Design Diary
Summary: Board game designer / publisher Jason Tagmire looks at a new featured word each day from a design perspective. Sometimes it'll be mechanics, sometimes theme or tone, and sometimes the inspiration for a full game.
Podcasts:
Today Nicole Amato (Resistor_, Lazer Ryderz) looks at board game design based on the word "hortative". : giving exhortation : serving to advise or warn http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD097-Hortative.mp3
Today we look at board game design based on the word "aegis". 1 : a shield or breastplate emblematic of majesty that was associated with Zeus and Athena 2 a : protection b : controlling or conditioning influence 3 a : auspices, sponsorship b : control or guidance especially by an individual, group, or system http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD096-Aegis.mp3
Today we look at board game design based on the word "newfangled". 1 : attracted to novelty 2 : of the newest style or kind DD095-Newfangled.mp3
Today we look at board game design based on the word "career". : to go at top speed especially in a headlong manner http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD094-Career.mp3
Today we look at board game design based on the word "kitsch". 1 : something that appeals to popular or lowbrow taste and is often of poor quality 2 : a tacky or lowbrow quality or condition http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD093-Kitsch.mp3
Today we (me and the design community from Board Game Geek) look at board game design based on the word "maladroit". : lacking skill, cleverness, or resourcefulness in handling situations : inept http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD092-Maladroit.mp3
Today Mike Mullins (Bottom of the 9th, Pentaquark) looks at board game design based on the word "sensibility". 1 : ability to receive sensations : sensitiveness 2 : peculiar susceptibility to a pleasurable or painful impression (as from praise or a slight) — often used in plural 3 : awareness of and responsiveness toward something (such as emotion in another) 4 : refined or excessive sensitiveness in emotion and taste http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD091-Sensibility.mp3
Today Mike Mullins (Bottom of the 9th, Pentaquark) looks at board game design based on the word "abide". 1 a : to bear patiently : tolerate b : to endure without yielding : withstand 2 : to wait for : await 3 : to accept without objection 4 : to remain stable or fixed in a state 5 : to continue in a place : sojourn http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD090-Abide.mp3
Today we look at board game design based on the word "ineluctable". : not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD089-Ineluctable.mp3
Today we look at board game design based on the word "veld". : a grassland especially of southern Africa usually with scattered shrubs or trees http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD088-Veld.mp3
Today we look at board game design based on the word "delegate". 1 : to entrust to another 2 : to appoint as one's representative 3 : to assign responsibility or authority http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD087-Delegate.mp3
Today we look at board game design based on the word "cuckoo". 1 : of, relating to, or resembling the cuckoo 2 : deficient in sense or intelligence : silly http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD086-Cuckoo.mp3
Today we look at board game design based on the word "rectitude". 1 : the quality or state of being straight 2 : moral integrity : righteousness 3 : the quality or state of being correct in judgment or procedure http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD085-Rectitude.mp3
Today Dave Chalker (Thief's Market, Get Bit!) looks at board game design based on the word "debilitate". : to impair the strength of : enfeeble http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD084-Debilitate.mp3
Today Dave Chalker (Thief's Market, Get Bit!) looks at board game design based on the word "pooh-bah". 1 : a person holding many public or private offices 2 : a person in high position or of great influence http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD083-Pooh-Bah.mp3
