RPG Design Panelcast

How to Give and Receive Critique

Recorded at Metatopia 2015

Presented by  Joshua A.C. Newman, Hannah Shaffer & Rachel E.S. Walton.

Planning and running a Kickstarter campaign for your game can be li…

Kickstarter 101 (2015)

Recorded at Metatopia 2015

Presented by JR Honeycutt, Joshua A.C. Newman & Chris O’Neill

Planning and running a Kickstarter campaign for your game can be like designing and pl…

Cinematic Plays

Recorded at Metatopia 2015

Presented by Will Hindmarch

What are cinematic game mechanics? What makes a game cinematic and what do we call it when a game is not cinematic? In this pre…

Game Distribution

Recorded at Metatopia 2015

Presented by Brian Dalrymple and Darren Watts

An overview of the 3-tier system (Publisher to Distributor to Retailer), following the course of a game aft…

Agile Design and Publishing

Recorded at Metatopia 2015

Presented by Rob Donoghue and Emily Dresner

Join our panelists for a discussion of how nerdy business concepts such as Agile software developm…

Creativity In Business: Pixar’s Success and Lessons For Tabletop Publishing

Recorded at Metatopia 2015

Presented by Jeff Tidball, Cam Banks

Managing a company of creative people can be challenging.…

Project Budgeting For Tabletop Games

Recorded at Metatopia 2015

Presented by Jeff Tidball, Cat Tobin & Justin Jacobson

The process of producing a board game, card game, or role playing game is lousy,…

Formalizing Your Game Business

Recorded at Metatopia 2015

Presented by Fred Hicks, Steve Segedy, Darren Watts and Brennan Taylor

Is your company ready to take the next step? We’ll discuss how to tur…

Matters Of Scale: Running A Small Gaming Business

Recorded at Metatopia 2015

Presented by Fred Hicks, Rob Donoghue and Steve Segedy

Game publishing is a very different beast depending on how new you …

Genius Loci: Your Setting is the Character

Recorded at Metatopia 2014

Presented by Will Hindmarch

Places, rather than protagonists, are often what RPG campaigns have in common because the characters …

Opacity, Transparency, and Player Incentives in Your Strategy Board Game

Recorded at Metatopia 2014

Presented by Gil Hova

Do people understand what’s going on in your game? Not just the rules, but c…

Lovecraft WTF

Recorded at Metatopia 2014

Presented by Julia Ellingboe, Kenneth Hite, Darren Watts & Bill White.

H. P. Lovecraft is one of the grandfathers of weird fiction and horror. His racist and…

Explicit vs Role-Based Knowledge

Recorded at Metatopia 2014

Presented by Clark Valentine, Shane Harsch and Evan Torner.

This seminar poses the question of whether it is possible to support a detaile…

Editing Rulebooks

Recorded at Metatopia 2014

Presented by Joshua Yearsley.

Your rulebook is the heart of your game, so why not give it the love it deserves? In this seminar, you’ll learn ten best p…

Social Media Action Steps

Recorded at Metatopia 2014

Presented by Beth Rimmels.

Social media is a crucial marketing step, especially for new and small businesses. Even better, it can cost you little…

Executing a Smart Crowdfunding Campaign

Recorded at Metatopia 2014

Presented by Fred Hicks, Joshua A. C. Newman & Hannah Shaffer

How do you plan your crowdfunding campaign? How done do you need to …

The Best Practices for Information Organization in Tabletop RPGs

Recorded at Metatopia 2014

Presented by Brennan Taylor, Matt Wilson, Meredith Reitman, Krista White & John Stavropolous

Tabletop RPGs…

Learn RPG Design Redux

Recorded at Gencon 2015

Presented by Jason Pitre, Caleb Stokes and Andreas Walters 

This panel, sponsored by the Indie Game Developer Network is a fresh new exploration of how…

Women in Game Design: Building Networks and Forming Mentorships

Recorded at Metatopia 2014

Presented by Emily Care-Boss, Julia Ellingboe, Shoshana Kessock, Amanda Valentine & Avonelle Wing.

The “gam…

Dramatic Editing : Creating the Editing Bay

Recorded at Metatopia 2014

Presented by Will Hindmarch

How does your design facilitate dramatic editing at the game table? Do you have strict mechanisms t…