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    What's New In Playing Pretend (w/ Sam Dunnewold)

    07/05/2026 | 55 mins.
    You can support this show on Patreon⁠⁠!

    In this episode, I am talking to Sam Dunnewold, screenwriter, game designer, and podcaster of Dice Exploder. This episode is about his new game, some trends in game design, and the overlap between OSR and larp.

    Check out Band Aids & Bullet Holes: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sdunnewold/band-aids-and-bullet-holes 

    Show Notes:
    Indie Game Reading Club on innovation and novelty
    Sam’s blogpost about “Apollo 47 core”

    Games Mentioned
    Fiasco
    Apocalypse World
    Wanderhome
    Mythic Bastionland
    Apollo 47
    Under Hollow Hills
    Judge My Vow

    If you liked this podcast, check out the weekly Indie RPG Newsletter
    Music: eastern provided by mobygratis.
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    10 Years Making Stonetop (w/ Jeremy Strandberg)

    04/04/2026 | 1h 33 mins.
    You can support this show on Patreon⁠⁠!

    In this episode, I I am talking to Jeremy Strandberg, who is an instructional designer, software trainer, and. game designer. He's the creator of Homebrew World and Defy Danger, two RPGs you might have heard of from the Dungeon World scene. He has a blog called spoutinglore.blogspot.com and he is the designer of Stonetop, an iron age fantasy game of adventure and community.

    Games Mentioned
    Storming The Wizard’s Tower
    Dungeon World
    Dungeons & Dragons 4e
    Harvest and Grand Guignol (which were featured on a previous episode)

    If you liked this podcast, check out the weekly Indie RPG Newsletter
    Music: eastern provided by mobygratis.
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    Getting Your Own Month (w/ Zach Cox)

    19/03/2026 | 46 mins.
    You can support this show on Patreon⁠⁠!

    In this episode, I talk to Zach Cox, founder of Soul Muppet Publishing.They are also the designer or co-designer of sad adventurer game Best Left Buried, sad Arthurian gunslinger game Inevitable, and sad vampire game Paint the Town Red. They also worked at Rowan Rook & Decard for a while. But the big news is that the scifi sad space cowboy game Orbital Blues (that they co-created) is getting its own month-long crowdfunding event at Backerkit, with both Soulmuppet and other designers making  supplements and adventures for the game. 

    Orbital Blues month: https://www.backerkit.com/c/collections/orbital-blues-month
    Outlaws and Corporations: https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/568d3a57-1379-4b32-9f67-0044b6d9066d/landing?ref=discover_email_landing_pages
    Soul Muppet's website: https://soulmuppet-store.co.uk/

    Games Mentioned
    Cataphracts
    BECMI
    Stygian Library
    Gardens of Ynn

    If you liked this podcast, check out the weekly Indie RPG Newsletter
    Music: eastern provided by mobygratis.
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    Weird Place (w/ Gabriel and Le)

    27/02/2026 | 40 mins.
    You can support this show on Patreon⁠⁠!

    In this episode, I talk to Gabriel and Le, filmmakers and VFX artists based in Canada. They run the Youtube channel, Weird Place, which has a very cool series about games and game histories around the world as well as actual play, video essays, guides and more. They also make games: they funded and released Fluff n Fury last year, a cyberpunk rpg where you play chromed up teddy bears, and this year for Zinemonth, they're crowdfunding Residue, a solo scifi survival game set in a weird non-Euclidean world. 

    Residue: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weirdplace/residue-rpg
    Weird Place on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@weird_place 
    Website: https://www.weirdplace.net/ 
    Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/weirdplace.bsky.social 

    Show Notes:
    Is it a Borg? (video)
    Horizons Fellowship
    A Tale of Two Sisters (movie)
    Blue Planet
    The Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup and Animal Crackers (movie)

    Games Mentioned
    Fluff N Fury
    Two Hand Path
    Delta Green

    If you liked this podcast, check out the weekly Indie RPG Newsletter
    Music: eastern provided by mobygratis.
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    Maximal Minimalism (w/ Tim Denee)

    03/02/2026 | 54 mins.
    You can support this show on Patreon⁠⁠!

    In this episode, I talk to Tim Denee, a Wellington-based graphic designer, illustrator, and game designer. His graphic design work has been recognised by the Best Awards, Tokyo Design Week and the International Society of Typographic Designers. He's also the co-author of We Are Here: An Atlas of Aotearoa, which was shortlisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards.
    Through Old Dog Games, he's published free RPG products like a hack of Band of Blades for playing in the Warhammer old world and last year, a hack for Twilight 2000 to play Andor. And recently, he's partnered with Evil Hat to release Deathmatch Island, a battle royale adaptation of Agon, and crowdfunding now, Blades '68, an expansion for the seminal Blades in the Dark. 

    Tim’s personal website: https://timdenee.com/ 
    Old Dog Games: https://www.olddog.games/ 
    Blades ‘68 crowdfunding: https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/c7788a1e-2f1c-4525-bc66-2a99b84ebae9/landing 

    Show Notes:
    Austin Powers
    Mad Men (TV Show)

    Games Mentioned
    Deathloop
    Dishonored
    Mythic Bastionland

    If you liked this podcast, check out the weekly Indie RPG Newsletter
    Music: "eastern" provided by mobygratis.
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