Endings
This is it. Our fiftieth episode marks the end of our long conversation about designing tabletop RPGs (and everything else we spilled over i...
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Design Games
We talk about game design, especially tabletop roleplaying and story games. We're professional designers ND Paoletta and Will Hindmarch. We're glad you're here.
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Listen to Design Games, a Games & Hobbies podcast by Nathan D Paoletta and Will Hindmarch. Stream 50 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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Funding Production
You need funding. You might give your game away for free, but you didn't make it for free. Your time and work have value. How does that tran...
Production Tools
Let's talk about some of the software that we—Nathan and Will—use for production purposes like layout and graphic design. More importantly,...
Spheres of Production
As you're proceeding into production of your game, ask yourself: What can I do myself? When should I ask for help? What would I say to exter...
Form Factors
What form does your RPG take? Is it a book? A deck of cards? A poster or mousepad or business card? Are you sure? Design Games is made possi...
Cards
Let's talk about another means of delivering random results and packaging information for players in your tabletop roleplaying and story gam...
Reflections 2
Look around. Get your bearings. Take a look back at what's working and what you've learned, then move forward with the knowledge. That's wha...
Early Writing
You've got a lot of notes, you've got rules and systems, maybe you've been writing for yourself. How do you start writing all of that out fo...
Iteration
Say a thing. Say it again. A design isn’t right the first time, so we revise and restate and iterate. Let’s talk about that. Design Games is...
Game Chef
Do you know about the Game Chef design competition? This time we talk about our experiences with Game Chef and what we know of its history a...
Playtesting, Part Two
Episode forty?! Ye gads. Here we explore more notions on the topic of your early playtests, and how to get information out of them, make sen...
Playtesting, Part One
We’ve reach that time. Let’s talk about playtesting your design—specifically, how to prep and participate in the early playtests of your RPG...
Universality and Hacking
We set out to talk about designing games to be ready for hacking and remixing by the end user, but first a stopover at a discussion of unive...
Affordances
Let’s talk about how a game moves, functions, and adapts. Let’s talk about affordances. Design Games is made possible by our supporters at P...
On Visual Design
Some game designs are highly visual. When does that work happen? How early is too early to think about art and a visual arrangement of ideas...
Risk and Challenge
This time, we tackle a great listener-submitted topic about how to makes risk and challenges feel dramatic and satisfying in your RPG design...
Player Alignment
Another great listener topic, another episode wrestling with said topic. This time: we talk about designs involving Player vs Player and PvE...
On Purpose
Here we attempt to tackle another great question from the G+ community. This one’s about designing with purpose and how purpose can align wi...
Bring It Together
We’ve talked a lot already about design steps and techniques, thoughts and approaches. You’ve got vision and notes and notions. Now let’s ta...
Playstorming
What even is a playstorm? We think we know and we dive into the answer in this episode, to consider what makes playstorming different from p...
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