#38 - Mr Ben: (Mr) Ben or Nothing [Mystery Box #1]

Mr Ben, a creator with many hats, joins the show to talk about his online store, travel-games.co.uk and the different sides of the hobby travel-games is entering by way of design, publication, localization, mystery boxes that expose people to a variety of games coming out of the Tokyo Game Market, and much more. Instead of blathering on, I’ll leave you with this great quote of Mr Ben’s in the episode: “He’s not harmful; he just drives you a little bit mad, which I think is quite nice, so I made a little story about that, which I’m going to put in the box, I think.” Travel-games is linked above, but here it is again!Information about Best of Neapolitan on Trickster's Table.Mr Ben's Design PageIntroduction (0:00)How Mr Ben’s board gaming background led to travel-games.co.uktravel-books.games.movies.adaptations (11:06)Opening the mystery box.Intertextuality at its finest. What Mr Ben is reading as well as some book adaptations that work on the screen and cardboard.Rotating Poultry (25:49)Mr Ben’s design process and a whole bunch of awesome games to look forward to!”The Underdog” (45:26)This title really doesn’t have that much to do with the section? But it’s a Spoon song.I guess I can BOAST that I make really ridiculous chapter titles.Or that I eat a lot of Neapolitan.Or both. 8-bits and bobs (1:12:46) Handhelds and retro gaming.Wrap-up Questions (1:25:32)Some texts on Mr Ben’s mind as well as even more to look out for from him![As it's about one in the morning, I'm realizing the "games mentioned Google Doc" is incomplete. That will be uploaded some time during the day of 8/13]-----------------------------------------------------------------If you like this show, liking it on whatever platform you listen to and writing a review would mean so much! Furthermore, it's as independent as it gets, so any financial support would help with the subscriptions that make this project go smoothly.That can be done by "buying me a coffee" and/or buying a copy of my board game (I like it).All of my socials and support information can be found here: Intertextual Experience Linktree