Season 2, Episode 10. On this season finale, Adam and Will talk about Brindlewood Bay and the concept of the quantum mystery. We get into stoner mysteries, the LA of it all, and what to do about ipods.
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Season 2, Episode 9. On this episode, Adam and Will talk about their perfect creative conditions, how long we’ll be making games, magic systems, epiphanies, changes in approaches over time, and more.
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On this episode, Adam and Will talk about cons: working them, playing games at them, and running games at them, and all the feelings wrapped up therein.
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On this episode, Adam and Will talk about finishing projects, Mortal Kombat, and Adam’s white whale project.
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On this episode, Adam and Will recap and discuss this year’s ZineQuest, and explore a spiritual successor to a game they both love.
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Season 2, Episode 5: Brain Trust Babies
On this episode, Will regales Adam with an anecdote about a recent game.
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On this episode, we chat about what happens when we send games to print, and the eternal struggle of supporting systems with adventure releases. How do you build a play culture?
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Season 2, Episode 3
Part 3 of 3 on crowdfunding. In this episode, we talk about the existential aspects of crowdfunding, and answering questions from the Brain Trust Discord and Bluesky:
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Season 2, Episode 2: Crowdfunding is a Pencil Dive into a Pond.
Part 2 of 3 on crowdfunding. In this episode, we focus on the mental aspect of crowdfunding, and answer questions from our Discord and Bluesky:
How do you crowdfund a second game?
How to balance sustainability and environmental responsibility?
Can crowdfunding be fun?
Do we need to divorce our worth from our projects more?
How do you stop thinking about the campaign when you need to do other tasks, like sleep?
How do you disengage in a healthy way to prevent obsession with watching the meter go up?
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Season 2, Episode 1: For Those About to Crowdfund, We Salute You
Part 1 of 3 on crowdfunding. In this episode, we break down first principles of a crowdfunding campaign. What is it, why do we do it, and how do we stay sane while doing it.
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Season 1, Episode 11: In this episode, we tackle a question from Ethan Yen about creating competitive TTRPGs.
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Season 1, Episode 10: In this episode, we answer listener questions, specifically about monster design, art, and “quiet innovation”.
Appendix N:
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/rock-paper-scissors---a-method-for-competitive-game-play-design
Made Out Of Meat: Health Systems In Video Games
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Season 1, Episode 9: In this episode, we talk about how we communicate what our games even are, and how we can meld minds with people who run games via the page.
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Season 1, Episode 8: We were both… ACTUALLY… at Gen Con. Here’s our report!
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Season 1, Episode 7: In this episode we join our hosts mere minutes after the end of a successful Kickstarter.
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Season 1, Episode 6: In this episode, we talk everything Plasmodics, a big update on our lives and project, and how we highlight the usness of our games.
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Season 1, Episode 5: In this episode, we talk about shock jocks, graphic design, and studying adventures, and in the middle we design the Born to Die TTRPG! Listen to part two of this episode only on Ko-Fi, on 2/6.
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Appendix N:
Sinix Design
Elliotisacoolguy
Shannon Swales
Struthless
Electric Bastionland
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Lancer
Kill Five Billion Demons
Ten Million HP Planet
Hardspace Shipbreaker
Good Friends of Jackson Elias
Season 1, Episode 4: In this episode, we chat about IKEA, save points in TTRPGs, and how we research games, and who our “game parents” are.
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Appendix N:
Baldur’s Gate 3
big Grave Fashion Fantasy
Vampire the Masquerade
One Thousand Year Old Vampire
Blood Borg
A Guide to Casting Phantoms in the Revolution
Black Mass
Mork Borg
Vaults of Vaarn
Season 1, Episode 3: In this episode, we talk about companions and how we love to use them.
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Appendix N:
Baldur’s Gate 3
Plasmodics: mutant freaks in the weird future
Wastelanders
Season 1, Episode 2b Bonus: In this episode, we enter the Therapy-G zone to talk about how to run dungeons while playing digitally!
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Appendix N:
Western Kabuki
Dungeons and Dragons (disrespectful)
