The Action Points Podcast! Episode 86: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and Matt Dunstan

In this episode:

I interview Matt Dunstan, designer of Relic Runners, and co-designer of Empire Engine and (Kennerspiel 2015 nominee!) Elysium. We talk about the different board game design communities in the UK and Australia, and also about how to work with other designers. In the weekly round-up, we chat about Netrunner regionals, dedicated hate cards, banned cards, Age of Ultron and the trailer for Supergirl. It’s all very exciting, so please make sure to fasten you seatbelts and enjoy the show!

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Episode 86 – Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and Matt Dunstan

Music: Theme for Harold (var. 2) by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a CC Attribution 3.0.

Links for the things we talked about:

Continuum Con 11: Southern Skies, 5-8 June

Games Laboratory Incubator Day, 20-21 June

Segways can reverse. In fact, the results can be deadly.

Doraemon

Free Comic Book Day

Android: Netrunner

Ravager Affinity got 8 cards banned at once in Standard

This is the Polygon article Evan was referencing, about Atlus’ game

Cicak Man

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Man of Steel

Guardians of the Galaxy

Thor: The Dark World

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Inhumans

Supergirl Trailer

Astro City

Blue Beetle/Jaime Reyes

Matthew Dunstan

Chris Marling

Brett J. Gilbert

Relic Runners

Empire Engine

Elysium

The Spiel des Jahres 2015 nominations

Space Cowboys

I gave a talk at Freeplay about Australian board games design

Europa Ludi

Hippodice

We previously spoke to Phil Walker-Harding on the podcast

The Playtest UK Games Meetup

Game Artisans of Canada

Unpub – The Unpublished Games Network

Rami Ismail’s Gamasutra article “Six stages of game dev community development”

Love Letter

Protospiel

Games Laboratory Incubator

Tabletop Game Designers Australia

Our Game Design Category will give you links to all the interviews we’ve done with Australian game designers

Sebastian Bleasdale

David Short

Cardboard Embassy!

PAX Australia 2015