The Action Points Podcast

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It's a big crossover podcast for Action Points and Victory Pointers as we all got together on the last day of PAX Aus 2016 to chat about the expo, the games we enjoyed, the panels we…

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We were at PAX Aus 2016 and we had a chat with some local (and one international guest) board game and video game creators about their projects.  Check them out.

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We talk about unlikable protagonists and why we end up liking or/and disliking them. We also take a digression into prawn cocktail crisps. In our round up: Aaron was away on holiday …

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We tackle the topic of gamer entitlement, spurred on by the furor around the marketing and release of No Man's Sky. Also, Sye from the Victory Pointers podcast drops in midway throug…

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We recount our favourite games, comics, movies and TV from the first half (give or take a few months) of 2016 and also gush about one of the best couch multiplayer games ever, Overco…

We are joined by Sean Carroll of 93 Made Games to chat about Gen Con 2016 from the perspective of a publisher attending for the first time.

Sean Carroll - @93MadeGames / 93 Made Games

Kim Brebach – @…

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We talk about emergent storytelling in games as Aaron has been playing Rimworld and encountering silly situations brought about by zany colonists. We also chat about things we've bee…

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We gather together to talk about the social aspects of our geeky hobbies, spurred on by the release of worldwide hit Pokemon GO. In our round up: Dan watched Swiss Army Man, Evan's b…

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It's Jackson's turn in the hot seat as we ask him all the burning questions we've been holding on to, like: what's that burning sensation? How many Lightning Bolts is too many Lightn…

We are joined by guests Phil Walker-Harding and David Harding (in a rare back-to-back appearance) to chat about their different paths taken in designing and publishing games, getting your foot in the…

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Adam returns to the podcast to talk about E3 and all the hype for video games out of it. I lie, we actually just talk about food the whole time. That's another lie. Evan and I were a…

We were just in Albury for BorderCon, an annual board game convention that attracts plenty of board gamers from the surrounding states.  While we were there, we caught up with fellow game designers/p…

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There's going to be some Overwatch in this episode. No escaping it. We talk about ethical game design, particularly in relation to representation and monetisation. We also catch up o…

We are joined by consummate game designer, Philip duBarry to talk about designing games around experiences, working with intellectual property, getting games published in the era of Kickstarter, pl…

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First up, we're super sorry we've been away for a while. This episode was recorded quite a while ago, but a combination of hardware failures and incredibly busy weeks/weekends at wor…

Kim's game, Monstrous, is now being shipped to backers! We also chat about shipping games, dexterity games and designing games with kids and families in mind. In the second half of the show, we are j…

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Be warned! This episode contains full spoilers for Mother 3!

Welcome to an intimate evening with Evan and Kat, as they discuss their relationship with the 2006 JRPG, Mother 3 (the se…

As foreshadowed, Adam is back for a fiver on the podcast as we talk about influential books in our lives (that are not Mother 3). In "what we've been up to this week", Dan and Evan tell us about thei…

Kim and Sye have been busy attending some game industry conventions, GAMA in Las Vegas and the Australian Toy Hobby and Licensing Fair in Melbourne, so we catch up with them to find out what goes o…

We chat about the representation of faith in games and other media, which is code for "Evan gives a lecture on the representation of faith in Mother 3". We all knew this would happen. In other happen…