S2E44: James Naylor on Kickstarter, Blockchain, and Five Deep Games

FEB 18, 202260 MIN
Tabletop Gaming Magazine Podcast

S2E44: James Naylor on Kickstarter, Blockchain, and Five Deep Games

FEB 18, 202260 MIN

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<div><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">We talk to James Naylor about the recent Kickstarter scandals about distributed ledger technology (i.e. blockchain/nft/crypto adjacent stuff) and get his top five "deep" board games (by which we mean, games that he's really played to death over the last couple of years). </span></div><div><br></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-c31c85bd-7fff-6508-9a20-af972aab22b3"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">James is a London based board game designer and publisher who is passionate about product design and its role in creating game experience. James is the creator of </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Magnate: The First City</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a midweight city building/property game released in 2021 to critical acclaim and commercial success. He now works full time building a pipeline of future Naylor Games’ releases including </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Boardgames: The Boardgame (The Card Game)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> which is due to hit Kickstarter later in 2022.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/naylorjames"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/naylorjames</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Naylor Games website: </span><a href="https://naylorgames.com/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://naylorgames.com/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Magnate Facebook page: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Magnateboardgame"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/Magnateboardgame</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Magnate website: </span><a href="https://magnategame.com/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://magnategame.com/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Producing Fun Podcast:</span><a href="https://anchor.fm/naylorgames"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://anchor.fm/naylorgames</span></a></p><div><br></div><div><div style="outline: none !important;"><div style="outline: none !important;">Our music is by Body In The Thames:&nbsp;<a href="https://bodyinthethames.bandcamp.com/" class="linkified" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(246, 48, 90); 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