RPG Design Panelcast
The best recorded panels and seminars about analog game design and publishing
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 56 minutes
- Episodes
- 384
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
Episode 322: Biracial Game Design
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Whitney Delaglio, Camdon Wright, Avraham Yosef Baez.
People are told to tell their own stories when making games, but biracial folk are often forced int…
Episode 321: The Care and Feeding of your Creative Self
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Roberta Taylor, Paul Saxberg, Kimberley Lam, Shoshana Kessock.
How do you keep a creative spark alive when everything is coming to pieces around you? T…
Episode 320: Resonant Theming for Greater Emotional Impact in Board Game Design
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Sarah Shipp, Kathleen Mercury, Eric Slauson.
How do designers get their themes to reverberate across the hobby? By adding depth, shape, and clarity to t…
Episode 319: Feminist Worldbuilding
Recorded at Metatopia 2020
Presented by Misha Bushyager, Elsa Sjunneson, Kristen Roberts
Explicitly feminist world-building will consider all the ways that traditionally domestic tasks and arts enric…
Episode 318: Transformative Larping
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Chance Feldstein, Erika Skirpan, Jessica Comstock, Jon Cole.
Generally, "transformative" games teach skills, facilitate personal insights or shadow wor…
Episode 317: Different Traditions of Indie Publishing
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Jason Pitre, Fiona Geist, Darren Watts, Viditya Voleti.
Indie game publishing is a strange craft and the design communities approach the process differ…
Episode 316: How to Make and Sell RPG Adventures
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Graham Walmsley, Christopher McGlothlin, Darren Watts, Lynne Hardy, Alex Helms.
It's almost a truism that it's very hard to make RPG adventures, scenari…
Episode 315: Jewish Games
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Dr. Jessica Hammer, Christopher Hall.
What does it mean to design games from a Jewish perspective? We have recently seen several games that center on th…
Episode 314: Forged in the Dark Designs
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Charles Simon, Justin Ford, Pamela Punzalan, Erik Bernhardt, Nychelle Schneider.
Forged in the Dark designers share their secrets! A diverse panel of u…
Episode 313: Should Games Make You Feel Bad?
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Tam Myaing, Doug Levandowski, Roberta Taylor, Jessica Creane.
As designers we strive to make games "fun", but they can also be a vehicle for other emo…
Episode 312 - Economics and Trade as Design Elements
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Jason Pitre, Rob Donoghue, Emily Dresner, Kenneth Hite
The 100 GP Pearl: Economics and Trade as Design Elements. Economics and trade have long been foun…
Episode 311: New Editions
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Russell Collins, Brennan Taylor, Meguey Baker, Greg Stolze.
Was your game imperfect when it was released? Has it changed over time? Have you? We'll expl…
Episode 310: Asymmetric Roleplaying Game Design
Recorded at Metatopia 2020
Presented by Jason Pitre, Spencer Campbell, Sasha Moros, Ben Robbins, Caroline Hobbs.
Role playing games have a long history of asymmetrical rules, beginning with the estab…
Episode 309: Getting your First RPG Published
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Jason Walters, Moe Poplar, Darren Watts, April Walsh, Jonathan Lavallee.
Publishing your first RPG can be difficult, how do you know when enough play te…
Episode 308: Games Are Art
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Curt Covert, Julie Ahern.
Games Are Art: Designing Through An Artist's Lens. When you think of art, you think of music, theater, painting, sculpting, wr…
Episode 307: Contract Literacy 101
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Eric Whalen, Rob Hebert, Steven Long, Debbie Moynihan.
"Contract Literacy 101: Whereas & Therefore & Beyond" The majority of game designers will need to…
Episode 306: Art Direction Case Study
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Jason Morningstar, Jabari Weathers, Brennen Reece.
Art Direction: From Designer to Director to Artist. A game designer, an art director, and an artist …
Episode 305 : Lowering the Barrier to Entry to Trad RPGs
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Will Sobel, Beth Rimmels.
For better or worse, traditional RPGs have a reputation for crunch and complication that can be scary for new players. How can…
Episode 304 - Pitch Perfect
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Curt Covert, Melissa Lewis-Gentry, Jason Walters, Isaac Vega.
How do you present a game to playtesters without biasing them, but getting what you want f…
Episode 303: New Tools for Old Hands
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Olivia Montoya, Donna Prior, Avonelle Wing.
Discord. Itch. Twitch. If you blinked and suddenly your peers sound like they’re talking about new horseme…