Ludology: Ludology 253 – Reimagined, Revamped, and Restored

Jun 27, 2021

Erica and Scott welcome graphic designer, production superhero,
and prototype craft wizard Lindsay Daviau to the show. We talk
about her experience at Hasbro making (among many other things)
fake games for fake stores. We also bring up her favorite games
that she worked on, and her job at Restoration Games (with her
husband Rob, who you may have heard of), where she works on games
like
Unmatched,
Fireball Island, Stop
Thief, and the soon-to-come Return
to Dark Tower.

SHOW NOTES

04m10s: This is Don Norman’s legendary book, Design
of Everyday Things. It frequently comes up in this show,
although despite what Scott says, we have never done a dedicated
episode on it. We did discuss it a lot with game designer and
graphic designer Daniel
Solis on Ludology 204 – The Eyes Have It.

05m09s: The prestigious Rhode
Island School of Design (RISD, pronounced
“RIHS-dee”). 

12m57s: For those of you outside the US, the functional metric
equivalent to 11″x17″ paper is A3.

16m12s: The most recent Pandemic Legacy game is
Pandemic Legacy: Season 0.

16m56s: Laser cutters emit toxic fumes;
please only ever use them with proper ventilation! 

17m48s: The
Brother ScanNCut.

18m34s: Gil’s tip for making quick tokens: get a bunch of circle
labels, and a bunch of poker chips! 1″ diameter labels work well
for standard poker chips, 0.5″ diameter labels work well for mini
poker chips. Once you set up to print to the circle template, you
can make a bunch of tokens very quickly. And to replace them,
simply print new labels and stick them above the old labels. It’s
great for early prototypes where the shape of the token is not
hugely important!

21m08s:
Heroscape

42m09s: The web suggestion form Lindsay mentions is right on Restoration’s front
page!

45m24s: The
Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

46m41s: Pillars of the Earth is both a
well-known book by Ken Follett and a solid
worker-placement board game with a polarizing turn order
mechanism.

49m00s: This cake discussion actually came relatively early in
the interview. It was a bit too much of a tangent to include in the
main episode, but we’ve put it here as a bonus. Enjoy!

53m24s: For more on edible board games, check out
Ludology 210 – The Way to a Gamer’s Heart, in which we chat
with Jenn Sandercock about her cookbook/rulebook where she gives
recipes and instructions for several edible games.