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| Episode Name | Release Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Yaruki Zero Podcast #15: The Big Picture | 08/18/2010 | Yaruki Zero Podcast #15 (34 minutes, 58 seconds) This episode is an attempt to unpack certain underlying “big picture” things in role-playing games that I’ve been thinking about lately. It’s not about how they fare in the marketplace (though there’s a little bit of... |
| Yaruki Zero Podcast #14: Maid RPG | 02/21/2010 | Andy Kitkowski and Ben Lehman join me for this long-overdue overview of Maid: The Role-Playing Game, and our experiences discovering, translating, publishing and playing what wound up being the first Japanese tabletop RPG ever released in English. Yaruki Zero Podcast #14 (72 minutes, 7 seconds)... |
| Yaruki Zero Podcast #13: Genres | 02/14/2010 | Per multiple requests (notably from Clyde Roher and Jake Richmond), this episode starts off with some commentary on the different genres of anime and manga. From there I get into how genres work in general, and then how we view genres in role-playing games. This also kinda sorta marks a new... |
| Yaruki Zero Podcast #12: More Random Thoughts | 02/07/2010 | Much like Episode 7, this time around I briefly talk about a number of different topics, notably Nechronica (Ryo Kamiya’s forthcoming game), A-Kon (an anime con I’ll be attending as a guest of honor), Neko Machi (the webcomic I write for), and Adventures of the Space Patrol (a game... |
| Yaruki Zero Podcast #11: RPGs For Anime Fans | 10/02/2009 | In this episode I’m joined by Jake Richmond–one of the designers of Panty Explosion and other great games–to discuss anime fans as a potential market for RPGs. We discuss our experiences running games at anime conventions (particularly his experiences at Kumoricon in Portland,... |
| Yaruki Zero Podcast #10: Wild Blue Yonder | 08/19/2009 | In this episode I’m joined again by my friend Jon Baumgardner to talk about Blue Ocean Strategy and how it might be applied to designing and marketing small-press RPGs. Yaruki Zero Podcast #10 (43 minutes, 14 seconds) Show Notes What is Blue Ocean Strategy? Tom Peters Red Ocean vs. Blue... |
| Yaruki Zero Podcast #9: Everyday Magic | 08/08/2009 | In this podcast I give an overview of a talk between Ryo Kamiya (designer of Maid RPG and Yuuyake Koyake) and South (current publisher of Witch Quest) about “everyday magic” RPGs that appeared in a doujinshi they collaboratively produced called “Doko ni Demo Aru Fushigi.”... |
| Yaruki Zero Podcast #8: Subcultural Contexts | 06/09/2009 | In this episode I talk about the referential nature of geek subcultures, and how that affects and can be used by role-playing games. Nerds naturally reference stuff, and use that to communicate better by generating a shared subculture. The question is, how can RPGs take full advantage of that, in... |
| Yaruki Zero Podcast #7: Random Thoughts | 05/27/2009 | In this episode I talk briefly about a variety of different topics that have been on my mind. PDFs and Piracy Palladium Books on RPGNow DLSite.com, Japan’s major site for selling electronic doujinshi stuff. Among the few tabletop RPG products are some stuff from Tsugihagi Honbo and Kodanuki... |