About

The Tabletop Takeaway is a board game design podcast hosted by three game designers: Ananda Guneratne, Charlie McCarron, and Trevor Muller-Hegel.

In each 20-minute episode, we analyze a published game and share our thoughts on what works, from a game design perspective.

For each set of 4 episodes, we choose a game mechanic (ex: tile placement, logical induction, tactical combat, etc.). We podcast about 3 games that use the chosen mechanic, then we have a wrap-up episode about what we’ve learned from those games and how we might implement the mechanic in a future game.

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