Yes Indie'd Pod

Thomas M
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Yes Indie'd Pod

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.

  1. 1 DAY AGO

    Anti-Canon Settings (w/ Gabriel Robinson)

    You can support this show on Patreon⁠⁠! 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. Gabriel’s website: https://glowingroots.carrd.co/ Gabriel’s bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/glowingroots.bsky.social  Show Notes: The Silt Verses, horror-fantasy podcast The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper Games Mentioned Silt Verses RPG The Wassailing of Claus Manor If you liked this podcast, check out the weekly Indie RPG Newsletter

    43 min

  2. FEB 17

    Theatre & Games (w/ Caro Asercion)

    You can support this show on Patreon⁠⁠! In this episode, I’m joined by Caro Asercion, who is an interdisciplinary artist, game designer, and theatre person. They do a lot of work in theatre as a dramaturg and producer of various kinds. In games, they're best known for im sorry did you say street magic, a game of cities and their secrets, based on the classic world building game, Microscope. They've also co-designed supplemental material for Beam Saber with Rufus Roswell, coining the mantra, "bangers only", which was all about how much a precise and skillful use of language gives to game design. Last year, they released Last Train To Bremen, a 4 player game of doomed musicians trying to outrun a deal they made with the devil. Caro’s itch.io page: https://seaexcursion.itch.io/  Show Notes: Chase Carter’s review of Last Train to Bremen Article about all the Rascals playing the game Cheap Bots Done Quick Games Mentioned CJ Linton’s Prince of Nothing Good (unreleased, work in progress) Space Between Stars by Viditya Voleti If you liked this podcast, check out the weekly Indie RPG Newsletter

    59 min

  3. FEB 5

    The Lego Blocks of RPG Design (w/ Levi Kornelsen)

    You can support this show on Patreon⁠⁠! On this episode, I’m joined by Levi Kornelsen, previously known as Amagi Games. He is a Canadian designer who's been part of the scene for a long time. He's designed a bunch of games like the Schema framework and the recent Saints of the Empty Throne but is probably best known for his RPG theory, such as the essential Manyfold Glossary. He's a big open source advocate and most of his work is distributed for free under a creative commons license. Everything he writes on his itch page is worth reading for designers looking for language and tools to diagnose or just better understand what it is exactly they're doing. Blog: https://levikornelsen.wordpress.com/ Itch store: https://levikornelsen.itch.io/ Show Notes: Praxic Compendium (by Levi Kornelsen) Manyfold by (Levi Kornelsen) Rec.games.frp.advocacy rpg.net The Phoenix Guards by Steven Brust (novel) Traitor’s Blade by Sebastien de Castell (novel) Games Mentioned (Too many to list them all) Saints of the Empty Throne Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple  The Whispering Vault League and Fathom Castle Falkenstein Yazeba’s Bed and Breakfast Under Hollow Hills If you liked this podcast, check out the weekly Indie RPG Newsletter

    1h 3m

  4. JAN 16

    Learning From Children's Books (w/ Meguey Baker)

    You can support this show on Patreon⁠⁠! On this episode, I’m joined by Meguey Baker. She's the designer of PsiRun and 1001 Nights, published under her label, Night Sky Games. She's also the co-designer of Apocalypse World, which started the fundamental Powered by the Apocalypse design movement. She wrote the influential Fair Games blog with Emily Care Boss for many years. She's a textile conservation specialist who works with museums, a quilter, a trained sex ed teacher, and a breast cancer survivor. Meguey and Vincent Baker’s patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lumpley  Blog: https://lumpley.games  Itch store: https://lumpley.itch.io/  Show Notes: Children’s Books Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran and Barbara Cooney (read aloud) Dragon Scales and Willow Leaves by Terry L Givens (read aloud) A Hole Is To Dig by Ruth Krauss and Maurice Sendak (read aloud) Once Upon A Pirate Ship by Mircea Vasiliu Games The Old, The Cold and the Bold by Whitney Delaglio / Little Wish Productions If you liked this podcast, check out the weekly Indie RPG Newsletter

    59 min

  5. 2024-12-23 · BONUS

    2024 Wrapped: Guests Recommend Games!

    Bonus episode, where guests from across the year chime in with games they've played that they loved and want to talk about. Games mentioned: Hannah Shaeffer recommends The Beast Evan Rowland recommends Usagi Yojimbo Quinns recommends World Wide Wrestling Aaron King recommends Saga of the Icelanders Max Lander recommends Blood Feud Graham Walmsley recommends Lumberjills Sidney Icarus recommends Bump in the Dark jay dragon recommends Last Train to Bremen Tom McGrenery recommends Wolves Upon the Coast Mint recommends Bones Deep, Moth-light and Spectaculars Aaron Voigt recommends Subway Runners Huffa recommends here there be monsters and many other games B Marsollier recommends Anamnesis J Strautman recommends Rom Com Drama Bomb MV Soumithri recommends Stonetop Zoheb Mashiur recommends After the Mind, the World Again Marsh Davies recommends No-tell Motel Jim Rossignol recommends Agon

    41 min

  6. 2024-12-09

    2024 in Review (feat. Quinns)

    You can support this show on Patreon⁠⁠! On this episode, I’m joined by Quinns from Quinns Quest as we look back on the last year together.  Show Notes: Rascal News Indie RPG Newsletter Quinns mentioned Mythic Bastionland, Good Society, Public Access, The Siltverses, Blood Borg Thomas mentioned Hearts of Wulin and its expansion, Numberless Secrets Also: Draw Steel, Yazeba’s Bed and Breakfast, Triangle Agency Jubensha video on People Make Games Street Fighter RPG from White Wolf Mothership Month Stream where Matt Colville talks about sending Quinns’ Draw Steel Cain and the week that was all Tom Bloom Reach out at thomas by writing to notrueindian at outlook.com

    1h 5m
  7. Horror, Comedy, Class War in TEETH (w/ Marsh Davies and Jim Rossignol)

    2024-11-30

    Horror, Comedy, Class War in TEETH (w/ Marsh Davies and Jim Rossignol)

    On this episode, I talk to Marsh Davies and Jim Rossignol. Jim was the co-founder of videogaming website Rock Paper Shotgun, where he worked for many years. He's also the author of This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities. Now, he does things like write the Ludocrats with Kieron Gillen and develop indie games through his company, Big Robot. Marsh is a writer and illustrator who has written about video games at RPS and PCGamer and was former head of creative writing at Minecraft developer Mojang. He's also part of the Crate & Crowbar, a weekly PC gaming podcast, that has more than 400 episodes and we can all agree might be too many. Their itch page: https://teethrpg.itch.io/ You can support this show on Patreon⁠!

    1h 4m

  8. 2024-11-15

    Zombies, Doors, and Objective Immersion (w/ Elliot Davis)

    On this episode, I speak to Elliot Davis, an artist, podcaster and, game designer. He's one of the co-founders of Many Sided Media, a podcast production company behind shows like My First Dungeon, Bitcherton and Talk of the Table. His games include Rom Com Drama Bomb and solo timetravel game, Project Ecco. He's currently crowdfunding his latest game, The Time We Have, a tragic game about two brothers, one of whom is slowly but inevitably turning into a zombie. Show Notes: 03:09 - The Time We Have: brothers, using a door as immersion, and other design tweaks 18:00 - Becoming a full-time games person 37:40 - Infectious Enthusiasm: They Came To Play Ball by Adira Slattery 38:50 - Tyranny of Numbers 40:53 - RePlay 43:22 - All Advice is Advice For Myself You can support this show on Patreon!

    47 min
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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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  • Creator
    Thomas M
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
    164
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Thomas M
  • Show Website
    Yes Indie'd Pod

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