Rule of Carnage - Designing Better Miniatures Games
Game designers Mike Hutchinson and Glenn Ford talk about how, why and if they design tabletop miniatures games. With discussions, tips, reviews and interviews.
Ep:136. Modelling for Advantage.
32 mins; August 25, 2025
Ep:135. Fulfillment of your Kickstarter.
37 mins; August 18, 2025
Ep 134: Nailing the PITCH for your tabletop game...
31 mins; August 11, 2025
Ep 133: Cursed Problems, Experience Levels, Proscription and Impactful Failure.
91 hours 3 mins; July 14, 2025
Ep 132: Cursed Problems, Ending Early and List Building.
59 mins; June 30, 2025
Ep 131: Pukeapocalypse
31 mins; June 23, 2025
Ep 130: Pledge Managers
39 mins; June 16, 2025
Ep 129: Pukeapocalype!
22 mins; June 02, 2025
Ep 128: How to run a Kickstarter.
214 hours 44 mins; May 26, 2025
Ep 127: The book on how to design better miniatures games!
144 hours 49 mins; December 09, 2024
Ep 126: Hidden Movement! Finally!
31 mins; December 02, 2024
Ep 125: Borrowing Mechanics: Push Your Luck.
34 mins; November 25, 2024
Ep 124: How many rules are too many rules?
30 mins; November 18, 2024
Ep 123: Is Redwood the most important minis game of the year?
26 mins; November 04, 2024
Ep 122: Whatcha Workin' on Again?
65 hours 21 mins; October 28, 2024
Ep 121: One Box Wargame Challengers!
68 hours 48 mins; October 21, 2024
Ep 120: Rad Pirates of the Toxic Sands - Concept chat.
40 mins; October 14, 2024
Ep 119 Pt 2: Celebrating 2000 subscribers: Questions from our Discord.
61 hours 35 mins; August 19, 2024
Ep 119 Pt 1: Celebrating 2000 subscribers: Questions from our Discord.
64 hours 45 mins; August 12, 2024
Ep 118: Narrative
32 mins; August 05, 2024
Ep 117: Movement
28 mins; July 29, 2024
Ep 116: Borrowing mechanics: Dexterity.
31 mins; July 22, 2024
Ep 115: Do bag pulls ever work?
31 mins; July 15, 2024
Ep 114: Selling your game in 3 steps.
27 mins; July 08, 2024
Ep 113: Borrowing mechanics: Deckbuilding.
31 mins; July 01, 2024
Ep 112: What is the Perfect Length for your game?
26 mins; June 24, 2024
Ep 111: The Social Contract and Magic Circle.
30 mins; June 17, 2024
Ep 110: Miniatures Game Design - More Solo Mode!
31 mins; May 27, 2024
Ep 109: Miniatures Game Design - Pacific Command.
47 mins; May 20, 2024
Ep 108: Miniatures Game Design - Simulation, Abstraction and Diegetics Oh My!
73 hours 49 mins; May 13, 2024
Ep 107: Miniatures Game Design - What we're working on, including an exciting announcement!
54 mins; May 06, 2024
Ep 106.2: Miniatures Game Design - Why to make miniatures games: Part two.
59 mins; April 15, 2024
Ep 106: Miniatures Game Design - Why to make miniatures games: Part one.
47 mins; April 01, 2024
Ep 105: Miniatures Game Design - Consuming prototypes.
34 mins; March 25, 2024
Ep 104: Miniatures Game Design - Getting Published or Self-Publishing? Our stories.
46 mins; March 18, 2024
Ep 103: Miniatures Game Design - How to decide what to work on next.
35 mins; March 11, 2024
Ep 102: Miniatures Game Design - I just want Closure.
33 mins; March 04, 2024
Ep 101: Miniatures Game Design - Is horror a cursed problem?
27 mins; February 26, 2024
Ep 100: Miniatures Game Design - Is there space for independent game designers?
26 mins; February 19, 2024
Ep 99: Miniatures Game Design - Should I tell you how to hobby?
24 mins; February 12, 2024
Ep 98: Miniatures Game Design - You don't have to have anything in your game.
26 mins; February 05, 2024
Ep 97: Miniatures Game Design - Prototyping vs Production
25 mins; January 29, 2024
Ep 96: Miniatures Game Design - How to structure your Rulebook
34 mins; January 22, 2024
Ep 95: Miniatures Game Design - Your resolution system doesn't matter
26 mins; January 15, 2024
Ep 94: Miniatures Game Design - The way of May
24 mins; January 08, 2024
Ep 93: Miniatures Game Design - Miniature Photography & Illustrations
21 mins; January 07, 2024
Xmas Special!
49 mins; December 25, 2023
Ep 92: Miniatures Game Design - How Specific Should I Make My Setting?
24 mins; December 18, 2023
Ep 91: Miniatures Game Design - Should you change your game halfway through?
27 mins; November 27, 2023
Ep 90: Miniatures Game Design - Narrative VS Competitive, the LIE!.
33 mins; November 20, 2023
Ep 89: Miniatures Game Design - Downtime, and how to understand unbeing.
32 mins; November 13, 2023
Ep 88: Miniatures Game Design - How to find your audience.
21 mins; November 06, 2023
Ep 87: Miniatures Game Design - Does the world need your game?
28 mins; October 30, 2023
Ep 86: Miniatures Game Design - Avoiding disengagement.
31 mins; October 23, 2023
Ep 85: Miniatures Game Design - How to make miniatures agnostic games happen.
27 mins; October 16, 2023
Ep 84: Miniatures Game Design - Utils.
22 mins; October 09, 2023
Ep 83: Miniatures Game Design - Repetition VS Definition.
25 mins; October 02, 2023
Ep 82: Miniatures Game Design - Repetition VS Definition.
25 mins; September 25, 2023
Ep 82: Miniatures Game Design - Rules you're meant to learn.
28 mins; September 24, 2023
Ep 81: Miniatures Game Design - Measureless Movement.
32 mins; September 18, 2023
Ep 80: Miniatures Game Design - AI targetting and pathfinding.
25 mins; September 11, 2023
Ep 79: Miniatures Game Design - Holding yourself to a higher standard.
25 mins; September 04, 2023
Ep 78: Miniatures Game Design - How to design miniatures agnostic games.
27 mins; August 28, 2023
Ep 77: Miniatures Game Design - Hobby personality types.
40 mins; July 30, 2023
Ep 76: Miniatures Game Design - Player personality types.
84 hours 33 mins; July 24, 2023
Ep 75: Miniatures Game Design - Scenarios, again.
36 mins; July 17, 2023
Ep 74: Miniatures Game Design - Hobgoblin Kickstarter Post Partum.
36 mins; July 10, 2023
Ep 73: Miniatures Game Design - Physical prototyping.
31 mins; June 05, 2023
Ep 72: Miniatures Game Design - User Interface.
54 mins; May 29, 2023
Ep 71: Miniatures Game Design - Welcome to Pukeapocalypse.
25 mins; May 22, 2023
Ep 70: Miniatures Game Design - Digital Tools.
13 mins; May 15, 2023
Ep 69: Miniatures Game Design - Random openings.
19 mins; May 08, 2023
Ep 68: Miniatures Game Design - Extrinsic and Intrinsic information.
20 mins; May 01, 2023
Ep 67: Miniatures Game Design - Ludonarrative dissonance.
26 mins; April 24, 2023
Ep 66: Miniatures Game Design - Imagining alternative history gaming.
31 mins; April 17, 2023
Ep 65: Miniatures Game Design - Three great things about Saga.
49 mins; April 10, 2023
Ep 64: Miniatures Game Design - Campaigns and Endings.
23 mins; April 03, 2023
Ep 63: Miniatures Game Design - Miniatures Agnosticism.
27 mins; March 27, 2023
Ep 65: Miniatures Game Design - The history of miniatures gaming.
41 mins; March 21, 2023
Ep 62: Miniatures Game Design - Uncertainty.
34 mins; March 20, 2023
Ep 61: Miniatures Game Design - Turns and rounds.
18 mins; March 13, 2023
Ep 60: Miniatures Game Design - Gaps in Games.
21 mins; March 06, 2023
Ep 59: Miniatures Game Design - Rough terrain.
21 mins; February 27, 2023
Ep 58: Miniatures Game Design - Unit engagement.
14 mins; February 20, 2023
Ep 57: Miniatures Game Design - Abstraction.
20 mins; February 13, 2023
Ep 56: Miniatures Game Design - Chaaarrrge!
25 mins; February 06, 2023
Ep 55: Miniatures Game Design - Your questions answered, again!
48 mins; January 23, 2023
Ep 54: Miniatures Game Design - Designing seasonal scenarios.
11 mins; January 16, 2023
Ep 53: Miniatures Game Design - Ghosts of Christmas past.
20 mins; January 09, 2023
Ep 52: Miniatures Game Design - Granularity, complexity and crunch.
88 hours 38 mins; December 05, 2022
Ep 51: Miniatures Game Design - How to collaborate.
48 mins; November 07, 2022
Ep 50: Miniatures Game Design - Our history of collaboration.
38 mins; October 03, 2022
Ep 49: Miniatures Game Design - What we're working on volume two.
57 mins; September 19, 2022
Ep 48: Miniatures Game Design - Why do we keep designing campaign systems?
16 mins; September 12, 2022
Ep 47: Miniatures Game Design - Why we love Man O' War by Games Workshop.
46 mins; September 05, 2022
Ep 46: Miniatures Game Design - Narrative Imperative.
33 mins; August 29, 2022
Ep 45: Miniatures Game Design - Theme
57 mins; August 22, 2022
Ep 44: Miniatures Game Design - Solo Mode and AI Design
70 hours 9 mins; August 15, 2022
Ep 43: Miniatures Game Design - Activation Advantage
