Interview with 'The Storyteller' Steven Medway - Blood on the Clocktower Designer

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Күн бұрын

Steven Medway is the Creator and Designer of one of the world's most popular Social Deduction games, 'Blood on the Clocktower' and the Board Game Gateway Crew are lucky to have him in the studio for an in-depth conversation.
We talk about his inspirations, design philosophies, plans for the future, and much more. Damien, Ralph and Neeber are super excited for you to have a peak behind the curtain as we talk with the original Storyteller of Blood on the Clocktower.
Is he an Imp in Diguise? Perhaps a Damsel in Distress just looking for his hunter? Or maybe just a drunk who thinks he's a Scarlet Witch? You can find out in a very special episode of the Board Game Gateway Podcast.
Timestamps
00:00 - Editors Note
00:35 - Introduction
02:11 - Inspirations
06:40 - Sense of Community
14:00 - The Storyteller Role
28:50 - Encouraging Interaction & Talking
35:00 - Community Question #1 / Roles and Features
47:22 - Creating the Scripts & Kickstarter
57:03 - Mechanic Inspirations
1:01:28 - Inclusivity & Accessibility in Clocktower
1:11:39 - Clocktower around the World
1:15:53 - Community Question #2 / The Profound Effect of Clocktower
1:31:34 - Stevens Top Player Moments
1:38:09 - Steve has a Question for Us
1:48:57 - Judging Ralphs Grimoire
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@bggateway 4 ай бұрын

A fantastic interview with a fantastic game designer. We are greatly appreciative of Steven coming to the Board Game Gateway Studio to chat with us and we are thankful to the team from @BloodontheClocktower for helping us organise this.

@Neeber 4 ай бұрын

Looking forward to playing more of BotC and meeting the rest of the pandemonium institute team.

@dividedbyxir0 15 күн бұрын

1:37:05 I've always felt that the mark of a good game is that it's fun even when you lose. I'm glad to know that the developer is conscious of that as well. Great interview, and great game!

@Tessothemorning 3 ай бұрын

This was such a good chat - thanks all.

@bggateway 2 ай бұрын

Our pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it!

@piratechauvelin 3 ай бұрын

This was bloody tremendous lads! Great interview!

@Neeber 3 ай бұрын

Thanks mate, glad you like it. Stephen was a great person to interview.

@041744 3 ай бұрын

Great interview, I liked hearing his own stories about his favorite games and how certain things like revolutionary came just from necessity. I also like his approach that everyone in the game is invested to the end, no one wins or loses before the game ends. Him constantly coming up with new ideas for clocktower and wanting to support the game as long as there is interest makes me very hopeful this game will keep getting new content for a long time to come.

@bggateway 3 ай бұрын

He was great to chat to. We are really excited to see what they come up with and the new interactions we get in the future.

@piatansfair 3 ай бұрын

Great interview! We're a regular group that plays this amazing game in person weekly in Brazil!

@bggateway 3 ай бұрын

Thats amazing! We love how the game is played all over the world and are honoured to get to talk to the creator of it.

@leo.budimir 2 ай бұрын

"The Original Storyteller" - that's one heck of a title!

@bggateway 2 ай бұрын

We thought so too, but he deserves the title.

@MajkiMoo 3 ай бұрын

Great interview! What a treat!

@bggateway 2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed. It was great to have a chat to him!

@ChrisGraceComedy 2 ай бұрын

This is a terrific interview, thanks for this guys!

@bggateway 2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Hopefully we will get more in the future

@mrjohnnypinkpants 3 ай бұрын

this was a great watch. some of Steven's answers were very interesting.

@bggateway 3 ай бұрын

They were, getting to hear how he came up with everything was really fascinating. We particularly liked hearing how he made the Storyteller role fun with the "mights" and "shoulds" added in.