Tabletop RPG game design. "Yes Indie’d is for me the gold standard for conversations with designers & other folks in the space. Thomas Manuel has few (if any) peers in his training and just care that he takes in prep and execution" - Dr Emily Friedman
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You can support this show on Patreon ! In this episode, I am talking to Chrys Sellers about her game, Defy the Gods. Check the game out at: https://hecticelectron.com/ Chrys’ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hecticelectron.bsky.social Show Notes: The Record (album) by Boy Genius Paul Takes the form of a Mortal Girl (novel) by Andrea Lawlor Jirel of Joiry (short stories) by CL Moore Games…
You can support this show on Patreon ! In this episode, I am talking to Sam Dunnewold, screenwriter, game designer, and podcaster of Dice Exploder . This episode is about his new game, some trends in game design, and the overlap between OSR and larp. Check out Band Aids & Bullet Holes : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sdunnewold/band-aids-and-bullet-holes Show Notes: Indie Game Reading Club…
You can support this show on Patreon ! In this episode, I I am talking to Jeremy Strandberg, who is an instructional designer, software trainer, and. game designer. He's the creator of Homebrew World and Defy Danger, two RPGs you might have heard of from the Dungeon World scene. He has a blog called spoutinglore.blogspot.com and he is the designer of Stonetop , an iron age fantasy game of…
You can support this show on Patreon ! In this episode, I talk to Zach Cox, founder of Soul Muppet Publishing.They are also the designer or co-designer of sad adventurer game Best Left Buried, sad Arthurian gunslinger game Inevitable, and sad vampire game Paint the Town Red. They also worked at Rowan Rook & Decard for a while. But the big news is that the scifi sad space cowboy game Orbital…
You can support this show on Patreon ! In this episode, I talk to Gabriel and Le, filmmakers and VFX artists based in Canada. They run the Youtube channel, Weird Place, which has a very cool series about games and game histories around the world as well as actual play, video essays, guides and more. They also make games: they funded and released Fluff n Fury last year, a cyberpunk rpg where you…
You can support this show on Patreon ! In this episode, I talk to Tim Denee, a Wellington-based graphic designer, illustrator, and game designer. His graphic design work has been recognised by the Best Awards, Tokyo Design Week and the International Society of Typographic Designers. He's also the co-author of We Are Here: An Atlas of Aotearoa, which was shortlisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards.…
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You can support this show on Patreon ! In this episode, I talk to Aaron Lim, a game designer from Malaysia. His work includes sad village-building game An Altogether Different River , very sad journey game Itchaca on the Cards , and tragic mecha game Spectres of Brocken . He's also the organizer of Playtest Zero, a fortnightly RPG playtesting community that's been going on since 2021. Aaron Lim…
You can support this show on Patreon ! In this episode, I talk to Asa Donald is one-half of Backwards Tabletop, the publisher of the Backwards Universe of American horror games and Rust Never Sleeps, a solo mecha game. Their current project is Spine, a dark solo RPG about losing yourself in a book. Asa Donald on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/backwardsttrpg.bsky.social Spine (Digital):…
You can support this show on Patreon ! Today, I’m talking to Allen Varney, who runs the Bundle of Holding currently, which I think everyone listening to this had heard of. Before that, he worked as a freelance writer, editor, game designer for TSR, Steve Jackson Games, West End Games, FASA, and more. He was the lead designer for Paranoia XP, the 2004 edition of the game from Mongoose, and wrote…
