# Ben Brode

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How do you make an addictive video game?

This episode will change how you look at games. We talk to Ben Brode, the designer behind Hearthstone and Marvel Snap, about how a creative person learns to make the things they love, and about the secret ideas hiding in games as simple as rock-papers-scissors. If you'd like to support the show, he…

How Do You Know When A Game Should Be Canceled?

Happy MaxFunDrive! This week, the Triple Click gang opens up the mailbag and takes some listener questions: Are libraries ethical? How bad will ads in video games get? And when does a game developer know if it's time to cancel a project? One More Thing: Kirk: FF7 Rebirth Piano Minigame & Music Nota…

Randomness Revisited — Strategy vs. Tactics in Game Design

Andy and Anthony revisit randomness in Magic with more resources and input form listeners. They talk about decision making at large and small scales in games: strategy vs tactics, and how randomness impacts what kind of planning are rewarded. View all cards mentioned in this episode Discussed in …

Making Marvel Snap, the Cast of Daredevil: Born Again, and more!

Vincent D'Onofrio and Charlie Cox join us to talk about returning to Daredevil and along the way share some memories from those early days on the show. Ben Brode, Chief Development Officer at Second Dinner, stops by to chat about the 30th season of Marvel Snap! We talk how the game has evolved sinc…

#48 - Snapping Your Career into Place with Ben Brode

In this episode fresh from the GDC Showcase archives, Bryant sits down with Ben Brode, Chief Development Officer at Second Dinner (Marvel Snap) to discuss the importance of expertise in your own game, exploring the limits of your design space, striking the balance between "functional" and "understa…

88. What You DON'T Know About The Marvel Snap Shutdown...

The Marvel Snap shutdown surprised us all...Ben Brode included! So, we're leaking NEW information and helping put to bed some of the fake news surrounding the change of publishers for Second Dinner and Marvel Snap. That, plus Ares, Bullseye, and more on this episode of the Marvel Snapcast Podcast! …

[New Cool] Backgammon & Adaptation

It’s another New Cool, the Wide Flank show where Alon and Sean bring each other a New and/or Cool gaming-adjacent topic to talk about! In this episode, Alon presents us with an old classic board game and why it’s interesting and cool, and Sean attempts to figure out why and how to adapt a piece of …

#102 ft. Chris Whitpan of PAX & Ryan Hartman of Penny Arcade, Convention-al Wisdom

We figured this show was getting too easy to make. Why not do two shows at the same time? Chris Whitpan head of tabletop for PAX/ReedPop, and Ryan Hartman VP of Penny Arcade are here to share invaluable wisdom about conventions and how they work. Back to back, you say? Nah. Still too easy. Let's s…

Bracket-Breaking Battle w/ Ben Brode! | Extra Turns 75

It’s time to go from making games to BREAKING them!  In this ultra-high-powered episode of Extra Turns, special guest Ben Brode (Marvel Snap, Hearthstone) is bringing his game-designer skills to the table with a deck crafted to face off against Rachel, Persephone Valentine (Dropout, Good Times S…

Ep. 72 - Well Met (ft. Ben Brode)

Every Friday, the finest degenerate journalists on the internet serve up loud, irreverent, hilarious takes on gaming, drinking, pop culture, and everything in between. In this episode: The guys discuss more of their escapades at PAX East 2018, the games they've been catching up with recently, and t…