Plaid Hat Podcast

Isaac and Brian join Alex and Cory to talk about the road less traveled.

Colby, Isaac, and Peter join us to talk about current challenges on the design side of the industry.

Join Alex as he talks to some of the finest demo dudes and friends around. Emerson Matsuuchi, Cory Bullock, and Ricky Stewart talk about our Origins 2015 show.

Isaac, James, Alex and Bistro talk about what a Dead of Winter Tournament would look like.

Colby and Dave talk with Brad from Level99 about the choices behind branding your games.

Colby, Jerry, James and Alex talk about playtesting as a science.

Alex grills Isaac about ashes with special guests Bob and Joe. Hilarity ensues.

Colby, Isaac, Jerry, and Peter talk about the current challenges in their designs.

Brian is joined by SW aficionados Frank, Christy, and James to talk about where Alliances has taken summoner wars.

Colby hosts and talks to Bistro, Dave, and Nate about games we always come back to and why!

Brian, Colby, Dave, and Bistro chat about the nature of components and the decisions made on choosing them and how they can make or break a game.

Peter, Jerry, and Isaac talk about some of the tough stuff they're working on!

Brian takes the reigns and talks with Colby, Isaac, and our web designer Joe about playtesting.

Jerry Hawthorne, Jon Gilmour, and Emerson Matsuuchi wage witty war on submitted game design ideas.

Colby, Jerry, and Alex take a tour of a listener email and talk about the current buzz of the hobby game industry.

Isaac, Colby, and Peter talk about some mini topics including Relationships in Gaming, Symbol use in design, and Storage of component heavy games.

Bistro, Isaac, and James help discuss the hard-hitting events for the coming year. All of which will come true.

Michael Lee and Brent Kinney from Panda Manufacturing join us to teach the PHG Knuckleheads about manufacturing board games!

Isaac, Peter, Jerry, and Alex talk about current design challenge. A lot of good time spent on visual styles and graphic design in this one!

Jerry, Brian, and Isaac help answer a listener's question about inspiration and tweaking a game design after the initial brainstorm.