Interviews

We recently interviewed Caleb Stokes about his new economic horror role playing game; Red Markets.

If you'd like to find out more about Red Markets, or support this project the Kickstarter is currently running so check it out here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/159466030/red-markets

Or you can find out more on the Hebanon Games blogspot: http://hebanon.blogspot.com.au/

Interview with Caleb Stokes of Hebanon Games

Today we’ve got an interview for you with local event organisers and trivia hosts Josh&Liam from Stagwiz. They’re going to talk to us about how they built up a loyal community of fans, and give us insight into their game design and creative process.

Interview With Josh&Liam from Stagwiz

Recently we spent the day with Hayley and Vee from Storybrewers, collective of game creators. They have a new RPG out on Kickstarter; Alas for the Awful Sea. 
We had a bit of a chat about that and some other things.

As of posting this there are still 60 hours on the clock for their KS so if you want to show them some love follow this link
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/259750074/alas-for-the-awful-sea-myth-mystery-and-crime-in-1/

StoryBrewers Interview

We recently had a chat with Ettin, the creator of Breakfast Cult.
We also had a chat about some more esoteric things...and of course CthulhuTech.

Interview with Ettin; maker of Breakfast Cult

This week we're taking a short break from Arcus to bring you another interview with a game designer.

This time we're talking to Craig Page, a LARP, Jedi, and all around cool guy. Craig came on to talk to us about his LARP project; Kensei. A Martial Tournament larp set in the near future.

If you want to find more from Craig you can check out his Gaming blog here: http://otherworldsthan.blogspot.com.au/
His Star Wars blog here: https://thesnarksideoftheforce.wordpress.com/
And this is a link to his Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CraigPage

Interview with Craig Page

This week we take a short break from Arcus to have a chat with Hamish about his game The Sprawl; a mission focused cyberpunk heist game.

Well also talk about game design competitions, cyber-fantasy, and some of Hamish's upcoming projects.

Interview with Hamish Cameron

We talked to Megan about her upcoming RPG; A Far Off Land. A game of two worlds, destined figures, political factions, and magic.

Here you can find the Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/8614065/a-far-off-land-a-fate-rpg-in-two-worlds

the Website  http://farofflandrpg.com/

Megans G+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/+MeganBennettBurks

And Jacob's G+  https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JacobPoss

Interview with Megan Bennett-Burks

We had Vee and Hayley on the show to talk to us about their new Jane Austen RPG, Good Society.
It was a pleasure catching up with them again. It's got some really interesting setup mechanics that help you tailor the game to your groups style.

If you'd like to talk to them about all they have going on, why not head to Ettin Con?

Good Society Interview

Matthew Corrin and Morgan Lean have a kickstarter running right now for their new game, Bodycount. Bodycount is a hyperviolent cyberpunk roleplaying game, with a focus on dealing harm to anyone that stands in your way. 
We sat down with Matt to have a chat about the game, what spurred it's creation, and what influenced the designers.

Interview with Matt, co-creator of Bodycount

We heard about an awesome game being made on Kickstarter recently, and we just had to talk to the designer.
Fraser Simons is the creator of Hack The Planet; a cyberpunk climate fiction Blades Hack. He took the time out of this morning to chat with us about his cool new project.

We're very excited to see Hack The Planet get released, for whole bunch of reasons. Including, some Australian writers are contributing to it!

Hack The Planet, interview with Fraser Simons

We recently spoke with Jason Tasharski about their upcoming game Stand In Defiance, and how they first got interested in game design. It's lovely little interview, about an intriguing narrative game.

Interview with Jason Tasharski

[CONTENT WARNING: There is a brief mention of the struggles of dealing with depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts in this episode.]
This week we interviewed an up and coming Game Designer from the States; DC.
DC is working on an adaptation of Blades In The Dark, called Mutants In The Night. It's got some really interesting themes of community. And looks at many of the experiences of non dominant social groups; with a focus on African American, and Queer communities.

We also talked about DC's game dev origin story, and the intersection of Martial Arts and Rap music.

Interview with DC

Party Fowl: The Game of Drunk Ducks is an area control game on a modular board where the goal is to be the coolest duck at a party. It sounds like a rad concept so we talked to two of the cool ducks behind this project; Spencer, and Caleb.
Party Fowl is up on KickStarter right now, so if you want to support it please follow this link.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/159466030/party-fowl-the-game-of-drunk-ducks

Interview with Spencer & Caleb; Party Fowl

Ben is a Maltese-Australian game designer with a background in video game design; but he also makes RPGs. We had him on to talk about his history, his process, and some of his games. 
It was a blast and we can't wait to play Ben's stuff.

Interview with Ben Scerri

Melody is an awesome making of things. We know here from her work making RPGs, and the discussions she often has about them on twitter.

We asked her on the show to share a little about her process, and her games.

Interview with Melody Watson

We had occasion to talk to game designer, and fellow interviewer; Brie Sheldon. We talked about what motivates them to create, why they interview people, and Brie even gave us some ideas for Two Sided Quest!

We also tried out some slight modifications to our intro.

Interview with Brie Sheldon

We have an interview for y'all today. We sat down with Christoph to chat about his upcoming game Free Spacer. A game of pulling jobs in space to try and goals of retirement...or something more substantial.

If you're a fan of Red Markets or the Forged in the Dark stuff, this could be of interest to you.

Free Spacer interview with Christoph Sapinsky

We had the pleasure recently of interviewing Ashton McAllan; an Australian game designer, live streamer, and general wonderful person.

We talked about her games, her history, and the communities she's involved in. It was a very important interview for us cause Ashton is a person in the industry that Ray very much admires.

Please give it a listen, and tell us what you thought.

Interview with Ashton McAllan

We sat down with the creator of Prism; a diceless RPG set in an Aquatic world, that explores relationships. The game has some interesting setting features as well, with it's gods, families, and codes of ethics.

Find it on Kickstarter!
http://kck.st/2LEqJy9

Prism Interview with Whitney M. Delaglio

Luke is a wonderful Australian RPG Designer. They have been the inspiring force behind many great ideas in our community, and has made some really wonderful games.

We had a great time talking about their work, how they've inspired other designers, and why the Australian RPG maker scene is populated with such weird & interesting stuff.

Interview with Luke

[insert quest here] is a Queer Australian podcast that focuses on Role Playing Games. We love telling diverse stories, and so we do our best to lift up the voices of our community by showing off new and innovative games, from a bunch of designers.

We have a lot of Actual Plays, and interviews, and sometime host other content that is harder to define.