Brain Trust

On the final week of their Kickstarter Campaign, Adam Vass and Will Jobst chat with Diana Jones award winning game designer of Starcrossed & For The Queen: Alex Roberts! We talk about designing game systems to be hack-friendly, our early childhood game designs, and roman candle fights. We also reveal the title of our RPG that you helped decide in last week’s poll. This is the final 48 hours of the...

Adam Vass and Will Jobst chat with software developer, game designer, and writer extraordinaire Nell Raban about the courage of putting your ideas into the public eye, the roles of cops in fantasy, and intentional and unintentional antagonism in roleplay. We also reveal the tone of our game that you voted on and we offer up the very big final poll: the name of our game. Check the Kickstarter out h...

Adam Vass and Will Jobst chat with tabletop roleplaying game designer, larp designer, and writer Banana Chan about prototypes, developing physical objects, Gen Con, and the power of whiteboarding. We also discuss the voice that our game will communicate in and ask you to help us choose the next step. Check the Kickstarter out here: http://kck.st/2JMjohW. You can find Banana Chan on Twitter at http...

Adam Vass and Will Jobst chat with game designer, musician, and creative Takuma Okada about creative sparks, game jams, physical items used in gameplay... and Bionicles. We also discuss some physical artifacts that could appear in our game and ask you to help us choose the next step. Check the Kickstarter out here: http://kck.st/2JMjohW. You can find Takuma Okada’s games at noroadhome.itch.io and...

Adam Vass and Will Jobst chat with game designer, writer, and graphic artist Nathan D. Paoletta. On this episode, they discuss the winner of the pitches, the “big three” questions, and expansive design. Check the Kickstarter out here: http://kck.st/2JMjohW. You can find Nathan and his work at ndpdesign.com, and the | BLACK | RED | WHITE | Nonexistent Games Kickstarter here: http://kck.st/2LXpXjy....

Adam Vass and Will Jobst bring ten game pitches, and whittle them down to five. In the meanwhile, Will flips a coin three times, Adam discusses killing your darlings, and we both submit our five options to the BRAIN TRUST , to decide the game we make over the next five weeks. Check the Kickstarter out here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adamxvass/braintrust Want to talk to us? Record a voic...

In this preliminary episode, our hosts Adam Vass and Will Jobst discuss the Brain Trust (the podcast, the kickstarter campaign, the roleplaying game, and the community). We go over the different pledge levels, how we break kickstarter, how you can *play with our campaign, and how the podcast will work moving forward. Visit our kickstarter campaign at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adamxvass/...