Fast on the heels of last episode, we have an interview with Nathan Paoletta from ndpdesign and Design Games Podcast. We talk about living the dream, design vs. design, and lots more. Included is an official jazz performance by yours truly.

Theory From the Closet 072: Talking about Podcasts

May 23rd, 2016 1h 25m

I’ve had some folks asking me about podcasting lately, so I sat down with folks from; The Jankcast, Cinema Supercollider, and Design Games Podcast. We talked about making podcasts. This show doesn’t focus on the production end as much as the

Theory From the Closet 071: Interview with Paul Czege

Apr 12th, 2016 1h 6m

It only took about a year to get the follow up interview with Paul Czege that I mentioned in the last episode. Problem is all on my end, Paul’s really easy to work with. Case in point, this interview. I was completely unprepared, my power cord

Theory From the Closet 070: Interview with Paul Czege

May 17th, 2015 1h 9m

This is an interview I did with Paul Czege from Half Meme Press about what we can learn, and what he has learned, from his latest game The Clay That Woke.We recorded this at Forge Midwest. There is likely going to be a follow up, as after the

Theory From The Closet 069: Interview with Epidiah Ravachol

Sep 15th, 2013 2h 7m

This is an interview I did with Epidiah Ravchol about his project Words without Master, and the Patreon campaign that supports the project. On the way we discuss all kinds of other things like nano games, finally getting mom to understand, and

Theory from the Closet 068: Interview with Spencer Crittenden

Feb 24th, 2013 1h 11m

This is an interview I did with Spencer Crittenden, the GM of the Harmontown podcast. We discussed video games where things swallow you, a bit about improv and RPG’s, and the capabilities and desires of the young folks. I lose my place at least

Show067: Interview with John Lammmers

Dec 1st, 2012 19m 50s

Here’s a quick interview I did with John Lammers the head of Epic Table . This is from Gen Con, and I’m terribly late getting it posted. Sorry John.clyde on Google+

Show066: Begging and Defining the Problem

Jul 2nd, 2012 13m 21s

This episode I do some begging. I put out my virtual wooden bowl in hopes of attending Gen Con. I also begin design of an unnamed game, by taking the first step; defining the problem.Show NotesThis Just in From Gen ConThis Just in From Gen C

Show065: Basics Primer with Judd Karlman

Jun 23rd, 2011 31m 15s

So there were a couple Skype disconnects, and I’m not sure we totally nailed this episode as a complete primer. Totally my fault, I needed to be more prepared… you know how that goes. Anyway, It opens the subject and Judd has said he’ll follow

Show064: Don’t Call it a Podfade…

Jun 13th, 2011 13m 3s

Hey, it’s a show. Yeah! I talk about where the podcast is traffic-wise, the terrible money word, needing help for interviews, and the upcoming shift to doing something rather than thinking about something. Most exciting twelve minutes of your l

Show063(Shorts): Paul Czege and the Wilderness

Dec 9th, 2010 35m 20s

I talked with Paul Czege in this Jams length shorts, about his explorations of alternates to Gen Con that might be useful for the crazy unknown designers out in the wilderness. Perhaps it might be helpful to uncrazy unknown designers, uncrazy k

Show062: Interview with Mike Mearls

Oct 2nd, 2010 1h 4m

I interviewed Mike Mearls about what the Essentials edition means for D&D 4E. This is that interview. Thanks to @ajgaming, @renatoram, and @bg_josh from Twitter. Also 2d6 Feet in a Random Direction for their Episode 54, which got me to reach ou

Zarathustra and the Dudes in the Forest.

Sep 15th, 2010

Once upon a time, Zarathustra lived in the woods with a cool religious dude, and things were good. Then Zarathustra had the strange idea that he needed to give man a gift; he left the woods and the cool religious dude, and things got weird.Thi

Show061: Interview with Keith Senkowski and Matt Synder

Sep 6th, 2010 1h 5m

Show061: Interview with Keith Senkowski and Matt SynderThis is the last of my Gen Con interviews. It was the second chronologically; occurring Friday morning. I’ll be interested to see how it’s received.We talked about Marketing. Marketing ve

Show060: Interview with David Wesely

Aug 30th, 2010 1h 40m

I spent so much time trying to fix the sound on this one… at least 24 hours total. It either can’t be done well, or is beyond my ability. Which sucks as this was the interview I was most excited about, from Gen Con. Major David Wesely, Ret., is

Show059: Interview with Vincent Baker

Aug 19th, 2010 1h 37m

Text later, sound-file… now.clyde on Google+

I did the Gen Cons.

Aug 14th, 2010

Gen Con recaps seem popular; I want to be popular, so I wrote this post full of name-dropping for you. Warning: I add the letter s to words that don’t need it to be internet cute. Also there are inside jokes and mystic writings. You’ve been war

Show058: Interview with Robert Bohl

Jul 17th, 2010 1h 27m

Here’s an interview I did with Robert Bohl a few weeks ago. I think the Skype interviews are really improving, there seems to be much less of the falling in and out that used to occur when using Skype.In this show we talk about; Misspent Youth

Show057: Interview with Michael S. Miller

May 2nd, 2010 57m 33s

I did an interview with Michael S. Miller via Skype tonight. We discussed a blog post he made some time back, and Serial: Homicide Unit, which he created with his wife Kat Miller.Some additional stuff, courtesy of Mike.Ron Edwards post about

Show056: Reincorporation with Ryan Macklin

Sep 20th, 2009 2h 27m

This is a long show, about Two hours and Twenty minutes. It served as a way for me to have my Gen Con talk with Ryan, as I didn’t have that opportunity this year. We talk about reincorporation, niche protection, and what a Roleplaying game is.

Show055: Homosexuality and RPG’s

Sep 13th, 2009 42m 49s

Man this was difficult. Alexander talked to me about discussing homosexuality in RPG’s at least two years. Gen Con 2008, we got together twice and talked, but I somehow lost, or destroyed both recordings accidentally. So that’s what brings us t

Show054: Interview with Judd Karlman

Aug 20th, 2009 24m 8s

Holy wow! This is from Gen Con 2008 and I thought it was lost. Well it was lost, but now it’s found. It’s a bit rambly, I didn’t have an outline which was par for the course for 2008. As always this post is the last thing I do, and I’m cranky,

Show053: Interview with Fred Hicks

Aug 11th, 2009 1h 43m

This is a great episode that is marred because of me not being prepared. I thought I had a program to record Skype, but I bought it over two years ago, and have since wiped my windoze box so it was no longer installed. Fred had his recorder, so

Show052: Live interview with Vincent Baker

Jun 4th, 2009 1h 15m

Here’s the Live Show. Man this was hard for me. I was cutting in and out, my interviewee was across space and time, and I had a hard time focusing on the conversation, and paying attention to a chat box. On the plus, it was really cool to have

Upcoming interview with Vincent Baker

May 29th, 2009

This is cut and pasted from a post I made on story-games, anyway….————-I’m planning to do an interview with Vincent Baker on Saturday May 30th 9:30 PM (21:30) eastren, 8:30 central, 01:30 GMT. The plan is to take questions, we’ll be focusing