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 282: Canada is not a Northern Suburb of the USA
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Jason Pitre, Sen-Foong Lim, Nicole Winchester, Christoph Sapinsky.
For Canadian game designers and pros, it's pretty common to get lumped in with U.S. …
Episode 281: The Human Heart
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Vee Hendro, Hayley Gordon.
All RPGs engage our emotions, and some are made with feels first in mind. We discuss the ethics and how-to of emotional stor…
Episode 280: No Gods, No Masters, No GMs
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by A.C., Jay Dragon, and Viditya Voleti.
Being a GM is hard; like, really hard. Having nobody willing to fill that role has been the downfall of many a gam…
Episode 279: What We Mean, When We Talk About Lyric Games
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Maria Mison, Casey Johnson, Jay Dragon.
What are Lyric Games exactly? And why are they deemed an important body of work, both in a personal and game sce…
Episode 278: How to Playtest Your Game
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Daryl Andrews, Jessie Edwards, Omari Akil, Bruce Harlick.
Join us for a roundtable conversation about how to get the best data from your time at the p…
Episode 277: How to Pitch Your Game
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Alex Cutler, Matt Forbeck, Kenneth Hite.
You made a game! Congratulations! Now explain your incredible game in one sentence. That isn’t as easy as it so…
Episode 276: How Larp Online Community Emerged
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Gerrit Reininghaus, Tara Clapper, Acata Felton, and Kate Hill.
Live Action Online Games (LAOG)s, also known as online LARPs, have reached unthinkable di…
Episode 275: How to Run Online Larps
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Tara Clapper, Olivia Montoya, Joie Martin.
Running a digital LARP (or LAOG - live action online game) can be a simple impromptu effort or a multi-sessio…
Episode 274: Running a Successful Virtual Playtest Group
Presented at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Tam Myaing, David Gordon, Chris Backe, Kevin Dunkelberger.
When the COVID lockdowns began, the NYC Playtest Group was one of the first to move to onlin…
Episode 273: Running Games on Roll20
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020
Presented by Chris O'Neill, Stephanie Bryant, Warren Morrison, Walt Ciechanowski.
Roll20 provides players and GMs with a popular virtual tabletop for games. How can …
Episode 272: The Publisher Perspective for 2021
Recorded at Metatopia 2020 Online
Presented by Dan DiLorenzo, Frank DiLorenzo, Kira Peavley, Curt Covert, Shari Spiro, Ben Harkins.
You have a great board/card game and you're ready to start shopping…
Episode 271: The Retail Perspective and Designing for Pandemic Sales in 2021
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2021
Presented by Bryan Dalrymple, Patrick Day.
Any board or card game being published in 2021 needs to take into account the likelihood that in-person demos and shopping…
Episode 270: Kickstarter in the Age of Covid
Recorded at Metatopia 2020
Presented by Jonathan Ritter-Roderick, Anya Combs.
Join representatives of Kickstarter for a discussion of the state of crowdfunding projects going into 2021. Topics will …
Episode 269: Heartwarming Gaming During the Plague Times
Recorded at Metatopia 2020
Presented by Rach Shelkey and Jaqueline Bryk.
It's time once again to talk about happy, uplifting games! How do you make space for pastoral gaming while the world is going …
Episode 268: Converting to Online Play
Recorded at Metatopia 2020
Presented by Vivian Abraham and Jason Cox.
Some games are easy to play online, and some have robust platforms to support them. But what if your game involves group singing?…
Episode 267: How to Start Business
Recorded at Metatopia 2020
Presented by Brian Dalrymple, Jessie Edwards, Hal Mangold.
Our panelists will walk you through the basics of turning your game design hobby into a business. We'll talk abou…
Episode 266: The Business of Small Press RPGs
Recorded at GenCon 2020 Online
Hosted by Jason Walters and featuring Brian Dalrymple, Jennifer Ward, and Cat Tobin.
This panel was hosted by Indie Press Revolution as part of GenCon 2020's online pan…
Episode 265 - The Cutting Edge RPG Panel
Recorded at GenCon Online 2020
Presented by Jason Walters, Pamela Punzalan, Wilson Zorn, and Maurice Poplar.
Indie Press Revolution hosted this excellent discussion on the ideas and games at the fore…
Episode 264 - Queer Game Designers
Recorded at GenCon Online 2020
Presented by AC, Kira Magrann, Wilson Zorn, Jay Dragon, and Lucian Khan.
Streamed live for Gen Con Online 2020. You can find games from all these creators on IPR's we…
Episode 263 - Games in Education
Recorded at Metatopia 2019
Presented by Jennifer Gutterman, Shawn Roske, Tim Blank.
Are you an educator wanting to gamify your classroom? Are you building a traditional education game? Do you want yo…