Harold On Games

A discussion of my experience at ConSimWorld Expo in Tempe Arizona - Monster Game Con An interview with John Kranz the founder of ConSimWorld.com and ConSimWorld Expo. https://twitter.com/HBuchanan2 https://twitter.com/consimworld https://boardgamegeek.com/guild/3303 http://consimworld.com https://www.destinationhotels.com/tempe-mission-palms DETAILED NOTES: http://conflictsimulations.com/2019/07/13/podcast-20-consimworld-expo-and-an-interview-with-john-kranz-the-founder

THIS podcast is singularly composed of an interview with game designer Trevor Bender. We will discuss his interest in counterfactual history, his work on Labyrinth: Awakening and his future plans. Check out this video summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCAwSP8w72w Thanks to the Raleigh NC based band Funkuponya for the intro and outro music. Check them out on Facebook, Spotify and iTunes. I will close with a special thanks to Trevor Bender.

THIS podcast is singularly composed of an interview with prolific designer, Mark Herman. We will discuss his philosophy of game design and what makes a great game. Thanks to the Orange County California based band The Rayford Bros for a touch of Rock a Billy. Check them out at therayfordbros.com I will close with a special thanks to Mark Herman.

We open the podcast discussing the recent changes in her life, the design of her COIN game Pendragon and her work in progress, the game Hubris. Thank you for listening. I will publish some notes and references on my web site conflictsimulations.com. Join the Harold on Games guild on Board Games Geek and leave me a comment with your thoughts and ideas. I will close with a special thanks to Morgane. It was a pleasure to see her again.

THIS podcast is offered in 2 parts, and is singularly composed of an interview with GMT Games President, Gene Billingsley. We will discuss his work at GMT and also his latest design, Mr President. https://conflictsimulations.com/ Gene Billingsley founded GMT Games in 1990. As Avalon Hill turned to computer games and was eventually sold to Hasbro, Gene built GMT into the new home for board wargamers. He started with some of his own designs. These titles garner instant acclaim. Operation Shoestring was nominated for a Charles S. Roberts Award and Silver Bayonet and Crisis Korea won Charles S. Roberts Awards. I’m sure his current design project, Mr. President, won’t disappoint As the distribution network for boardgames went into retreat in the 1990s, GMT pioneered the preorder system called P500. It remains the best deal in board wargaming. The system allows GMT to thrive in uncertain waters as customers vote their interest in designs and accelerate the production schedule of the most interesting. Customers g

THIS podcast is offered in 2 parts, and is singularly composed of an interview with GMT Games President, Gene Biillingsley. We will discuss his work at GMT and also his latest design, Mr President. https://conflictsimulations.com/ Gene Billingsley founded GMT Games in 1990. As Avalon Hill turned to computer games and was eventually sold to Hasbro, Gene built GMT into the new home for board wargamers. He started with some of his own designs. These titles garner instant acclaim. Operation Shoestring was nominated for a Charles S. Roberts Award and Silver Bayonet and Crisis Korea won Charles S. Roberts Awards. I’m sure his current design project, Mr. President, won’t disappoint As the distribution network for boardgames went into retreat in the 1990s, GMT pioneered the preorder system called P500. It remains the best deal in board wargaming. The system allows GMT to thrive in uncertain waters as customers vote their interest in designs and accelerate the production schedule of the most interesting. Custom

THIS podcast is singularly composed of an interview with Cuba Libre co-designer , Jeff Grossman. We will discuss his work on Cuba Libre and what he has been doing here at Con Sim World Expo. I will publish some notes and references on my web site www.conflictsimulations.com. Join the Harold on Games guild on Board Games Geek and leave me a comment with your thoughts and ideas.

I recorded some of the sounds of the 2018 San Diego Historical Games Convention. The SD Hist Con took place over Veteran’s Day Weekend in November and included special guests Mark Herman, John Butterfield, Ananda Gupta, Morgane Guoyon Rety, and Volko Ruhnke to name a few. In this first segment, Volko kicks off our designer challenge. This year the focus is on the COIN game Pendragon. Along with the games’ Designer Morgane Gouyon Rety Volko takes on 5 games. Each played one of the Barbarian factions and moved between tables to take their turns. We are going to check in with them while they play through this challenge. We will also check in with other players at the convention to see what they are playing and how it is going. I will post a few notes and photos on my website conflictsimulations.com. Thanks to Edgar Malik and his San Diego, California based band Shaolin Signal for the intro and outro music. Check them out Facebook, and You Tube. I will close with a special thanks to the participants of the

THIS podcast is singularly composed of an interview with prolific wargame designer innovator, and icon Mark Herman. We will discuss what he is working on now that he is once again a full-time game designer. Thank you for listening. It would be greatly beneficial to me of you would post a review on iTunes. I will publish some notes and references on my web site conflictsimulations.com. Join the Harold on Games guild on Board Games Geek and leave me a comment with your thoughts and ideas.

THIS podcast is singularly composed of an interview with designer and wargame mogul, Roger Miller. We will discuss the history of Revolution Games and whats in the development pipeline. Roger and Richard Handewith, started Revolution Games in 2012. Their first game was Washington’s Crossing, followed by my favorite, Celles in 2013. Most recently they published Konigsberg, and Longstreet Attacks. Their games are well tested, well supported, interesting and priced right in this game market full of inflation in complexity and price. Thanks to the Raleigh NC based band Funkuponya for the intro and outro music. Check them out on Facebook, Spotify and iTunes.

THIS podcast covers our trip to Gamers Hollow game store in Nacogdoches, Texas, My time spent with the Junior high Magic sharks, and a few lessons this old gamer learned along the way. It is our first Special Podcast as its content is a little different. http://conflictsimulations.com/2018/09/24/harold-on-games-special-podcast-1-magic-the-gathering-in-texas-notes

THIS podcast is singularly composed of an interview with prolific game designer and insurgent provacator, Brian Train. We will discuss the myriad of games he brought with him to ConSimWorld Expo and his future plans. Thanks to the Vasalia, California based band Slow Season for the intro and outro music. Check them out Facebook, Spotify and iTunes. http://conflictsimulations.com/2018/09/08/harold-on-games-podcast-12-with-brian-train

http://conflictsimulations.com/2018/08/20/harold-on-games-podcast-11-with-mary-and-tom-of-hollandspiele-notes THIS podcast is singularly composed of an interview with game company owners developers and designers, Mary and Tom. We will discuss what is coming next from everyone’s favorite little game company. Since all three of us were miced for this recording, I used an experimental method to record my voice. My voice is hard to hear but the great content comes from Tom and Mary so I went ahead and posted the best version I could produce. Mary and Tom met in the late nineties and became friends over our shared love of film and science fiction. They started dating and were married several years after. They got into hobby gaming in 2010. Tom worked as a freelance designer, eventually shifting his focus from euro games to wargames. In 2015, Mary started working for Tiny Battle Publishing, overseeing the production and development of their first fifteen titles before leaving to focus on getting Hollandspiele of

http://conflictsimulations.com/2018/07/19/harold-on-games-podcast-10-with-uwe-eickert-notes Uwe Eickert is the CEO of Academy Games. He founded the company 10 years ago. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA specializing in corporate finance and strategy from The Ohio Sate University! His hobbies include soccer, playing the violin, martial arts, painting, and sailing. He speaks German, Spanish and of course English. Uwe won the James F Dunnigan Design Elegance Award for his Conflict of Heroes series. His game designs won the Charles S Roberts Award and the GAMA Best Historical Boardgames Awards in 2009, 2010 and 2012. We will start this interview with a question to Uwe about what their plans are this convention season.

http://conflictsimulations.com/2018/07/07/harold-on-games-podcast-9-with-meeple-lady During my trip to Consimworld Expo in Tempe Arizona, I interviewed a number of interesting people. This is the first of those interviews. THIS podcast is singularly composed of an interview with prolific gamer, blogger, pod caster and social media thought leader, Meeple Lady. We will discuss what she loves about Consimworld Expo and conflict simulations in general. www.meeplelady.com https://twitter.com/MeepleLady

http://conflictsimulations.com/2018/06/22/harold-on-games-podcast-8-with-jack-greene-notes This podcast is singularly composed of an interview with designer Jack Greene. We will discuss his upcoming design, Bear Flag Republic.

http://conflictsimulations.com/2018/06/09/harold-on-games-podcast-7-with-artist-terry-leeds This podcast is singularly composed of an interview with Terry Leeds who the Graphics Director at the San Diego Air & Space Museum, a wargamer, and a gifted wargame component designer. We will tour the museum and talk about Terry’s work.

Patrick Rael is a Professor of History at the prestigious Bowdoin College in Maine. He was awarded a Ph.D. in 1995 in American History from the University of California, Berkeley. African-American history is Patrick’s specialty and he is the author of numerous essays and books. Today we are going to talk about his seminar class, Historical Simulations, in which he works to answer the questions: Can board games teach history? Is it possible to analyze them as historical interpretations? What would such analyses reveal about both history and the way it is represented in popular culture? Which game mechanics or approaches to design seem to be better able to promote historical arguments? What factors may impede the representation of the past in games? The Seminar Explores the past while addressing these questions. It examines six topics in history and plays one game related to them. Topics include: the age of exploration and discovery, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, frontier exploration, slav

http://conflictsimulations.com/2018/05/18/harold-on-games-podcast-5-with-martin-wallace-notes THIS podcast is singularly composed of an interview with prolific designer, Martin Wallace. We will discuss at length his newest game – Lincoln, now available on Kickstarter. I will publish some notes and references on my web site conflictsimulations.com. Thanks to the Portland Oregon based band Jenny Don’t and the Spurs for the intro and outro music. Check them out at jennydontandthespurs.com

http://conflictsimulations.com/2018/05/06/harold-on-games-podcast-4-with-ananda-gupta-notes THIS podcast is singularly composed of an interview with Ananda Gupta the codesigner of Twilight Struggle and the much-anticipated Imperial Struggle: The Global Rivalry Between Britain and France, 1697-1789. We will talk about what we can expect from Imperial Struggle. Thanks to the J Bird and San Diego based band Subliminal Trip for the intro and outro music. Check them out on Spotify, Facebook and Amazon Music.