# #38 - Mr Ben: (Mr) Ben or Nothing [Mystery Box #1]

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Podcast: [Intertextual Experience: A Board Game Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/intertextual-experience-a-board-game-podcast-6581735)
Published: 2025-08-13T09:50:14+00:00
Episode link: https://rss.com/podcasts/intertextualcardboardexperience/2164364
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Mr Ben, a creator with many hats, joins the show to talk about his online store, travel-games.co.uk and the different sides of the hobby travel-games is entering by way of design, publication, localization, mystery boxes that expose people to a variety of games coming out of the Tokyo Game Market, and much more. Instead of blathering on, I’ll leave you with this great quote of Mr Ben’s in the episode: “He’s not harmful; he just drives you a little bit mad, which I think is quite nice, so I made a little story about that, which I’m going to put in the box, I think.” Travel-games is linked above, but here it is again ! Information about Best of Neapolitan on Trickster's Table . Mr Ben's Design Page Introduction (0:00) How Mr Ben’s board gaming background led to travel-games.co.uk travel-books.games.movies.adaptations (11:06) Opening the mystery box. Intertextuality at its finest. What Mr Ben is reading as well as some book adaptations that work on the screen and cardboard. Rotating Poultry (25:49) Mr Ben’s design process and a whole bunch of awesome games to look forward to! ”The Underdog” (45:26) This title really doesn’t have that much to do with the section? But it’s a Spoon song. I guess I can BOAST that I make really ridiculous chapter titles. Or that I eat a lot of Neapolitan. Or both. 8-bits and bobs (1:12:46) Handhelds and retro gaming. Wrap-up Questions (1:25:32) Some texts on Mr Ben’s mind as well as even more to look out for from him! [As it's about one in the morning, I'm realizing the "games mentioned Google Doc" is incomplete. That will be uploaded some time during the day of 8/13] ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you like this show, liking it on whatever platform you listen to and writing a review would mean so much! Fur…

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