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b"We are joined by guests Phil Walker-Harding and David Harding (in a rare back-to-back appearance) to chat about their different paths taken in designing and publishing games, getting your foot in the door with publishers, game design competitions, theme in games, and second editions of games. Phil Walker-Harding - @AdventurelandG David Harding - @grailgames / Grail Games Kim Brebach \\u2013 @secretbasegames / Good Games Publishing Aaron Lim - @ehronlime / theactionpointspodcast.com Sye Robertson - @syelon / syelon.com Feel free to send us any feedback or questions for the show at mail@theactionpointspodcast.com (for now). You can also follow us on Twitter as @victorypointers. What we talked about 2:58 - How did you start designing? 14:30 - How did crowdfunding platforms impact your experience designing and publishing games? 17:38 - Getting your name out there at the start 19:27 - Setting a design goal based on a publisher's catalogue/style 21:00 - Breaking in and pitching to publishers 26:20 - Advice for budding designers wanting to get published - getting your name out\\xa0 there and submitting to design competitions 32:22 - The Grail Games approach to Kickstarter, and going beyond crowdfunding 40:37 - Factoring in production costs in designing games 42:26 - Changing themes/settings for games, collaboration between publishers and designers 53:45 - Seeing games being published after a long time 55:15 - Second editions of games 1:02:25 - The 2016 Spiel des Jahres nomination for Imhotep and the impact of a nomination 1:10:15 - What's it like working with Reiner Knizia? 1:14:55 - The best game(s) Phil thinks he's designed so far Links to what\\xa0we talked about Our previous interview with Phil on the Action Points Podcast Spiel des Jahres 2016 Nominees Games we mentioned Elevenses Sushi Go! The Mad Magazine Game Test Match Park and Shop Cacao Imhotep Archaeology, Archaeology: The Card Game and Archaeology: The New Expedition Pirates of the Spanish Main: Shuffling the Deck Automania Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization and Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization 51st State and 51st State: Master Set Codenames Medici Sushi Go Party! Music: Something Small (Instrumental) by Minden is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License. Based on a work at http://needledrop.co"