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PODCAST

Design Doc

Hannah Shaffer and Evan Rowland

Come along with Hannah and Evan in a living documentation of the game design process, from the first spark of an idea, to every disastrous surprise. It’s not an instruction manual, but a travel guide, with lots of unexpected stops along the way.

arts design

All Episodes

35:52

Making Things in Hard Times

Design Doc ·

2018/08/17

How do you keep making things when life throws the unexpected your way? We're learning what that looks like now.

en

42:11

Social Dynamics at the Table

Design Doc ·

2018/07/13

A good GM can step up to manage social dynamics at the table. But in Questlandia 2, there is no GM, so the rules we write need to do that work. How can we keep the excitement and ideas flowing without leaving quieter players out of the fun?

en

47:08

You Can Kill a King, but You Can't Make a Marinara

Design Doc ·

2018/06/18

What happens if a player achieves their big character goal in the very first scene of the game? We found out.

en

39:17

Romancing the Wall

Design Doc ·

2018/05/18

With no GM, players in Questlandia 2 are responsible for framing their own scene types. As a result they animate objects, make holy voyages, and befriend a sentient wall.

en

42:21

The Worst Ideas We've Had so Far

Design Doc ·

2018/04/23

Good games are often built on an avalanche of bad ideas. We talk about the worst ideas we've had so far, and how to turn them into something useful.

en

39:59

Deadline Motivated

Design Doc ·

2018/03/23

We talk about deadlines, and the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

en

39:20

Mosslickers

Design Doc ·

2018/03/04

The first playtest that takes us all the way through character creation. Meet beasts of burden, puppeteers, and the queens who inhabit Mosslicker Alley.

en

44:48

The Symbol Reader

Design Doc ·

2018/02/16

We experiment with a customized alethiometer to explore stories and build new worlds.

en

48:51

Collaboration

Design Doc ·

2018/01/25

The Make Big Things team talks about making games as a cooperative.

en

43:59

The First Playtest

Design Doc ·

2017/12/28

With one playtest down, we talk about what went right, what went wrong, and what we'd like to change.

en

46:42

Preparing the Playtest

Design Doc ·

2017/12/16

We attempt to put theory into practice as we prep for Questlandia's first playtest.

en

41:38

Plumb Bobs

Design Doc ·

2017/11/29

What makes for a good RPG toolkit? We explore dice, cards, dactylomancy, and some of the weirder tactile tools you can bring to the table.

en

50:57

Worldbuilding

Design Doc ·

2017/11/14

How we built worlds in the original Questlandia, and what's to come.

en

35:43

Metaplot

Design Doc ·

2017/10/31

A discussion of worlds within worlds within worlds.

en

39:59

Welcome To Questlandia!

Design Doc ·

2017/10/17

Hannah and Evan embark on a journey to redesign their first roleplaying game. Welcome to Design Doc, our year-long experiment in transparent design! Social media https://twitter.com/designdocpod designdocpod@gmail.com

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