Yes Indie'd Pod

As per annual tradition, I'm once again joined by Quinns from QQuest to talk about the year and forge our bond in the fire of podcasting.

Show Notes:
Fastaval, the larp festival in Denmark
Last year's 2024 year in review

Games Mentioned
The Tribunal
The Straights Are Not Okay
Tacklebox
Mythic Bastionland
Gradient Descent
God’s Teeth / Delta Green
D&D
Draw Steel
Daggerheart
Magnus Archives
Old Gods of Appalachia
The Silt Verses
Old School Essentials / Dolmenwood
Cain
Pirate Borg
Fabula Ultima
The Between
Masks of Nyarlathotep
Eternal Lies
Pirates of Drinax
A Nocturne
Apocalypse World: Burned Over

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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:
Playtest Zero FAQ
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
Warren Spector

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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