Brain Trust

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Caspers in the Chat Apr 07, 2020

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Adam Vass and Will Jobst brainstorm and brainproduce three games using online. What kind of games lean into the crosstalk and overspeaking of voice chat, the private space around your computer, or the haunted house that is Discord? We got you. Adam unveil a very good impression of our favorite LOST character, Will doesn’t analyze the significance of twos, and we both consider what makes a flakey, fresh, homemade brain crust. Bazinga count for this episode: 1. Find Adam on Twitter at @wcgameco and Will at @will_jobst Music by Will Jobst, available at https://soundcloud.com/willjobst. Also, there’s a discord! We’d love for you to join! Find the link here: https://discordapp.com/invite/SgnU8ZB.

Grocery Store Pincer Formation Mar 31, 2020

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Adam Vass and Will Jobst enter online, again. We derail fast to talk about supermarkets, blueboxes, and Will’s friendly upstairs cult. Adam give a Quietus play report, and we both talk about playing games online. Will debuts a brand-new joke and Adam reveals himself to be something of a music guy. Wow! A programming note, in these quarantine-days, we’re going to switch from biweekly to weekly! You’ll get episodes like these, in which we check-in, go wild, and exchange grocery store pincer formation strategies. You’ll also get episodes in which we bash together a game, live! Last episode, we dreamed up Total Station, a zine-ripping, map uncovering game. Look for progress of that throughout April. Also, there’s a discord! We’d love for you to join! Find the link here: https://discordapp.com/invite/SgnU8ZB.

Gripsters and Ripsters Mar 17, 2020

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Adam Vass and Will Jobst tear it up, materially-speaking. We tear it up, generally, too. But today it’s specific. You get it. In this episode, we design three games revolving around the destruction of zines, with at least one of them about LOST. If you love something, sometimes you have to rip it up into 1,000 pieces. This episode is ready-made with everything you need: foley experiment, Adam and Will getting the mind-blown feeling, and minimal references to the reason we’re all inside.

Also, there’s a discord! We’d love for you to join! Find the link here: https://discordapp.com/invite/SgnU8ZB.

Our new zine, Brain Modification or An Archival History History of Ego Death is now available for preorder at https://worldchampgame.co/store/brain-modification-or-an-archival-history-of-ego-death-by-adam-vass-amp-will-jobst.

While you’re there, you should hire Adam for illustration, layout, writing, design, project management, or consulting. Just saying.

Find Adam on Twitter at @wcgameco and Will at @will_jobst

Music by Will Jobst, available at https://soundcloud.com/willjobst.

Grateful Dead Van of Theseus Mar 03, 2020

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Adam Vass and Will Jobst take it all apart piece by piece and put it back together again. We’re back, baby, in the same zip code. Hell, we’re even in the same room. Locking eyes and bass boosting fives. The California sun is nice, I’m not afraid to say it. In this one we talk about playing A Guide to Casting Phantoms in the Revolution (Together! In person!), how screen printing techniques inform game design, and chopping and screwing game systems. Also, there’s a discord! We’d love for you to join! Find the link here: https://discordapp.com/invite/SgnU8ZB. Find Adam on Twitter at @wcgameco and Will at @will_jobst Music by Will Jobst, available at https://soundcloud.com/willjobst.

The Anti-Designer Feb 18, 2020

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Adam Vass and Will Jobst discover that for every thing, there is an anti-thing. Matter. Malls. Games designers. We chat about reinvention, kickstarter peeves, and wonder why you were nodding along in the first place. Adam looks at the katamaris (the game of cousins), the long view of one’s catalog, and gets ready to wrap up the Cobwebs kickstarter (while previewing what’s to come). Will anatomizes the anti-designer, and then becomes it. They also hack up a lung and think about that nice western doctor, that they’re gonna just go ahead and google the name of right now. Dr. Amos "Doc" Cochran. Ye-haw. Adam and Will both chat about the future of the show, and the shape of the Brain Trust to come!

Also, there’s a discord! We’d love for you to join! Find the link here: https://discordapp.com/invite/SgnU8ZB.

Find Adam on Twitter at @wcgameco and Will at @will_jobst

Music by Will Jobst, available at https://soundcloud.com/willjobst.

The Campaign to Reshoot Little Rascals (1994) Feb 05, 2020

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Adam Vass and Will Jobst set off fireworks in celebration of Cobwebs funding! We prepare our minds to enter the green realm of Zine Quest 2 by highlighting some of our most anticipated zines. Adam ponders what his own catalog, the bounds between heavy metal fucker shit and kid shit. Will recounts a scary noise from the woods. They both chat about a Guide to Casting Phantoms in the Revolution and hint toward a mysterious break in the episode. Huh.

Also, there’s a discord! We’d love for you to join! Find the link here: https://discordapp.com/invite/SgnU8ZB.

Find Adam on Twitter at @wcgameco and Will at @will_jobst

Music by Will Jobst, available at https://soundcloud.com/willjobst.

Burrito Design Seminar Jan 21, 2020

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Adam Vass and Will Jobst bluesky the next actually good corporate game. As with every movement in games, it’s one of two things. Call of Duty or Spiderman. Chipotle or Taco Bell. They talk about the scariest character sheets, zines ahead of ZineQuest 2020, and a deep dive into Adam’s coming-to-Kickstarter game Cobwebs (January 28th, mark it!). For more information, check out Adam’s mailing list right here.

Also, there’s a discord! We’d love for you to join! Find the link here: https://discordapp.com/invite/SgnU8ZB.

Find Adam on Twitter at @wcgameco and Will at @will_jobst

Music by Will Jobst, available at https://soundcloud.com/willjobst.

The Car Is in the Front Yard Jan 07, 2020

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Adam Vass and Will Jobstget lit. What does 2020 hold? Will gets grim, fast. Adam explores Doozle and the goblin conundrum. Then they crescendo into music games, with notes and pianos and clapping and that certain TikTok noise. This episode features a playstorm of my car is in the front yard, now available on at willjobst.itch.io/my-car-is-in-the-front-yard.

Find Adam on Twitter at @wcgameco and Will at @will_jobst

Music by Will Jobst, available at https://soundcloud.com/willjobst.

Top Three, Twenty Nineteen Dec 24, 2019

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Adam Vass and Will Jobstgive the definitive ranking of everything, including: best games you haven’t read yet, most questionable lunches, and, well, slaw. They talk about ghosts of episodes’ past, their favorite games of the year, and Pokemon. Who’s Auld Lang Syne anyways? I’m going to look it up and get back to you.

Find Adam on Twitter at @wcgameco and Will at @will_jobst

Music by Will Jobst, available at https://soundcloud.com/willjobst.

I looked it up. Auld Lang Syne is a type of complicated bread. Wow!

A Cinder Block Box in Worcester, MA Nov 26, 2019

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Adam Vass and Will Jobst are together in the same room! Live and direct for Worcester, MA, Adam and Will reunite! They talk about Pokemon (Shield), the status of A Guide to Casting Phantoms in the Revolution, Adam’s upcoming game Cobwebs, and the joy of gaming with new players. Find Adam on Twitter at @wcgameco and Will at @will_jobst Music by Will Jobst, available at https://soundcloud.com/willjobst.

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