Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

This is another in my "20 Lessons, 20 Podcasts" series where I go over the 20 lessons from my 2016 GDC Speech. Today's lesson is number thirteen: Make the fun part also the correct strategy to win.

Telling a story can be difficult in any medium, but it's especially hard through the medium of a trading card game. In this podcast, I walk through the difficulties and how we overcome them.

This is the third and final podcast in my three-part series on the design of Guildpact.

This is second part of a three-part series on the design of Guildpact.

This is first part of a three-part series on the design of Guildpact.

This podcasts talks about all the different worlds we've visited over the years in various Magic expansions.

This is another in my series "20 Years, 20 Podcasts" where I talk in detail about all the Magic stuff that happened in a particular year.

There was a lot of discussion online about what exactly "top-down" and "bottom-up" designs were, so I dedicate a podcast to talk all about what the terms mean. I then walk through the history of Magic talking about whether or not the first set of each block was a top-down or bottom-up design.

I often talk about the many fights in R&D that I managed to win. Well, I didn't win them all, and this podcast talks about a bunch of the fights I lost.

This podcast is another in my "Lessons Learned" series where I talk about sets I led the design for and the lessons I learned from leading it. In this podcast, I discuss what I learned from leading the design for Battle for Zendikar.