Series 22.3 - Questlandia 2 with Hannah Shaffer and Evan Rowland [Designers] (Discussion)

In the final part of our Questlandia 2 series, we discuss the process of worldbuilding, talk about designing a game made for campaigns, and chat about how our lives influence our art in our discussion episode 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 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: 00:00:21 - Intro 00:00:46 - Hannah’s Character 00:01:30 - Evan’s Character 00:02:18 - Amelia’s Character 00:02:51 - Ryan’s Character 00:03:42 - D20 for your thoughts 00:04:05 - Evan’s start in games 00:05:11 - Hannah’s start in games 00:08:02 - What do you like about collaborative worldbuilding? 00:11:49 - Why make a GMless game? 00:13:31 - Why is randomness still important? 00:16:31 - What does character creation tell us about the game? 00:19:44 - Why do we know so little about our ghosts? 00:26:39 - What are the flaws and what are you proudest of? 00:29:07 - Figuring out how to pitch the game 00:29:57 - The character sheet 00:33:49 - Changes from Questlandia 1 to Questlandia 2 00:36:15 - How real life influences design 00:40:41 - FAN FIC! 00:49:48 - Take it up a level 00:52:10 - How does advancement work? 00:56:08 - Making a campaign vs. a one shot 01:01:42 - Plugs! 01:04:13 - Closer 01:04:40 - Show blurbs: Arms of the Tide 01:06:33 - Outtakes Transcripts https://charactercreationcast.simplecast.com/episodes/series-223-questlandia-2-with-hannah-shaffer-and-evan-rowland-designers-discussion/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: https://makebigthings.itch.io/questlandia-2 at https://makebigthings.itch.io/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices