Episode 3 - the Commitment

Episode 3 of the The Board Retreat podcast, hosted by James Mapes, titled "Episode 3 - the Commitment" was published on April 11, 2018 and runs 98 minutes.

April 11, 2018 ·98m · The Board Retreat

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Summary

James and Paul simultaneously introduce as many new ideas as possible while also settling on one single idea. The Board Retreat is the entire creative process of making a board game, and James and Paul are here to stumble, tangent, and inspire their way to a full game. Come along for the journey if that's, like, um, your thing.

Episode Description

Explicit content is only for very occasional, semi-accidental cursing.

Notes

The bridge paradox from Kant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsberg

Harry Potter as a Sacred Text website: http://www.harrypottersacredtext.com/

The Hugenots and the general idea of Hospitality as a cultural thang: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospitality#Ancient_Greece, and also the first teaser for Harry Potter as a Sacred Text.

Definition of Chthonic: Adjective. Concerning, belonging to, or inhabiting the underworld.

Articles

I feel like I will bring up this article on Puerto Rico as a way into the collapse game again: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/us/hurricane-maria-puerto-rico-coping.html

Polar Bear Project: https://projects.oregonlive.com/projectnora/1-3/series

Books

Xenophon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Thousand

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Redwall books as a counterpoint to Watership Down, by Brian Jacques

Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson

Campaigns of Alexander the Great by Arian

We name drop Agatha Christie novels like the Poirot series, specifically Murder on the Orient Express

Games

Scotland Yard

Mysterium

Complicated Board Game the Card Game (the game that's all about setting it up)