Pod of Blunders

Well...technically, Hearthside Chats, if I'm being honest. It took so long since Hannah (@hanbandit) and I had our first interview that I had to ask her to come back on the show for an update! Make sure you check out Hannah and her design partner Evan Rowland's (@adrawnnovel) wonderfully weird games over on their website, https://turtlebun.com/ and on their itch page, https://turtlebun.itch.io/ and support them directly via Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/turtlebun. Oh, and they're also fantastic podcasters so make sure you give a listen to Design Doc which is part of the ONE SHOT Podcast Network (http://oneshotpodcast.com/interview-discussion/design-doc/.)

Lastly, if you want to know what the hell we're talking about re: The Minds Eye videos, look no further: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmE4IWPaULE

I think that's all the links I mentioned...if I forgot anything, yell at me on Twitter!

If you want to support the Pod of Blunders and help ensure we can keep bringing you interviews and actual plays, please head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you. (Hint: access to our fantastically active discord, exclusive episodes of Jumping the Street Sharks, free games, etc.)

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

Also, a special thanks to Rolemusic for our intro and outro tune taken from the track Pokimonkey! If you enjoy the tune, check out more of Rolemusic's work here https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic or learn about the artist here http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

Hello, Actioneers! It has recently come to management's attention that many of you are using this podcast as a means of distracting yourself from the doldrums of the day. This is unacceptable. Doldrums and depression suffered by our employees are not to be remedied by entertainment. They are to be suffered through in stoic silence as the only true cure for misery is a love of hard work and a dedication to Company Co. Be Glad You're Sad! Let the triviality of an existence spent within your cube inspire you to achieve great things, not for yourself but for our shareholders! And remember, the beatings will continue until morale improves.

Once again, we want to give a special adulation to our Actioneer Conan the Lybarian (@Conan_Lybarian) for working through his lunch hours to come up with the game we're playing this week, Corner Office. If you see Conan in the halls or by the water cooler, make sure you give him a firm pat on the back and let him know what a good job he did. Of course, please do not exceed the single pat on the back. Two or more pats on the back will be considered harassment and/or assault and perpetrators of such acts will be subject to the Disciplinary Board. If you would like to have  a positive fiscal impact on Conan's bottom line, please consider picking up a copy of Corner Office from his itch.io page: https://conan-lybarian.itch.io/corner-office/devlog/290350/welcome

Now if you would be so kind, please return to your desks before we have to release the efficiency wasps from the vents.

If you want to support the Pod of Blunders and help ensure we can keep bringing you interviews and actual plays, please head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you. (Hint: access to our fantastically active discord, exclusive episodes of Jumping the Street Sharks, free games, etc.)

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

Good morning, you productive little worker bees! This is Nate from HR and I just want to thank you for your hard work and dedication in these troubling and challenging times. Though the apocalypse may be raging outside, inside the walls of Company Co. Headquarters, our only concerns should be promoting a synergy-focused work environment and seeking new avenues of revenue development.

We want to give a special adulation to our Actioneer Conan the Lybarian (@Conan_Lybarian) for working through his lunch hours to come up with the game we're playing this week, Corner Office. If you see Conan in the halls or by the water cooler, make sure you give him a firm pat on the back and let him know what a good job he did. Of course, please do not exceed the single pat on the back. Two or more pats on the back will be considered harassment and/or assault and perpetrators of such acts will be subject to the Disciplinary Board. If you would like to have  a positive fiscal impact on Conan's bottom line, please consider picking up a copy of Corner Office from his itch.io page: https://conan-lybarian.itch.io/corner-office/devlog/290350/welcome

Now if you would be so kind, please return to your desks before we have to release the efficiency wasps from the vents.

If you want to support the Pod of Blunders and help ensure we can keep bringing you interviews and actual plays, please head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you. (Hint: access to our fantastically active discord, exclusive episodes of Jumping the Street Sharks, free games, etc.)

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

Richard and I haven't had the chance to hang out face-to-face recently, what with the move and all. We thought we'd remedy that with a good ol' fashion Jenga-based TTRPG! Last time, we played the excellent Wickies and made it all the way to the end of the game without dying somehow. Can we push our luck again and come survive the fall of our hometown? Will our Jenga tower collapse just like society has? Can soup cans float in water?

Tune in and find out for yourself!

...also, no. Soup cans do not float in water. Shoutout to a mysterious Twitter user known only as The Scientist for conducting an experiment to prove once and for all soup cans cannot float. More like cant's of soup, amirite?

Grab a copy of Jack Blair's (@toyourstations) This Game Takes Place in Your Home Town today and try your hand at navigating a very personal apocalypse!

https://toyourstations.itch.io/yourhometown

If you want to support the Pod of Blunders and help ensure we can keep bringing you interviews and actual plays, please head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you. (Hint: access to our fantastically active discord, exclusive episodes of Jumping the Street Sharks, free games, etc.)

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

Also, a special thanks to Rolemusic for our intro and outro tune taken from the track Pokimonkey! If you enjoy the tune, check out more of Rolemusic's work here https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic or learn about the artist here http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

Moss rules. Their game design. Their perspective on education. Their...them-ness. Rules. All of it. And I'm so excited I get to share this interview with you all. If you want to play Moss' excellent games and make sure they feel all warm and tingly from your support, head on over to their itchio page (https://beatingthebinary.itch.io/) and chat them up on Twitter via @adanarama. Better yet, go right to their Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/adanarama.

If you want to support the Pod of Blunders and help ensure we can keep bringing you interviews and actual plays, please head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you. (Hint: access to our fantastically active discord, exclusive episodes of Jumping the Street Sharks, free games, etc.)

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

Also, a special thanks to Rolemusic for our intro and outro tune taken from the track Pokimonkey! If you enjoy the tune, check out more of Rolemusic's work here https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic or learn about the artist here http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

Hello! Cory and Melanie came back on to discuss all things Kids on Bikes. We got deep into the genre and talked about crafting a game on the fly vs giving the DM greater creative control in the planning process. We also spent a long time discussing David Lynch. Like...a long time.

And stay through to the end for our PAX recap!!!

If you want to support the Pod of Blunders and help ensure we can keep bringing you interviews and actual plays, please head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you. (Hint: access to our fantastically active discord, exclusive episodes of Jumping the Street Sharks, free games, etc.)

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

Richard is the greatest and best friend, cohost, and editor a podcast could hope for. Melanie and Cory? Their love is like a beacon and their creativity shines with equal brightness? And Nate? Nate's okay.

Thanks for joining us for the conclusion of our Kids on Bikes episode! All considering, I think it came out great and I can't wait for y'all to hear it. Now stop reading and start listening!

Also, be sure to come back next week for our Inn Between episode where we discuss our love of 80's schlock and David Lynch!

If you want to support the Pod of Blunders and help ensure we can keep bringing you interviews and actual plays, please head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you. (Hint: access to our fantastically active discord, exclusive episodes of Jumping the Street Sharks, free games, etc.)

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

Hello you sweet and wonderful listeners! Cory, Melanie, Richard, and Nate got together via Al Gore's internet to play Jonathan Gilmour & Doug Levandowski's Kids on Bikes. If you're a fan of 80s popular media and yearn for a simpler, more monster-y time, I can't recommend Kinds on Bikes enough. The system is simple and narrative-focused but unlike many other story-centric TTRPGs, not without important choices and exciting rolls. 

If that sounds like something you'd be into, treat yourself (and Jonathan and Doug, for that matter) by grabbing a copy from Renegade Games today: https://renegadegamestudios.com/kids-on-bikes/

And make sure you come back next week for the wild conclusion to our game!

If you want to support the Pod of Blunders and help ensure we can keep bringing you interviews and actual plays, please head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you. (Hint: access to our fantastically active discord, exclusive episodes of Jumping the Street Sharks, free games, etc.)

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

Also, a special thanks to Rolemusic for our intro and outro tune taken from the track Pokimonkey! If you enjoy the tune, check out more of Rolemusic's work here https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic or learn about the artist here http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

Hello, teslapunk fans! What's teslapunk, you ask? I also had no idea until I asked today's guest, the incredible indie author Connor Heighton (@cjheighton)!

Connor (aka CJ) is a delightfully creative author who is using his game, Osmond Ward (@OsmondTTRPG) to spread the love to small designers throughout the hobby. If you're interested in learning more about him and his game after this podcast, be sure to head over to his Discord (discord.gg/HT2v2cf). Oh, and don't forget to grab his game, too! https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/317609/Osmond-Ward

If you want to support the Pod of Blunders and help ensure we can keep bringing you interviews and actual plays, please head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you. (Hint: access to our fantastically active discord, exclusive episodes of Jumping the Street Sharks, free games, etc.)

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

Also, a special thanks to Rolemusic for our intro and outro tune taken from the track Pokimonkey! If you enjoy the tune, check out more of Rolemusic's work here https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic or learn about the artist here http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

We can't get enough of Eric and Matt and so we lured them back on the show for a chat about super heroes, art vs artist, and...human centipedes...

Yeah.

Anyway, it was fantastic meeting up with these guys at PAX East this weekend and we can't wait to continue our Masks adventure!  

If you like our hijinks and would like to show Eric and Matt some love, check out their Twitch streams!

Eric: https://www.twitch.tv/falconwizard

Matt: https://www.twitch.tv/thefinalcounselor

If you want to support the Pod of Blunders and help ensure we can keep bringing you interviews and actual plays, please head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you. (Hint: access to our fantastically active discord, exclusive episodes of Jumping the Street Sharks, free games, etc.)

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

Also, a special thanks to Rolemusic for our intro and outro tune taken from the track Pokimonkey! If you enjoy the tune, check out more of Rolemusic's work here https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic or learn about the artist here http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!