Future Proof Podcast

We're back from our month off just in time for the Halloween season! This month's episode is a little shorter than normal, and you can listen below or read the transcript . Our topics this month include: The upcoming itch.io Halloween sale Our September sabbatical and return The shutdown of the Exploit: Zero Day newsletter—sign up for the Future Proof Newsletter instead You can subscribe to...

Is your life too busy when one of the best times to consistently meet for business stuff is at 09:00 on Sundays? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Listen to this month's episode below or read the transcript . Our topics this month include: Two articles in the upcoming Rosette Diceless 2nd anniversary supplemental book A fun wrinkle in our integration between Exploit: Zero Day and its forum system A major upgrade to EZD...

June is here, June is here! We cover a whole lot this month, and yet we don't even run long. Listen to this month's episode below or read the transcript . Our topics this month include: Life in the time of fighting for racial justice DriveThruRPG's Black Lives Matter Charity Event (running until 6/21/2020) and the historic itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality (ended, but check those numb...

Where did April go? We aren't sure, but we're strangely lonely now. But May brings a our first remotely-recorded episode! Listen to this month's episode below or read the transcript online . Our topics this month include: " The Majesty of Colors " 2nd Anniversary updates Our Mac/Apple woes Our community development work which includes us being a variety of places: Twitter , where we'll be doing #l...

It's March, which means it's the least bodied edition of the podcast. Listen to this month's episode below or read the transcript online . You can also listen/watch over on YouTube ! Our topics this month include: Our new Future Proof Games newsletter , which you should definitely get on before our first issue this week. "The Majesty of Colors" 2nd Anniversary updates 2019 taxes, because Melissa i...

Welcome to the "Is 'virality' even a word?" edition of the podcast. Listen to this month's episode below or read the transcript online . Starting this month, you can also listen/watch over on YouTube ! Our topics this month include: Our new Future Proof Games newsletter . It's replacing the Exploit: Zero Day newsletter, so even if you're on the EZD one, sign up for the new one. Life among the twit...

Happy new year, friends! Welcome to 2020! Listen to this month's episode below or read the transcript online . We mostly talk about our lifecycle planning process in this. We like to provide links to things we refer to, so: Games can have multiple launches, per " How Crows Crows Crows launches games multiple times for max marketing impact " Our Rosette Diceless home game is really awesome The new...

Merry Chrimmus! Y'all know it's a special episode because I gave it a proper title. Listen to this month's episode below or read the transcript online . This month's episode is special because we're joined by Dr. Lucy Arnold of Liminal Consulting. She designed the community survey that we ran this fall, and hopped into the podcast to talk about her initial reading of the results. You can find her...

Happy November! Listen to this month's episode below or read the transcript online . We cover a bunch of fun things: Our ongoing community survey over at futureproofgames.com/2019survey ! Help spread the word and get the survey out to folks you know. Taking the survey gets you a copy of " The Majesty of Colors ", so that's all the more reason. Some old-timey bugs getting fixed in Exploit: Zero Day...

We're back in action! Listen to this month's episode below or read the transcript online . We cover a few topics: Our community survey is out! It's the first time we've done a wide push to get advice and feedback of this sort, and we appreciate everyone who fills it out. " Cultivating Insurgency ", which is now available for free (or pay what you want) on itch.io. The release of "burn burn burn"!...

We're back with a regular episode! Listen to this month's episode below or read the transcript online . We talk about: The Exploit: Zero Day open alpha! A couple of fun bits of drama around the release LOWREZJAM 2019 , our 3rd quarter game jam You can subscribe to this here podcast in Apple Podcasts , Stitcher , Google Play , or via RSS feed . Our intro/outro music is "Juparo" by Broke for Free li...

Listen to this month's super short episode below or read the transcript online . This one's pretty short because it's an announcement! You can subscribe to this here podcast in Apple Podcasts , Stitcher , Google Play , or via RSS feed . Our intro/outro music is "Juparo" by Broke for Free licensed under CC-BY 3.0 . Talk to us on Twitter , or on Facebook !

Listen to this month's episode below or read the transcript online . Note: This episode was recorded on April 12, 2019. Some things have changed, like the fact that we've finished " The Plague ." (Blame the NHL playoffs for why Melissa took forever to edit this. :-D) This episode is a trimmed form of our post-first quarter review meeting. We cover: Highlights of finances and sales, including sales...

Listen to this month's episode below or read the transcript online . This month's episode is a little more technical than usual, probably. We talk about: A slew of technical maintenance that fell on us The django-presskit release Business taxes (Melissa's a nerd) Headless Swarm writing You can subscribe to this here podcast in Apple Podcasts , Stitcher , Google Play , or via RSS feed . Our intro/o...

Listen to this month's episode below or read the transcript online . Two big things have happened in the last month: The " Cereal Killer " release of Exploit: Zero Day The release of " Ace Systems Go! " You can subscribe to this here podcast in Apple Podcasts , Stitcher , Google Play , or via RSS feed . Our intro/outro music is "Juparo" by Broke for Free licensed under CC-BY 3.0 . Talk to us on Tw...

"What did we do to dramatically change the world this quarter?" Another meeting on our part, but much shorter than December's . This a little quarterly meeting to answer the above question. Listen to this month's episode below or read the transcript online . We cover some fun topics: Sales in Q4 2018 (numbers cut). Known project releases for 2019, including our Ace Jam 2019 game. Future Proof Play...

This is a special episode! You'll notice it's much longer than our usual 15 minutes—that's because we're actually having a business meeting during the podcast. It was originally recorded on December 10, 2018, but the holidays interfered a bit with editing and transcribing. We had an internal refocusing meeting back in November, where we discussed what projects we want to work on, how we feel...

Listen to this month's episode below or read the transcript online or as a PDF . We talk about: Still Waters Run Deep, Part 2 , the conclusion! The Rosette Diceless supplemental material for additional gameplay options or advice Writing Headless Swarm Our new Future Proof Plays series, where we stream small indie games once a week. Follow both Melissa's Twitch channel and Gregory's to watch those....

Listen to this month's episode below or read the transcript online or as a PDF . We talk about: " Still Waters Run Deep ", the Rosette Diceless one-shot (now two-shot) that Melissa ran on September 30 (embedded below); Some work Gregory is doing with Lita and artificial intelligence of a sort; The migration of a server to Microsoft's cloud service, Azure; and Last but not least, our writing of Hea...

This month, we talk about the ongoing Exploit: Zero Day job editor development, the dropped " The Majesty of Colors " trademark application, our infrastructural/devops change away from Compass, and the upcoming Rosette Diceless one-shot session on September 30. Give a listen below or read the transcript online or as a PDF . You can also subscribe in Apple Podcasts , Stitcher , Google Play , or via...

This month, we talk about the Rosette Diceless release and PR efforts, as well as the ongoing Exploit: Zero Day development and its Hackers -themed release structure. Give a listen below or read the transcript online or as a PDF . You can also subscribe in Apple Podcasts , Stitcher , Google Play , or via RSS feed . Our intro/outro music is "Juparo" by Broke for Free licensed under CC-BY 3.0 . Let...

Our second podcast episode! We managed to keep to the format of about 15 minutes, which is tricky for talkers like us. Give a listen below or read the transcript online or as a PDF . You can also subscribe in Apple Podcasts , Stitcher , Google Play , or via RSS feed . Our intro/outro music is "Juparo" by Broke for Free licensed under CC-BY 3.0 . Let us know what you think of this format in the com...

We're doing something new this month: chatting about the work we're doing in a short podcast! Legitimately short: it's only 15 minutes including our dope intro/outro music, "Juparo" by Broke for Free , licensed under CC-BY 3.0 . Give a listen below or read the transcript online or as a PDF . You can also subscribe in Apple Podcasts , Stitcher , or via RSS feed . Let us know what you think of this...

Our tabletop roleplaying game is almost done. In "beta" and for most of its development, it had the working title LORE. However, with our vision for it solidified and the polish phase starting, it was time to pick a name that reflected what the game had become. I present to you: Rosette. Below is the first segment of our first playtest with the near-final rules, done several weeks ago. We'll be re...