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Actual Plays, Interviews, and more
In The Ocean is a micro rpg with prompt cards that ask you to answer questions about the world, or play out scenes from your past.
In it you play as a mech pilot stranded on an ocean planet, watching the battle overhead. As you wait for rescue you remember your past.
It’s a pretty excellent game, and I hadn’t thought about it during the recording but it could be an excellent way to build the setting for a more expansive mech game.
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 Traps, Drinking.
This week Nika and Ray pretend to be Hot, Gay, Bro Dragons. Dating each other and opening up about their love for one another. It was a blast getting tipsy, confessing our love, and saying bro a lot.
You can get this game for yourself by following the link here.
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: Extreme Physical Violence, Death, ]
Nika and Ray take a look at a romantic 2 person RPG about Dragons and Riders and the apocalypse.
It’s a lovely emotional game that also feeds into some cool power fantasy stuff. And has some nice tools for helping you build the mood and tone.
Join Liulfer and Iosulumryt as they overcome the violence of their world, discover their love for each other, and undo the apocalypse.
Continue reading “First Look: [With Fire Thy Affections Hold A Wing]”
[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.
Content Warning: Death, Slavery, War Crimes, Knife Wounds, and Vulnerability.
Something special and intimate. Ray played through a demo of their new game. Solo. It was quite raw and emotional and some of the best podcasting we’ve done to be honest.
A great way to see how LLDR plays; Ray explains why the mechanics are what they are. Leading the listener through a guided experience of Mecha Tragedy.