- 251
- Episodes
- 25
- Transcribed
- 79
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 2M
- YouTube views
About Beyond Solitaire
A podcast all about going not just Beyond Solitaire, but beyond the board! Join your host, Liz Davidson, for interviews that touch on gaming history, historical games, and the cultural significance of the games we play.
- Publisher
- Liz Davidson
- Category
- leisure
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 20 May 2020
- Latest episode
- 5 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
25 of 251 episodes have a transcript.
5 Oct 2026
Episode 251 - Gene Koo on Ephemerality in Games
28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 250 - Ed Beach on Designing Historical Series
21 Sept 2026
Episode 249 - Sabrina Culyba on Transformational Gaming
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Episode 250 - Ed Beach on Designing Historical Series
Published 28 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So once we started realizing that we were having that kind of impact, it became really important to us to be very respectful about how we're portraying all the cultures that are going the game. And Sid Meier has these interesting talks about how when he first created Siv1, he actually got a lot of the history from the children's section of the library because he didn't want to dive in too deep. He wanted it to be, he knew it was going to have to cover the whole sweep of human history. And so he was like, if we dive too deep we're not gonna get this game done and so he created a game that was sort of a amazing sweep through all of history but he didn't have the resources to do the kind of deep research into all the different cultures and that's that's what we've added to the series recently so we do have a team of historians on board we even have some work going on on the history of space exploration. […]
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- Gene Koo
- Ed Beach
- Sabrina Culyba
- Isaac Vega
- Alita Robertson
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- YouTube views
- 1,548,640
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 56 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 23 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 68 / 100
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- Quality
- 59
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 98
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