In the third episode of our series turning Looper into a TTRPG, @seanireland.bsky.social joins us to BUILD THE SPIRE.

finally a podcast episode that references both internal family systems therapy & constructing a single use space elevator in the middle of town purely to run an adaptive media megagame

Have you ever wanted to lose yourself in a game? Like, literally, spatially, physically lose yourself? Then chip in a couple million to help us BUILD THE SPIRE 🗼

i cannot overstate how much sean took the "This Should Be a Game!" prompt 'you can dream as big as you want, don't worry about feasibility' & took it places satah & i never even considered. gotta host a game jam based on this episode where you build the spire. & the timecube. & the space elevator.

“…also have to confess something, which is that I forgot games can have GMs.” @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online speaking my language on @thisshouldbeaga.me

Immensely grateful to @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online and @jessfrom.online for having me on to chat about turning Looper into a game! This conversation made my brain go brrr and was so much fun! Check it out!

some personal highlights from this episode: - a detailed prompt system about where you put your weapon during vulnerable moments - talking about time changing the feelings you remember, both accurately & inaccurately - ponderously holding a d12 in my hand for an hour

Avery's work is referenced in probably 80% of episodes of this show, & including work directly influenced by or descending from her work pushes that up to 95%-- please do grab a couple things from her!

i think i've referenced a point early in this ep abt 45 times in the past couple weeks where during a discussion of what different forms of storytelling particularly excel at, austin names something like "intention" for TTRPGs & it was a big HOOHOOO OH YEAH THAT'S A THING I LOVE HERE moment for me

the media club plus livestream here is a MUCH more loadbearing pillar in the concept of the game we discuss than you might expect & i'm so thrilled about it

finally, you can listen to the episode that makes this post at all comprehensible

I've never seen looper but i'm going to find a time to watch it so I can listen to this fully prepared. I'm so excited for the time shenanigans arc on TSBAG!!!!

before you become a parent you gotta know how you’ll react when your child obliterates a hitman with a psychic maelstrom

Our series on why Looper (2012) should be a TTRPG begins with @aavoigt.bsky.social almost immediately asking... what if your kid turned out to be Mewtwo? The answer involves movie stills as scene prompts, inevitability in games, why you shouldn't start play undercover, & more ⏰🔫

Friends of the show doing a lil adaptive media TTRPG design..! 🦸‍♂️

Wrapping up our series on Apollo 13 by setting out some more branching paths of games it could be, talking about having a gulf between what you want to design & what you want to play, & betrayal being more satisfying when it's high-effort 🌕👰‍♀️

the thing about effort being necessary for good betrayal in my personal opinion is in a brief conversation we have about over/under & i really did not expect it to be particularly timely but then baseline drift happened

Today is the final day for submissions & you can check out some brief examples in this thread!

want YOUR game idea to appear on this game design podcast? you've got less than 48 hours to submit it! all you need to do is watch (or have watched) Looper or Happy Death Day, pitch a mechanical idea in <300 words or <90s of audio via this Google Form, and satah & i might discuss it on-air!

HEY this is a quick easy fun way to hear your voice on one of the coolest shows around, GET IN THERE

Good grief this podcast continues to be so much fun. It really has game design thoughts bubbling and popping in my brain in a way I’ve struggled to get to these past few years

nearing the recording date on these mechanical mailbag episodes! if you have any thoughts on TTRPGifying LOOPER or HAPPY DEATH DAY, please join the conversation by getting 'em in here 💃 it doesn't have to be in-depth-- we're taking audio files up to ~90 seconds & written submissions up to ~300 words

Our series turning Apollo 13 into a TTRPG continues with @vidityavoleti.bsky.social chatting about wrecking decks, making impossible poker hands, & the Three Bars of Game Design 🌕👰‍♀️

I'm so excited I finally get to hear Vidi's reaction to my game pitch from part one. Not telling him literally everything immediately after recording was a herculean task

it was so fun hearing @vidityavoleti.bsky.social talk about "three bars" game design & thinking back to the "condition sliders" @kendomakesfilms.bsky.social helped us design for the previous series on The Martian. one of the coolest things about doing this podcast is the chance to both

Caught up on all the Martian episodes and it was so cool to see the results of the same game design conversation passed between three designers and two hosts. The style of the wrap-up episode they used for this set was also great!! Exploring possibilities and imagining different options rocks

This was so much fun lol I was so excited to be handed whatever Dillin set up and we cooked up something so funky I'm hoping people who listen get inspired to try it out! Also I think this is the debut of the Three Bars theorum in a recorded format lmao

As a reminder, after we finish up our PEOPLE HAVING PROBLEMS IN SPACE triple feature, we're moving into a LOOPIN TIME double feature. Submit TTRPG concepts directly inspired by the movies we'll be covering so that we can chat about them in the mailbag episodes!

the increasingly unhinged sparkle in my eyes at the beginning of this recording session as it became clearer & clearer that dillin & i were 🤝 about this

I'm genuinely so excited for this series - knowing that @vidityavoleti.bsky.social was going to be on the next episode made me a little playfully antagonistic lol

Doing some graphic design on spec for the game @superdillin.bsky.social is pitching on @thisshouldbeaga.me

Our series on why Apollo 13 (1995) should be a game begins by chatting with @superdillin.bsky.social about mechanising a lack of control, noticing when the camera cares about who's always just off-screen, & the occasional hopelessness of solitaire 🌕👰‍♀️

just recorded my ep for this and it's even better than the first time i was on the show??? I love talking about time loops ?????? check out this pod if you haven't and send in your ideas for the mailbag eps

okay so this screenshot is actually from my notes on Gravity (2013) but i forgot to post about that Patreon post on Bluesky so i am sharing this screenshot now as evidence for why you DEFINITELY want to back the @thisshouldbeaga.me Patreon you want to soooo bad

Now available on the "This Should Be a Game" Patreon: - satah & Jess's stream-of-consciousness movie notes taken while watching The Martian (2015) - A draft outline of the game(s) brainstormed with guests during the series (ep. 1 of which is below QT) 🔗 for patrons: www.patreon.com/posts/martia...

Great discussion of a couple perspectives on something we obviously have some investment in 🤝

i'm feeling loopy

Holy shit IT'S LOOPIN' TIME

Pulling myself out of the temporal vortex to say that you should be excited for this! I know I am!

SUBMIT UR IDEAS ON TURNING THESE MOVIES INTO TTRPGS TO THE SHOW SO WE CAN PERHAPS TALK ABT THEMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!

good news i get to guest on a Very Cool Podcast to talk about one of my favorite things. yup, it's time loops

Announcing our next double feature: LOOPIN' TIME ⏰ AND a new segment: the mechanical mailbag! 📼✉🎲 Watch our upcoming movies & submit a related TTRPG idea (thematically appropriate dice mechanic, module, table, overall elevator pitch...) & we might discuss it on the pod! 🔗 forms.gle/28vMT5kmQfa7...

Today in the adaptive media TTRPG world..!!! The experience of watching a playtest of this game at Breakout came up multiple times in some episodes that won't release until after the crowdfunder ends, particularly for some cool, ritualistic ways that it grounds itself in genre. Grab yourself a copy.

In the final episode of our series about turning The Martian into a TTRPG, we flesh out some of what we've sketched so far and then throw it over to you 🐱‍🚀

*clickbait youtube thumbnail face* *"THEY FORGOT TO EDIT IT OUT!" & "Why you should ALWAYS LISTEN THROUGH TO THE END!" in red with an arrow pointing towards a stock photo of a waveform* PODCAST HOSTS caught TALKING BEHIND THE GUEST'S BACK 🙀

Definite shout out to @watermosaic.bsky.social with whom I had been having many conversations about utopian fiction as it relates to stories very similar to The Martian. This episode would probably be very different without their perspective and influence.

The third episode of our series turning The Martian into a TTRPG features @kendomakesfilms.bsky.social talking about positive & negative tags, condition sliders, faction turn order, project dice, & utopia 🐱‍🚀

yeah i sort of lost it when @calebzane.bsky.social cracked this open when i hadn't noticed AT ALL lmfao

ICYMI: this week, we were joined by @dustehill.bsky.social, one of my favorite actual play podcasters & an incredible, genreful game designer who was SO perfect to come into our series on The Martian (2015) & dig into how to define relationships between factions & the resources they care about.

On the first episode of the new podcast This Should Be A Game, from @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online and @jessfrom.online, @willjobst.bsky.social guests to chat about the movie Gravity. Together, they brainstorm how to adapt it into a game! Catch it where ever you listen to podcasts.