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Jason Mowery
Episode #29
Brent sits down with Jason Mowery, designer of The Big Score and The Perfect Wave. Aside from board game design, Jason is a Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. They chat about winning the 2021 Cardboard Edison award, playing games while on tours, what they're playing these days, and how to navigate co-designing a game.
Follow along:
0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Gaming growing up
4:50 - What's being played these days
6:30 - Playing games while on tour
9:42 - Creating a game about surfing having never surfed
13:00 - Working on a game with a co-designer
17:00 - Breakthrough moment in designing The Perfect Wave
21:45 - Similarities in game design vs songwriting
24:15 - What's Jason designing now
25:50 - Winning the Cardboard Edison Award
29:35 - Wrapping Up
Find out more about the Cardboard Edison Award:
https://cardboardedison.com
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Mainly reviews. The Perfect Wave is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 8 reviews, 2 how-to-play guides, 1 recorded sessions, 4 unboxings, and 3 other videos.
2 - 4 players
30 - 60 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting
About The Perfect Wave, from BoardGameGeek:
Grab your board, paddle out, and try to put together the most impressive sequence of tricks on some of the most iconic waves in the world. Show your skills better than your rivals, and you'll ride the perfect wave to victory!
The Perfect Wave presents a very fun and unique challenge. You'll need to successfully create a wave by drafting Wave cards to construct a sequence, earning points for runs and sets of numbers. Play Trick cards to show off and score bonuses. But you'll also need to simultaneously focus on paddling far enough out in the water to actually catch, surf, and score the very wave you're creating!
And here's the twist...the more time spent creating your wave, the less you'll be able to paddle out...and the more you paddle out, the trickier it becomes to create your wave! You'll need careful planning and expert timing to balance these goals and win the game!
The Perfect Wave was the winner of the 2021 Cardboard Edison Award.