Sep 6, 2020
Emma and Gil welcome game designer and publisher Omari Akil to the show to discuss the plight of the sports-themed board game. What kinds of unique challenges do we face when designing one of these games?
Omari's game Hoop Godz will be on Kickstarter soon.
SHOW NOTES
1m21s: Board Game
Brothas, Tabletop
Backer Party, Pathways
Fellowship
4m55s: Gil was 5 years off - Mike's game is
Baseball Highlights: 2045.
12m09s: Football
Strategy
12m47s: Gil would like to shout out Arthur Franz IV's
self-published game Breakaway
Football as a game with a really nice mix of play deciding
versus output randomness.
15m32s: Gil will defend the term "soccer," seriously. It's a
perfectly good way to refer to association football!
16m06s: Strat-O-Matic
Baseball, released in 1962.
17m41s: Dino
Dunk
18m07s: Crokinole
18m25s: Nok
Hockey, Air
Hockey, Electric
Football. We also neglected to mention the flicking game family
Subbuteo,
which represents all sorts of sports.
22m43s: Gil eventually gets to his curling thoughts at 39m22s.
25m48s: Madden is EA's
long-running NFL gridiron football video game sim (named for
legendary player, coach, and broadcaster John Madden).
28m58s: Ultimate is a
competitive sport using a throwable disc (like a Frisbee) instead
of a ball.
29m50s: In 2017, Geek and
Sundry launched a "T-Sports"
league for competitive tabletop games (strangely, announcing it on
April 1, and then having to explain that it was real). Sadly,
it did not go far.
30m57s: Bennett Foddy's talk "Making it Matter: Lessons from Real
Sports". Foddy is known for making punishingly-hard digital
games like QWOP
and Getting
Over It with Bennett Foddy.
38m36s: Omari is referring to the common sports term GOAT, an
acronym of Greatest Of All Time.
41m28s: Hystericoach
43m16s: Bottom of
the Ninth
45m09s: Blaseball. RPG
designer Meguey Baker's thread
on it.
46m56s: Omari wrote more
about how his lived experience affected the design of Rap
Godz.
48m24s:
More info about how Omari and YouTuber (and all-around
excellent person) Danny
Plays Gamez raised $80,000 for BLM:
56m25s: Paula Deming's channel, Things
Get Dicey, is absolutely amazing to behold. Top-notch writing,
performing, and filming.
57m11s: For those of you who don't have the honor of consuming
Capri Sun in
the part of the world where you live, it's a (vaguely)
fruit-flavored beverage.
1h01m16s:
The GIF Omari is referring to, featuring young Brazilian skater
Rayssa Leal. The GIF
Gil is referring to, linked to from famous skater Tony
Hawk.