The Clockwork Game Design Podcast

The Clockwork Game Design Podcast is a functional strategy game design podcast hosted by game designer and author Keith Burgun. Featuring interviews with some of the biggest and most interesting names in game design and related fields.

The Clockwork Game Design Podcast is a leisure podcast hosted by game designer and author, with 50 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

game designer and author hosts The Clockwork Game Design Podcast, a leisure show with 50 episodes published.

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  Gamefulness, and farewell to the Clockwork Game Design Podcast!

  Apr 10, 2025—S0

  <p>It has been an amazing ten years! Thank you to everyone who listened!</p> <p>This is a short episode where I just talk a little bit about where I’m at, and why I’m deciding to end the Clockwork Game Design Podcast.</p> <p>Thank you to all of the amazing guests – DOZENS of them – over the years who provided their amazing insights and thoughts on a huge variety of topics. I feel like we really contributed something to the archives of game design history and I’m really proud of that.</p> <p>I might be back with...

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  “Progressive” games and neoliberal ideology with Austin Anderson

  Nov 21, 2024—S0

  <p>Hi all! Today I have a fascinating conversation with the brilliant Austin Anderson, who is I think the last of the guests that I’ll have on the show from the Alt-F4 conference (along with Dr. Rachel Kowert and Kathleen Morrissey). In this conversation we talk about a bunch of AAA games, such as Detroit Become Human the Last of Us and others, along with some of the ways in which these games get credit for being progressive while simultaneously protecting the neoliberal status quo.</p> <p>By the way, lots of The Last Of Us spoilers in this ep...

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  Final Fantasy, Consensual Play and more with Kathleen Morrissey

  Nov 1, 2024—S0

  <p>Hi everyone! I come to you with another great conversation, with another super cool person that I met at the Alt-F4: Rebooting Community After Gamergate conference: Kathleen Morrissey. Kathleen is working on a PhD in computational media over at Worchester Polytechnic Institute, she’s done all kinds of awesome academic stuff on the subjects of games, media studies, critical theory analysis and a lot more. She’s also a game designer who has created what I would almost call an “anti escape room” over at WPI called Memoirscape. We met and immediately started having interesting conversations about Final Fantasy. This was...

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  Final Fantasy, dark patterns and more with Dr. Rachel Kowert

  Oct 23, 2024—S0

  <p>Hi all! today I have a wide ranging conversation with Dr. Rachel Kowert, a researcher who studies the effects of games and also discusses a wide range of other pop culture topics, through her youtube channel Psychgeist. She’s written and contributed to a lot of books (including a Psychgeist series, spoken at numerous events including the United Nations and the United States Congress. I saw her talk at the Alt F4: Rebooting Community After Gamergate conference which was extremely impressive, and we quickly got into talking Final Fantasy between talks.</p> <p></p> <p>We get into a bu...

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  Interview with game marketing expert Ryan Rigney

  Oct 8, 2024—S0

  <p>Hi all! The Clockwork Game Design Podcast has re-taken-over its own podcast space from the Bannet Bulletin for a week, to share with you this exciting conversation I just had with my old pal Ryan Rigney. His first published game, Fast Fast Laser Laser, is actually a game that I did all of the artwork for, which was actually really fun. But these days he’s known for his comms and marketing work, heading up these departments for huge games like League of Legends, Apex Legend, PUBG, and Omega Strikers. His current company, Odyssey Interactive, is now in the pr...

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