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Thomas M
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In this episode, I talk to Aaron Lim, a game designer from Malaysia. His work includes sad village-building game An Altogether Different River, very sad journey game Itchaca on the Cards, and tragic mecha game Spectres of Brocken. He's also the organizer of Playtest Zero, a fortnightly RPG playtesting community that's been going on since 2021.
Aaron Lim on bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ehronlime.bsky.social
Aaron’s itch page: https://ehronlime.itch.io/
Show Notes:
My article about visiting Malaysia for the Asian Board Games Festival
Only Yesterday (1991)
Games Mentioned
Ithaca on the Cards: Second Expedition
Microscope
Big Grave Fashion Fantasy
Desperation
Zhenya’s Wonder Tales
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In this episode, I talk to Asa Donald is one-half of Backwards Tabletop, the publisher of the Backwards Universe of American horror games and Rust Never Sleeps, a solo mecha game. Their current project is Spine, a dark solo RPG about losing yourself in a book.
Asa Donald on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/backwardsttrpg.bsky.social
Spine (Digital): https://backwards-tabletop.itch.io/spine
Spine (Physical): https://mixam.com/print-on-demand/68ec499e9e0b692d084d6b6c
Show Notes:
Asa’s series on Bookplay and interviews with other designers: www.backwardstabletop.com
Pale Fire by Nabokov
Games Mentioned
You Will Die In This Place
Normality
Wisher Theurgist Fatalist
Harvest
Wreck This Deck (and Wreck This Book)
Seven Part Pact
The Sun’s Ransom
Yazeba’s Bed and Breakfast
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Today, I’m talking to Allen Varney, who runs the Bundle of Holding currently, which I think everyone listening to this had heard of. Before that, he worked as a freelance writer, editor, game designer for TSR, Steve Jackson Games, West End Games, FASA, and more. He was the lead designer for Paranoia XP, the 2004 edition of the game from Mongoose, and wrote a ton of articles for house magazines like Dragon.
Bundle of Holding: https://bundleofholding.com
Show Notes:
Space Gamer magazine
Games Mentioned
Steve Jackson's Man-to-Man Fantasy Combat (also Car Wars, Ogre, and more)
Toon
Paranoia
Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan (Dracula Dossier, Darkening of Mirkwood, Eyes of the Stone Thief)
Primal Order
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Today, I’m talking to Josh Fox who was last on the podcast to talk about the second edition of his award-winning game, Lovecraftesque. We talked about Black Armada Games, the company he's been running for ten years with his partner, the game designer Becky Annison. This time, we’re talking about Ex Tenebris, a scifi gothic investigation game.
Crowdfunding link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blackarmada/ex-tenebris
Show Notes:
Alien
Black Armada Tales (AP of Ex Tenebris)
Games Mentioned
Last Fleet
Flotsam
Dark Heresy
Brindlewood Bay
The Between
Bump in the Dark
External Containment Bureau
Stealing the Throne
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Today, I’m talking to Elizabeth Little. She’s a UK-based science teacher, artist, and game designer. She co-founded Shrike Studio in 2015 and released games such as Blight Seas Fleet, a dark fantasy naval skirmish game, for which she developed a whole range of 3D printable miniatures. This year, she released a demo of You Will Die In This Place, an RPG described as "a nihilistic dungeoncrawler about art, death and identity". It’s weird, meta, layered, and also very asymmetrical like a boardgame. We talk about its design and themes (everything is a labyrinth! relationships, games, mental illness!) and its crowdfunding campaign via GameFound's RPG Party later this year.
Crowdfunding link: gamefound.com/en/projects/shrike-studio/you-will-die-in-this-place
Itch.io link: https://liz-shrikestudio.itch.io/
Show Notes:
The Denial of Death by Ernst Becker
Myth of Sisyphus
Labyrinths by Jose Luis Borges
Deimos by Dragan Bibin (painting)
Toni R. Toivonen’s brass art
Watching from a Distance by Warning (doom metal album)
Essay about the game by the Split/Party newsletter
Games Mentioned
Call of Cthulhu
Delta Green
World of Darkness
Zephyr: An Anarchist Game of Fleeting Identities
Yazeba’s Bed and Breakfast
Paint the Town Red
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