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 262 - Design Considerations for Card Games
Recorded at Metatopia 2019
Presented by Tim Rodriguez & Beth Rimmels.
Card games are a classic design model that have already expressed innumerable possibilities. We'll talk about classic styles of d…
Epsiode 261 - Updating Cyberpunk
Recorded at Metatopia 2020
Presented by Dexter Duckworth, Elsa Sjunneson.
The Distant Future, the Year 2000: Updating Cyberpunk for the 21st Century. The hard-hitting themes of social inequality and …
Episode 260 - Paying it Forward and Supporting Diverse Creators
Recorded at Metatopia 2019
Presented by Jason Pitre, Cat Tobin, Amanda Valentine, Lauren McMannon, Camdon Wright.
Everyone should have a chance to create and publish games. Unfortunately, there are m…
Episode 259 - More Than Just Victory Points
Recorded at Metatopia 2019
Presented by Peter Hayward, Gil Hova
More Than Just Victory Points: Alternative Approaches to Win Conditions. "Most victory points" is the default victory condition for mo…
Episode 258 - Crowdfunding on a Budget
Recorded at Metatopia 2019
Presented by Jason Walters, Jeff Stormer, Christopher Badell.
Your game's ready for Kickstarter! So how much will you be asking for? What's the absolute minimum you need to…
Episode 257 - The Three-Ring Setting: Scope in Game Design
Recorded at Metatopia 2019
Presented by Kenneth Hite
A METATOPIA tradition - Kenneth Hite rambling about game design. In this case the notion of scope: How big should your setting be? How can you des…
Episode 256 - Turn, Turn, Turn
Recorded at Metatopia 2019
Presented by Geoffrey Engelstein
"Turn, Turn, Turn" presented by Geoffrey Engelstein. The 'turn' is a fundamental concept for games of all types, and there are a wide vari…
Episode 255 - Publish your own Games!
Recorded at Metatopia 2019
Presented by Meguey Baker & Jason Pitre.
Publishing your game doesn't need to be daunting. There's work involved, but with a diverse tool box and a clear understanding of y…
Episode 254 - Science in RPGs and Larps
Recorded at Metatopia 2019
Presented by Mary Georgescu, Sharang Biswas, Brianna Shuttleworth.
Can we get nitty gritty with players and talk about science? Can we as designers build science into our g…
Episode 253 - Holding Space for Teens
Recorded at Metatopia 2019
Presented by Meguey Baker, Caleb Stokes, Clark Valentine, Edward LaValley.
Teenagers bring innovation, creativity and hard questions to the game table. Our panelists will t…
Episode 252 - A Dive into the Theory of RPGs as a Communications Medium
Recorded at Metatopia 2019
Presented by Christopher O'Neill, Adriel Wilson, Cat Tobin, Misha Bushyager.
Role playing as a HOBBY continues to evolve and mature. Has role-playing now gotten big enough …
Episode 251 - Creating Mysteries in RPGs
Recorded at Metatopia 2019
Presented by Kenneth Hite, Betsy Rosenblatt, Darren Watts.
Mysteries are among the hardest genres to run successfully in tabletop games. How can designers structure stories…
Episode 250 - Integrating World Building in Traditional RPGs
Recorded at Metatopia 2019
Presented by Ryan O'Grady, Kenneth Hite, Brennan Taylor.
There's something satisfying about taking ownership of a piece of the world as a player and watching it flourish (o…
Episode 249 - Insights Forged in the Dark
Recorded at Metatopia 2019
Presented by Stras Acimovic, John LeBoeuf-Little.
Blades in the Dark has led to a new generation of game designs such as Scum and Villainy, Band of Blades, and Mutants in t…
Episode 248 - Time is of the Essence: Countdowns and Clocks in Games
Recorded at Metatopia 2019
Presented by Darren Watts, Stephen Dewey, Paul Stefko.
There are many different mechanics for tracking time and progress in games, and our panel speakers will explore all o…
Episode 247 - How to Start a Business as a Game Designer
Recorded at Metatopia 2019
Presented by Emily Escovar, Chris O'Neill.
Our panelists will walk you through the basics of turning your game design hobby into a business. We'll talk about the most cost…
Episode 246 - Making Good Financial Decisions as a Game Designer
Recorded at Metatopia 2019
Presented by Heather O'Neill, Tim Rodriguez, Jennifer Graham-Macht.
You are an individual using your hard earned money to invest in your game project. Do you self-publish, …
Episode 245 - Selling Games into Mass vs. Specialty Retail
Recorded at Metatopia 2019
Presented by Brian Turtle, Peter Hayward, Avonelle Wing.
I fell into games almost by accident back in 1994 when some friends and I created a game called "The Six Degrees of…
Episode 244 - Creating Safety Tools
Recorded at Metatopia 2019
Presented by Kate Bullock, Camdon Wright, Bronwyn Sperling.
Want to learn how to create safety tools that fit your game and are baked into the mechanics instead of just add…
Episode 243 - Responsible Research
Recorded at Metatopia 2019
Presented by Jason Pitre, Misha Bushyager, James Mendez Hodes.
Some of the best games deal with heavy topics and challenging subject matter. Creators who look to design or …