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Games We Podcast About

Betrayal at House on the Hill Bioshock Call of Cthulhu City of Heroes Cuphead Cyberpunk 2077 Dead by Daylight Dungeons & Dragons Elden Ring Evil Within Fall Guys Final Fantasy Forbidden Desert Fortnite Fury of Dracula Gloomhaven Hades Hellblade Hell Let Loose HeroQuest House of Ashes It Takes Two Last of Us Legend of Zelda Little Hope Lords of Waterdeep Magic the Gathering Man of Medan Mass Effect Monster Hunter Moonlighter Mortal Kombat Munchkin Pandemic Pokemon Resident Evil Sea of Thieves Silent Hill Splatoons 3 Starfinder Stray The Devil In Me Until Dawn Vampire: the Masquerade World of Warcraft

Podcast Guests

Podcast Hosts

Welcome to Design Thinking Games, a gaming and UX podcast by Tim Broadwater and Michael Schofield. This podcast examines the player experience of board games, pen and paper roleplaying games, live action games, and video games.

Michael Schofield

Michael is a service designer specializing in #researchOps and is a director of engineering in his day job. Aspiring professional dungeon master, philosopher, and poet. #pluckyBio

Consoles: Xbox Series X, Switch

Favorite board game: Fury of Dracula

Favorite tabletop RPG: D&D with Grit and Glory supplement. 

Most proud gaming accomplishment: In the early aughts I led a clan to victory in a Rainbow Six Vegas 2 MLG Tournament.

Tim Broadwater

Tim is a life-long UXer, designer, consultant, mentor, speaker, writer, gaymer, and artist. He is the author of UX FMK, a former Venture Lieutenant for Paizo, and is savagely addicted to coffee (in all forms).

Consoles: WVTinyTim on Android, PS4 Pro, Steam, Switch

Favorite board game: King of Tokyo

Favorite tabletop RPG: Starfinder

Most proud gaming accomplishment:

  1. I have played and beaten all 19 Zelda games from the Legend of Zelda (1986) to Breath of the Wild (2017).
  2. In 2022 after 4+ years and 55+ hours of gameplay, I finally beat Cuphead.

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