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In this episode, I talk to Tim Denee, a Wellington-based graphic designer, illustrator, and game designer. His graphic design work has been recognised by the Best Awards, Tokyo Design Week and the International Society of Typographic Designers. He's also the co-author of We Are Here: An Atlas of Aotearoa, which was shortlisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards.

Through Old Dog Games, he's published free RPG products like a hack of Band of Blades for playing in the Warhammer old world and last year, a hack for Twilight 2000 to play Andor. And recently, he's partnered with Evil Hat to release Deathmatch Island, a battle royale adaptation of Agon, and crowdfunding now, Blades '68, an expansion for the seminal Blades in the Dark.

Tim’s personal website: https://timdenee.com/

Old Dog Games: https://www.olddog.games/

Blades ‘68 crowdfunding: https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/c7788a1e-2f1c-4525-bc66-2a99b84ebae9/landing

Show Notes:

Austin Powers

Mad Men (TV Show)

Games Mentioned

Deathloop

Dishonored

Mythic Bastionland

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As per annual tradition, I'm once again joined by Quinns from QQuest to talk about the year and forge our bond in the fire of podcasting.

Show Notes:

Fastaval, the larp festival in Denmark

Last year's 2024 year in review

Games Mentioned

The Tribunal

The Straights Are Not Okay

Tacklebox

Mythic Bastionland

Gradient Descent

God’s Teeth / Delta Green

D&D

Draw Steel

Daggerheart

Magnus Archives

Old Gods of Appalachia

The Silt Verses

Old School Essentials / Dolmenwood

Cain

Pirate Borg

Fabula Ultima

The Between

Masks of Nyarlathotep

Eternal Lies

Pirates of Drinax

A Nocturne

Apocalypse World: Burned Over

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In this episode, I talk to Aaron Lim, a game designer from Malaysia. His work includes sad village-building game An Altogether Different River, very sad journey game Itchaca on the Cards, and tragic mecha game Spectres of Brocken. He's also the organizer of Playtest Zero, a fortnightly RPG playtesting community that's been going on since 2021.

Aaron Lim on bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ehronlime.bsky.social

Aaron’s itch page: https://ehronlime.itch.io/

Show Notes:

Playtest Zero FAQ

My article about visiting Malaysia for the Asian Board Games Festival

Only Yesterday (1991)

Games Mentioned

Ithaca on the Cards: Second Expedition

Microscope

Big Grave Fashion Fantasy

Desperation

Zhenya’s Wonder Tales

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