TLB Podcast #8 - Batts - My body is a cage

John Battle, aka Batts is the designer of the RPG My body is a cage. In the game, there are two worlds, the one you live in during the daytime, very much like the one we live in ourselves, and the one you dream of. When you dream, you go exploring dungeons, you fight monsters, you collect treasures, you try to make a better life for yourself.

In this episode, we talk about the inescapable duality of life, D6 dice pools, mecha games, movies, screenwriting, game design, and much more.

You can listen to the podcast here:

Or on youtube with English Subtitles.

https://youtu.be/9G2Cf8eQjNQ

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Batts is running a Kickstarter campaign for My body is a cage Extended Edition, a hardcover book, that features tons of brilliant collaborators and artists. The project graphic design and game design are awesome, the Kickstarter is in its last week, be sure to check it here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/s-o-c/my-body-is-a-cage 

Check Batts youtube channel and video essays on games and RPGs

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsJknmArOr95Rs4nuUi28bA

And get in touch with Batts on twitter

https://twitter.com/theBestPupper

TLB Podcast #7 Ian Yusem - The Drain/Picket line tango/Moonbase blues

 

Ian Yusem is the designer of the Mothership rpg adventures Moonbase blues, Picket Line Tango, The Drain. Ian has also a great blog called Uncanny Spheres in which he writes with a lot of honesty about his experience as an indie rpg designer. There, he posts detailed postmortems of his games where he addresses the financial reality of being an indie TTRPG designer and he writes a lot about community. What does that mean to belong to a community of creators ? How does one even find their own community ?

In this episode we talk about finding solace through RPGs, Dissident Whispers a charity collective RPG book in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, making a living out of TTRPG design, Kickstarter, a utopic future for the indie RPG scene and much more.

You can listen to the podcast here:

Or on youtube with English Subtitles.
https://youtu.be/xW6VR1Xiqfc

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Get in touch with Ian here https://twitter.com/IanYusem

Download his games here https://ian-yusem.itch.io/

And read is awesome blog Uncanny Sphereshere https://uncannyspheres.blogspot.com/

TLB Podcast #6 Anna Blackwell - Delve/Rise/Umbra

Anna Blackwell is the designer of the solo RPG Delve, or rather the solo RPG series Delve, Rise and Umbra. 

Delve is a map-drawing game in which you run an underground dwarven hold. As you dig underground you encounter magic, treasures, evil forces. The game is played with dice and a standard card deck. It involves exploration, resource management, and drawing, and it's built to create a strong emergent narrative experience.

In this episode, we talk about the fear of the dark, caving, drawing, solo RPGs, emergent narrative and game design.

You can listen to the podcast here:

Or on youtube with English Subtitles. The subtitled episode will be ready by the end of the week. You can subscribe to the channel to get notified as soon as the episode is ready https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBcjgiUURodfLWy-cDqpK2Q

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And soon here:

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For more info on caves, night, to read an Anna Blackwell Delve story, to watch a secret film for cool links get THE ZINE OF ZINES - ISSUE 1 it's free for you to download on itch

You can find Anna's games here:

https://blackwellwriter.itch.io/

or here:

https://www.blackwellwriter.com/