Episode 91 Featuring Death Charades Creators Sarah Mason and Mitchell Maddox

Jun 15, 2021

Intro Banter - This is the (mostly) unscripted intro to the show! We catch up, play games, talk about games that perhaps did not make the main show, and just gab, Welcome! 

Grand Designs + Design Lab: This time we visit with the designers of Death Charades, Sarah Mason and Mitchell Maddox about their game, Kickstarter and what's next for them! 

 

• Talk to  Designers about the process and what is their recent projects

 

• We speak about the mechanics of game design and tackle some common issues at a really deep level. Usually speaking with an established publisher/Designer!

Not just Good, but SUPER Good - Top 3 lists themed by genre

This time we ask for the top three games about one of life's inevitabilities: Favorite game about Life itself!

 

Alex:

Stone Age By Bernd Brunnhofer Published by Hans im Glück Released in 2008  

Terraforming Mars By Jacob Fryxelius Published by Stronghold Games Released in 2016

Xia: Legends of a Drift System By Cody Miller Published by Far Off Games Released in 2014

Larry:

The 7TH Continent By Ludovic Roudy, Bruno Sautter Published by Serious Poulp Released in 2017

Dice Hospital  By Stan Kordonskiy, Mike Nudd Published by Alley Cat Games Released in  2018

Roll Player By Keith Matejka Published by Thunderworks Games  Released in 2016

Sarah: 

Settlers Of Catan By Klaus Teuber Published by Mayfair Games Released in 1995

Uncreated game about Bioshpere2 By Sarah Released in Unknown

The Sims By Will Wright Published by Electronic Arts Released in 2000

 

Mitchell:

Pandemic By Matt Leacock Published by Z-Man Games, Inc. Released in 2008

Operation By Marvin Glass, John Spinello Published by Hasbro Released in 1965

Clue By Anthony E. Pratt Published by Hasbro  Released in 1949

 

Special Thank you to our sponsor:

VanRyder Games

 

Links: 

Podstudio1 

BGG 

Death Charades 

 

Special Death Charades Reference Links:

Steve Luoma - Graphic designer

Jeff Hunt - Web Design

HowLett 

 

Middle TN Retail Partners

Game Point

Gift Horse

Hail Dark Aesthetics

Online Special:

Special Discount for Spoken Token Listeners at Deathcharades.com:

Use the Code MEMENTOKENMORI for 10% off at checkout! 

Music:  As always from the amazing community of gifted musicians, arrangers, and composers over at ocremix.org go visit and support them for the full project and so much more amazing music!

 

Intro/Interludes/Outro : 

De Nuit/ by mv feat. Jeff Ball

Original Track - The Phantom Forest

Album - Final Fantasy VI: Balance and Ruin

Project Page - Final Fantasy VI: Balance and Ruin | OC ReMix

Content Group - Final Fantasy VI

Original Copyright - Square Enix

Original Composers - Nobuo Uematsu