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 231 - Now What? - Finishing Games
Episode 230 - The Art of Mechanics
Episode 229 - Beyond Bright Lights
Episode 228 - Tabletop Analytics and Feedback
Episode 227 - How to be a Playtester
Episode 226 - Latinx Design
Episode 225 - Queer Erasure
Episode 224 - Being a Full-Timer
Episode 223 - How to Work With Artists
Episode 222 - Marketing is More Than Social Media
Episode 221 - The Joy of Honobono
Episode 220 - Stage Gate Development
Episode 219 - DrivethruRPG
Episode 218 - Marketing 201
Episode 217 - Marketing 101
Episode 216 - Appoaching Allyship from an Intersectional Perspective
Episode 215 - Truth, Survival, and Empowerment in Darker Narratives
Episode 214 - Kickstarter in 2019
Episode 213 - Eat, Drink, and be Merry
Episode 212 - How to be an Ally
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