Podcast Design Builder Game

09/01/20 • 15 min

BONUS 01: Podcast Design Builder Game

Kyle introduces the Podcast Design Builder Game that can be played to strengthen your creativity by forcing you to come up with a podcast idea based on established constraints.

Download the Game

Podcast Design Builder Game v0.3 [PDF]

How to Play the Game

The host invites 2-4 guests to create 10 design requirements (5-10 minutes).
Each of the guests spends some time creating a rough podcast idea (5-10 minutes).
Everyone shares their rough podcast idea with the host asking clarifying questions.
Everyone then explores each other’s creation (Pros/Cons, Open Forum).
If there needs to be a winner, the host, the guests, or the audience decides.

Rules of the Game

#1 – Roll dice to determine their TEN Podcast Design Requirements

The Host rolls (1D20, 1D10, 1D6) to determine the 10 podcast design requirements.

#2 – With the Requirements, take 5-10 minutes to develop a PODCAST PROTOTYPE:

Provide Detail to each Requirement
Define Their Topic
Define Their Target Listener

#3 – Give your Podcast a NAME:

This podcast is called...

#4 – Guests present their PODCAST PROTOTYPE high-level WHY Statement/Synopsis:

What is this show about (high-level)?
Who’s it for (target audience)?
Why should we care (hook)?

#5 – Guests present what their very first episode and season would be:

Episode #1 is called...
After a full season you will know

Deciding the Winner (Draft)

One of the hosts is the judge and the winner is decided at the end.
Everyone on the show decides who wins and the winner is decided at the end.
The audience decides which podcast prototype is the winner based on Social Media and Email feedback with the winner announced on Bonus Content

Notable Quotes

"Crispy WHY! Now with a third less calories!" -- Timothy Kimo Brien

Presented by Create Art Podcast

To get your art muscles strong enough to start designing podcasts, you need to listen to the Create Art Podcast. If you're like me and crave creativity, art, and learning how to find your artistic muse, then you need to join my good friend Timothy Kimo Brien as he takes a deep dive into the world of creativity with the Create Art Podcast.

About NES

Not Easily Squished, hosted by Kyle M. Bondo, talks about Audio Experience (AX) Design and the emerging discipline of Podcast Design. Learn how to take your fragile podcast concept and transform it into a fierce audio experience that is Not Easily Squished!

NES is a Gagglepod Studios Production

Thank you for listening! Be sure to check out the other Gagglepod Studios shows including Podwrecked, PAUSE for Dramatic Effect, and Create Art Podcast -- you can find all of these and more at Gagglepod.com

Go create something great!

BONUS 01: Podcast Design Builder Game

Kyle introduces the Podcast Design Builder Game that can be played to strengthen your creativity by forcing you to come up with a podcast idea based on established constraints.

Download the Game

Podcast Design Builder Game v0.3 [PDF]

How to Play the Game

The host invites 2-4 guests to create 10 design requirements (5-10 minutes).
Each of the guests spends some time creating a rough podcast idea (5-10 minutes).
Everyone shares their rough podcast idea with the host asking clarifying questions.
Everyone then explores each other’s creation (Pros/Cons, Open Forum).
If there needs to be a winner, the host, the guests, or the audience decides.

Rules of the Game

#1 – Roll dice to determine their TEN Podcast Design Requirements

The Host rolls (1D20, 1D10, 1D6) to determine the 10 podcast design requirements.

#2 – With the Requirements, take 5-10 minutes to develop a PODCAST PROTOTYPE:

Provide Detail to each Requirement
Define Their Topic
Define Their Target Listener

#3 – Give your Podcast a NAME:

This podcast is called...

#4 – Guests present their PODCAST PROTOTYPE high-level WHY Statement/Synopsis:

What is this show about (high-level)?
Who’s it for (target audience)?
Why should we care (hook)?

#5 – Guests present what their very first episode and season would be:

Episode #1 is called...
After a full season you will know

Deciding the Winner (Draft)

One of the hosts is the judge and the winner is decided at the end.
Everyone on the show decides who wins and the winner is decided at the end.
The audience decides which podcast prototype is the winner based on Social Media and Email feedback with the winner announced on Bonus Content

Notable Quotes

"Crispy WHY! Now with a third less calories!" -- Timothy Kimo Brien

Presented by Create Art Podcast

About NES

NES is a Gagglepod Studios Production

Go create something great!

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Episode at a Glance

Podcast design is an act of communication. However, a common mistake made by most podcasters is thinking of ourselves as only audio communicators. We’re fortunate to speak the audio language fluently, but we need to be able to translate that thinking into visual and performance mediums as well. In other words, we need to be bilingual. But not in the way you would expect. If you are bilingual, it means you are fluent in two languages. However, using bilingual in the context of audio communication AND visual and performance mediums is a little more nuanced. And it is the cornerstone of good podcast design.

Notable Quotes

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense." -- Thomas Edison

Presented by Create Art Podcast

About NES

NES is a Gagglepod Studios Production

Go create something great!

Next Episode

I am Not Easily Squished

Where do podcast ideas come from? Kyle explains how the influences of two brilliant designers -- Sir Jony Ive and Hillman Curtis -- helped form his design philosophy foundation.

Lessons from Sir Jony Ive:

Encouraged informal questioning and inquiry, tolerated mistakes, and promoted innovation.
Make your studio into an "ideas factory" with brainstorming sessions at least two times a week -- No exceptions!
Create a space that allows ideas to not be so easily squished.
Constantly simplify and do away with as much as possible (Less is Better).
Make things that express your appreciation for people you will probably never meet.

Lessons from Hillman Curtis:

You need to make 100 bad designs before you discover a good one.
Take the ideas that are in your head and do something with them.
Keep your mind fertile with personal interests, experiences, and curiosity.
Ideas originate from a mind free from distractions.
Your job as a designer is to make the invisible visible.

Notable Quotes:

"While ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts, so easily missed, so easily compromised, so easily squished."

-- Jony Ive (Apple)

"The goal of a designer is to listen, observe, understand, sympathize, empathize, synthesize, and glean insights that enable him or her to 'make the invisible visible'."

-- Hillman Curtis

"Be prepared to reinvent yourself. Be prepared to go out on a limb occasionally, and be prepared to do things that you feel strongly about."

-- Hillman Curtis