About this episode

The episode discusses sandbox objectives versus point salad and features a deep dive into the game Frosted Blooms.

Episode 279- Sandbox Objectives and Frosted Blooms This week Brendan tries to convince his co-hosts that "sandbox objectives" and "point salad" are not not the same thing. Jake isn't convinced. Also the gang deep dives the new polyomino game Frosted Blooms, designed by Bruno Cathala and Ludovic Maublanc. Time Stamps3:20- sandbox objective systems30:00- Frosted Blooms deep dive Preplanners Next week is listener questions! Send them to us via email or join our Discord! Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/. Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Intermission Music:music elevator ext part 1/3 by Jay_You -- https://freesound.org/s/467243/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 Bell with Crows by MKzing -- https://freesound.org/s/474266/ -- License: Creative Commons 0…

People in this episode

Hosts: Brendan Hansen, Jacob Frydman, Paul Salomon, Pete Wissinger

Topics covered

• sandbox objectives
• point salad
• polyomino game
• Frosted Blooms
• game design
• listener questions

Keywords

• sandbox objectives
• point salad
• Frosted Blooms
• Bruno Cathala
• Ludovic Maublanc
• game design
• podcast

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hembree, Flash Floods

Products: Frosted Blooms

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