Jacob Fryxelius Interview WSBG

The World Series of Board Gaming interviews Jacob Fryxelius! 

Interview with Jacob Fryxelius.

• 00:00 Interview with Jacob Fryxelius 
• 02:43 Introducing Jacob 
• 03:20 What got you into designing board games? 
• 11:00 Jacob Fryxelius’s first game 
• 14:00 The start of Terraforming Mars 
• 15:45 Theme first, then figuring out the mechanics 
• 19:00 Graphic design working in tandem with the game intent 
• 20:40 Cards that didn’t make the cut 
• 21:30 Spreadsheets or feeling it out? 
• 24:04 How to balance expansions 
• 27:30 New expansions and promo cards 
• 32:16 Prelude cards and corporations
• 34:00 Merging corporations promo card 
• 35:18 Fan variants of Terraforming Mars 
• 39:00 The Terraforming Mars brand 
• 42:00 The Fryxelius family’s roles in Fryx Games 
• 47:00 How does Fryx Games work? 
• 49:26 After The Virus 
• 57:15 Balancing Terraforming Mars with other projects 
• 01:01:10 Does production cost come into the design process? 
• 01:07:30 The release and selling cycles 
• 01:08:43 Advice to anyone going into desiging/publishing? 
• 01:14:00 Favourite games/designers? 
• 01:17:20 Wrapping up – Juicy upcoming projects 
• 01:23:10 Brian’s connection to one of Jacob’s inspirations 
• 01:24:20 WIN a copy of Terraforming Mars or After the Virus!