Brain Trust

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . We’re just looking at a bunch of marble. That’s what a podcast is--it’s just wave forms and chisels. We talk about meta metacurrencies, micro and mecro transactions, and bloon. Find Adam on Twitter at @wcgameco and Will at @will_jobst Music by Will Jobst, available at https://soundclo...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . I'm moving y'all, no time for shownotes. 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 this one, we talk about Open World RPG, available on itch.io right now! We chat special sauces, play experiences starting from the rules or from the head, and shirts that fell off the truck. Find Adam on Twitter at @wcgameco and Will at @will_jobst Music by Will Jobst, available at...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . Craigslist, pickup truck space, Yahtzee, and more. Adam reveals a mysterious new type of nostalgia. We make table games, not computer games for computer and gameboy. Find Adam on Twitter at @wcgameco and Will at @will_jobst Music by Will Jobst, available at https://soundcloud.com/will...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . Tweeting is hard. Moving is challenging. Adam and Will have to take a big break in the middle of the episode. Fuck an episode decsiption, go to the Brain Trust Science Fair and pick up the 23 coolest games out of the Brain Trust for $40! https://itch.io/b/681/the-brain-trust-presents-...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . Torq, Cyber Metal, serialized rpgs, instragram endless scroll, Norman Reedus, box QWOP, and more. We really don’t stop until we’re done on this episode. Plans for ZineQuest 2021, Will’s moving tips, and applying comix publishing to game zines. This year has felt slightly longer than o...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . It’s our fiftieth episode! No celebration. Will and Adam talk about bespoke RPG items and how making small runs and micro runs and runs of one is good. Also minecraft. Is Steve smiling? Or is it a beard. I’m not asking you to tell me the answer. I’m suggesting you think long and hard....

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . It’s like an attract mode of an arcade cabinet but for a headstone. That headstone is for Adam Vass, inventor of Reggs. We create two games to play on another podcast, both with [R]eggs. Look it’s election day and I just want to get this podcast to you. The box has a name. Find Adam o...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . AN ILLUSIVE NIGHT RECORDING. Spoilers for the $tranger Thing$ 3 in-car soiree. Drive-in experiences. 11 casting call. The quarry. Cars. This episode is wheeling and dealing, just like the D&D drive through. What rules minutiae question would you ask? I would ask if Tensor’s Floati...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . Game vacation is what we talk about today. What is a vacation anyway? Do we live our anti-lives, or is it an expression of the interior true life? Quincy or Quoncy? Adam and Will discuss what their two-weeks off looks like, what are the goals or the non-goals? Also Will plays a tiktok...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . Bottoms up, and the devil laughs. We crack cold ones (caffeinated drinks) before we crack gold ones (ideas). We’re talking about pseudo-live games with artboards and demon blood and boxing machines and all of that. It's the day of the big meat and I know this judge likes minions. Find...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . With this episode we know the layout, the bosses, the nooks and crannies of the level. It’s a roguelike run and we’re making our way through. We know we won’t make it all the way, but the information we get, the skill we gain… it’s all worth it. On this one the big guy gets it, and by...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . Some St. Anger on this one. We talk more in-depth about bounty-board style crowdfunding, season of design, and licensing. We talk about our dream license, listening to a lot of Bastionland podcast, and giving our phone numbers to Robert Eggers. We chat about Will’s work-in-progress MO...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . Pan-shot! Dinosaurs versus yetis. We’re talking about other methods of crowdfunding, looking at traditional publishing, pre-Kickstarter ransom projects, and more! How do we take Kickstarter mentality and not give 10% to unionbusters and credit card companies? What’s a creatively susta...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . Nobody extends a metaphor like tabletop game designers. It’s a survival tool, you play inside the metaphors. Metaphors, we call them. I truly hope any fish listening can understand where we’re coming from. I’m linking NONE of the tiktoks or pictures we mentioned on the show. I’m sorry...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . Heat, eboys, and the sun. Key rings and zines that are maps. And character sheets. And even more. Adam and Will get ever closer to the illusive game island while also evading the Ring Fit strong dragon. What’s a good heart rate? I’m asking hypothetically, as I keep mine as low as poss...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . It’s been a year since we funded, so we take a look at the episode where we melted down. So, let’s melt down again! Inside this special director’s cut DVD Blu-Ray commentary we realize the Brain Trust’s Adam and Will have the same conversations over and over and over and over again. A...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . It is it Harry Potter or Dragon Ball? How would you end a campaign? What if it’s all a simulation? How can we hang out? These are not questions to consider, they are questions that would be answered in synaptic moments. The answer is available and it’s about dedicating the correct amo...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . The direct midpoint. You’re there and we’re on the way. What’s the direct midpoint of this podcast and you? The space between your thumb and a screen? The headphone cable or static air? The bones in your ear? The little bones playing blacksmith? We’re talking trailers, we’re talking s...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . It’s us again. We’re here at Gen Con, week four, this time the convention center is empty. In this sonic and physical playground we have fun, and escape the spectre of one gaping golem. Also, accounts. Also, we look at battle royale aspects inside of tabletop games. Adam finished the...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . Week three at Gen Con. We haven't any cares. We’re celebrating Adam’s successful Kickstarter and the death of TikTok. They say you die twice, the first time is when your heart stops beating, and the second time is when the video of your death is lost when TikTok is deleted. Ben Frankl...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . Take a little break with the Brain Trust. We’re talking week two of Gen Con, Necronautilus playtest, and random generation. Beans by Highlite and Fazenda. Burr and blade. That’s us: the Brain Trust. We're still doing this, we've carved a niche. We've poured a cup. Adam has a Kickstart...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . Great to be back in beautiful Indiana, the home of Cattail Wheatseed. What else? Necronautilus funded day one. No big. What else? We talk safety mechanics, modes of play, and table tools. Also haircuts, the ren faire unicorn, and more. Adam has a Kickstarter going, check it out right...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . This is a podcast with two corners, at least. Beach towels have four corners. Adam has a Kickstarter going, check it out right here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adamxvass/necronautilus . We are railing and derailing. We are oscillating. Thanks for being here. Find Adam on Twi...

While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ . Adam Gandolfini and Vin Jobst are back. This podcast has it all: tips, tricks, strategies, hints, hacks, insider info, options, and more. Featuring an interview with Quincy, the auteur. This whole thing features a lot of feverishness to be honest. We spend $20 on a game. Come check ou...