#257 Diving Into Card Games

To start the episode, Skye rejoins Dirk and David to finish off their deep dive into the MOBA genre. They talk about what they learned for their personal design work, as well as what they learned for improving future genre deep dives. The next series of episodes to get the Genre Deep Dive treatment will be all about collectible and living card games. The hosts talk about their personal histories playing and designing card games, and finish off with their thoughts on what topics in card games interest them most as the series moves forward.

Episode Outline

 1:08 Dirk, David, and Skye finish up their deep dive on MOBAs: what did they learn for their own design work?

21:53 Talking about the genre deep dive in a more general sense as a series

25:39 Pivoting to the next genre deep dive, collectible card games: each host’s history with CCGs

46:42 What everyone is looking forward to with this series

In this Episode

Skye Larsen - @robthesky_games, skyelarsen.com
David V. Heron - @davidvheron
Dirk Knemeyer - @DKnemeyer