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Insights Into Making and Pitching Board Games

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On 13/03/2013

In Board Games, Business, Design

At this year’s Board Game Jam we were lucky enough to have two professional board game designers share their knowledge. Sen Foong Lim and Jay Cormier, who are the Bamboozle Brothers made the popular games Belfort and Train of Thought.

They spoke to the attendees of Board Game Jam via Skype about what it’s like to design and sell games around the world.

  • In something akin to a questions and answers session they covered:
  • Prototyping games and getting them ready to pitch
  • What conferences and conventions are like
  • How to playtest and get good feedback
  • What level of finished art should you have in your game to show a publisher
  • The growing trend of mixing board games and digital games

We recorded their words of wisdom and you can listen to them below. Feel free to connect with them at BoardGameGeek (Sen, Jay).

You can buy Belfort at Amazon and Train of Thought at Tiny Minstrel Games.

Good Train Audio is Hard to Get

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On 21/02/2013

In Design

Trains are awesome, and train games can be a ton of fun (at least for “railfans“). As you can see from the video above, the sound a train makes is just as important as the train itself.

The audio specialists at Boom Library were asked for good train audio, something they didn’t have, so they did something I’ve always wanted to do: rent a train!

They have a great behind the scenes post on how they setup their equipment to get proper audio recordings.

After that we recorded drive bys. We did some normal microphone settings but also attached one omni mic to the rails for extreme close ups of wheels rolling by. We again tried a contact mic with no luck, it just sounded so much worse compared to the omni duct-taped onto the rail and had no useful special character to it either. We used another stereo set to follow the train extremely close for some nice clacks.

And if all that wasn’t enough:

After this day was done we were able to get a small steam train in England to take us on a trip in the locomotive and a large steam train in South Africa as well as modern electrical trains in Austria.

Maybe the train audio isn’t so hard to get as fun to get.

Thanks to Troy!

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