Recorded at Metatopia 2017
Presented by Bill White, Brennan Taylor, Lisa Padol, Evan Torner, and more.
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Forge (But Were Afraid To Ask). The Forge (www.indie-rpgs.com) was an online discussion site for indie TRPG design, publication, and play that was active from 2001 to 2012. Across tens of thousands of discussion threads, Forge participants hashed out new ways of understanding the dynamics of tabletop RPG play, and developed a new conceptual language for talking about game design, as part of a larger project of promulgating the "indie RPG" message that anyone can design and publish the game they want. This larger mission largely accomplished by 2010, according to its founders, the Forge closed its forums in 2012. But the ideas it offered still have value, and so five years after the closing of the Forge we look back and assess its insights, its accomplishments, and its imbroglios. Presented by Bill White, game designer and game studies scholar currently working on a book about the Forge, along with several regular posters from that era
Episode 271: The Retail Perspective and Designing for Pandemic Sales in 2021
Episode 270: Kickstarter in the Age of Covid
Episode 269: Heartwarming Gaming During the Plague Times
Episode 268: Converting to Online Play
Episode 267: How to Start Business
Episode 266: The Business of Small Press RPGs
Episode 265 - The Cutting Edge RPG Panel
Episode 264 - Queer Game Designers
Episode 263 - Games in Education
Episode 262 - Design Considerations for Card Games
Epsiode 261 - Updating Cyberpunk
Episode 260 - Paying it Forward and Supporting Diverse Creators
Episode 259 - More Than Just Victory Points
Episode 258 - Crowdfunding on a Budget
Episode 257 - The Three-Ring Setting: Scope in Game Design
Episode 256 - Turn, Turn, Turn
Episode 255 - Publish your own Games!
Episode 254 - Science in RPGs and Larps
Episode 253 - Holding Space for Teens
Episode 252 - A Dive into the Theory of RPGs as a Communications Medium
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