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Bonus Episode: Harvesting Souls at Dragonmeet 2014

Listen to our bonus episode: Harvesting Souls at Dragonmeet 2014

What’s hot in indie story games seminar and a review of 2014

This is the seminar from Dragonmeet on 6th December 2014. “Some of the most passionate story gamers in the country share games you should know about, what’s exciting them most right now, and how to get the game you want. We also cover a review of the trends in 2014 in indie rpg and story games.”

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Episode Two: The Blue Clothespeg

Welcome to episode two of the Twitching Curtain. This episode mainly focuses on inclusivity. In the aftermath of controversies such as “gamer gate” and “consultant gate”, and recent moves by mainstream publishers to reflect greater diversity in their games, how can we attract under-represented groups into our wonderful hobby? We talk about best practice from a number of conventions, especially the UK’s Nine World’s Geekfest, and explore how we can all make our spaces safer and more welcoming for everyone.

Podcast and show notes on the link.

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In our first episode of the Twitching Curtain, we recommended a number of great games for people new to these types of games, and we've listed them here.

Listen to the episode for our more considered opinions!

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Episode One: A Baptism of Architecture

In retrospect, numbering our first episode "zero" wasn't the best idea. :) This, then is episode one - our second episode of the Twitching Curtain. In this episode our panels recommend the best gam...

Our new episode is finally here! This time around we talk about good games for first timers, Knutpunkt 2014 and its impact on the UK freeform scene and London Indie RPG Meetup's recent Playstorm. Please reblog to help spread it around!

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#100happydays Day 8: about to start the next episode of our Twitching Curtain podcast. Yay!

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Trying out Storium

At the time of writing, the Kickstarter for Storium is still live and has exceeded its initial target of $25,000 by more than 600%. If you don’t know already, Storium is a new website designed to m...

The Kickstarter for the online storytelling engine Storium is due to finish in a couple of days. Thinking of backing it? You might find James's overview helpful based on his own experience playing the Beta version.

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Story Games News 14 April 2014

Hi, James here. Hope you've enjoyed "episode zero" of our podcast. What feedback we've had so far as been incredibly encouraging, so thank you. We'll be recording a new episode of the podcast soon,...

Story games news!

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The Twitching Curtain Episode Zero: The gender binary pan-galactic bug eyed wall crawling monster.

Welcome to the first of our new podcast, the Twitching Curtain. Over the next few months we plan to tell you all you need to know about the exciting world of story games, roleplaying and freeform. ...