just can’t get enough. A touch of tabletop industry news is followed by a rousing discussion of Dungeons & Dra. | 5/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 32 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
excellent insights
Garfield, Elias, and Bielman bring a great breadth of experience and insight to discussing games, and they're easy to listen to.
Amazing depth of knowledge and topic discussion
Classic Garfield and Elias. Absolutely must listen to Podcasts for those that are serious about inventing games.
Best podcast!
This is the best podcast I have ever heard. I am an avid magic player and all around gamer and I find the discussion and information provided to be extremely enjoyable. Keep it up guys!
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