000 v.3: Season 3 Intro/Outro

Listen now (2 min) | Our fantastic and new season 3 intro for the Design Thinking Games podcast! Read the transcript.

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033: Season Finale with Sophia Prater

Listen now (51 min) | The big fish is revealed to be Sophia Prater, Chief Evangelist of OOUX. Our heroes learn about the history of object-oriented UX and the design of Sophia’s new game. We finally review the results of this season’s great challenge: Moonlighter! Read the transcript.

Things discussed on this episode:

  • 01:10 Sophia Prater
  • 02:15 Axure
  • 09:14 Object Orientated UX (OOUX)
  • 13:17 Atomic Design
  • 14:52 Thinking in Services
  • 16:31 UX Magic
  • 19:14 Object Map
  • 27:05 Lords of Waterdeep
  • 29:28 OOUX.com
  • 34:03 Moonlighter
  • 38:10 Cult of the Lamb
  • 38:48 Rollercoaster Tycoon
  • 39:38 Monster Hunter

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032: Open Worlds

Listen now (24 min) | Having overcome the collective horde, our heroes are confronted with their greatest challenge: a really big ****ing space fish. Read the transcript.

Games discussed on this episode:

  • 3:05 Elden Ring
  • 4:06 Resident Evil Village
  • 9:00 It Takes Two
  • 12:48 Mad Max
  • 13:18 God Of War
  • 15:27 Stray
  • 17:32 Simon’s Quest
  • 17:51 Dying Light
  • 21:46 Breath of the Wild

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031: The LPGWV Collective

Listen now (34 min) | After having an allergic reaction to the sci-fi feline, our heroes return to space and are immediately confronted by a gamer collective armada! Read the transcript.

Games discussed on this episode:

  • 2:11 Dragula
  • 4:42 PopCon
  • 7:22 LPGWV
  • 17:21 Motown Tilt
  • 17:47 Mortal Kombat
  • 19:16 Pac-Man
  • 20:51 PewDiePie
  • 21:19 Pokemon Go
  • 23:14 Okami
  • 24:41 Evil Within
  • 27:07 Sailor Moon R
  • 28:48 Pittsburgh Dad

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030: Is Stray GOTY?

Listen now (33 min) | Surviving the asteroid field, our heroes pass a nearby planet, and run into a friendly sci-fi feline and his robot companion. Read the transcript.

Games discussed on this episode:

  • 0:53 Stray
  • 5:44 Death Stranding
  • 17:53 Elden Ring
  • 24:24 Horizon Forbidden West
  • 25:41 Splatoons 3
  • 27:09 Tunic
  • 27:36 Evil Dead
  • 27:47 Ghostwire Tokyo
  • 28:06 Bioshock
  • 29:02 Moonlighter
  • 29:15 Cult of the Lamb

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029: Game Mechanics We Love

Listen now (34 min) | After communing with the game designer, our heroes blast through a dense asteroid field made up of simulator, voice chat, collaboration, totaling, karma, and other game mechanic rocks. Read the transcript.

Games discussed on this episode:

  • 1:33 Stray
  • 2:21 Goat Simulator
  • 2:35 Maneater
  • 4:20 Fly Simulator
  • 7:34 Hell Let Lose
  • 9:40 Battlefield 4
  • 10:39 Friday the 13th
  • 13:14 Dead by Daylight
  • 15:48 Spy Vs. Spy
  • 16:28 Oregon Trail Card Game
  • 16:47 Munchkin
  • 17:33 ROBOT RISE!
  • 19:34 Vampire the Masquerade
  • 24:35 Ticket To Ride
  • 25:57 Settlers of Catan
  • 27:32 Lords of Waterdeep
  • 28:05 Call of Cthulu
  • 30:21 Marvel Superheroes RPG

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028: Designing Games with Breeze Grigas

Listen now (37 min) | After leaving summer camp, our heroes have a chance encounter with a game designer of some renown. Read the transcript.

Games discussed on this episode:

  • 1:53 AEGIS Combining Robots
  • 12:15 Magic the Gathering
  • 12:42 Warhammer 40K
  • 20:02 Gloomhaven
  • 23:15 Protospiel

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027: The Quarry

Listen now (36 min) | After exploring heroic tropes and struggles, our adventurers receive an urgent distress signal. Tracing the origins of the signal, our heroes travel to a strange and unknown mining planet, where the source of the signal is coming from a summer camp. Read the transcript.

Games discussed on this episode:

  • 1:33 The Quarry
  • 9:23 House of Ashes
  • 10:32 Until Dawn
  • 27:34 The Devil in Me
  • 31:23 Detroit: Become Human
  • 32:22 Little Hope
  • 33:56 Pick-a-Path Book Series

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026: Everybody Loves a Hero

Listen now (32 min) | Bidding the space adventurers a good journey, our heroes explore what it is about last stands and struggles against oppressive forces that makes a great hero. Patreon!

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025: Lonely Hero Games

Listen now (32 min) | Narrowly escaping the asteroid field, our heroes are joined by space adventurers Christopher Kincaid and Jared Kaplan of Lonely Hero Games. The four explore designing games and starting a game design studio. Read the transcript.

Games discussed on this episode:

  • 17:44 Codenames
  • 17:48 5 Minute Mystery
  • 18:21 Bank Heist
  • 18:45 Hungry for Humans

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