Awakening Podcast #003 - Setting Overview

Lead Designer Jeff Girard discusses the setting for Awakening.

Notes/Links:

• See #5 below for a correction on immigration during the 1920's.
  

1. 1920s Economics (Wikipedia)
   
2. Great Depression (Wikipedia)
   
3. 1920s Technology (Wikipedia)
   
4. Technophobia (Wikipedia)
   
5. The Immigration Act (Wikipedia)
   
6. Anti-Communism (Wikipedia)
   
7. American Prohibition (Wikipedia)
   
8. Rum-running/Bootlegging (Wikipedia)
   
9. Egyptomania (Wikipedia)
   
10. History of Psychology (Wikipedia)
    
11. Little Albert Experiment (Wikipedia)
    
12. The Jazz Age (Wikipedia)
13. The Golden Age of Science Fiction (Wikipedia)
    

Awakening Podcast #002 - Thematic Goals

Lead Designer Jeff Girard discusses the thematic goals for Awakening.

Notes/Links:

1. Mexican Standoff (Wikipedia)
   
2. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (Youtube)
   
3. The Settlers of Catan (Wikipedia)
   
4. H.P. Lovecraft (Wikipedia)
   
5. Call of Cthulhu RPG (Wikipedia)
6. Dungeons & Dragons RPG (Wikipedia)
   
7. Cthulhu Mythos - Themes (Wikipedia)
8. Magic the Gathering - Planeswalker (Wikipedia)
   

Awakening Podcast #001 - Mechanical Goals

Lead Designer Jeff Girard discusses the mechanical goals for Awakening.

Notes/Links:

1. Magic the Gathering (Official Site)
   
2. Magic the Gathering (Wikipedia)
   
3. Magic the Gathering - Timing and the Stack (Wikipedia)