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Actual Plays, Interviews, and more
CW: Death, War
First episode back for the new year! We’re playing a solo game. Legacy of steel allows you to build/explore the background of a mech. Detail some of its history and can be a companion tool for other games.
Get your own copy of Legacy of Steel here! Continue reading “Solo: [Legacy of Steel]”
CONTENT WARNING: Death, Injury, Lizards, Birds.
This was weird play experience. You ask questions of the other players…or in solo mode, you ask yourself? It was an interesting game, I liked it.
In particular, I think it’s a great idea for a game. This did come out of a game jam, so sometimes the product is just an expression of a raw idea and it is a fantastic idea. I think the multiplayer version is where this game would shine. Solo play felt a little flat but I came to a rather interesting place by the end of it, and I think it’s a really neat game.
CONTENT WARNING: Death, Injury, Fire, War.
(This game REALLY should be played before you listen to the AP, it is totally possible to have this game spoiled for you. Get it here.)
A wonderful, emotional, and atmospheric episode of Solo. Playing through this guided solo RP experience was my FAVOURITE part of this series so far. It pulls together several underused tools of storytelling that we don’t see nearly often enough in RPGs. Not at the mechanical level anyway.
It’s, FANTASTIC!
Content Warning: Death.
All this month we’re airing episodes of our new show Solo, where Ray plays single person RPGs and talks about their mechanics.
This weeks episode explores a poetic RPG that provoked an interesting thought about the power of labels.
You can get you own copy of today’s game, As I Imagine The Falling Rain, here. Continue reading “Solo: [As I Imagine The Falling Rain]”
Content Warning: Death.
It’s August, it’s nonbinary TTRPG month, and we’ve got so much planned. 2 conventions, a Ray’s birthday, some collaborations with other nonbinary folks, and a new product release from Ray.
And to make it even more fantastic; we’re going to be bringing you 4 episode of our new series Solo. This series is all about exploring single player RPGs, and highlighting this innovative and avant garde area of RPG design.
This week we’re playing My Favourite Pilot!! A game by Sophie Mallinson that was made as part of the Emotional Mecha Game Jam. It’s a tight little game about how we respond to the loss of celebrities, and their impact on our growth.
If you like it, get yourself a copy here. Continue reading “Solo: [My Favourite Pilot!!]”
Content Warning: Death, War.
Solo is a new series from us where Ray will be taking a closer look at single player RPGs. The first season of this new show will look at Solo RPGs from the Emotional Mecha Game Jam.
First up is Death Sentence, a game by Jeff Ellis. In it you play as a mech pilot, left behind after helping a colony ship safely escape this sector of space. The enemy approaches, and you have to decide what to do with your final moments…and compose your final words.
We hope you like this new series, and if you’ve got feedback we’d love to hear it.
CW: Death, Suicide, End-Of-Life Care
Sidney, Jamila, and Ray are 3 game makers that are all interested in how games explore death. We brought them together to open up and talk about their experiences with death, and how we might explore death and themes adjacent to it in more interesting and varied ways.
Continue reading “IQH presents: Death In Role Playing Games”
CW: Fire, Storms, Earthquakes, Riots, Police Brutality, Death.
My friend Andrew and I played our first game together, and they graciously let me record it.
We played Live. Love. Die. Remember. together and explored a world where mechs are used to hold back the extreme weather events caused by anthropogenic climate change.
Get your own copy of LLDR by clicking here. Continue reading “[Live. Love. Die. Remember]: Love’s Comet”
[Content Warning: Death]
This week Ray wanted to play LLDR again.
We fixed a few typos, and tried out playing a different number of scenes.
Thanks to Emily for giving Ray an excuse to play, we hope you enjoy this thoughtful and intimate game.
[Content Warning: Death]
The first of our series of APs from the Emotional Mecha Game Jam, and also our first AP of a game Fin wrote! It’s short, it’s edited and processed in an interesting way, it’s very intimate. We hope you enjoy our shortest Actual Play yet.
And if you’d like a copy of Together Here At The End; you can get it by following the link.