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Hosted by Brian Schneider · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 37 episodes
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Brian Schneider hosts Alternate Worlds Podcast, a society show with 37 episodes published.
James Laird starts most meetings with a dad joke or a pun or a groan-worthy limerick. This session I happened to distract him at the start, but at some point, if you listen in, you may be bludgeoned (to life) by a run of
Jeremy Jarvis was a creative & franchise leader for Magic: the Gathering first, and later for Dungeons & Dragons as well. Jeremy is a world-building specialist who helped architect some of Magic: the Gathering’s most ico
Henry Stern is a storied game designer who has delivered in many mediums — TCG, board gaming, web2 gaming & mobile gaming. Early on, he left a career -- that he enjoyed -- as a rocket scientist, to go after his passion i
Jake Theis is an INFJ, who, while I was at WotC, was a Brand Manager for Magic: the Gathering. After that, he went off to work on Gencon, became Head of Marketing at Ravensburger, then functioned as VP of Games at Wizkid
The Justin Gary Gaming Journey: Justin Gary is the CEO of Stoneblade Entertainment, the author of Think Like a Game Designer, the designer of Ascension, SolForge (w/ Richard Garfield) & Solforge Fusion (w/ Richard Garfie
Arthur Parsons didn’t invent your LEGO childhood, as Substack has creatively suggests, but he did have a hand in designing all of the highly-popular LEGO video games that came out over the last two decades, graduating to
Nina Dobner joined the games industry 25+ years back, working to translate & publish Riven (the sequel to Myst) in the UK, then migrated to Electronic Arts & San Francisco as an IP-related game producer in the early 2000
Jay Schneider is the CEO of Fire Opal Media, a concierge design company populated with many talented former Wizards of the Coast designers. Jay also has been a lecturer at The University of Washington with a focus on gam
Justin Cinicolo started out making educational games at Leapfrog, then shifted very early to Zynga and helped launch Mafia Wars on Facebook. This was very successful. :) Justin ended up being an early GM for the project,
Brian Tinsman was the lead designer on many Magic: the Gathering sets & blocks in the 00’s (Champions of Kamigawa, Time Spiral), with Rise of the Eldrazi being the most popular. Brian was the first person I met at Wizard
Cole Medeiros designed and self-published the game Gubs, joined Zynga to design games, worked on three of the biggest — CityVille, Mafia Wars and FrontierVille - then went on to continue his creative journey at Storm8 &
Michael J. Flores has written more words about Magic: the Gathering than anyone else. He’s also a former pro player, a renowned deck builder, a well-traveled raconteur, a proud parent, and a fan of Cleveland sports teams
The William Jockusch MtG Journey: William Jockusch was a PhD in mathematics, then a professor, then quickly realized that making Magic: the Gathering might be “a bit more fun” than teaching was, so he lobbied Wizards of
The BDM Gaming Journey Brian David-Marshall started out in comics — both creating them and creating events to support them — then quickly learned to love Magic: the Gathering (as people began coming to the comic store as
The Randy Buehler Gaming Journey: Randy Buehler was a Pro Tour Champion at Chicago as the Captain of Team CMU, and went on to have a Hall of Fame playing career. He was hired by Wizards of the Coast at the end of his pla
Mike Turian is the Senior Executive Producer for Magic: the Gathering, which is one of the biggest game franchises in the world. Magic has blossomed under Turian’s wing, and the world is better for it. Mike and I met ove
The Matt Place Gaming Journey: Matt Place and I have played more Magic: the Gathering against each other than we will ever play against other humans. And for the rest of our days, that stat will likely remain. Matt was a
The Mike Elliott Gaming Journey: Mike Elliott is in tabletop gaming Hall of Fame, for his work on Magic: the Gathering, Pokemon, Duelmasters and Battle Spirits. He and I worked together for many years & reminisce about m
The Josh Kermond Gaming Journey: Josh Kermond got his start making RTS games, then shifted to Zynga and was Game Producer on CityVille & FrontierVille, before shifting to become an EP on DomiNations. Josh was the GM of t
Albert Birckhead (aka Mason Trace) is a Magic: the Gathering historian, who has grown a nice following on his YouTube channel, The Tranquil Domain. Albert’s topics run the gamut of what made the 90’s an especially fertil
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Alternate Worlds Podcast is hosted by Brian Schneider. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 37 episodes.
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