In this episode:
We have a chat with Allen Chang and Alistair Kearney from Rule & Make to discuss their successfully funded Kickstarter for the Rise to Power board game, board game design in Australia and Ameritrash games. It was great to have them both on the podcast and I could geek out with them about board games. Hopefully this isn’t just a one time thing, and we’ll hear more from them in the future. Also, let us know what your thoughts are on Ameritrash games!
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Episode 47 – Allen and Alistair’s Rise to Power
Music: Theme for Harold (var. 2) by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a CC Attribution 3.0.
Links for the things we talked about:
Rule & Make, @ruleandmake and on Facebook
Crops & Coins on August 30th at Alchemist’s Refuge (I’ll be teaching Village)
Broken Age aka Double Fine Adventure
Kickstarter Lessons by Jamey Stegmaier
Screencheat (which we also recorded a video about here)
Malaysian/Singaporean Chinese Accent in Just Cause 2 (Gunung Gila Pangkat?! Gila Pangkat literally means crazy about rank, so Mount Power Hungry sounds about right)
Funding the Dream Podcast on iTunes
APE Games to partner with Rule & Make to publish Rise to Power
Our podcast chat with Mark Morrison of Campaign Coins & the Fate Tokens Kickstarter
Jason Kotzur-Yang’s Kickstarter for Hedron. He’s also very active in the Board Game Designers Australia group, runs the End Game Games site, and the Table Pop podcast. Busy man!
Our previous podcast episode on creating vs consuming
Hand of Fate by Defiant Development
Balloon Cup aka Pinata aka Balloon Cup
Love Letter (Adventure Time version! My own crappy version!)
Evan raved about Adventure Time’s Food Chain on this episode
Race for the Galaxy was mentioned, but it wasn’t by Stronghold Games. Perhaps Allen meant Core Worlds?
Dominion and a podcast with Donald X. Vaccarino
Space Cadets and Space Cadets: Dice Duel
Uwe Rosenberg, Stefan Feld and Martin Wallace
Carl Chudyk: Glory to Rome, Innovation and Impulse
Action Points! 
Thanks for the chat guys. I had a lot of fun chatting about game design, and evidently I can’t seem to stop either.
With regards to Race for the Galaxy or Core Worlds, it turns out I don’t actually know what I meant. I haven’t played either and have only been told our game is similar to one of them, but looks like I’ve confused myself and I don’t know which one people were referring to. I’ll have to play both games and find out myself!
It was great to chat with you too ;)
I haven’t played Core Worlds, but I saw that it was a similar space-themed card game from Stronghold Games so I thought that might have been how you made the jump. I’m a fan of Race for the Galaxy, and I don’t see a really strong connection between that and Rise to Power, so I’m not sure what game is being referred to either.
It is a mystery.
After a bit more digging, I’ve managed to track down the Time War game Allen mentioned, and it’s actually called Time Fight. I’ve updated the link in the notes :)
I’m throwing out misinformation left, right and centre!
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