NEW EPISODE!
James talks to @meghanlynnftw.bsky.social about solo games, designing games with digital play in mind, unique mechanics, Meghan's new game, Homecoming, and more! Later, they create a seaside town with unpredictable tides that may have been caused by the sea creature living nearby
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NEW EPISODE! Part 2 of James's conversation with Tyler Crumrine, in which they discuss the inner workings of @possibleworlds.bsky.social, and the publishing industry at large. Later, they create an artist commune in which everything is dictated by engineered ant colonies and goo!
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NEW EPISODE! James is joined by Tyler Crumrine in a discussion about his career before @possibleworlds.bsky.social, the future of Possible Worlds Games as a publisher of both known and emerging designers, teaching a TTRPG game design course, and more! Part 2 will be out in 2 weeks!
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NEW EPISODE! @taylordotbiz.bsky.social talks to James about unions, the appeal of audio as an art form, the relationship between the AP performer and editor, and a peak into the BTS of @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social. Later, they create a saint in a pheromone based hive mind society.
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NEW EPISODE! @sharangbiswas.bsky.social joins James in a discussion about what defines a game designer, games education, and the influence of sexuality in his games. Later, they create a sanatorium founded by ghosts, a faction of militant vegan dragon riders, and their enemies — the cheese makers.

NEW EPISODE! @gannon.bsky.social joins James in a discussion about combat and time constraints in actual play, his approach to making horror actually scary, and more! In the second half of the episode, they create an inscrutable god whose whims are impossible to predict, let alone please.
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NEW EPISODE! @aramvartian.com joins James in a discussion about personal standards, the future of TTRPG publishing, how collaboration has influenced his work, and more! Later, they create an outer space human civilization with moral AI gods, a discovery of magic, and how it changed everything
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NEW EPISODE! @friede.bsky.social joins James in a discussion about the challenges of studying actual play, the "ambitious middle", overreliance on digitization, the responsibility of reviewing AP and more! Later, they create a punk world that answers the question "What if Rococo got covered in ash?"

NEW EPISODE! Listen to @kiennas.bsky.social talk solo and duet games, whether the inability to playtest solo games changes how they design them, working on videogames vs TTRPGs, and more! In the 2nd half of the episode, they create an abandoned prison turned abandoned circus. Links Below 🔗

NEW EPISODE! @jeffstormer.gobirds.online talks to James about WebFests, his evolving sense of what "Party of One" is, and the evolving perceptions of what actual play should be. In the 2nd half of the episode they create a reality warping superhero with a moral code made of steel!
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NEW EPISODE! @vidityavoleti.bsky.social talks to James about why you should leave games unfinished, differences in designing a physical vs digital product, and much more! In the second half of the episode, James and Viditya create a sunken cyberpunk city in a post-climate-crisis world. Links Below 🔗

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