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The Mushroom Podcast

by Joel Clark

Various bits of audio, voice samples, stories, and other oddities for your enjoyment

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Episodes

  1. Acid and Steel design podcast episode 2: Sequence of Design

    In our second instalment, we discus the importance of the Sequence of Design. Which ideas do you need to develop first? What consequence does that have for your game design? Perk up your ears gentle listeners as the resident punch-game designer voids his mental bowels for YOUR consuming pleasure!...

  2. Acid and Steel design podcast Episode 1: The Important of Prewriting

    In our first installment of a new regular series, your intrepid designer waxes on about the important of prewriting in the creative process Background track is: Kick Shock Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License...

  3. Lone Wolf Fists Actual Play

    Behold noble savages! Two hours of real play from our game Tian Shang: Lone Wolf Fists hosted by yours truly; humble author and game designer. Starring a trio of heroes from the World of Ashes and Ghosts: The righteous Enemy of All Animals, a bike-mounted daredevil on a quest to impress the...

  4. Creating a backer style

    A recorded brainstorming session for designing a backer style. Takes the design from pitch through "skeleton", giving us a guide to finalizing the style. This'll take about an hour.

  5. The Circular Ruins

    I Read Jorge Borges' short story "The Circular Ruins" from his book, Labyrinths, for my kids. Music is Out from the Wasteland by astrofreq (https://pixabay.com/)

  6. The Pit and the Pendulum

    I read on of Edgar Allen Poe's classics

  7. Writing advice for Aura Engine

    This is actually for one single person and applicable only to their game

  8. Techniques ramble (kung-fu designers take note!)

    I go on a 40-minute spiel about my reasoning behind how techniques work and discuss their design principles. Useful if you are gonna make your own!

  9. Paranoid: A Chant (Stephen King)

    A reading of my favorite Stephen King poem

  10. Last Unicorn 6

    For the boy's bedtime

  11. The Last Unicorn: Chapter 5

    Getting back on the Unicorn after a few months hiatus

  12. Reading from the Alexandrian: "Don't Prep Plot"

    From the website The Alexandrian by Justin Alexander. This is my all-time favorite essay written about TTRPGs. Listen for enjoyment and edification!

  13. Last Unicorn 3

    I do a little reading of Peter S. Beagle's masterpiece. Chapter 3

  14. Neuromancer 3

    An early-morning, caffeinated read of William Gibson's seminal masterwork (part of it anyway)

  15. Last Unicorn 2

    I do some funny voices for the second chapter of Last Unicorn

  16. Neuromancer 2

    A read of Neuromancer, chapter 2

  17. Audio sample: Neuromancer

    The introduction to Neuromancer

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Various bits of audio, voice samples, stories, and other oddities for your enjoyment

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Joel Clark

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Various bits of audio, voice samples, stories, and other oddities for your enjoyment

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The Mushroom Podcast is created and hosted by Joel Clark.
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