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by Raymond
[insert quest here] is a Queer Australian podcast that focuses on Role Playing Games. We love telling diverse stories, and so we do our best to lift up the voices of our community by showing off new and innovative games, from a bunch of designers.We have a lot of Actual Plays, and interviews, and sometime host other content that is harder to define.
Episodes
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Interview with Xavier Ho
Recently Ray got to sit down with Xavier Ho, the main organiser for the Pride at Play exhibition back in 2023. It was a short retrospective chat about the queer games exhibition, and what went into creating such wonderful event. We hope you enjoy this episode. You can find out more about Pride at...
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Interview with Logan Timmins
This month Ray got the chance to chat with Logan, a game maker from down Melbourne way. We've followed Logan's work for a while and have found it to be unique and inspiring in the way he experiments with the art form. It was great to finally get to sit down an chat with Logan about game design…
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Guns Blazing Interview with Basheer Ghouse
Content Warning for this episode, we will be talking about revolutionary struggle. This month we got to chat with an amazing game maker out of the states Basheer Ghouse. Basheer has done a lot of consulting work in the industry, including for giants like Wizard's of the Coast and Paizo. Now he's...
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Solo But Not Alone 3 Interview
Solo But Not Alone is an amazing charity bundle that happens every years. Game devs donate their Solo RPGs to benefit Jaspers Games Day, a charity fighting to improve mental health for young people. The bundle is packed full of RPGs you can play on your own, across a myriad of genres and themes.…
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Navathem's End Follow Up Interview
Back in 2021 we were fortunate enough to talk with Sin and Pam about their game Navathem's End. Now we're catching up again because it's going to print! We discuss all the challenges and excitement around finding a physical publisher for a game that's already be released digitally. As well as...
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Hellpiercers Interview with Nem
The first of our interviews for 2023, and hopefully many more ahead. This month I had the pleasure of talking to Nem who you may also know as Sandy Pug. She has done a lot of work supporting others and helping them get their games published, but also makes her own games too. HELLPIERCERS is their...
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Tournament Arc Interview
On today's episode Rei talks with Chloe about here awesome new sports anime inspired RPG Tournament Arc. Tournament Arc borrows from Belonging Outside Belonging type games and blends that with a broad definition of sport. It's an exciting conversation and one we've been dying to have! If you want...
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Roar To Heaven Interview
Our last episode for 2021, and what an episode! Ray talks with Cat MacDonald about Symphogear, Creating for the LUMEN engine, and Kickstarters moronic blockchain announcement. We also talk about Cat's new Actual Play show, Roar To Heaven! You can find it on Kickstarter right...
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Make Our Own Heaven Interview
That's right! I'm this episodes guest! I'm appearing on my own show to talk about my new game Make Our Own Heaven. A biopunk angel RPG about Community Building, Found Family, and Meaningful Resistance. Hosting this episode is Sam, a pervious guest and game maker. You can find Sam's work here:...
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Shanty Hunters Kickstarter Interview
Recently we had the pleasure of talking to Tristan Zimmerman about his new game Shanty Hunters. A game about trying to collect a record of the oral history stored in sea shanties before they disappear. An also the music sometimes comes alive! One of my favourite parts of this game is that it…
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Iron Edda Reforged Kickstarter Interview
Iron Edda Reforged is the latest iteration of an ongoing multiverse of games and other fiction. Like it's forbears Iron Edda Reforged is built (almost literally) around the bones of giants and Ragnarok! Reforged adds a cyberpunk flare to the mix. It's all the brain child of Tracy, who is this…
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Interview with Chris Sellers
This week on the show we are talking to Chris Sellers about his recently Kickstarted game Raccoon Sky Pirates! Which is about exactly what it sounds like is about. Raccoon heists. You can find Chris on Twitter (https://twitter.com/hecticelectron) Itch(https://hecticelectron.itch.io/), and his...
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Momatoes ARC Kickstarter Interview
In this, our 50th episode of our interview series, I have the pleasure of talking to Momatoes about her Doomsday RPG, ARC. It's currently up on Kickstarter and their next stretch goal blew my mind (more on that at the end of the interview.) Back the Kickstarter here...
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NOVA Kickstarter Interview
In our latest episode Rei talks with Spencer Campbell about his upcoming kickstarter, a combat rpg in a world of exploded stars, sun shards, strange evolution, and superpowered exosuits called Sparks. https://twitter.com/GilaRPGs https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thegilaboy/nova-2/...
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Blueplanet Kickstarter Interview
In the lead up to the new Kickstarter we got to talk to Jeff Barber about his work shaping the New Edition of Blue Planet. The changes, what's staying the same, and what it is for those who've never heard of it before. https://twitter.com/BiohazardJeff https://www.biohazardgamespublishing.com/...
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Our Shores Interview - Joaquin
This is the last of our trio of interviews celebrating the Our Shores Kickstarter. Today I’m talking to Joaquin a Filipino writer, novelist, serialist, and game designer from the Philippines. Joaquin along with partner Gio, is working on perhaps my favourite of the 3 tentpole Our Shores projects....
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Our Shores Interview - Sin and Pam
This is the 2nd of our trio of interviews celebrating the Our Shores Kickstarter. This time we’re talking to Pammu & Sin, two amazing game makers from the philippines. Together they are creating Navathem's End. Support the Our Shores Kickstarter and help make Navathem's End a reality....
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Our Shores Interview - Sam
We are back with a trio of interviews over the next 3 weeks, diving into the various projects that make up the Our Shores Kickstarter. This week we’re talking to Sam, a game maker from Malaysia working on Capitalites. A game exploring the messy archetypes and relationships of young people living…
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Brinkwood Interview
It's been a long, exhausting year. We're all trying to survive Plagues, Ecological Collapse, and Capitalism. Sounds like a perfect time to talk about woodland bandits robbing vampires! It's time to talk about Brinkwood! This week, to get you all excited for their kickstarter, we've pulled this...
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First Look: [Ruins]
Ruins is a game we've fallen in love with since playing it. It's multi format, with room and support for a lot of different kinds of role play. it brings you in, so many different ways. This first look is a bit of an experiment, like the game it focus on. Something vloggy, that focuses more on...
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Solo: [LLDR Spaceship Hack]
It's been a hard for me to work on the podcast the last few weeks. I've been struggling with organising content for months, and the current global crises just made me collapse inward. But on Friday morning I woke up determined to record something, and after racking my brain a bit I realised that...
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Solo: [Slough]
This week I play another Ritual game. This time I'm a wizard trying to change themself into something new, in an attempt to overcome the past. This is a lovely, poetic, and kind of cossy little game. It's intimate and tender, yet also brooding and ominous. It's a game by Luke Jordan, and...
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Interview with Mids Meinberg
Meinberg is a designer from the states making some interesting work, we sat down to talk about what motivates thons creative process. We also talked about thons zinequest project, inspired by the Oz series. EDIT: there was an issue with the original file where some audio from the end of the...
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Descent into Midnight Interview
This week we have a lovely conversation with Taylor LeBresh, one of the many people working on the upcoming RPG release Descent Into Midnight. The game focuses on community, family, and hope. Set in a technologically advanced aquatic civilization whose culture has never been touched by humanity....
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Solo: [Psyber Knights]
An interesting solo rpg that prompts you to delve deeper into yourself, and come out stronger on the other side...while also fighting capitalism with your cyborg psychic powers. If you'd like to get the game for yourself, you can buy it here: https://goat-song-publishing.itch.io/psyber-knights
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First Look: [VanJesus]
CW: Extreme Violence and Animal Cruelty. The Sun of God is about to kick some vampire ass! VanJesus is an over the top adventure rpg where you play as archetypes of Jesus (or other biblical archetypes.) You hunt vampires in over the top adventures, and try to make the world a...well not safer...
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Interview with Matthew Gravelyn
First interview of the new year, and this is a follow up to last weeks Actual Play. Matthew Gravelyn is a game maker/writer with a varied background. Having worked on Humblewood, Mall Kids, and of course Legacy of Steel. We talked about his experience with zines, his process as an artist, and his...
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Solo: [Legacy of Steel]
CW: Death, War First episode back for the new year! We're playing a solo game. Legacy of steel allows you to build/explore the background of a mech. Detail some of its history and can be a companion tool for other games. https://mr-matthew.itch.io/legacy-of-steel
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Dream Anew Interview
We talk to Luke about their new Utopian game, the need for hopeful fiction, and I finally find out what a Belonging Outside Belonging game is. All that and more in our final public episode of the year. We'll be back with more content in January, or subscribe to our patreon to get one more episode...
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Solo: [Tea With Demons]
After a short break in our schedule to do a family emergency, we return with another lovely Solo Actual Play. A lovely ritual by Jamila, that asks us to make tea for a demon, ask them questions about what troubles us, and listen to what they have to say. Perfect way to analyze what is weighing...
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My Favourite Pilot!! And An Update
To help me get back into the swing of things, and explain why I've been unable to post, I went back and visited something from our Solo Series. I wanted to talk through what has been keeping me from making. Also thought it would be a good way to show off the kind of content I make for [Quest...
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Solo: [Eternal Frame]
This week's episode of solo is a super short one! We're playing a single person graffiti RPG. It asks you to put yourself in the role of a pilot, likely about to die in battle, writing your final goodbye on the inside of your giant robots cockpit, like all those that came before you. And you do...
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NYWF Needs More Game Makers!
CW: Alcohol In following with the example set by the festival. I would like to acknowledge the Awabakal and Worimi peoples, who are the traditional custodians of the land the festival was held on, and that this podcast was made on. I pay respect to their elders past and present as well as to any...
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[NYWF] Dungeon Writers and Arts Dragons
In following with the example set by the festival. I would like to acknowledge the Awabakal and Worimi peoples, who are the traditional custodians of the land the festival was held on, and that this podcast was made on. I pay respect to their elders past and present as well as to any listeners…
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Interview with Rae White
This week we have a special interview with my partner, and collaborator Rae. We've been working on a poetry board game together. In it you write poems about the rooms of a house you imagine yourself to be exploring. There are prompts about the contents of the house to help you, and at the end you...
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Interview with Blake
This week were talking to Blake. Blake is a creator from the Seattle area of the US. They've recently been growing their presence in the game design community by taking part in a lot of game jams. I've been enjoying following their work, and hearing their voice in the community. Twitter...
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Solo: [In The Ocean]
In The Ocean is a micro rpg with prompt cards that ask you to answer questions about the world, or play out scenes from your past. In it you play as a mech pilot stranded on an ocean planet, watching the battle overhead. As you wait for rescue you remember your past. It's a pretty excellent game,...
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Yesterdays Missing Episode: explained
Just a little quick update about why we were unable to post a new episode this week.
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Interview with Soup
Soup is the creator of As I Imagine The Falling Rain, an RPG we played on Solo. We had a lovely discussion about the layout of the game, and how that informs your play. We also talked about the RPG design course that pushed Soup to start making more games. Itch: https://literalsoup.itch.io/...
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Solo: [Reclaimed]
This week is a bonus episode of solo a RPG about a mech being rebooted after a long time alone. We'll explore that loneliness, andand the new world our mech awakens in. If you want to play Reclaimed for yourself, you can buy it here: https://elibees.itch.io/reclaimed
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Solo: [Stories To Tell]
CONTENT WARNING: Death, Injury, Lizards, Birds. This was weird play experience. You ask questions of the other players...or in solo mode, you ask yourself? It was an interesting game, I liked it. In particular, I think it's a great idea for a game. This did come out of a game jam, so sometimes…
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Solo: [Recollection Gloaming]
CONTENT WARNING: Death, Injury, Fire, War. (This game REALLY should be played before you listen to the AP, it is totally possible to have this game spoiled for you. Get it here: https://mossytoes.itch.io/recollection-gloaming ) A wonderful, emotional, and atmospheric episode of Solo. Playing...
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Solo: [As I Imagine The Falling Rain]
All this month we're airing episodes of our new show Solo, where Ray plays single person RPGs and talks about their mechanics. This weeks episode explores a poetic RPG that provoked an interesting thought about the power of labels. If you enjoyed listening to As I Imagine The Falling Rain, you...
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Solo: [My Favourite Pilot!!]
It's August, it's nonbinary TTRPG month, and we've got so much planned. 2 conventions, a Ray's birthday, some collaborations with other nonbinary folks, and a new product release from Ray. And to make it even more fantastic; we're going to be bringing you 4 episode of our new series Solo. This...
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Solo: [Death Sentence]
Content Warning: Death, War. Solo is a new series from us where Ray will be taking a closer look at single player RPGs. The first season of this new show will look at Solo RPGs from the Emotional Mecha Game Jam. First up is Death Sentence, a game by Jeff Ellis. In it you play as a mech pilot…
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Interview with Ross Payton
Ross Payton is a podcast producer and freelance game writer. He's worked on content for Eclipse Phase, Delta Green, Red Markets, and more. He's the producer of Role Playing Public Radio and all their affiliated shows, as well as The Mixed Six! Ross Payton is someone I've always wanted to…
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IQH presents: Death In Role Playing Games
CW: Death, Suicide, End-Of-Life Care Sidney, Jamila, and Ray are 3 game makers that are all interested in how games explore death. We brought them together to open up and talk about their experiences with death, and how we might explore death and themes adjacent to it in more interesting and…
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Two Sided Quest: [HOT GAY BRO DRAGONS]
This week Nika and Ray pretend to be Hot, Gay, Bro Dragons. Dating each other and opening up about their love for one another. It was a blast getting tipsy, confessing our love, and saying bro a lot. You can get this game for yourself by following the link:...
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Interview with Jamila
We chat with the Sword Queen herself Jamila, a game maker from the Philippines working in a bunch of different design spaces, and a genuine delight! You should all check out Jammi's new game https://temporalhiccup.itch.io/take-my-revolution
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San Jenaro Co-Op interview: Kickstarter Musings
This week to members of the San Jenaro Co-Op are on to teach us about some of the hidden challenges of Kickstarters, and what their experience was like working on their first KS Project for their new Co-Op. Liam has worked on Kickstarters before and is one of several mentors helping the fresh on...
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