Secrets Behind AOE2's Success - Sandy Petersen - Ep76

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