Episode 5 - the Specifics

Episode 5 of the The Board Retreat podcast, hosted by James Mapes, titled "Episode 5 - the Specifics" was published on May 16, 2018 and runs 57 minutes.

May 16, 2018 ·57m · The Board Retreat

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Summary

James and Paul delve forward at a breakneck turtle pace in sorting out the particulars of their board game! 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

Games

"The Field Game of Tag" and its variant Everybody's It

Ro Sham Bo / Rock-Paper-Scissors

The game of Poker and floppin'

Chess and Perfect Information Games (Please note that chess is, indeed, the first example at the top of the page.)

Space Alert

Arabian Nights

Space Team

Three of those games were published in 2008, how strange!

Mesopotamian Gaming: "Watch the world's oldest board game, the Royal Game of Ur, being played" on boingboing.net
For reference, I brought up Moby Dick and Don Quixote as a joke that failed to land. Here is the history of the stranger/town dichotomy thing - it's a quote that is often misattributed. Also, we have discovered that when you google the title of literary classics, google auto-adds "movie" to the end of your query. How notable!

Hero's Journey! We especially talked about the Call to Adventure, which in modern writing pedagogy is often called the Inciting Incident.

Thanks!

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art

BodyVox

Theme Music by Gary Grundei

And to you! Thanks!