Apr 18, 2021

Emma and Gil sit down with Carla Kopp of Weird Giraffe Games and
Galactic Raptor Games to debate designing solo modes for video games,
the deserves of “bots” in solo video games, and the way these bots are usually
named “Steve.”

SHOW NOTES

2m00s: Carla’s first printed recreation Super Hack
Override.

4m53s: We spoke with Morten Monrad Pedersen on
Ludology
154 – Leave Me Alone! about utilizing Automa to make solo variations
of video games.

7m02s: Sarah Reed is a recreation
designer, incapacity advocate, and all-around glorious
particular person. 

11m00s: The Cat Lady
implementation for
iOS and
Android.

18m20s: Just a fast reminder that we’re speaking
in regards to the digital implementation of the sport Cat Lady, as opposed
to Carla’s tabletop AIs. AI problem ranges are extra widespread in
apps than they’re in tabletop video games. 

19m45s: The Splendor
digital implementation is unfortunately not accessible.

20m34s: Gil mentions the solo mode that comes within the
tabletop model of It’s
a Wonderful World. Emma mentions the solo mode from the
Galaxy
Trucker app.

21m13s: Calico

21m47s: Gil forgets to say that Friedemann Friese
included an “achievement sheet” in Copycat.

23m49s: Race for
the Galaxy. We chatted with Theresa Duringer, CEO of Temple
Gates, who developed the app, in Ludology
177 – AI AI, Captain! 

24m26s: We’re speaking in regards to the COIN
(Counterinsurgencies) sequence of video games, which have asymmetry constructed
into them. Usually, every faction has a bot that enables many or all
factions to be current within the recreation, even at a low participant depend. We
talked to Volko Ruhnke, who started the sequence, in Ludology
178 – COIN Operated.

24m56s: The digital gaming platform Tabletop Simulator.

26m54s: The three-body
drawback.

27m19s: Power
Grid: The Robots

28m33s: Dune:
Imperium, Smartphone
Inc.

29m21s: Gil’s second printed recreation Battle
Merchants.

31m24s: The
Networks

33m10s: The underrated however completely superb

Fantasy Realms. 

34m49s: Seven
Wonders and Alhambra.
We mentioned desicion scales in video games with Matt Wolfe in Ludology
157 – Come Scale Away.

35m36s:
Abandon All Artichokes

36m51s: Skull,
Space
Dealer

37m33s: Weird Giraffe’s upcoming video games: Sara Perry’s
Gift of
Tulips, and Fertessa Alysse’s Wicked & Wise.

40m12s: Tokaido

48m02s: Carla’s firm with Dan Letzring, Galactic Raptor. Dan
additionally runs Letiman
Games.

51m45s: Bunny
Kingdom, Root. We
interviewed Root’s designer, Cole Wehrle, most lately on Ludology
222 – Johnny Fairplay.

53m07s: Charterstone,
Feudum

55m48s: The free cardmaking program nanDECK.

56m59s: The often-linked circumstances of Narcolepsy and
Cataplexy.

1h05m58s: “Tony” right here is designer, podcast host, and
glorious particular person Tony
Miller.

1h09m09s: Carla’s web site,
Discord, and
Twitter.