Game Design Podcasts (1-English)

Helping You Design Great Games People Love

Covering the full breadth of digital, tabletop, and role playing games, The Game Design Round Table inspires and educates aspiring and experienced game designers.

Magic: The Gathering Head Designer Mark Rosewater shares stories, insights, and more while driving to work. Listen in and learn more about Magic!

Welcome to Ludology, an analytical discussion of the how’s and why’s of the world of board games. Rather than news and reviews, Ludology explores a variety of topics about games from a wider lens, and discusses game history, game design and game players. Ludology is part of The Dice Tower Network, the premier board game media network.

Learn from independent board game designers how they got where they did and what they learned along the way.

Overtime, Dribbble's weekly podcast, explores the most interesting design news and gives you the tips you need to create your best work. No need to scroll copious news sites and design Twitter—host Meg Lewis and friends are primed to inform, entertain, and inspire you each week. Consider Overtime your audio lifeline to the design community, packaged in a perfectly punchy Shot. Subscribe and listen every Wednesday to stay ahead of the game.

Join Jason Slingerland and his fellow game design friends as they discuss the ins and outs, and ups and downs of being a game designers in a documentary style. The Building the Game Podcast is published every week.

Home of Riverhouse Games. Game Closet, a chance to meet & talk to cool queer & LGBT+ tabletop gamers, with side adventures into: From Scratch, an exercise in learning tabletop roleplaying games, and Critical Theory, an analysis of games & game design.

Commentary and Comedy Edition

A series of in-depth conversations between video game makers on the business and craft of interactive entertainment, exploring the core tenants of D.I.C.E. (Design. Innovate. Communicate. Entertain.) Hosted by Ted Price from Insomniac Games.

Covering the WWII aerial combat game, Blood Red Skies, and other miniatures wargames

Welcome to Design Doc, a podcast documenting the process of analog game design. Game designers guide you through their process from concept to product.

A bi-weekly video game book club that takes a deep look at one game every episode. We discuss the literary elements, philosophical ideas, and game design decisions that make games great while keeping things funny and friendly. Tune in for some close readings of your favorite games! Email us at thatpinguino@gmail.com

Chewie, Mike, Brian, and Dirk have been talking about Magic: The Gathering on the internet for almost 10 years (at the time of this writing). Since there are so many shows about strategy and tournaments, these dorks focus on all the fun you can have with the game outside of that, from flavor to philosophy to game design to history to whatever else we can come up with. We're funny, we're serious about what we do, and we love it!

A podcast about Delta Green, horror, and tabletop RPGs.

Welcome to Asians Represent! Daniel Kawn, Agatha Cheng, Ammar Ijaz, and Jayd Matyas host a series of unfiltered conversations that celebrate the contributions of Asian creators to analog gaming.

The monthly game design podcast that you haven't been waiting for! Join us as we discuss, explore, and get out of our depths in a new game design topic every episode.

TooFatLardies are the leading independent publisher of wargame rules. The Oddcast take an semi-regular look at what's happening on Lard Island with discussions on the big issues in game design and the hobby generall.

The Level Design Lobby, breaks down game and level design techniques, showing how they are used within games, as well as how we can improve upon them. It also shares reading material to its audience, while providing interviews with industry professionals. Please Subscribe ---- Twitter: https://twitter.com/Maxpears Website: http://www.maxpears.com/

Chat, interviews, and banter by Onyx Path Publishing's in-house developers. Join Matthew, Dixie, and Eddy on the Onyx Pathcast!

Find out how video games get made! The official podcast for Game Developers Conference brings you illuminating conversation and commentary from brilliant people in the video game industry. Hosted by Gamasutra editor-in-chief Kris Graft and news editor Alissa McAloon. Music by Mike Meehan. Published monthly.

The Game Designers of North Carolina is a guild of tabletop game designers who, shockingly, reside in North Carolina. We’ve been meeting regularly since April 2013 and when we started most of us did not have a lot of exposure or experience in tabletop game design. We’ve learned a lot as a group since we started and this podcast is a way to share some of that knowledge. Our goal for the podcast is to present a lot of information pertinent for new designers but hopefully also offer content tha ...

This is a show about videogames, The people who play them and the people who make them. Each week, a guest on the show talks about the games that have shaped their life in one way or another. Games that have inspired them, games that forged connections with others and games that have soothed wounds. Checkpoints!

A board game podcast that tackles the industry from both inside and out! The State of Games is hosted by Chris Kirkman, the head of publishing house Dice Hate Me Studio and co-owner of Greater Than Games, and features regular co-hosts Darrell Louder, resident grump and designer of Compounded, Bottom of the 9th, and Fate of the Elder Gods, and TC Petty III, gaming hipster and designer of VivaJava and VivaJava Dice, Xenon Profiteer, and Spires. Presented by the website www.dicehateme.com - the ...

I Am Hear is a conversational podcast that focuses on the guest and their experiences with RPGs and the RPG community. It explores the unique stories of RPG community members and purposefully features members of the community marginalized by race, gender, sexuality, neurodivergence, and/or disability. I Am Hear aims to boost those folks and their stories. Every episode is someone's story. And every story is worth listening to. Season 3 coming Fall 2020.

Game Design Philosophy

The best panels and seminars about analog game design & publishing.

+30 year game industry veteran John "JP" Podlasek interviews game designers, programmers, producers, artists, arcade owners, writers, CEOs and others about game development. Experienced or aspiring game developers alike will find useful, thought-provoking, and sometimes funny advice from others in the game industry. Find info at gamedevadvice.com and subscribe now!

The 3T RPG Podcast In the 3T RPG Podcast we do in depth reviews of RPG products, discussion, competitions, play reports, and listener discussions and (perhaps our favourite) we cover the RPG products so weird and gross that no-one else wants to. In addition to all of this, it features many features alongside these features, such as; -Song Fight: where two hosts make RPG related songs and battle them to the death. -The chamber of Challenges: The hosts set strange challenges for one-another. - ...

Your weekly insight into Modern, a competitive Magic: the Gathering format, with hosts Alex Kessler and Glenn Jones. We break down all different aspects of the format from deck archetypes to new releases and predictions!

In Think Like a Game Designer, award-winning designer and Stone Blade Entertainment CEO Justin Gary speaks with world class game designers to deconstruct the step-by-step process for creating games and working in the gaming industry. In each episode, we distill the process of creativity into actionable advice that anyone can use all while giving listeners an opportunity to learn more about their favorite games and designers.

We spend way to much time thinking and talking about Tabletop RPGs.

Each episode, Cardboard Edison takes you deep inside the world of a tabletop game.

Dispatches from the world of video games. Noclip dives deep into the heart of gaming and tells you the stories behind the code. From the people who brought you the celebrated gaming documentary channel comes a new type of gaming podcast. Hosted by Danny O'Dwyer.

On The Board Game Business Podcast, we discuss the business side of the tabletop gaming industry. We don't review games or tell you which ones we like, but instead focus on how to price, distribute, design, develop, and market your game. Richard New hosts and sits alongside Jeremy Commandeur, a game designer, and Brian Henk, a game designer and publisher with Overworld Games.

On Who, What, Why? I discuss game design with those who make games and try to learn more about the game design process. Each episode I interview a designer, publisher, developer, artist, etc. of tabletop games such as card, board, or role playing. Some episodes discuss big ideas in design rather than individual games. I have both mainstream and independent developers as guests.

Taylor and Rett set out to find the skills to create and program their own video games all while trying to embody the phrase, “if we can do it, you can too”

Welcome to The Debug Log, a podcast about game development. Hosts Andrew, Obinna, Zack, Ryan, and Eduardo are all professional game developers. From games for health care to AAA mobile games, these guys have experienced it all and have the scars to prove it. That being said, this is not your typical developer podcast. The Debug Log balances in-depth discussions and interviews with a casual and wry sense of humor. Aiming to be both entertaining and informative, the show targets developers of ...

Members of the UK Indie RPG League play each other's tabletop roleplaying games and chat about game design! RSS at: https://anchor.fm/s/8da78cc/podcast/rss

Longest-running tabletop wargaming podcast on the planet!

Welcome to Listen Up!, a Q and A show about Cyberpunk 2020, the Witcher Tabletop Roleplaying Game, and other games created and published by R. Talsorian Games. Your hosts are Cody Pondsmith, general manager and Witcher lead designer, and Mike Pondsmith, company founder and "the guy who killed your cyberpunk character".

Candid conversations with game creators that dive deep into the art, craft, and process of making games.

She’s a Super Geek is an actual play RPG Podcast highlighting women as GMs. Join your hosts Emily and Senda as they play their way through a plethora of various table top RPGs with wonderful guests from across the web in game design and podcasting. This podcast is a member of the RPG Academy Network.

This podcast explores Storygame & Indie RPG design. We record 5 hours of gameplay & interview, both with the game developer, and then boil it down to a little over 30 minutes, presented in an wavplay format with sound effects and music. Best with headphones.

We discuss the industry of escape rooms and escape room design