Marx interviews Andrew C of Halfling Caravan Games about Beta Maxx: Theft, his latest cassette for the Beta Maxx system which is a love letter to pulpy heist action films of all kinds. Marx Shepherd on Twitter: twitter.com/IAmPhophos Marx’s games: marx-of-high-water.itch.io Yes Indie’d Pod: www.yesindiedpod.com Donate: patreon.com/yesindiedpod or ko-fi.com/yesindiedpod Andrew C on Twitter: twitter.com/HalflingCaravan Andrew's games: halfling-caravan-games.itch.io Attack and Dethrone God Jam: itc...
Aug 26, 2020•50 min
Marx interviews Taylor Daigneault about This Vineyard Will Be Our Salvation, a Descended From The Queen story game about ducks and geese working in a vineyard and hoping for a sweet retirement. Marx Shepherd on Twitter: twitter.com/IAmPhophos Marx’s games: blue-golem-games.itch.io Yes Indie’d Pod: www.yesindiedpod.com Donate: patreon.com/yesindiedpod or ko-fi.com/yesindiedpod Taylor Daigneault on Twitter: twitter.com/Taylordnd Taylor’s games: tinkertaylorpublications.itch.io Taylor’s teaching we...
Aug 12, 2020•33 min
Marx interviews Michael Franche and Ryan Hazel from The Brothers Pimm podcast about their upcoming Forged in the Dark game, Otro Mundo. Marx Shepherd on Twitter: twitter.com/IAmPhophos Marx’s games: blue-golem-games.itch.io Yes Indie’d Pod: www.yesindiedpod.com Donate: patreon.com/yesindiedpod or ko-fi.com/yesindiedpod Otro Mundo on Twitter: twitter.com/BrothersPimm Patreon: patreon.com/brotherspimmsociety Colludium 4: itch.io/b/547/colludium-four-small-press-games-bundle Music from filmmusic.io...
Jul 29, 2020•44 min
Marx interviews Georgie Bats about Exquisite Polycule, Far From The Tree, and what a lyric game might be. Marx Shepherd on Twitter: twitter.com/IAmPhophos Marx’s games: blue-golem-games.itch.io Yes Indie’d Pod: www.yesindiedpod.com Donate: patreon.com/yesindiedpod or ko-fi.com/yesindiedpod Georgie Bats on Twitter: twitter.com/odddaysgeorge Georgie’s games: georgiebats.itch.io Adira Slattery on Twitter: twitter.com/adiraslattery Fen Slattery on Twitter: twitter.com/sublimemarch Short Games Digest...
Jul 15, 2020•39 min
Marx interviews Steve Dee about Relics: A Game of Angels, an RPG about angels, miracles, dogma and memory. Marx Shepherd on Twitter: twitter.com/IAmPhophos Marx’s games: blue-golem-games.itch.io Yes Indie’d Pod: www.yesindiedpod.com Donate: patreon.com/yesindiedpod or ko-fi.com/yesindiedpod Steve Dee on Twitter: twitter.com/tinstargames Relics: A Game of Angels: drivethrurpg.com/.../Relics-A-Game-of-Angels or tinstargames.itch.io/relics-a-game-of-angels Lancing With Myself: thatsnotcanon.com/lan...
Jul 01, 2020•37 min
Marx interviews Olivia Hill about #iHunt, a game about fighting monsters in the gig economy, and about the San Jenaro CoOp, a radical, queer game design collective. Marx Shepherd on Twitter: twitter.com/IAmPhophos Marx’s games: blue-golem-games.itch.io Yes Indie’d Pod: www.yesindiedpod.com Donate: patreon.com/yesindiedpod or ko-fi.com/yesindiedpod Olivia Hill on Twitter: twitter.com/machineiv Machine Age Productions: twitter.com/MachineAgeInc Machine Age Patreon: patreon.com/machineage #iHunt: i...
Jun 15, 2020•37 min
Marx interviews Logan Bright-Crown about Strike Out, and about the positive side of the indie TTRPG scene on Twitter. Marx Shepherd on Twitter: twitter.com/IAmPhophos Marx’s games: blue-golem-games.itch.io Yes Indie’d Pod: www.yesindiedpod.com Donate: patreon.com/yesindiedpod or ko-fi.com/yesindiedpod Logan Bright-Crown on Twitter: twitter.com/ink_and_stories Logan’s games: breathingstories.itch.io Strike Out on Twitter: twitter.com/StrikeOut_TTRPG Olivia Hill on Twitter: twitter.com/machineiv M...
Jun 03, 2020•24 min
Marx interviews Liam Ginty of Sandy Pug Games about the community zine Open Mic Aid, their next game Monster Care Squad, and about cycles of discourse in the TTRPG space. Marx Shepherd on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/IAmPhophos Marx’s games: https://blue-golem-games.itch.io Yes Indie’d Pod: https://www.yesindiedpod.com/ Donate: https://www.patreon.com/yesindiedpod or https://www.ko-fi.com/yesindiedpod Sandy Pug Games on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/SandyPugGames Open Mic Aid: https://sand...
May 20, 2020•35 min
Marx interviews Christopher W. Reynolds of NinjaHELL! Productions about his games Scratch’s Sc0re , A Demon Unnamed and ERAUGH! A Game of Political Mudslinging . Content Warning: degenerative disease in family members, mostly from 21:46 to 24:27 and implied until 34:58. Marx Shepherd on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/IAmPhophos Marx’s games: https://blue-golem-games.itch.io Yes Indie’d Pod: https://www.yesindiedpod.com/ Donate: https://www.patreon.com/yesindiedpod or https://www.ko-fi.com/yesin...
May 06, 2020•53 min
Marx interviews Laser Malena-Webber of the Doubleclicks and Gosh Darn Fiasco, and Richard Malena-Webber of Atomic Game Theory and writer of Empyrean Investigations, a DnD 5e supplement. Marx Shepherd on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/IAmPhophos Marx’s games: https://blue-golem-games.itch.io Yes Indie’d Pod: https://www.yesindiedpod.com/ Donate: https://www.patreon.com/yesindiedpod or https://www.ko-fi.com/yesindiedpod Laser Malena-Webber on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/lasermwebber The Doub...
Apr 22, 2020•36 min
Marx interviews Senda Linaugh, co-host of She’s A Super Geek and Pandas Talking Games, about Turning Point, a game from Encoded Designs which focuses on a single momentous event from somebody’s life. It’s coming soon to Kickstarter but you can get the quick start guide now from DriveThruRPG. Marx Shepherd on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/IAmPhophos Marx’s games: http://blue-golem-games.itch.io Yes Indie’d Pod: https://www.yesindiedpod.com/ Donate: https://www.patreon.com/yesindiedpod or https:...
Apr 08, 2020•42 min
Marx interviews Austin Ramsay, the maker of Beam Saber, a Forged in the Dark roleplaying game about mecha and vehicles and their complicated, conflicted pilots. It’s successfully Kickstarted already, and it’s the system being used by actual play podcast Friends at the Table for their latest season Partizan. Marx on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/IAmPhophos Marx’s games: http://blue-golem-games.itch.io Yes Indie’d Pod: https://www.yesindiedpod.com/ Donate: https://www.patreon.com/yesindiedpod or...
Mar 25, 2020•37 min
Marx interviews Hannah Shaffer and Evan Rowland, two-thirds of the game design cooperative Make Big Things. They discuss their next game, Starship Ultralux, a game in the key of Douglas Adams-esque techno-absurdism and the mood of Red Dwarf’s wacky antics. We also sing the praises of cooperative movements. Marx on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/IAmPhophos Marx’s games: http://blue-golem-games.itch.io Hannah on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/hanbandit Evan on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/a...
Mar 11, 2020•37 min
Marx interviews Kate Jeanne, a new independent designer behind Winter Harvest, currently on Kickstarter for ZineQuest 2. Their background is in editing, translating, and writing on indie TTRPGs, plus lots of activism and social justice work. Marx on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/IAmPhophos Marx’s games: http://blue-golem-games.itch.io Kate Jeanne on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/PeriKat6 Winter Harvest on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/parrycat/winter-harvest Kate Jeanne’s...
Feb 26, 2020•27 min
Today, Marx interviews Duamn Figueroa Rassol, an Argentinian illustrator and game designer deeply in love with indie RPGs. Over the last thirteen years he has been involved with the local game scene, organizing events like Rosario Juega Rol, Rosario Juega Indie and Back to the Dungeon, coordinating and hosting open tables in TTRPG clubs, writing for Runas Explosivas and broadcasting over a hundred episodes of the Podcast Explosivo. He's also been an active playtester and contributor of the indie...
Feb 19, 2020•34 min
Today I interview Eli Seitz, a game designer exploring tabletop, larp, and the experimental space in between. His work can be found on Itchio and in the upcoming Doikayt Jewish TTRPG Anthology. Eli is running two ZineQuest two campaigns this month: Last Place on Earth, about the heroic age of exploration, and Fruit of Law, a freeform game about writing the rule of society by using and eating a pomegranate. Marx on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/IAmPhophos Marx’s games: http://blue-golem-games.i...
Feb 12, 2020•29 min
Today we interview Matt Bohnhoff, a game designer and artist in the American Southwest. His work is mostly found through Wasteland of Enchantment Games. He also helps to organize New MexiCon, a small indie RPG convention in New Mexico. His most recent game, Campfire Memories, is currently Kickstarter from February 4th to February 16th as part of ZineQuest 2. This GM-less one-shot game tells stories of terrible family camping trips and why the characters still cherish the memories of those unplea...
Feb 05, 2020•30 min
Today we interview Federico Sohns. Fed is an Argentinean games designer living in London. He owns Araukana Media as well as being a member of the San Jenaro Coop. He also works fulltime at Modiphius Entertainment. His latest game, Nibiru, delves into themes of memory and identity, nature and artificiality, in new and exciting ways. Nibiru is available right now via DriveThruRPG and from the Modiphius webstore. Marx on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/IAmPhophos Marx’s games: http://blue-golem-gam...
Jan 29, 2020•34 min
A short introduction to Yes, Indie'd Pod , where I talk about why I want to make this podcast. I also introduce my guest for next week, the game designer Federico Sohns. You can find Marx on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/IAmPhophos You can find their games on Itchio at: blue-golem-games.itch.io You can find more about Federico Sohn's game Nibiru at: www.araukana.com All music from filmmusic.io " Bit Quest " by Kevin MacLeod ( incompetech.com ) License: CC BY ( creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ...
Jan 21, 2020•6 min
