Design Diary
Board game designer / publisher Jason Tagmire looks at a new featured word each day from a design perspective. Sometimes it'll be mechanics, sometimes theme or tone, and sometimes the inspiration for a full game.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Episodes
- 145
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2019
177: Tchotchke (with co-host Rob Cramer)
Today we look at board game design based on the word "tchotchke". : knickknack, trinket http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD177-Tchotchke.mp3
Fri 01 Mar 2019
176: Perennial (with co-host Rob Cramer)
Today we look at board game design based on the word "perennial". 1 : present at all seasons of the year 2 : persisting for several years usually with new herbaceous growth from a perennating part 3 …
Thu 21 Feb 2019
175: Dossier (with co-host Rob Cramer)
Today we look at board game design based on the word "dossier". : a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD175-Dossier.mp3
Wed 13 Feb 2019
173: Noisome (with co-host Rob Cramer)
Today we look at board game design based on the word "noisome". 1 : noxious, harmful 2 a : offensive to the senses and especially to the sense of smell b : highly obnoxious or objectionable http://bu…
Wed 16 Jan 2019
172: Malinger
Today we look at board game design based on the word "malinger". : to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD172-Malinger.mp3
Tue 15 Jan 2019
171: Tomfoolery (with co-host Rob Cramer)
Today we look at board game design based on the word "tomfoolery". : playful or foolish behavior http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD171-Tomfoolery.mp3
Fri 04 Jan 2019
170: Derring Do (with co-host Rob Cramer)
Today we look at board game design based on the word "derring do". : daring action : daring http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD170-DerringDo.mp3
Sat 29 Dec 2018
169: Lycanthropy (with co-host Rob Cramer)
Today we look at board game design based on the word "lycanthropy" 1 : a delusion that one has become a wolf 2 : the assumption of the form and characteristics of a wolf held to be possible by witchc…
Thu 13 Dec 2018
168: Indoctrinate (with co-host Rob Cramer)
Today we look at board game design based on the word "indoctrinate". 1 : to instruct especially in fundamentals or rudiments : teach 2 : to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point o…
Thu 06 Dec 2018
167: Acceptation (with co-host Rob Cramer)
Today we look at board game design based on the word "acceptation". 1 : acceptance; especially : favorable reception or approval 2 : a generally accepted meaning of a word or understanding of a conce…
Thu 15 Nov 2018
166: Weltschmerz (with co-host Rob Cramer)
Today we look at board game design based on the word "weltschmerz". 1 often capitalized Weltschmerz : mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal s…
Wed 07 Nov 2018
165: Luddite (with co-host Rob Cramer)
Today we look at board game design based on the word "Luddite". : one of a group of early 19th-century English workmen destroying laborsaving machinery as a protest; broadly : one who is opposed to e…
Thu 01 Nov 2018
163: Atone (with co-host Rob Cramer)
Today we look at board game design based on the word "atone". 1 : to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome — usually + for 2 : to make reparat…
Wed 17 Oct 2018
162: Enigmatic (with co-host Rob Cramer)
Today we look at board game design based on the word "enigmatic". : of, relating to, or resembling an enigma : mysterious http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD162-Enigmatic.mp3
Wed 10 Oct 2018
161: Exigent (with co-host Rob Cramer)
Today we look at board game design based on the word "exigent". 1 : requiring immediate aid or action 2 : requiring or calling for much : demanding http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD161-Exigent.mp3
Wed 26 Sep 2018
160: Taciturn (with co-host Rob Cramer)
Today we look at board game design based on the word "taciturn". : temperamentally disinclined to talk http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD160-Taciturn.mp3
Wed 19 Sep 2018
159: Nonchalant (with co-host Rob Cramer)
Today we look at board game design based on the word "nonchalant". : having an air of easy unconcern or indifference http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD159-Nonchalant.mp3
Wed 12 Sep 2018
158: Debunk (with co-host Rob Cramer)
Today we look at board game design based on the word "debunk". : to expose the sham or falseness of http://buttonshy.com/designdiary/DD158-Debunk.mp3
Wed 29 Aug 2018
156: Behemoth (with co-host Rob Cramer)
Today we look at board game design based on the word "behemoth". 1 often capitalized : a mighty animal described in Job 40:15-24 as an example of the power of God 2 : something of monstrous size, pow…
Wed 08 Aug 2018
155: Salvo (with co-host Rob Cramer)
Today we look at board game design based on the word "salvo". 1 a : a simultaneous discharge of two or more guns in military action or as a salute b : the release all at one time of a rack of bombs o…
Wed 01 Aug 2018
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