Brain Trust

Latest Episodes:

Competitive TTRPGs and Bingo Oct 09, 2024

Show notes

Season 1, Episode 11: In this episode, we tackle a question from Ethan Yen about creating competitive TTRPGs.

Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get access to merch sales, and more!

Find us at https://braintrust.rocks/.

Q&A: Monsters, Art, and Quiet Innovation Oct 02, 2024

Show notes

Season 1, Episode 10: In this episode, we answer listener questions, specifically about monster design, art, and “quiet innovation”.

Appendix N:

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/rock-paper-scissors---a-method-for-competitive-game-play-design

Made Out Of Meat: Health Systems In Video Games

Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get access to merch sales, and more!

Find us at https://braintrust.rocks/.

Approachability and Free Radicals Sep 24, 2024

Show notes

Season 1, Episode 9: In this episode, we talk about how we communicate what our games even are, and how we can meld minds with people who run games via the page.

Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get access to merch sales, and more!

Find us at https://braintrust.rocks/.

Gen Con Recap and Cryptids Sep 17, 2024

Show notes

Season 1, Episode 8: We were both… ACTUALLY… at Gen Con. Here’s our report!

Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get access to merch sales, and more!

Find us at https://braintrust.rocks/.

Kickstarter and Disgusting Butterflies Sep 10, 2024

Show notes

Season 1, Episode 7: In this episode we join our hosts mere minutes after the end of a successful Kickstarter.

Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get access to merch sales, and more!

Find us at https://braintrust.rocks/.

Plasmodics and the Human Inside the Game Sep 02, 2024

Show notes

Season 1, Episode 6: In this episode, we talk everything Plasmodics, a big update on our lives and project, and how we highlight the usness of our games.

Find Plasmodics: mutant freaks in the weird future here.

Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get access to merch sales, and more!

Find us at https://braintrust.rocks/.

Graphic Design and Born to Die Feb 01, 2024

Show notes

Season 1, Episode 5: In this episode, we talk about shock jocks, graphic design, and studying adventures, and in the middle we design the Born to Die TTRPG! Listen to part two of this episode only on Ko-Fi, on 2/6.

Find the Born to Die RPG at https://worldchampgameco.itch.io/.

Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get access to merch sales, and more!

Find us at https://braintrust.rocks/.

Appendix N:

⁠Born to Die⁠

Ali on TikTok

Sinix Design

Elliotisacoolguy

Shannon Swales

Struthless

Electric Bastionland

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream