Brain Trust

Latest Episodes:

Tips and Tricks for Moving 2020 Nov 17, 2020

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Torq, Cyber Metal, serialized rpgs, instragram endless scroll, Norman Reedus, box QWOP, and more. We really don’t stop until we’re done on this episode. Plans for ZineQuest 2021, Will’s moving tips, and applying comix publishing to game zines. This year has felt slightly longer than other years, no?

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

Brain Level Shiny Raven Toy Cognition Nov 10, 2020

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While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/.

It’s our fiftieth episode! No celebration. Will and Adam talk about bespoke RPG items and how making small runs and micro runs and runs of one is good. Also minecraft. Is Steve smiling? Or is it a beard. I’m not asking you to tell me the answer. I’m suggesting you think long and hard. We also talk about games that don’t take for granted the hangups of the medium.

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

Autoplay Gravesite Podcast Nov 03, 2020

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While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/.

It’s like an attract mode of an arcade cabinet but for a headstone. That headstone is for Adam Vass, inventor of Reggs. We create two games to play on another podcast, both with [R]eggs. Look it’s election day and I just want to get this podcast to you. The box has a name.

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

The Circumstances by Which I May Receive a Compliment Oct 27, 2020

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While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/.

AN ILLUSIVE NIGHT RECORDING. Spoilers for the $tranger Thing$ 3 in-car soiree.Drive-in experiences. 11 casting call. The quarry. Cars. This episode is wheeling and dealing, just like the D&D drive through. What rules minutiae question would you ask? I would ask if Tensor’s Floating Disk could hold another Tensor’s Floating Disk on it. Then you could just multiply the weight requirements and just straight up Death Stranding this whole thing. That game is great because MF DOOM will tell you: You got it Sam! I need you to make another delivery. This time, we need you to connect Bucko Knot City. Check the terminal for more details.

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

Game Brain Antidote Oct 20, 2020

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While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/.

Game vacation is what we talk about today. What is a vacation anyway? Do we live our anti-lives, or is it an expression of the interior true life? Quincy or Quoncy? Adam and Will discuss what their two-weeks off looks like, what are the goals or the non-goals? Also Will plays a tiktok on air. Yikes! What else. We also talk about stretch goals theory--the theory is that they’re bad.

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

Monstar Energy Drink Oct 14, 2020

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While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/.

Bottoms up, and the devil laughs. We crack cold ones (caffeinated drinks) before we crack gold ones (ideas). We’re talking about pseudo-live games with artboards and demon blood and boxing machines and all of that. It's the day of the big meat and I know this judge likes minions.

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

Aluminium Age Oct 07, 2020

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While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/.

With this episode we know the layout, the bosses, the nooks and crannies of the level. It’s a roguelike run and we’re making our way through. We know we won’t make it all the way, but the information we get, the skill we gain… it’s all worth it. On this one the big guy gets it, and by that I mean Adam and Will talk about roguelikes, adapting games for online play, and jolly ranchers in gym class.

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

Skull GPS Sep 29, 2020

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While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/.

Some St. Anger on this one. We talk more in-depth about bounty-board style crowdfunding, season of design, and licensing. We talk about our dream license, listening to a lot of Bastionland podcast, and giving our phone numbers to Robert Eggers. We chat about Will’s work-in-progress MORK BORG post-apocalyptic car world hack TORQUE [BORG]. How do we implement some system-doesn’t-matter energy into story games? And vice versa?

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

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

Degreening Sep 22, 2020

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While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/.

Pan-shot! Dinosaurs versus yetis. We’re talking about other methods of crowdfunding, looking at traditional publishing, pre-Kickstarter ransom projects, and more! How do we take Kickstarter mentality and not give 10% to unionbusters and credit card companies? What’s a creatively sustainable alternative to Patreon?

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

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

Alternative Methods of Fishing Sep 17, 2020

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While you’re here, contribute to Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/.

Nobody extends a metaphor like tabletop game designers. It’s a survival tool, you play inside the metaphors. Metaphors, we call them. I truly hope any fish listening can understand where we’re coming from. I’m linking NONE of the tiktoks or pictures we mentioned on the show. I’m sorry. If you came here to check please @ me on twitter and I’ll try and find them.

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

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