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Rating

★★★★★

4.9

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51 reviews

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Join Jason Slingerland and his fellow game design friends as they discuss the ins and outs, and ups and downs of being tabletop game designers in a documentary style. The Building the Game Podcast is published every week.

Podcast episodes

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Episode 725: I Could Start Listing Pants But That’s Not Gonna Be Helpful

2026/04/19

Jason Chats with Emily Vincent and Jonathan Chaffer.

Episode 724: Don’t Hate the Draft, Hate the Game

2026/04/13

Jason Chats with Emily Vincent.

Episode 723: When Your Cat Dev is a Dog Person

2026/04/06

Emily Chats with David Kessler and Tony Tran

Episode 722: Assistant to the Regional Dinosaur

2026/03/30

Jason Chats with Emily Vincent.

Episode 721: This Is My Jeff Goldblum

2026/03/23

Jason chats with Jack Rosetree.

Episode 720: Mixed Emotions

2026/03/16

Jason Chats with Eric Dittmore.

Episode 719: What’s The Scenario?

2026/03/08

Jason Chats with Ted Schaller.

Episode 718: A Gammon Plus Back

2026/02/28

Jason Chats with Rosco Schock

Episode 717: Tricky Definitions

2026/02/23

Jason Chats with Emily Vincent and Jonathan Chaffer.

Episode 716: Don’t Be Like Croquet

2026/02/15

Jason Chats with Emily Vincent

Episode 715: Writing the Game: Part 1 of…

2026/02/08

Jason Chats with Gene Koo and Paul Czege.

Episode 714: Top 5 Lanes

2026/02/02

Jason chats with Emily Vincent and David Masnato.

Episode 713: Not Bad

2026/01/26

Jason Chats with Connor Wake

Episode 712: A Lot of Random Pitches

2026/01/19

Jason Chats with Emily Vincent.

Episode 711: Can I Pet That Dog?

2026/01/12

Jason Chats with Jack Rosetree.

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4.9 out of 5

51 reviews

★★★★★

Gray Detrick 2023/11/29

Stellar Podcast!

This podcast delivers the Death Star plans with waaaay fewer dead Bothans. Would highly recommend if you’re interested in the hobby board game design ...

★★★★★

AMKELL23 2023/11/27

Lovely Game Design Discussions

Each week, one or more folks from the community join Jason and talk about applicable topics in game design.

★★★★★

rosco.schock 2022/02/07

Great board game design resource!

Great podcast for people just starting out in their board game design journey. I do wish they talked about shapes more, especially rectangles!!

★★★★★

Hrm_rob 2022/02/07

Fun, approachable, inclusive, supportive

Come for the game design advice and interviews and stay for the sick burns. This is an insightful yet laidback podcast with a diverse and supportive c...

★★★★★

Berz83 2022/02/07

Great podcast for anyone who designs board games

If you have an interest in designing board games I highly recommend this “documentary style” podcast. It is an honest look as all aspects of the hobby...

★★★★★

Brad Bachelor 2019/02/28

Great Podcast

These guys are consistently entertaining. A podcast that's both hillarious and insightful, I recommend it for anyone going through the game design pro...

★★★★★

Puppy Shogun 2019/02/17

Episode 350 was a Gem!

Really love the new direction the show has gone in the last few episodes and by last few episodes, I mean the last episode, number 350 hosted by Matt ...

★★★★★

natedarty 2019/02/12

Episode 350

I’m so happy with the new hosts, Josh and Matt. I hope this change is permanent! :P

★★★★★

J Fry in OKC 2018/05/01

Game theory, design philosophy, wit, charm and also Jason Slingerland!

This show is a fantastic look into game design and concept development from two gents who are genuinely fun to listen to. They blend the right mix of...

★★★★★

A. Arencibia 2017/05/02

Great fun, ideas, variety, and depth

I just started the podcast and I am only to mid-2013 and slowly working my way up to date. Guys are fun and easy to listen to. If you start in the mid...

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