Popcorn! Playing "Telephone" with Game Design
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This week we talk about and design for the "Popcorn" game in our Discord community. Fast paced, exciting, and pretty eccentric are apt descriptions for the cooperative hopper of cards. Design a card based off of the last card, and the next person designs one off of yours. We go over some highlights from the game, then design a pair of cards ourselves! Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images:
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Designing Cities w/Amberspire's Nic Tringali
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Cain may be the "first author" of cities, but Juliet and game designer Nic Tringali dive deep into what makes the city, and the city builder, so frequent a fantasy in games and in real life. Along the way they discuss Amberspire, the hit new city-builder that goes live the day this episode releases, and design some brand-new Magic cards! Find Amberspire on Steam: Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images:
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April Fool Us Challenge - Chaos Edition
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The big episode is here! Our new yearly tradition where our listeners try to fool us! Each card we review today is either a real card with name and color changed or a completely made up card. Can we tell the difference? We use a variety of clues to try to bust the fakes and make the right guess! Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images:
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Design Crossover - Spirit Island
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Crossovers are back! This time Otter jumps on the pod to explain the board game Spirit Island to Tim. Despite being an area-control cooperative game, it has a ton of cool rules to adapt over into Magic. These Crossover eps are a great way to get the best tidbits from another game while also brainstorming tons of new Magic ideas! Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images:
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THE Horse Challenge Review, part 3
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Tim and Juliet enter their joker phase as they barrel through the final dozen submissions to THE Horse challenge. Put on your stirrups and listen to us break down all of your great saddle cards. Tons of creativity! There's even some innovation in... flavor text? Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images:
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THE Horse Challenge Review, part 2
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Our massive "Year of THE Horse" challenge review continues! You sent us way more submissions than ever before, including mount[ain] kings, the biggest lore dragon, a goat, and many horses. Continue learning along with us about all the nooks and crannies of the Saddle mechanic. Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images:
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THE Horse Challenge Review, part 1
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You better be ready for extensive horse content!!! We got a beyond-huge amount of submissions this month for our Design Challenge, so this episode can only tackle the first THIRD of that bumper crop! So much saddle content, from more traditional beasts to a doting dad. Come get your fill but be ready to come back for more next week. Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images:
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YOUR Fractured Planeswalkers!
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Last week's episode about color-shifted "Fractured" planeswalkers set off a firestorm of design in the Discord! This week we're going over a bunch of those cards. So many cool twists on existing characters in new roles, elements, and themes! GrandNagus aka Weasel joins us on the pod for the first time to share their card, too. Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images:
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Fractured Planeswalkers! Classic Characters in New Colors
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Orzhov Ral Zarek is just the beginning! Khord and Tim collaborate on the idea of switched up colors for planeswalkers. Water wizard Chandra? Tezzeret with wooden limbs? Kaito the samurai? It's not just about changing color, it's also important to find that character nugget to keep the same. How do you keep Liliana's sass while giving her a white mana power set? Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images:
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Febru-Air Challenge Review, part 2
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Juliet and Tim review your submissions for the 4/4 flier challenge. Along the way, they dive deep into what makes a keyword plausible, an ability word worthwhile, and randomness in gameplay fun or unfun. Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images:
info_outlineThis week Gaby is on the pod to talk about a deck swap we're doing with our local friends. Like a Secret Santa, we were each given a mission, and needed to build a deck to that spec. After finishing our decks, we couldn't help but think of what we'd do with some custom magic energy. Join us as we each design a commander, first for "Mischievous Chaos" and then for "If you've got the money honey i've got your disease".
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Intro music by Dee Culp