How To Run A Publishing Company: The Black Armada Story (w/ Josh Fox)
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Josh Fox is the award-winning designer of Flotsam: Adrift Amongst The Stars and Last Fleet. He's the co-designer of the highly influential GMless mystery game, Lovecraftesque alongside Becky Annison. And the two of them together run Black Armada Publishing, a UK-based publisher which has been putting out inventive roleplaying games for more than a decade. Josh is also the editor and cast member of Black Armada Tales, an actual play podcast that features a bunch of different indie games.
Lovecraftesque 2e is crowdfunding on BackerKit right now.
Show Notes:
04:18 - How Black Armada Began (2012)
08:17 - Lovecraftesque (2015)
25:34 - Lovecraftesque in Italian + Blacklight/UV Artwork
30:10 - Gaps in releases (2015-2017)
33:16 - Flotsam (2018)
41: 41 - Collaborations + Bite Marks (2019)
45:01 - Last Fleet (2020)
1:00:44 - Financial Side of Publishing
1:05:44 - Lovecraftesque 2e (2023)
1:14:15 - Infectious Enthusiasm: Microscope Union
1:16:39 - Tyranny of Numbers: Backerkit Advertising
1:22:33 - All Advice is Advice For Myself: Speaking Out Loud