Vee Hendro Interview
Vee Hendro of Storybrewers shares her thoughts on designing accessible games for people new to roleplaying games and how everything from cultural advisors to other games influenced the final shape of Villagesong.
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Isaac Williams Interview
Isaac Williams tells the story of how Mausritter grew from a simple homebrew hack of "Into the Odd meets Mice and Mystics" into the beautiful boxed set we know today.
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Mausritter website
Brendan Conway Interview
Brendan Conway was certainly on our radar since his PbtA teen superhero game Masks. We talked to him about his career, Zombie World and how the success of the Avatar Legends role-playing game change Magpie as a company.
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Magpie Games
Interview Mina McJanda
Mina McJanda tells us why there are so many moves in Legacy: Life Among the Ruins, and share thoughts on the future of the game.
Rae Nedjadi Interview
Apocalypse Keys designer Rae Nedjadi talks about their design process, Ghostrider and the TTRPG scene in the Philippines.
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Sword Queen Games
Apocalypse Keys
The Between: Jason Cordova
Jason Cordova, designer of The Between, joins us to discuss the game design story behind his victorian monster hunter extravaganza, and how doing a huge detour with Brindlewood Bay influenced the final game.
3W6 Con 2022
Eine ganz besondere Folge. Nach drei Jahren endlich wieder live von der 3W6 Con in Wien, noch dazu mit unserer Guest of Honor Alex Roberts (For the Queen, Star Crossed). Die 3W6 Community kommt ebenfalls zu Wort und spricht über die gespielten Spiele und gemachten Erfahrungen.
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Alex Roberts
FreeBeeGee
Interview: Chris Sellers
Raccoon Sky Pirates is a madcap story game about raccoons flying to suburbia and raiding a house to steal trash. We talk to its designer Chris Sellers about player agency, facilitation and Kickstarter frenzy.
Unfortunately, Harald was still ill at the time of this recording. This is also the reason why episode nine is live before episode 8, our review of Raccoon Sky Pirates. Bear with us.
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Hectic Electron Website
Itch.io
Chris on Twitter
Discord
Kathryn Hymes
Dialect co-designer Kathryn Hymes joined us for an insightful and inspiring discussion of her design process and how her background in math and computational linguistics plays into it. And there is some more Sapir-Whorf hypothesis trash talk.
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Kathryn Hymes
Thorny Games
Brindlewood Bay: Setting
Wir sprechen zum Abschluss der Brindlewood Bay Mini-Serie mit Alicia Furness (der Autorin von Bed, Breakfast & Beyond, Paranormal Inc. und Unquiet Dark) darüber was das Setting von Brindlewood Bay ist, ob es überhaupt eines gibt, wie es im Spiel entsteht und wie man Material dafür schreibt.
Brindlewood Bay: Jason Cordova
Jason Cordova, designer of Brindlewood Bay, joins us to discuss the origin story behind his game of murder mavens, and how game design sometimes happens after the fact and what play testing with a large community for two years can teach you about your own game.
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Brindlewood Bay Kickstarter
Gauntlet Publishing Discord
Interview: John Harper and Sean Nittner (English)
Finally, we welcome two designers whose games we talked about many times: John Harper and Sean Nittner join us to discuss their game of epic storytelling in ancient Greece, Agon. They discuss their design approach for this game, how it was influenced by Blades in the Dark, and what’s next for them.
King Nothing: Rob Hebert
Rob Hebert, designer of King Nothing, joins us to discuss how Lady Blackbird and PbtA shaped his way of playing story-focused RPGs and influenced the design process of King Nothing and many of his other games.
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Nerdy Paper Games
Stras Acimovic and John LeBoeuf-Little
Stras and John, designers of Band of Blades and Scum and Villainy, join us to discuss their design process, and how they developed their dark military fantasy game, Forged in the Dark.
Unfortunately, Harald could not join this interview.
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Off Guard Games
Hannah Shaffer (2021)
In our final episode on Damn the Man, Save the Music, we hear from the game's co-designer Hannah Shaffer.
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Damn the Man, Save the Music
Spenser Starke
Wrapping up our series on Alice is Missing, the game's designer Spenser Starke is joining us for a discussion about his inspiration, his design process and the new generation of RPG game designers.
Content note: themes of death, loss and grief are addressed.
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Spenser’s website
Alice is Missing
Jason Morningstar
Jason Morningstar joins us to discuss designing and redesigning Fiasco – and a couple of new games.
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Bully Pulpit Games
Nathan D. Paoletta
We talk to Nathan D. Paoletta, designer of World Wide Wrestling, about his design work and his approach to a second edition of his game.
Interview: David Brunell-Brutman (English)
In our final episode on Hogwarts, a Role-Playing Game, we speak to its designer, David Brunell-Brutman. We discuss Harry Potter, fan work, Hogwarts houses, random character creation, graphic design and the intricacies of Quidditch.
Interview Amit Moshe
We wrap up our mini-series on City of Mist with an interview with the game’s designer Amit Moshe, talking about CoM’s heritage, design process and fanbase.