Podcast Episode 56: A Conversation With Corey Konieczka

I am delighted that I got to speak with one of my favorite designers, and a guy whose games I’ve been playing almost as long as I’ve been playing modern board games: Corey Konieczka. We go through his time at Fantasy Flight Games, highlighting many of his most popular designs, before talking about his recent announcement that he’d be heading up his own studio called Unexpected Games.

1:08 – Beginnings at Fantasy Flight
7:04 – The design and development process at Fantasy Flight
8:53 – Battlestar Galactica
15:12 – Descent 2nd Edition
20:52 – The Star Wars Games
26:24 – SW Imperial Assault
33:34 – SW Destiny
36:45 – SW Outer Rim
41:06 – Twilight Imperium 4th Edition
49:26 – The future and Unexpected Games

Music: Sailing The Solar Wind by Abstraction

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