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Dave is a youtuber, reviewer and game designer. His Youtube channel, Dave Thaumavore RPG Reviews, currently has about 180 videos and more than 25,000 subscribers. He's also got a great newsletter where he publishes written interviews game design luminaries. Links to all of this stuff will be in the show notes. He's designed supplements for the Index Card RPG but his most recent standalone game is Fluxfall Horizon, a zany, scifi PbtA game of dimension hopping do-gooders (and some potential do-badders).
Show Notes:
00:52 - Introducing Dave
01:56 - Youtube journey and the challenge of constant comparison with other creators
09:29 - Dave's process
15:34 - Making sponsored content
16:55 - Favorite games to review
21:43 - Do reviewers have to play games?
35:52 - Advice for reviewers
38:12 - Infectious Enthusiasm: Wanderhome
39:22 - Tyranny of Numbers
41:45 - All Advice is Advice for Myself
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Getting Weirder Than Lovecraft (w/ Graham Walmsley)
The Awards (w/ Nico MacDougall and Tan Shao Han)
Reading The F**king Manual (w/ Max Lander & Aaron King)
Meeting Games Where They're At [w/ Quinns]
Games That Make You Cry In A Panera (w/ Hannah Shaffer and Evan Rowland)
Bonus: Open Hearth's Games of the Year 2023
Best of 2023: Games Recommended By Guests
What We Get From Studying Games (w/ Evan Torner)
Teaching Games: Girl by Moonlight
How To Run A Publishing Company: The Black Armada Story (w/ Josh Fox)
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Teaching Games: Apocalypse Keys
Reading 1000 RPG Books (w/ Layla Adelman)
15 Years of Deeper In The Game (w/ Chris Chinn)
Actual Play, Actual Work (w/ Emily Friedman)
How To Summon Demons With Cards (w/ Becky Annison)
Reading Indie Games At The Club (w/ Paul Beakley)
All Superhero RPGs, All The Time [w/ Fiona Hopkins and Stephanie Burt]
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