COIN Collectors #18: Interview with Saverio Spagnolie & Cory Graham (Vijayanagara)

Welcome to a special episode of Dads on a Map: COIN Collectors! Today, we're thrilled to be joined by two incredible designers behind the COIN Collector favorite, Vijayanagara: The Deccan Empires of Medieval India. Join us as we dive deep into the fascinating creation of this game, gaining insights from the people who brought it to life.

Our guest designers for this episode are Saverio Spagnolie and Cory Graham.

Vijayanagara is currently available on the GMT P500 pre-order system, with a scheduled release in Q4 2023.

00:44 - Guest Introductions

03:15 - Origins of Vijayanagara: Consim Game Jam

05:40 - COIN Title: Gandhi as inspiration

07:15 - Theme/Setting/Time Period Choice

09:00 - 3 Player Design

13:00 - Historical Modeling of Medieval India

16:50 - Game Visuals

18:20 - Shipping Status

20:30 - Previous COIN Collector Podcast

23:30 - Advice for first time designers

25:30 - Design goals for the game

31:30 - Battle Mechanics

40:00 - Favorite Card/Favorite Mechanic

42:53 - ICS series

46:50 - "Whats on the table?"

48:36 - Outro

This podcast episode uses these sounds from https://freemusicarchive.org/:

The Circle of Fifths - Bus Window Clap

freesound.org/s/509526/ licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

For a full playthrough of the game. We recommended checking out our friend's channel Guerric Samples Games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS7mLj_eU7k&t=6s

https://www.twitch.tv/GuerricSamplesGames