Character Creation Spotlight E20 - Girl by Moonlight with Andrew Gillis [Designer]

Welcome to a special bonus episode of Character Creation Spotlight! For this episode, we sit down with Andrew Gillis, designer of the game we'll be shining a light on today, Girl by Moonlight, a Magical Girl game about exploring the heartbreak of denying who you really are, fighting for what you believe in, and the transcendent power of building relationships while embracing your true self. This game is funding on Backerkit right now, so check it out after you hear all about it and hear about our amazing group we created this episode! Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/charactercreationcast Announcements: Girl By Moonlight on Backerkit: https://www.backerkit.com/c/evil-hat/girl-by-moonlight Newsletter Signups: https://newsletter.charactercreationcast.com/ 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: Andrew Gillis @CommutingCrow Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommutingCrow Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/actualfactual Games/Tools discussed this episode: Girl By Moonlight Backerkit: https://www.backerkit.com/c/evil-hat/girl-by-moonlight Timestamps: 00:00:08 - Introductions 00:02:35 - What's in a game? 00:03:22 - Setting 00:04:37 - What do characters do in this game? 00:05:18 - Materials 00:05:40 - What kind of characters can you make in this game? 00:07:32 - Let's make some people! - Choose a setting 00:09:14 - Series creation worksheet 00:10:14 - What blight is upon the world? 00:11:10 - What is its agenda? 00:13:38 - Mundane World 00:18:11 - What is held sacred? 00:20:15 - What is considered profane? 00:21:40 - How did we get our abilities? 00:23:06 - What role do we play? 00:24:57 - Choosing playbooks 00:34:56 - Filling initial details 00:35:40 - Action Ratings and Transcended Abilities 00:42:01 - Create secondary characters? 00:52:07 - Naming our characters 00:55:46 - Introduce our characters 00:59:35 - Promises 01:10:26 - We finished! 01:11:57 - Episode Closer 01:13:30 - Credits Music: Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Website: https://www.charactercreationcast.com Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Discord: https://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creationcast/ Tumblr: https://creationcast.tumblr.com/ Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Mastodon: @[email protected] (https://dice.camp/@gingerreckoning) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Mastodon: @[email protected] (https://dice.camp/@lordneptune) Our Network: https://oneshotpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices