Pick Up & Deliver 416: Weaponized Incompetence – Brendan ponders how games use competence and incompetence as mechanisms. Join us, won’t you?
Pick Up & Deliver 416: Weaponized Incompetence
Pick Up & Deliver 353: Colonialism Redux (Culture in Games)
Pick Up & Deliver 353: Colonialism Redux (Culture in Games) – Brendan shares his thoughts about recent news regarding a couple games that use the colonial theme. Join us, won’t you?
Pick Up & Deliver 314: Understanding Art in Games
Pick Up & Deliver 314: Understanding Art in Games – Brendan shares some of the process of figuring out how art in board games works and should work. Join us, won’t you?
Pick Up & Deliver 270: Top of the Stack, October 2020
Pick Up & Deliver 270: Top of the Stack, October 2020 – Brendan does his monthly gameplay summary episode, the “Top of the Stack.”
Pick Up & Deliver 255: 5 Notable Narrative Mechanisms
Pick Up & Deliver 255: 5 Notable Narrative Mechanisms – Brendan discusses 5 small mechanisms he enjoys that tie narrative to mechanism elegantly.
Pick Up & Deliver 148: End Game
Episode 148: Brendan talks about the challenge of creating a game that’s fun to play but also has a satisfying narrative arc and ending.
Pick Up & Deliver podcast 090: New Gaming Verbs
Brendan talks about the idea of building a game around a “verb,” and of how those verbs can be used to expand the possibilities for where a game design can go. Show notes: Shipyard 3G summit Dungeon Petz Pursuit of
Pick Up & Deliver 054: My Top 10
In this episode, Brendan offers up his opinions on ten games from his current Top 50 games. Games discussed: 10. Last Will 9. A Touch of Evil: The Supernatural Game 8. Anachrony 7. Arkham Horror: The Card Game 6. Brass: Lancashire 5. Star Wars: Rebellion 4. Dungeon
Pick Up & Deliver 040: Rasslin’ with Rules, part 3
Brendan brings to a close his discussion of rules writing and rulebooks, exploring a few different rule types and games that have them. Is your favorite rulebook in this list? Games mentioned: Queen games – Alhambra, Queen’s Architect Rex Apocrypha:
Pick Up & Deliver 010: Vlaada Chvátil (Great Designers)
Brendan discusses what Vlaada Chvátil games he owns and enjoys, and why he likes them. Games Brendan owns: Codenames Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends Galaxy Trucker Dungeon Petz Games Brendan has played: Space Alert Dungeon Lords Games Brendan wants to play: Through