The Action Points Podcast

We are joined by Allen Chang and Alistair Kearney from Rule & Make to discuss collaborating on designs, focusing on the core of games, Kickstarting a publishing company, communicating with backers, t…

We celebrate our 3rd anniversary by chatting about our favourite trilogies and other things that come in threes. We also take some time to answer some listener mail, including indulging ourselves in …

We are joined by Matt Dunstan to discuss finding a community, collaborating on designs, how we come up with game ideas, working with publishers, and recognizing different philosophies of game design.

We take a trip out to Sydney for GX Australia (and some tasty late night Thai desserts at Chat Thai), Australia's first queer gaming convention. Features chats with Liam Esler. one of the directors o…

We finally get around to chatting about Star Wars Episode VII at length, since Evan was the last holdout who had not seen it. We talk about our relationships with Star Wars, and how we felt the lates…

We are joined by officially new host (AKA replacement Adam) Jackson to chat about what we are looking forward to in 2016. We talk about the movies, TV series, games, comics and events coming up in 20…

We are at yet another board game convention, recording at CanCon 2016. We take some time to take stock of what we've achieved in our game design journeys in 2015 and look ahead to what excites us in …

We are joined by Jamey Stegmaier to discuss seeking excellence in board game design. We discuss setting expectations, blind playtesting, how our views on excellence have changed, and figuring out wha…

Adam is back! Who knew scheduling a podcast for Australian and American timezones would be so tricky??? In this episode we look back at the year 2015 and recount our favourite games, comics, movies a…

This episode was recorded all the way back in mid-December, but since I was busy holidaying back home in Malaysia and then eating way too much over Christmas and New Years, the episode is only now be…

One of the things we want to do on this podcast is examine what it's like to make games outside the European and American hotbeds of the industry. I was very excited to catch up with some board game …

One last convention related podcast to end the year. Sye and I checked out what was on at MeepleCon, and chatted with Mathew Utting (organizer of MeepleCon) and fellow game designers Josh Harvey (Cat…

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Sharona (of Popculture-y) joins us to chat about the Netflix original series, Master of None, representation and food. We also chat about what we've been up to recently and give ou…

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We gather around the sharing tree to share how we indulge our consumerist popular media interests via online tools i.e. we chat about what we use online to enable our geeky hobbies. …

We close out the month with the last of our PAX-related podcast episodes. Join us as we share our experiences at the convention and also share tips on how to survive one of these and how to pitch to …

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We're joined by Ken Lee of the Hyper Pixelcast for a wrap-up of PAX Australia and what games and experiences delighted us at the convention. We also spend waaaaaaay too long talking …

Aaron interviewed some indie board game designers, publishers and artists while he was at PAX Australia 2015. Listen on to find out what's going on here in Australia.

Links for things we talked about…

This was a panel that Aaron organized at PAX Australia 2015, titled "Growing Local Board Game Design Communities". Here's the panel description: "No designer is an island. You'll need people to playt…

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We were just at PAX Australia this weekend and spent some time chatting with some indie video game developers about the games that they were showing at PAX. It was a pretty great exp…

Welcome to the first ever episode of the Victory Pointers podcast! In our inaugural show, we talk about what it's like to be designing board games in Australia. The panel for this episode consists of…