Character Creation Spotlight - E18.1 - I Have the High Ground with Jess Levine and satah [Designers]

Welcome to a special bonus episode of Character Creation Spotlight, everyone. In this bonus series we are thrilled to welcome Jess Levine and satah, designers of I Have the High Ground, a two-player game about banter, posturing and capes! This episode we learn about the game and create our scenarios together. Stay tuned for the next episode where we finish our characters and learn more about the design behind the game! Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/charactercreationcast Announcements: I Have the High Ground: Itch: https://jessfromonline.itch.io/ihthg Indie Press Revolution: https://indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/I-Have-the-High-Ground.html Crowdfunding Info: https://www.gameontabletop.com/cf710/i-have-the-high-ground.html Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Jess Levine @jessfromonline Twitter: https://twitter.com/jessfromonline Website: https://jessfrom.online/ Itch.io: https://jessfromonline.itch.io/ Music: https://liquidcrystal.bandcamp.com/ satah @nuditea Twitter: https://twitter.com/nuditea Website: https://gaygothvibes.online Games and Tools discussed this episode: I Have the High Ground: Itch: https://jessfromonline.itch.io/ihthg Indie Press Revolution: https://indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/I-Have-the-High-Ground.html Crowdfunding Info: https://www.gameontabletop.com/cf710/i-have-the-high-ground.html Timestamps: 00:00:22 - Introductions 00:04:36 - What's in a game? - Core Concept for I Have the High Ground 00:11:44 - Settings 00:14:05 - What materials do we need for this game? 00:16:15 - What kinds of characters can you make for this game? 00:20:53 - How can we tell what the stakes are? 00:22:51 - Let's make some people! - Genre 00:24:27 - Stakes 00:27:15 - History 00:33:50 - Descriptors 00:51:35 - How did it come to this?! 00:57:27 - Environment 01:03:50 - Capes 01:11:34 - Credits 01:13:28 - Show Blurbs - Iron Edda Reforged Music: Clip 1: The following music was used for this media project: Music: Sing Along by Alexander Nakarada Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/4722-sing-along License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Clip 2: The following music was used for this media project: Music: Volcano by Sascha Ende Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/540-volcano License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://www.sascha-ende.de Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/) Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/charactercreationcast Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Facebook: https://facebook.com/charactercreationcast/ Discord: http://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@charactercreationcast?lang=en Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Twitch: https://twitch.tv/lordneptunerb Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Itch.io: https://lordneptune.itch.io Our Website: https://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: https://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices