At The Table with The Dice Tower - Where Do Boardgames Come From?

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Tower, Catan, Boardgame, Game, Board, Leisure, Dice, Card, Games, Vasel, Summerer

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Tom is busy moving the studio, so Julie and Eric invite Robert Geistlinger from Arcane Wonders (and also Julie's husband) to join in a discussion about boardgame production. Where do the materials that go into our games come from? What do you look for in a manufacturer? And why doesn't everybody print their games in Cleveland? And of course, we close the show with some Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:52 - Where's Tom? and Who Is Robert?

03:08 - Announcements: Dice Tower East and Dice Tower Cruise

03:55 - Game Production: Why We're Not Discussing Tariffs

05:27 - Where Does the Material Come From?

11:41 - Where to Start? Price Point or Wish List of Features?

18:35 - How Long Does It Take For The Back-and-forth?

28:05 - What Else Are You Looking For Beyond Price?

37:31 - Why Not Just Make Everything in the US?

49:44 - Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops (a primer)

51:48 - The Case of the Curiously Correct Blueprints

57:23 - Stool Pigeon

1:01:00 - EXIT: The Hunt Through Amsterdam

1:04:26 - Dead Cells

1:06:48 - Stokerverse

1:12:53 - Saw: The Jigsaw Trials

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0:00.0	At the Table with the Dice Tower.
0:02.3	Episode 44. Where do board games come from? Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them.
0:29.6	This time we explore how your favorite games are made. Where does plastic come from? And can I put a re-wood grove in my backyard?
0:38.1	We also have a new tale of board gaming horror, except we don't, because I forgot to take that
0:41.9	out of the intro.
0:44.2	And of course, we'll close the show with a new batch of roses, thorns, and hula hoops.
0:48.7	I'm Eric Summerer.
0:49.8	I'm Julie Ahern.
0:51.0	And I'm Robert Geislinger.
0:52.4	And welcome. Uh, so if you can't tell, Tom's in the
0:57.6	middle of moving. Uh, we, he's not here. He's not here. He's not here. He's packing up and getting
1:03.0	on the road and, you know, imagine Kermit and Fuzzy doing their little,
1:10.0	Dugga, Dung, dug adung, dug-a-dun.
1:11.0	Yeah, yeah, there you go.
1:12.6	That's what I like to think of Tom and Joey doing, down the road.
1:17.1	Yes.
1:17.4	In a truck.
1:17.9	Yes.
1:18.9	Hoping along.
1:19.6	It's okay.
1:19.9	You got me instead.
1:20.8	Yeah.
	...

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