by Tim
Show Notes
- 6/23/2011
Business
- Adventure Week is back! 6/26-7/2
- DexCon 7/7 – 7/11
Travel
- Key West, FL
Games
- All About Playtesting! with Josh Roby and Ryan Macklin
- Ryan Macklin: Mythender
- Josh Roby: Atlantis Risen
- Tim Rodriguez: Hyperreality
What you look for in trying to make your game better:
- Playtesting for your Target Experience
- Playtesting for Understanding
- Playtest the Setting
- Playtest the Audience
Nothing is Sacred — Changing your mind
- Learn to accept when things don’t work
- Elements that you cut are not actually dead
- Versioning!
- Playtesters are frequently too nice
- Don’t playtest with flavor text
- Case Study: Technoir (Reading Assignment: Jeremy Keller’s website & game Technoir)
Download MP3
by Tim
Show Notes, 4/15/2008
Where I am this week
- Las Vegas, NV
- Herndon, VA
Business
- Feeds working properly now (though may need to set up one for MP3s)
- Now listed in iTunes!
- Looking for gamers whose spouse does NOT game for a roundtable discussion
Games
- Freemarket available for Preorder
- Dresden Files RPG available for Preorder
- Talk about the citybuilding aspects and how I could have been in the playtest credits
Travel
- Demolition Comics, Tampa, FL
- Galaxy Comics, Brooklyn, NY
- Game Parlor, Chantilly, VA
- MoCCAFest, New York, NY
Creativity
- NAB and it’s theme of instant production
- Traveling, particularly on a plane.
- Life without Internet
- Ubiquity of connectivity, and the stall experienced when it’s not there.
- Cloud Computing and how do you own something if you can’t access it.
- How to deal?
- Practice going without in preparation for the post-apocalypse.
Website Bonus
by Tim
Show Notes, 4/8/2008
Where I am this week
- Tampa, FL
Business
- Promotions sent to RPG/Comics Podcast Forums
- I lie about not submitting to iTunes
Games
- Ghost Pirates, new art by Arthur and playtest coming this Saturday
- Happy Birthday Robot on Kickstarter
- Tobago Board Game
- Final Fantasy XIII
Travel
- ComicSwap, State College PA
- Demolition Comics, Tampa, FL
Creativity
- Con game writing, inspiration on the road
- How Podcasts inspire
