Brain Trust

While you’re here, contribute to AAPI support networks ( https://anti-asianviolenceresources.carrd.co/ ) and Black Lives Matter ( https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ ). Gen Content, we won an award!, and a game about found-footage horror. Preorder THIS DISCORD HAS GHOSTS IN IT at https://goodluckpress.co/products/ghosts . Preorder CAMPFIRE at braintrust.rocks . Presave CYBERMETAL 2012 HERE: https:...

While you’re here, contribute to AAPI support networks ( https://anti-asianviolenceresources.carrd.co/ ) and Black Lives Matter ( https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ ). Playtesting! The work of game design that is not words-to-paper. That old stuff in your movie queue you will literally never watch. Things that make you Google like a king. Preorder CAMPFIRE at braintrust.rocks Presave CYBERMETAL 2...

While you’re here, contribute to AAPI support networks ( https://anti-asianviolenceresources.carrd.co/ ) and Black Lives Matter ( https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ ). Sandbox design, interpretive scene design and how do we approach both! Goalsetting within purely player driven games, and CYBERMETAL 2012 chat. Preorder CAMPFIRE at braintrust.rocks Check out TECH JAM TACTICS here: https://itch.io/...

While you’re here, contribute to AAPI support networks ( https://anti-asianviolenceresources.carrd.co/ ) and Black Lives Matter ( https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ ). How we sleep, system reference documents (SRDs), a big burp, and the naked cowboy. Preorder CAMPFIRE at https://campfire.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders   Check out TECH JAM TACTICS here: https://itch.io/jam/tech-jam-2-tactics...

While you’re here, contribute to AAPI support networks ( https://anti-asianviolenceresources.carrd.co/ ) and Black Lives Matter ( https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ ). Talkin’ tactics, our own special way. Fictional triggers for mechanics, circles in Minecraft, and a live playstorm of a new game! Check out TECH JAM TACTICS here: https://itch.io/jam/tech-jam-2-tactics Presave CYBERMETAL 2012 HERE:...

While you’re here, contribute to AAPI support networks ( https://anti-asianviolenceresources.carrd.co/ ) and Black Lives Matter ( https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ ). We're live, at the Olympics! We talk about things in threes, Boston glory, and make a game about rock docs called ROCK DOC.  Adam's ARTIST STATEMENT bundle is available here--get it now: https://itch.io/s/54879/artist-statemen...

While you’re here, contribute to AAPI support networks ( https://anti-asianviolenceresources.carrd.co/ ) and Black Lives Matter ( https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ ). Imagine this: pickle talk. Phantom city. Prequels. Well, you don’t need to imagine it any more, because we recorded a podcast about it. Adam dives into the line design of DARTS, including their Y2K prequel. Find Adam on Twitter at...

While you’re here, contribute to AAPI support networks ( https://anti-asianviolenceresources.carrd.co/ ) and Black Lives Matter ( https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ ). CAMPFIRE: the anthology horror storytelling game is live on Kickstarter now: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/braintrust/campfire-0 In this episode, the agony of designing a playmat, Kickstarter mentality, and classic Coeus. Fi...

While you’re here, contribute to AAPI support networks ( https://anti-asianviolenceresources.carrd.co/ ) and Black Lives Matter ( https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ ). CAMPFIRE : the anthology horror storytelling game is live on Kickstarter now: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/braintrust/campfire-0 In this episode we chat about Campfire , boxed games, what we got out of everywhere we’ve live...

While you’re here, contribute to AAPI support networks ( https://anti-asianviolenceresources.carrd.co/ ) and Black Lives Matter ( https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ ). CAMPFIRE: the anthology horror storytelling game is coming to Kickstarter on June 1st! Click Notify me on launch . In this episode, we talk about CAMPFIRE, our newest project and Brain Trust collaboration coming to Kickstarter. We...

While you’re here, contribute to AAPI support networks ( https://anti-asianviolenceresources.carrd.co/ ) and Black Lives Matter ( https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ ). Rock, paper, scissors, protect, load, gun. We learn about Adam’s poker opinions and bluffstyle. There is a strong potato energy in this episode. Find Adam on Twitter at @wcgameco and Will at @will_jobst Music by Will Jobst, availab...

While you’re here, contribute to AAPI support networks ( https://anti-asianviolenceresources.carrd.co/ ) and Black Lives Matter ( https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ ). Procedural generation, Signs of the Sojourner, and more! We go deep on an upcoming game and the procedural tools used to explore every avenue of play. Find Adam on Twitter at @wcgameco and Will at @will_jobst Music by Will Jobst, a...

While you’re here, contribute to AAPI support networks ( https://anti-asianviolenceresources.carrd.co/ ) and Black Lives Matter ( https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ ). In this episode, we brainstorm a new type of jam, the Tech Jam! Join here: https://itch.io/jam/tech-jam . Also, we figure out what games want, airdrop violence, and more! Cannot call this the slurp episode, but that won't stop you,...

While you’re here, contribute to AAPI support networks ( https://anti-asianviolenceresources.carrd.co/ ) and Black Lives Matter ( https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ ). Captain. Fellows. The games begin. Find Adam on Twitter at @wcgameco and Will at @will_jobst Music by Will Jobst, available at https://soundcloud.com/willjobst .

While you’re here, contribute to AAPI support networks ( https://anti-asianviolenceresources.carrd.co/ ) and Black Lives Matter ( https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ ). In this episode: we design a Fallout game inspired by our reverse funnel conversation last episode. We chat about half-remembered Boston locations, Cait from the Combat Zone, and perks. Perks... perks never changes. S. E. H. M. E....

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . In this episode: the reverse funnel, dungeon spirits, multiplayer AI, and the a LOT of Wizard of Oz.  Find Adam on Twitter at @wcgameco and Will at @will_jobst Music by Will Jobst, available at https://soundcloud.com/willjobst .

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . In an attempt to assist future attempts to catalog this podcast, the actually good stuff we talk about are hexing a story map, storying a hex map, and a visual description of something complicated. We bash a game about Starship Troopers within a complicated hex framework.  Find A...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . On this episode: ASAC Schrader, the self-soothing of a game designer’s brain, and the strongest all time animal. Get Aether Operations right here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/floatingchairclub/aeops Find Adam on Twitter at @wcgameco and Will at @will_jobst Music by Will Jobst...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . We mention a TON of Zine Quest 3 projects in this episode--please direct your dollars toward those projects, and check pages for preorder links! Thanks to everyone who sent a voice message recommending your favorite zines. Get TORQ: rallyraid roleplaying right here: https://www.kickst...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . Send us your zinequest picks! Send us your Spiral: Book of Saw picks! Send us your very best medicine because we are metaphysically sick! Get TORQ: rallyraid roleplaying right here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/willjobst/torq Get Babes in the Wood 2e right here: https://www.ki...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . This is a big “catching them all” episode. Also Psycho Goreman, Kickstarter’s interpretation of itself, and more! We bash together a game of legendary proportions.  Get Babes in the Wood 2e right here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adamxvass/babes . Find Adam on Twitter at...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . Go out and watch Speed Racer (2008) right now. Also, we put up a bounty board for zines we want. Get Babes in the Wood 2e right here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adamxvass/babes . Find Adam on Twitter at @wcgameco and Will at @will_jobst Music by Will Jobst, available at http...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . Anxiety podcasting like the best of them. We’re excited on this one! Predictions for the short and long-term, Control inspirations, and Vasstradamaus. Get Babes in the Wood 2e right here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adamxvass/babes . Find Adam on Twitter at @wcgameco and Will...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . Adam Vass and Will Jobst are two game designers making a podcast! If you're new, start here—we'll catch you up. Find Adam on Twitter at @wcgameco and Will at @will_jobst Music by Will Jobst, available at https://soundcloud.com/willjobst . Also, there’s a discord! We’d love for you to...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . Fighting bats, finding fun, and brain storming Cybermetal and Torq. We talk about modern/violent settings that don’t use guns, debt as a core activity, and making alt-futures. Find Adam on Twitter at @wcgameco and Will at @will_jobst Music by Will Jobst, available at https://soundclou...