Character Creation Spotlight - E17 - Broken with Ben Wallis [Designer]

Welcome to a special bonus episode of Character Creation Spotlight, everyone. This episode we are thrilled to welcome Ben Wallis, designer of Broken, a brilliant and heart-wrenching two-player, tragic romance, RPG about breaking hearts and breaking objects. We’ll be discussing the game, creating a few pairs of characters, and finding out all about the crowdfunding campaign! Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/charactercreationcast Announcements: Broken Itch-funding Campaign: https://bit.ly/BrokenLaunch Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Ben Wallis @benjaminwallis Twitter: https://twitter.com/benjaminwallis Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/ThatGamerPriest Website: https://allportsopen.com Itch.io: https://apongames.itch.io/ APON Games: https://apongames.com/ Games and Tools discussed this episode: Broken by Ben Wallis Itch.io: https://apongames.itch.io/broken Timestamps: 00:00:23 - Introductions 00:03:14 - What's in a game? - Core concept for Broken 00:04:28 - Settings 00:11:45 - What materials do we need to play Broken? 00:23:44 - Let's make some people! 00:24:43 - Amelia and Ryan create a couple - Scenario 00:27:03 - Amelia and Ryan - Picking our 5 objects 00:31:41 - Amelia and Ryan - Names 00:33:33 - Amelia and Ryan - Descriptions 00:34:11 - Amelia and Ryan - 5 Traits 00:37:44 - What usually comes next 00:40:29 - Ben and Ryan create a couple - Scenario 00:42:23 - Ben and Ryan - 5 Objects 00:52:25 - Ben and Ryan - Names and Descriptions 00:54:24 - Ben and Ryan - 5 Traits 00:58:01 - Amelia and Ben create a couple - Scenarios 01:01:11 - Amelia and Ben - 5 Objects 01:03:54 - Amelia and Ben - Names and Descriptions 01:05:46 - Amelia and Ben - 5 Traits 01:08:23 - Our thoughts on the process 01:18:01 - Anything from the crowd funding campaign to point out? 01:24:11 - Episode Closer 01:25:29 - Credits 01:27:24 - Show Blurbs - One Shot 01:28:12 - Outtakes Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: The following music was used for this media project: Music: Broken Heart by DreamHeaven Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/6575-broken-heart License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://www.patreon.com/dreamheaven Clip 2: Pod of Love Theme Music Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/charactercreationcast Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@charactercreationcast?lang=en Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Twitch: https://twitch.tv/lordneptunerb Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Itch.io: https://lordneptune.itch.io Our Website: https://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: https://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices