Chunky Decisions and Other Design Lessons with Jon Perry

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Episode 235 - Design Lessons with Jon Perry

Tabletop and video game designer Jon Perry joins us for a discussion of the tabletop design lessons that inspire his own work.  

Check out the GDC talk that inspired the episode here: https://gdcvault.com/play/1035154/How-Tabletop-Design-Helped-Shape

Timestamps

8:50- multi-use components
18:00- cutting complex rules
27:15- modular rules
40:15- chunky decisions
54:30- mechanism vs genre

Jon Perry games discussed in the episode

Hot Streak, Spots, Air Land and Sea, Scape Goats, UFO 50

Preplanners

Next up is our component draft!  Also Brendan cannot wait to discuss the new fighting game Tag Team, so you may want to get some plays in for that one.

Music and Sound Credits

Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s

You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/. 

Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA

Intermission Music:
music elevator ext part 1/3 by Jay_You -- https://freesound.org/s/467243/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

Bell with Crows by MKzing -- https://freesound.org/s/474266/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

hammer v2.wav by blukotek -- https://freesound.org/s/337815/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

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