Interview with Betsy Joslyn

For this episode, I chat with Betsy Joslyn, a Research Associate for the Joint Advanced Wargaming Division at the Institute for Defense Analysis. Her recent design TURNING TIDES is a microgame demonstrating competing interests between nations to reduce global greenhouse gases at a geopolitical level. We discuss her design approach to great power competition and the virtues of micro-gaming heavy topics.

You can download Turning Tides here

Chapters

• 0:38 Climate Change and International Security
• 18:02 Microgame Design
• 46:08 Knizia's Lord of the Rings
• 49:40 Stegmaier's Scythe
• 1:00:20 Betsy and Dan are nerds about medical history