Welcome to the second edition of GBN Spotlight.

Ryan Macklin has created an excellent game design podcast, all part of his “Master Plan.”

From holding forth on his own, to speaking about recent events in the game design sphere, to insightful and useful interviews with game design professionals, Ryan gives his listeners an excellent resource. He is succinct, with podcasts coming in around the 30 minute mark on a consistent basis.

Most of the shows have a bit from Ryan himself, some kind of feature and usually has a DesignWatch, his game design news spot.

Ryan excels when he does interviews, and he has interviewed many of the luminaries in the game design community.

One of his more recent episodes has an interview with the makers of the Shab Al-Hiri Roach, a rare entry in the indie-RPG card game market, and included a great deal of insight as to how designers might create card games themselves.

Ryan truly believes every man, woman, and child has a game in them and asks everybody he speaks to, “So, what is your Master Plan?”

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Make part of your Master Plan subscribing to Ryan’s podcast!
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GBN Spotlight is a third-party review of a GBN podcast by another GBN member podcaster.

My name is Sam Chupp and my podcast is Heart of the Hunter.

Welcome to the first edition of GBN Spotlight.

All Games Considered is one of the Great Grandfathers of all gaming podcasts. Not the oldest (I think Yog Radio probably has that title), but definitely One of the Oldest.

Over the years they have been fairly frequent in their posting and they maintain an objective overall view of games and gaming. They really do span quite a large swath of what you might consider gaming topics, talking about wargames, board games, and roleplaying games. Their reviews of games are notoriously thorough, and their reviews of genres of games are equally so.

For a good overview of general gaming topics, they can’t be beat. The co-hosts’ chemistry works well, even if there is a noted amount of tension between and among them from time to time. Mark Kinney, the guy with the NPR-quality voice, provides a stable foil to his co-hosts Chris Heim (who could possibly be the John Dvorak of Gaming Podcasts) and thoughtful, thorough, and cheerful Carol Hardy.

Always willing to experiment, AGC has added segments from contributors from time to time: the most famous of these are “Games You May Never Have Heard Of” by Ben Balestra, and the RPG Buffet series by a number of different contributors, especially someone named Mags. “Games You May Never” is pretty obvious a nostalgia piece about obscure games or out-of-print games, and RPG Buffet is perhaps one of the only game-related segments that also includes catering recipes for gamers.

Although many of the Gaming Podcasts have news segments, AGC does a lot to try and cover gaming news specifically and will frequently have special segments about topics in the news.

AGC is a great RPG podcast staple, something that should be added to your regular podcast listening rotation no matter what your other gaming interests.

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Check out their website, allgamesconsidered.blogspot.com.
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GBN Spotlight is a third-party review of a GBN podcast by another GBN member podcaster.

My name is Sam Chupp and my podcast is The Bear’s Grove.