New Orders Podcast Interview with Imperial Assault Designer Jonathan Ying

By nickv2002, in Star Wars: Imperial Assault

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Interview with Imperial Assault Designer Jonathan Ying - Episode 12

We sat down with Imperial Assault Designer Jonathan Ying for a quick chat at SHUX . He talks to us about the origins of Imperial Assault and the skirmish mode. He also tells some other fun & interesting stories about IA development.

Jonathan’s new game is called Bargain Quest . It’s up for preorder now after a successful after a very successful Kickstarter campaign. We greatly enjoyed playing it and are looking forward to our own copy.

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I normally announce New Orders podcast episodes in a Skirmish thread since that's our focus, but we talked with Jonathan about several campaign and design elements I think folks here might be interested too. :)

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You can search for 'New Orders' to find us in the Apple podcast directory (used by many other apps on iOS and Android too) or find it via the links below:

Thanks for listening!

Edited by nickv2002
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Good one.

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I really enjoyed hearing Jonathan's perspective and fun stories about how some things came about! Love the designer interviews every time there's a new one so much insight into what they're thinking and the direction the game has gone in and how it's progressed.

The vinto story was awesome :)

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This is great! I really enjoyed the show.

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I think it's great that Vinto was created because they had a Hired Gun prototype sculpt that was too awesome to be a Hired Gun :D

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Really enjoyed this one, especially hearing about the design process. Well done.

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Holy cr@ p! Great interview. This guy is awesome. I could listen to his stories all day.

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Thank you! Was a great listen!

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I highly disagree when they said the Royal Guards were not broken in campaign.

Maybe not quite as bad as skirmish, because you dont always have 8 threat to spend, but there was no better way to spend 8 threat.

But anyway, despite the skirmish focus, as a campaign player, I appreciated the interview.

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Thanks @Deadwolf

I'm less knowledgeable about Campaign obviously so I'll take your word about RG there. Good thing they were errataed in both. :)