Episodes
Thursday Oct 31, 2024
E64 (S3E5) - Being Inspired While Exhausted
Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Monday Sep 23, 2024
E63 (S3E4) - Influence From Other Board Games
Monday Sep 23, 2024
Monday Sep 23, 2024
What other tabletop experiences have influenced our games? We’re not huge proponents of “all design is iterative” or “great artists steal” as overarching ethos, but we do love to weave a healthy thread of inspiration from other creations into our own. Find out what other games had their voice in the creation of Vindication, Unsettled, and Spirit Fire.
Would you have guessed those influences? Are there others you would have assumed? Are there any games that *you* find particularly inspiring? Why? Let us know in the comments and we’ll let you know how right and wrong you are!
What types of mindsets, mottos, strategies, practices, principles, lenses, tactics, and what not are at the heart of our game design mentality? What about theme versus mechanics? What is invisible design? What is a “sacred concept”? How do hostage negotiation tactics factor into our thinking? How do we choose what to keep and what to cull?
We have thoughts! We think they’re pretty good.
What other thoughts are good? Do *you* have thoughts? ….Are they good? Think those thoughts at us in the comments so we can have thoughts about your thoughts and we can get a whole thing going.
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
E62 (S3E3) - Live Lore: Vindication
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
We're talking lore(s)! First, some real-life O-Neb lore, which ends up being more full of feels and substance than we would have guessed. Then, some make-believe Vindication lore, which ends up being exactly as full of oddness and hilarity as we would have guessed. In a format we will definitely be returning to, our producer throws cards from Vindication onto the screen in front of us and we improv/brainstorm possible backstories and personalities for each character presented to us.
If we studied this episode closely, we'd probably learn some things about ourselves.
But we're not going to. We know more than enough already.
Tuesday Jul 23, 2024
E61 (S3E2) - Developing Developers
Tuesday Jul 23, 2024
Tuesday Jul 23, 2024
Jam-packed with creative-thinky things, this episode dissects the traits of board game developers and all the depth, faux-depth, context, and contextless crazy logic trains that run through our "brains". We ponder quickly if these are good things (and decide: they totally are). Things then turn to a broader discussion on the struggles and agonies (excuse us, "nuances") of being a creative team. The standard array of weird tangents surface as well.
Tuesday Jul 23, 2024
E60 (S3E1) - Defending the Vibe
Tuesday Jul 23, 2024
Tuesday Jul 23, 2024
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
E 59 - Weird Little Things We Love
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
How Many Mummies Should You Own? / How Much Are You All Just Winging It? / What Are Some Of The Weird Little Things You Love About Your Craft?
05:03 - Tom's thoughts on optimal mummy quantity
07:32 - An answer filled with Neb-Soul
10:58 - Main Topic - Weird Little Things We Love
21:26 - Tom on Jared presenting ideas in a meeting
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
E 58 - Fantasy Vs. Sci-Fi
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
What Would You Do If You Knew You Could Do It? / What's The Worst Creature To Give Wings To / Fantasy Vs. Sci-fi
00:58 - What Lacey Would Do If She Could
08:40 - Tom's apt research
10:50 - Main Topic - Fantasy Vs. Sci-fi
23:41 - Subdividing The Two
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
E 57 - Ghosts That Haunt The Creative Mind
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
How Do You Make Your Work Feel Like Play? / What Is Your Coffee Order? / What Are Ghosts That Haunt Your Creative Mind?
02:18 - How Krista Adds Objects To Her Work & Process
08:00 - Marc's Coffee Order
12:51 - Main Topic - Ghosts That Haunt Your Creative Mind
24:52 - Krista's Thoughts On Creative Ghosts Relating To Our
Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
E 56 - Media Portrayals Of Your Artistry
Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
Obstacles You Wrestled With Early In Your Career? / How Would You Like To Die Vs. How You Think You're Going To Die? / How Does Media's Portrayal Of Your Artistry Effect You?
CONTENT WARNING: This episode of the Outpost contains descriptions of ways someone could die. The context is playful, but if this is a subject you’d like to avoid, we recommend skipping the segment between minutes 13 and 17. We care about you. Thanks for listening.
03:18 - Marc's obstacles early in his career
13:29 - How Krista thinks she will die
17:15 - Main Topic - Media's Portrayal Of Your Artistry
31:46 - Lacey's feelings on how media portrays her role as a marketer
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
E 55 - Fail Share
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
What Is An Old Reliable Muse? / What Is The State Of Your House? / Fail Share
04:07 - Jared's musical musings
17:43 - Tom's major fixer-upper
20:16 - Main Topic - Fail Share
36:26 - Approaching repeated failures