I’m chatting with Ray, Cassidy and Chris about Calliope’s catalog, game design and the industry as a whole! Calliope Games has already earned their industry chops and they’ve got some fantastic things for you now and in the near future. Check out Roll For It! Deluxe, and some great news about their forthcoming Titans series. [...]
Stephen Buonocore of Stronghold Games comes back to the podcast with so many games, if you were to decimate his 2014 lineup, he’d still have nine titles left! We talk a bit about scheduling games from production to street date and what a miracle that can be and a few other industry tidbits. We also [...]
This episode of Indie Talks is brought to you by Stronghold Games. Ed and I talk about Liftoff – Get me off this Planet! The new board game being Kickstarted right now! We go into game design, running a good Kickstarter campaign, shoot down the rabbit hole of Kickstarter and your local game shop, hop back [...]
Holy cow! 50 episodes! That’s quite a boundary to have reached and it’s a little hard to believe I’ve been doing this for over 2 years now. To celebrate, I have the pleasure of interviewing Dennis Hoyle of Bellwether Games! Their first Kickstarter, Antidote is kicking butt and already over 130% funded and closing in [...]
In this episode, we encounter a troupe of dancing mystical midgets, acquire their bowl of extraordinary power and find out why mom always said not to play ball in the house. Someone has the audacity to try and ambush us using trees. Our mage comes <—-> that close to joining our once deceased kobold, and [...]
Welcome to our fourth full session of Actual Play Old School RPG! Join our team of intrepid adventurers as they take on Orcs, unmade beds and thousands of doors using Palladium’s Fantasy RPG, 1st Edition. In this episode, we encounter more orcs than you can shake a pointed stick at. We uncover a potential enemy [...]
In glorious episode 49 I’m chatting with Teale Fristoe of Nothing Sacred Games about their newest project: Shadow Throne. It looks to be a super-fun card game that employs two of my favorite things! Card drafting and backstabbing. Who wouldn’t like that? You can find Shadow Throne on Kickstarter right now through June 27 (’14) [...]
Welcome to our third full session of Actual Play Old School RPG! Join our team of intrepid adventurers as they take on Orcs and Ogres using Palladium’s Fantasy RPG, 1st Edition. In this episode, we get jumped by a pig. With a stinger! Then we talk a bunch of highly trained, heavily armed troops in to [...]
Welcome to our second full session of Actual Play Old School RPG! Join our team of intrepid adventurers as they take on Orcs and Ogres using Palladium’s Fantasy RPG, 1st Edition. In this episode – we begin to record just as a nasty thunder and lightning storm moves through! We rescue the salty mouthed innkeep, [...]
This here is a special, additional feature thrown into Indie Talks! Nearly four years ago, four of us got together to relive our childhood by playing Palladium Fantasy RPG (1st Edition). These are live, often NSFW recordings of those sessions. The regular twice monthly episodes will continue as normal, in addition to these OSAP posts. [...]
Alexander, who’s name I horribly mangle, was kind enough to stay up way, way late and chat with me from Greece! He’s the co-founder of Mage Company, publisher of many games with a Kickstarter currently in play for 12 Realms – Ancestor’s Legacy. It’s the expansion to 2013’s successful Kickstarter, 12 Realms. Like what you [...]
Stephen Hood folks! Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard of Storium by now. An online, storytelling game that’s currently thriving on Kickstarter. I’ve been able to poke around the beta version a bit and it’s fascinating! In this episode, Stephen’s going to tell us how Storium came about, and what makes [...]
Aerjen comes on the show to talk about his newest project, Pleasant Dreams, a card game currently on Kickstarter and doing quite well, thank you very much! He’s also an avid student of game design and design theory and we go into what it takes to make a good game. Aerjen’s got some interesting insight [...]
In this episode I’m joined by Jonathan Nelson who’s got a wonderful Snow White adventure cooking on Kickstarter! Or at least he will, starting tomorrow! Jonathan is the creator of the Snow White RPG adventure for Pathfinder and D&D 3.5. He can also be found at Adventure a Week and Nerd Trek. Jen Page (an Indie [...]
Jay Little is our guest in this episode! Jay’s designed over 50 titles, many of which grace my (and probably your) gaming shelves! He’s had his part in such huge games as X-Wing, Star Wars Edge of Empire, Warhammer Fantasy RPG, Blood Bowl Team Manager and so many more. Jay talks about how he got [...]
Danny Devine, creator of Mob Town joins us! Mob Town is currently on Kickstarter with 24 days to go and is well on track to fund. In Mob Town, 2-4 players take on the role of Mob Families vying for control of unique towns that build differently every time you play. Surprisingly, it’s an awesome family [...]
Curt Covert joins me today as we talk game design, being back stabby and the process of publishing games! Curt is the driving force behind Smirk and Dagger games. For more of Curt’s history in the world of table top gaming, and just as a generally good idea all around, check out Tom Vasel’s Board [...]
Episode 40 finds me chatting with Fred Hicks of Evil Hat Productions! We talk Fred’s gaming history, including the venerable MUSH, game design, openness (of which Evil Hat is just about the most open company out there) and much, much more. We also get a preview of Evil Hat’s latest card game – Zeppelin Attack, [...]
I’m joined by Jeff Wilcox and Anthony Gallela of 12 SP Entertainment to talk about their wonderful new game Zeppeldrome! We’ll talk gaming influences, industry cred, and just what got them back into the game with 12 SP Entertainment and the Zeppeldrome Kickstarter which is going on right now! We would love to get your [...]
This podcast was unfortunately delayed a bit from before the holidays as I struggled mightily with some Youtube issues. I’ve finally gotten those straightened out, and what we’re left with is an excellent podcast! Dan Yarrington joins me from Game Salute as we talk about everything under the sun that has to do with the [...]