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Do I like game design? Yes, indie'd! A podcast of bitesize interviews with indie tabletop roleplaying game creators about their work and game design theory & practice. Releases every two weeks.
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April 9, 2025
<p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/indierpg"><u>You can support this show on Patreon</u></a>!</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, I speak to Paul Czege, a game designer with a deep catalogue that is hard to pin down. An<a href="https://www.rpg.net/columns/smallpress/smallpress6.phtml"><u> article on RPG.net from 2009</u></a> reads "Paul himself defies any sort of easy classification" . It continues, "Depending on your viewpoint, Paul is either one of the most prolific of the Gaming Outpost/Forge designers or one of the least. Also, depending on you how look at it, his best contribution lies in a single game (the still popular My Life With Master) or in the thought and effort he has put into the hobby of role playing and the practice of game design." Apart from LWM for which he won the Diana Jones Award in 2004, he also designed the melancholic minotaur game, The Clay That Woke. Recently, he's been writing about solo journalling games, publishing two zines, The Ink That Bleeds and Inscapes about how to play them, as well as some actual games including the Balsam Lake Unmurders, about catching a necromancer in Minnesota who keeps bringing people back to life, which is crowdfunding on Kickstarter.</p><p><br></p><p>Paul Czege’s itch page: <a href="https://paulczege.itch.io/"><u>https://paulczege.itch.io/</u></a> </p><p>The Balsam Lake Unmurders on Kickstarter: <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/252728880/the-balsam-lake-unmurders"><u>https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/252728880/the-balsam-lake-unmurders</u></a> </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Show Notes:</strong></p><p><a href="https://blog.trilemma.com/2021/02/nothing-at-bottom-mosaic-strict-rpg.html"><u>Mosaic Strict</u></a></p><p>The interview on the <a href="https://www.indiegamereadingclub.com/indie-game-reading-club/guest-interview-paul-czege/"><u>Indie Game Reading Club</u></a></p><p>Carl Jung, The Red Book</p><p>Close Encounters of the Third Kind</p><p>M John Harrison’s Viriconium</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Games Mentioned</strong></p><p>Earthdawn</p><p><a href="http://www.halfmeme.com/clay.html">The Clay That Woke</a></p><p><a href="https://www.paulczege.com/">The Ink That Bleeds</a></p><p>Inscapes</p><p>Traverser (unreleased)</p><p><a href="https://takataapui.itch.io/earth-mother-sky-father">Earth Mother, Sky Father</a></p><p><a href="https://paulczege.itch.io/a-viricorne-guide">A Viricorne Guide</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you liked this podcast, check out <a href="https://ttrpg.in/"><u>the weekly Indie RPG Newsletter</u></a><br></p>
March 15, 2025
<p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/indierpg"><u>You can support this show on Patreon</u></a>!</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, I’m talking to Viditya Voleti, a game designer and interactive artist. He's a visiting instructor at the Pratt Institute in NYC. He's freelanced for Paizo, Possum Creek Games, Evil Hat, and RRD. His own tabletop designs include vampire cowboy game, Bloodbeam Badlands, GMless optimistic scifi game, Space Between Stars (forthcoming from Possible Worlds Games), and <a href="https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/moreblueberries/a-land-once-magic?ref=yesindied"><u>A Land Once Magic</u></a>, a post fantasy worldbuilding game currently crowdfunding on Backerkit.</p><p><br></p><p>Viditya’s itch page: <a href="https://vidityavoleti.itch.io"><u>https://vidityavoleti.itch.io</u></a> A Land Once Magic on Backerkit: <a href="https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/moreblueberries/a-land-once-magic?ref=yesindied"><u>https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/moreblueberries/a-land-once-magic?ref=yesindied</u></a> </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Show Notes:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb-DtICmPTY"><u>Action Button Reviews Tokimeki Memorial </u></a>(6 hour video essay)</p><p>Kekkai Sensen // <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Blockade_Battlefront"><u>Blood Blockade Battlefront</u></a> (anime)</p><p>The original post coining the term <a href="http://lumpley.com/index.php/anyway/thread/119"><u>Fruitful Void</u></a> by Vincent Baker</p><p>++ Here’s a good Levi Kornelsen article about <a href="https://levikornelsen.wordpress.com/2024/04/02/dd-playstyle-7-fruitful-voids/"><u>whether D&D has one</u></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludonarrative_dissonance"><u>Ludonarrative Dissonance</u></a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Games Mentioned</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ehronlime/ithaca-in-the-cards-and-what-should-we-have-tomorrow-2nd-eds">Ithaca in the Cards</a> by Aaron Lim, crowdfunding on Kickstarter </p><p><a href="https://ufo-mina.itch.io/free-from-the-yoke">Free from the Yoke</a> (Legacy) by Mina McJanda</p><p><br></p><p>If you liked this podcast, check out <a href="https://ttrpg.in/"><u>the weekly Indie RPG Newsletter</u></a><br></p>
March 2, 2025
<p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/indierpg"><u>You can support this show on Patreon</u></a>!</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, I’m talking to Gabriel Robinson, a writer and game designer. He's the lead writer on the Silt Verses, an RPG published by the Gauntlet press adapted from the hit audio series. He's contributed to a number of other Gauntlet publications like Trophy, Brindlewood Bay, and more. Through his own imprint Glowing Roots press, he's published Token, a two-player tragic fantasy game, and Candlelight, a GM-less game of lost spirits revisiting their final moments. His games often have a folk horror aesthetic, dark and mysterious but usually stopping shy of macabre.</p><p>Gabriel’s website: <a href="https://glowingroots.carrd.co/"><u>https://glowingroots.carrd.co/</u></a></p><p>Gabriel’s bluesky: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/glowingroots.bsky.social"><u>https://bsky.app/profile/glowingroots.bsky.social</u></a> </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Show Notes:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.thesiltverses.com/"><u>The Silt Verses</u></a>, horror-fantasy podcast</p><p>The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Games Mentioned</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/458507/The-Silt-Verses-Roleplaying-Game?src=hottest"><u>Silt Verses RPG</u></a></p><p><a href="https://clearkeep.itch.io/thewassailing"><u>The Wassailing of Claus Manor</u></a></p><p><br></p><p>If you liked this podcast, check out <a href="https://ttrpg.in/"><u>the weekly Indie RPG Newsletter</u></a><br></p>
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