OgreCave Podcasts

Colby Dauch is a busy man in the game industry. He is working for Hasbro as a freelance designer for the Dungeons and Dragons Heroscape line of products and he has his own company, Plaid Hat Games, which itself has an ambitious release schedule to support the Summoner Wars tactical card game. Lee interviews Colby Dauch concerning both of these product lines for this OgreCave.com Gaming News Update.

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It’s certainly a rarity for a game company to release a card game, a board game, and a PC game about a single fantasy setting, let alone to do it all all within a few months of each other. That’s exactly what Petroglyph is planning to do to support their fantasy setting, Graxia. Deputy Ogre Lee Valentine interviews Chuck Kroegel, General Manager of Petroglyph and designer of some of its board games, to get the whole story for this OgreCave.com Gaming News Update.

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For those who enjoy cooperative strategy games, OgreCave presents its interview with game designer Matt Leacock. The man behind the classic game Pandemic, Matt was at Dr Comics & Mr Games in Piedmont, CA to celebrate the release of his new game, GameWright’s Forbidden Island. We pick Matt’s brain for thoughts on game design, giving “life” to games that defeat players, being nominated for this year’s Spiel des Jahres, and more.

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Here’s OgreCave’s interview with Aldo Ghiozzi of Impressions Advertising & Marketing. Aldo fills us in on the latest developments for this year’s Free RPG Day (coming up on June 19). He even let us fondle the free merchandise ahead of time.

Be sure to visit OgreCave’s Facebook page to check out our KublaCon 2010 image gallery, and become a fan of OgreCave to keep hearing about other cool stuff we’re up to.

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Darren Watts of Hero Games on Champions for Hero: Sixth Edition, released for the first time anywhere at DunDraCon 34. Darren describes the lush, full-color book, and as an added challenge, fields a general question or two from a young gamer as well. He also talks briefly of other things to come later in 2010, including Fantasy Hero for Sixth Edition, lots of villain books, and a new project he’s playtesting, Champions Beyond.

We’re giving some new audio editing software a test drive with this episode, so let us know how it sounds.

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OgreCave’s interview from PAX ’09 with game industry icon Matt Forbeck. Matt describes his upcoming Guild Wars novel, other novel projects in the works, and helps us understand what’s been going on with a possible Brave New World movie. He also tells us about being searched before entering J.J. Abrams’ office, travels down memory lane regarding former game companies, mentions his time working on Decipher’s Lord of the Rings RPG, and more.

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OgreCave’s interview from PAX ’09 with Will Schoonover of Steve Jackson Games. Will let us know how Revolution and The Stars Are Right have been received so far, described the upcoming game Nanuk in full detail, and hinted at a “Kovalic, non-Munchkin Cthulhu-related product” due next year which has since become more obvious.

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