Erick Oh, Jony Chandra, Brian Tinsman, and Michael McCormick have all been added as new hires at Baobab Studios, the interactive animation company has announced.

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In this podcast, I sit down with Mark Rosewater to talk about the design of Rise of the Eldrazi.

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In this podcast, I sit down with Mark Rosewater to talk about the design of Rise of the Eldrazi and Time Spiral.

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Brian Tinsman, Lead Game Designer at Zynga, speaks on game design at the first Futures of Unconventional Narrative (FUN) Conference at the Center for Serious Play at UW Bothell May 20, 2011.

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Rise of the Eldrazi was the most exciting, most challenging, and highest quality game design work I've ever done. In fact, it challenged the talents of every member of the design team. It was just so different. When we started showing it around to the rest of the company the reactions ranged from "Holy cow!" to "Seriously? Seriously?" How did we end up with a set like this?

At Zynga I worked on multiple titles for iOS and Android. My team and I just launched War of the Fallen, Zynga's second card battle game, available from the App Store on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

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Zynga's Brian Tinsman Talks The Future Of The Card Battler with Forbes writer, Daniel Tack.

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I'm Brian Tinsman and I was the lead designer of Saviors of Kamigawa. Also on the design team were Devin Low, Brian Schneider, and Brandon Bozzi. Together we had a great experience building the final set of the Kamigawa block. But instead of writing about creating Saviors cards, I'm going to write about destroying them.

Lots of them.

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I have a reputation in R&D for breaking rules. If there's a type of card we've never done before, a rule we've never messed with, or other virgin territory to be ruthlessly exploited, I'm immediately drawn to it. As we began the Scourge design, it occurred to me that we had never mucked around much with the mix of creature size on a broad scale. 

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In the board and card game industry—aka the tabletop game industry—game designers are called inventors. Brian Tinsman is a professional game inventor with over 35 published tabletop game products. As lead concept acquisitions representative for Wizards of the Coast, Brian has reviewed hundreds of games submitted for publication and helped many beginning inventors get their first games published.

Trick interviews Brian Tinsman, Lead Developer of Rise of the Eldrazi at Pro Tour San Juan on Magic: The Gathering, his latest set, and how ge got started in Wizards R&D.

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