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Episode #44
Mads Fløe
Welcome to 2026, and welcome to a brand new episode of Ideas! Brent sits down with designer Mads Fløe and chat about designing games with "toy factor" components, the importance of first impressions when playing a game, designing a game that involves heavy metal music, and what's next is Mads design journey!
Follow along:
0:00 - Intro
1:24 - How Mads got into board gaming
5:38 - The importance of first impressions when playing a board game
9:10 - 2025 Gaming highlights
13:17 - Design games with "toy factors"
16:09 - Designing Marbleous
20:43 - Designing family weight games
26:42 - What's Mads working on these days
31:43 - Wrapping up
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Mainly reviews. Marbleous is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 4 reviews, 2 how-to-play guides, 1 recorded sessions, 1 unboxings, and 1 other video.
1 - 4 players
30 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes
About Marbleous, from BoardGameGeek:
Each turn in Marbleous, you choose a marble card on display, then roll those two or three marbles into your grid. If three or more marbles of the same color are touching, they pop, with you grabbing the scoring card matching the color and size of the group - and if you form another group after removing those marbles from the grid, those pop, too.
Make large groups, and you earn bonus markers that allow you to drop a marble of its matching color into your grid, giving you a better chance of scoring a large group. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.
In the advanced game, you earn a star whenever you pop two or more groups on a turn, allowing you more choice over the scoring card you grab, in addition to earning extra points at game's end for the stars you've collected.
Similar to many digital match 3 games like Candy Crush.