Host and aspiring designer Brandon Garver returns after a long hiatus to discuss an accidental game design that detoured him from his main worker-survival project.

Blanks & Bits

Entry 5: The Grand Detour

Host and aspiring designer Brandon Garver discusses the progression of resources, tile laying mechanisms and further pondering of the deity mechanisms in his village-building, worker-survival game set in a fictitious age of mythology and chaos.

Entry 4: Cubes, Squared

Host / designer Brandon Garver discusses changes to the deity mechanisms, and updates some Blanks & Bits business.

Entry 3: Deity Downsize

Finally the show catches up with the game design. Host Brandon Garver covers the updates since last design session on his worker-survival, tableau-building board game. Highlights: A slight alteration of theme, a new combat & deity power system, worker actions, and new tile-placement mechanisms!

Entry 2: Catch Me Up If You Can

The first true journal entry of Blanks & Bits. Your host dives deeper into the game he will be creating over the course of this podcast and talks about the developments of the first official design session since he dug it up out of hiatus.

Entry 1: Board Game, Begin Again

Meet your host and aspiring game designer Brandon Garver and learn the origins of this podcast, his interest in game design overall, and hear a brief introduction to the game he will be creating over the course of this podcast. Everyone loves an origin story, right?

Entry 0: Meet Your Game Maker

Hosted by aspiring designer Brandon Garver, Blanks & Bits is a behind-the-scenes, journal style podcast that follows the start-to-finish creation process of his first tabletop game. Follow along and learn with Brandon as he iterates on the prototype of his game and explores his thoughts on game design.