Tonight we bring on another member of our Dice Hate Me Mafia in the super cool super nice super bearded Jason Kotarski. (designer of such great games like The Great Heartland Hauling Co. and FrogFlip

I don’t know how I never have had him on before but tonight I FIX that terrible oversight.

We also start our “so you want to…” series with “So you want to playtest games”.

It was a super fun show and thanks to Kotarski and Chris for helping me tonight make it the best show it could be!

Thanks, as always for listening.

–GeekJock

Show notes Via Frahm (Thanks buddy) I put in some links and changed the last part to the real name THIS OR THAT!

Episode 74

Congrats to DHMG on the Rabbits campaign!

Special guest: Jason Kotarski creator of The Great Heartland Hauling Co. and FrogFlip

5:26 20 mins of filler podcast

9:15 Custom Game Dice KS (link)

12:25 Pay Dirt KS (link)

14:13 Of Mice and Lemmings KS (link)

16:23 Blind gamers KS (link)

17:27 Stronghold printing Among the Stars – details

20:21 Star Realms online beta is live

Tabletop Day
21:51 “20 Express”
28:28 DC Comics Deck-Building Game: Heroes Unite
29:43 CV
30:39 Hero Brigade
33:08 LoWD iOS

35:15 Questions for Kotarski
39:12 Fidelitas & Green Couch Games!

1. Make sure you actually WANT to playTEST games.
2. Find others in your area that are of the same mindset
3. Get experience and a broad palette
4. See what publishers are wanting to publish
5. Commit to providing feedback
6. Willing to play with tweaked rules, subtle or big tweaks
7. Help refine, don’t redesign
8. Have a group discussion and private feedback as appropriate.
9. ask designer what kind of feedback they are looking for
10. Really learn and understand the rules

1:35:16 Unpub mini @ PAX East

1:37:35 Questions for This or That w/ Kotarski