Card Driven Games - Design Discussion with Mark Herman, Volko Ruhnke & Jason Matthews

Homo Ludens Podcast

Card Driven Games is one of the most popular modern families of wargames. From We The People to Twilight Struggle, those games cover a wide range of scales and historical situations. I invited 3 of the most influential designer of CDGs to discuss the history of CDG, its current state and the future that they see for those games.

- Mark Herman: CDG pioneer, designer of Empire of The Sun, Churchill, and so many more

- Jason Matthews: making CDGs go beyond traditional wargames with games such as Twilight Struggle or 1960 Making of a President

- Volko Ruhnke: known for his COIN series but also for some of the most interesting Card Driven Wargames like Wilderness War or Labyrinth