#275: Building and Breaking Conventions

#275: Building and Breaking Conventions

Any creative work is built on a lot of conventions - things that we take as granted, the unspoken rules that must be followed. We get a lot of really great games by following design conventions, but some times, in order to innovate we have to break them. Before we try to find the balance between convention and innovation, we talk about Darwin's Journey, Aleph Null, and Rome in a Day.

Timecodes:

02:00 - Darwin's Journey
13:44 - Aleph Null
21:07 - Rome in a Day
30:09 - Innovation vs. Convention
33:14 - Root
36:02 - Teotihuacan: City of Gods
36:02 - Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun
36:17 - Tiletum
38:17 - Tower of Babel
42:04 - Oath: Chronicles of Empire and Exile
42:31 - Horseless Carriage
42:49 - Atiwa
44:04 - Inis
45:14 - The Castles of Burgundy

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#323: Top 50 Games of All-Time 2024: Mark's 50-31

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#322: And What a Year It's Been

#322: And What a Year It's Been

As we approach the end of 2024, it's about time we stop, take stock, and dare I say look back at the year that's been. The highs, the lows, the mids - all the stars are here, and we're going to break ...

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#321: Fire Away, Ghost Turkey

#321: Fire Away, Ghost Turkey

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#320: We Played A Clump of Games!

#320: We Played A Clump of Games!

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#319: One Exception To Rule Them All

#319: One Exception To Rule Them All

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31 Okt 202440min

#318: A Mix of Things We'd Like To See with Mike DiLisio

#318: A Mix of Things We'd Like To See with Mike DiLisio

The Fandango Tank returns! The ever wonderful Mike DiLisio joins us again, this time to collectively cast our minds forward to some things we'd like to manifest into the board game future. We've got a...

17 Okt 20241h 8min

#317: Fantasy Draft: Overrated Games

#317: Fantasy Draft: Overrated Games

So we've done a lot of these drafts before, but I don't think we've done one quite like this. This time we're each trying to draft a set of five games that we think you might agree are incredibly over...

3 Okt 20241h 11min

#316: Four Heads Are Better Than One

#316: Four Heads Are Better Than One

I'm in a bit of a quandary here, because Mark told me not to tell you what this episode is even about, but I want this description to be, well, descriptive but he's glaring at me really hard, and maki...

19 Sep 202453min

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