The Essential Experience | Mastering Game Mastering Lens 1

About this episode

This episode introduces a new series on mastering Game Mastering through Jesse Schell's lenses of Game Design.

Wow, it's been a while! In this new Dragon Mind series, we'll be looking at how to pursue "mastery" in Game Mastering, starting with Jesse Schell's 100 lenses of Game Design from his book, The Art of Game Design . Want to follow more Dragon Mind? Check out the YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/@dragonmindttrpgs And the Substack at https://dragonmind.substack.com/ Check out more of the Darkmore Podcast Network and join the community Discord at https://darkmorepodcasts.com/

People in this episode

Host: John Tanaka

Topics covered

• Game Mastering
• Game Design
• Mastery
• TTRPGs
• Jesse Schell's lenses

Keywords

• Game Mastering
• TTRPGs
• Jesse Schell
• Game Design
• mastery

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Darkmore Podcast Network, YouTube Channel, Substack

Books & works: The Art of Game Design

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