The Booster Pack #23 — Josh Lytle on designing Magi-Nation & Spoils TCG

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(0:00) Title Card (0:19) Intro (3:43) Josh's Career origins [spoiler: Nintendo] (16:48) Designing Magi-Nation TCG (33:43) Working on Magi-Nation Duel (43:15) The origins of the Spoils TCG (1:15:57) Community Questions (1:25:32) Kracken Questions This is some fascinating further reading about the history of Magi-Nation, 2i & the people who worked on it it— Making Magi-Nation Gameboy by Patrick Meehan: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yvllsoTLr_xLH18-bAxbfoAsI0Ct-2d-2i8mFvOtzNk/ ~SPONSOR~: https://www.categoryonegames.com/ (find classic CCG & TCG cards at Category One Games!!!) THE BOOSTER PACK— let us know feedback, topic suggestions or games you'd like to hear about via email or any of our social media (DMs are also open to anyone) Find CCG History: https://www.facebook.com/CCGhistory https://twitter.com/CCGHistory This show is also available on video. Find the episodes via youtube.com/CCGhistory. The listener survey for The Booster Pack podcast: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZG95TR9 or, email us— theboosterpack@ccghistory.com Magi-Nation Duel & The Spoils TCG—you'd be hard pressed to find two Trading Card Games more different. One is a kid-friendly Pokemon-esque franchise with relatively simple gameplay. The other presents a hard-hitting world of mature humor & was one of the most competitively-focused TCGs ever. While they seem like they don't have much in common on the surface, in fact, they were actually crafted by the same group of people. On this episode we are join by a key designer from that group: Josh Lytle. Josh was an early designer for Magi-Nation (both the card game + Gameboy game) & was the Lead Designer for The Spoils TCG. We discuss Josh's origins in gaming (Nintendo fans get ready!) & some never-before-told stories from behind the scenes on MND & The Spoils!