Sandy Petersen is a world class video game designer that's worked on iconic games like Doom, Quake, Civilization, Age of Empires Series and Halo Wars. This is his 3rd appearance on the BoredWithNelly Podcast.
Sandy's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@UCVDIvzRZD39Rv9uR8mqfOBg
Sandy's Board Game Comapny: https://petersengames.com/
Sandy's Discord: https://petersengames.com/join-the-conversation-on-discord/
0:00 Intro
3:00 Board game convention in Spain
4:20 Spain trip
8:20 Call of Cthulhu
11:20 How To Keep AOE2 Alive
17:20 Balancing AOE in 2023
23:00 Sandy's Board games
25:20 How to make a fun game
33:20 AOE 2 expansions
37:20 How Sandy's company almost went under
50:00 What Sandy plays
57:20 Spielberg making games
1:01:00 Sandy working on AOE2 campaigns
1:03:00 Longest AOE2 game in history
1:06:00 fatslob
1:09:00 Viper
1:10:15 How to fix infantry
1:17:00 AOE advanced mechanics
