Series 22.1 - Questlandia 2 with Hannah Shaffer and Evan Rowland [Designers] (Creation)

Welcome to the first episode of series 22, everyone! This episode we cover character creation for Questlandia 2, get into some great discussion about game design and collaboration, and stumble into a really flattering design decision with Hannah Shaffer and Evan Rowland, designers of the game and hosts of the Design Doc podcast, also part of the One Shot Podcast Network! 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 Character Creation Cast on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/character-creation-cast?refid=stpr Character Creation Cast on Facebook https://facebook.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests and Projects: Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit Twitter: https://twitter.com/hanbandit Patreon: https://patreon.com/hanbandit Evan Rowland @adrawnnovel Twitter: https://twitter.com/adrawnnovel Website: http://smallflygames.com/ Make Big Things @makebigthings Twitter: https://twitter.com/makebigthings Website: http://makebigthings.com/ Design Doc @designdocpod Twitter: https://twitter.com/designdocpod Website: http://oneshotpodcast.com/interview-discussion/design-doc/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:02:38 - Introductions 00:05:00 - What’s in a game? 00:07:37 - What do we need to play this game? 00:10:44 - Is there a reason to go with custom materials? 00:15:38 - What sort of stories and themes does this game explore? 00:22:44 - The history of Questlandia 00:28:07 - How is it collaborating vs not? 00:33:31 - Playtesting 00:40:53 - Terms and Concepts 00:43:16 - Let’s make some people! 00:56:41 - Our Choices 01:00:02 - Episode Closer 01:01:57 - Show Blurbs (Session Zero) Transcripts https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/series-221-questlandia-2-with-hannah-shaffer-and-evan-rowland-designers-creation/transcript Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Clip 1: Music from https://filmmusic.io "With a Creation" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Clip 2: Design Doc Intro/outro theme by Pat King (https://www.woodpenny.com) 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/) Games discussed this episode: Questlandia Webpage: http://makebigthings.com/questlandia-rpg/ Questlandia 2 Itch.io: Coming Soon at https://makebigthings.itch.io/ Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: 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 Amelia Antrim: Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Website: https://ameliaantrim.wordpress.com/ Garbage of the Five Rings podcast: (http://garbageofthefiverings.com/) G5R Twitter: @G5Rpodcast (https://twitter.com/G5Rpodcast) Ryan Boelter: Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Website: https://lordneptune.com Chimera RPG: @ChimeraRPG (https://twitter.com/ChimeraRPG) Side Heroes: @SideHeroesPod (https://twitter.com/SideHeroesPod) Patreon: https://patreon.com/RyanBoelter Itch.io: https://lordneptune.itch.io Our Website: http://www.charactercreationcast.com Our Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oneshotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices