Game Design Deep Dive

About Game Design Deep Dive

Dan Bullock interviews game designers with a focus on the challenges of historical board game design.

Publisher

Dan Bullock

Category

leisure

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 May 2022

Latest episode

26 May 2026

Latest episodes

4 of 40 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   26 May 2026

   Chalice of Poison with Akar Bharadvaj

   Akar Bharadvaj is designer of the upcoming game Chalice of Poison about the Iran-Iraq War from GMT and the Zenobia Award-Winning Tyranny of Blood. We chat about both designs, the future of the Zenobia awards, and much more. Hellcouch designed by Carol Mertz and Francesca Caletto-Leon also came up in conversation, and we are all about giving credit where due. Outro music: Lifeguard "It Will Get Worse" Send us Fan Mail

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   24 Apr 2026

   Love This Giant with Cole Wehrle

   We welcome back Cole Wehrle (who hopefully needs no introduction) for a wide ranging discussion about expansions, Buried Giant- his new publishing home, and much much more. Outro music: "King's Army" The Scarring Party Send us Fan Mail

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   23 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Interview with Liz Davidson

   Liz Davidson has co-designed Queen of Spies and the forthcoming Night Witches with David Thompson. She is also the Creative Director at Leder Games, but you may know her best for her work on her Bobby Nunez-award winning Beyond Solitaire podcast. We chat about her work at Leder, her historical design work, and the transition from game critic to game designer. Note: This episode is tagged explicit solely for cussing. Outro Music: Jonny Fritz "Debbie Downers" Send a text

Inside a recent episode

Interview with Liz Davidson

Published 23 Feb 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Um, I would, I would be curious, like, do you feel like there's any concern about how much bandwidth one would have for design outside of doing the adult work of interviewing candidates, project updates, progress huddles and things like that that might come with, uh, being the creative director. You know, I'm not that worried about it. So basically what I'm going to be cutting for the most part is freelance. So I was doing a lot of kind of freelance editing and like rulebook stuff and like I'd done a dev job right as I took this job. And those were all really fun. I was really enjoying it. But that was actually what was killing my design time. […]

Who has been a guest on Game Design Deep Dive

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Lisa Smedman
• Mary Flanagan
• Brian Asklev
• Pako Gradaille
• Joe Schmidt

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

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