Ice Cream for Everyone Podcast

Ice Cream for Everyone Podcast

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Ice Cream for Everyone Podcast episodes

  • Playing Cthulhu Confidential with Colleen Berg, Director Strategic Insights @ The Palmerston Group (part 1)
    For this new episode of the podcast I am joined by Colleen Berg, director strategic insights at The Palmerston Group.
    Colleen is a fellow strategist based in Canada, as well as a tabletop roleplaying gamer who regularly plays Dungeons & Dragons. I had the chance of being on a panel with Colleen for an episode of Mark Pollard's Sweathead podcast about freelancing (along with Lani Dourado as well), which is where I found out Colleen played Dungeons & Dragons.
    I reached out to her and asked if she'd be up for an "actual play" podcast episode, to try out the Gumshoe One-2-One game system with Cthulhu Confidential, an investigative roleplaying game designed to blend the styles of films noir and H.P. Lovecraft's cosmic horror.
    It's the first time I publish a whole episode of play (mixed in with some thoughts about strategy), I'd love to hear what you think of it! This is the first of a series to play through the story titled "The Fathomless Sleep," taking place in a fictional 1937 Los Angeles.
    In case you read this soon after publishing, Colleen is going to be speaking at the exciting Sweathead Do Together online Conference on the 22nd and 23rd September 2021, you can check it out and sign up here.
    1 hr 43 min
  • Playing Ironsworn Solo RPG Part 4: Narrative Structure and Improvisation
    This is a sequel episode to the series playing the Ironsworn solo roleplaying game, if you're new to it I recommend going back to the first episode in which I create the character I am playing, Terilius the Iron Monk.
    In this series while playing Ironsworn, I’m going to bookend each episode with a topic more or less related to the game session. In this fourth part of the series, I introduce the episode with mentions of the differences between writing a story, talk, or presentation with a classic narrative structure in mind, as opposed to this type of exercise which has actually more to do with improv comedy, given it is very much improvised on the fly, and in my experience of it so far, more difficult to stick to typical storytelling structure, such as a three act narrative.
    Rough timeline:
    Beginning to 9:00 min: Intro and talking about narrative structure vs. improvising
    9:00 to 57:00 min: Playing Ironsworn (part 4)
    If you’re interested in working with me or being on the show don’t hesitate getting in touch - my email is [email protected], or you can find me on Twitter / Instagram @Hippowill.
    Mentioned in the episode:
    Ironsworn RPG
    Joseph Campbell's Monomyth / Hero's Journey / The Hero with a Thousand Faces
    Classic 3 act narrative structure, or Freytag's Pyramid
    Improvisational Theatre (Wikipedia)
    Playing Ironsworn Part 1: Character Creation, Brand Personalities
    Playing Ironsworn Part 2: System & feeling embarrassed
    Playing Ironsworn Part 3: Random creative input
    Tabletop Roleplaying Games (TTRPG)
    Les Voix d'Altaride (French RPG Podcast
    An article about solo tabletop roleplaying games
    59 min
  • Space & Mindjammer RPG with Uma Rudd Chia; Creative Director, best-selling author, and global keynote speaker
    I am joined by Uma Rudd Chia today. Uma is a creative director, best selling author, global keynote speaker, and founder of the Female Idea. Originally from Malaysia, Uma lived worked internationally, and is now based in Singapore.
    We had the chance of working together years ago and being desk neighbours while working at the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi in Singapore. We kept in touch during the pandemic lockdown, and asked her if she'd be up for being on the show.
    I also asked her to pick a topic she’d be interested in chatting about, and she chose space. We exchanged a few messages, and I in turn picked Mindjammer as a game to talk about. Mindjammer is an award winning science-fiction / space opera tabletop roleplaying game by designer and author Sarah Newton.
    For the more serious gamers who might be listening, just so you know what to expect, we didn't get to play the in this particular conversation, so while I talk about the game system and the setting for a bit, we also go into other tangents pretty quickly.
    It's my first time adding a video intro and only my second episode with the full episode, any thoughts or comments will be welcome, thank you!
    Mentioned in this episode:
    Uma Rudd Chia
    Uma on Linkedin
    10 Things Brands Could do to Survive a Crisis, by Uma Rudd Chia
    Mindjammer RPG
    Sarah Newton
    Science-fiction
    Star Trek: The Next Generation
    Creativity
    Elon Musk
    SpaceX
    SpaceX Starlink
    Weber Shandwick
    Astronomy
    K-pop
    Twice, Kpop band
    Paypal
    Ebay
    Altered Carbon
    Fate Core Roleplaying Game System
    Shooting Stars
    Dark Matter
    Star Trek Discovery
    University of Tokyo
    Strings Theory
    Black Lives Matter
    Racism
    Gravity
    The Expance
    Aliens vs. Predator
    Cannes Lions
    The Tampon Book / Tax (video)
    Carrefour Black (super)market campaign (video)
    Colin Kaepernick
    Space Force, Steve Carrell
    Upload (TV Series)
    Planned rejection
    1 hr 7 min

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In the Ice Cream for Everyone Podcast, host Willem van der Horst has candid conversations with a range of creative professionals inquiring into the nature of play and work, creativity, games, design,…