Push Your Luck Podcast

Push Your Luck Podcast


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Push Your Luck Ep 75: Chris Cantrell of Riot Games about Mechs vs Minions
November 18, 2016

My friend, Brian, joins me as I interview Chris Cantrell from Riot Games about their first foray into the boardgame industry, Mechs vs Minions! We chat about their design process and how they came about designing and releasing this game! Push Your Luck

Push Your Luck Ep 74: Captain Sonar Overview
September 23, 2016

I chat with my friend Brian Kang about Captain Sonar, providing a brief overview and what our thoughts are about the game. Push Your Luck Podcast is a DEEP DIVE member of the Dicetower network. Visit our website www.pushurluckpodcast.com, follow @duckiz

Push Your Luck Ep 72: Can't Stop the Sackson Part 2: Golden Ages
April 09, 2016

I chat with my classmate Alexander Bevier who is currently working on his thesis on Sid Sackson. This is part 2 of our special feature on Sid Sackson! This time we talk about golden ages, what happened to them in the past and how Sid was part of a golden

Push Your Luck Ep 71: What's in a theme?
March 11, 2016

Geoff Engelstein from Ludology and Brian Kang, MFA student at NYU Game Center, joins Eric for a discussion about themes in games. Specifically, we talk about how are themes picked and the subect of stereotypes, tropes and sensitivity. We do not claim t

Push Your Luck Ep 70: Top 7 underrated games with Joel Eddy!
February 27, 2016

Joel Eddy from Drive Thru Reviews join Eric as they chat about the Top 7 games in they feel are underrated. That is, they are really fun games that deserve more love than they currently are receiving in the boardgame community. Games covered: Zombie Sta

Push Your Luck Ep 69: Happy New Year and What have we played?
January 24, 2016

It is 2016! Again it has been some time since Jon and I got together to chat about games! This time we talk about his list and chat about many many games! Also Push Your Luck Video will be having a contest for its 100th Episode! Subscribe to youtube.com/d

Push Your Luck Ep 68: What have we played?
November 08, 2015

Its been some time since Jon and I got together to chat again and this time we talk about some games we played recently! Games covered are: Pandemic Legacy, Inhabit the earth, Advanced Civilization, Pursuit of Happiness, Grand Austria Hotel and Dark Moon.

Push Your Luck Ep 67: Let's Talk with Emerson Matsuuchi and Arnold Rauers
October 04, 2015

In the next installment of Let's Talk, I chat with Emerson who designed Specter Ops, a tabletop game inspired by a video game, and Arnold who designed Card Crawl, a card based video game that looks to be inspired by a tabletop game. In Let's Talk, we chat

Push Your Luck Ep 66: Essen Top 7 anticipated games
September 20, 2015

Jon is back and we talk about our Top 7 anticipated games from the upcoming Essen convention! I also introduce a new section called Can't Stop the Sackson where my classmate Alexander Bevier and I discuss his thesis where he is writing a paper or a book a

Push Your Luck Ep 65: Let's Talk: Bruno Faidutti and Julia Keren-Detar
August 24, 2015

So what I wanted to do was to have both a tabletop and video game designer on at the same time and talk about game design and their views about certain topics in their respective industries. I manage to invite Bruno, famed designer of games like Citadel