In this episode I talk with
Kat and
Michael Miller about their
upcoming
game,
Serial.
Serial, which will be published by
Incarnadine
Press, is a
game based on true crime investigations of serial killers. The
game is
careful to focus most of the interest on the victims of these crimes
rather
than the cops or the killer. In fact, no one plays the killer. It's an
exciting
and interesting game that I enjoyed playing.
This episode is 80.9 MB big and 58:55 long.
01:14: "A
game about the horrors of serial murder."
02:30: The Forensic Files and City Confidential
TV shows
03:50: Dreamation (A convention from Double Exposure)
06:03: An overview
of how Serial works
09:42: The chains
of evidence system
13:10: Rules,
re-summarized
16:20: "Not
really" a GM in the game
17:07: Design
goals replicating fiction?
18:04: The Boston Strangler
18:47: The BTK Killer
19:43: Killers in
Serial aren't "cool, sexy outsiders" (from Vincent Baker on Episode 10)
21:49: What
happens if you run out of victims?
22:34: Serial
attempts to make an experience that is unique to roleplaying
rather than emulative of another genre
23:22: Serial is
a one-shot game
23:45: Compassion fatigue
25:02: Serial will be presented as a CD with included
reference material
25:46: Russell
Collins is doing the music for Serial
27:48: With Great Power
28:34: Serial is "done in one" gaming (from Michael O'Sullivan on Episode 9)
29:25: Unofficial estimated cost of Serial
30:06: Sons of Kryos thread including discussion of audio delivery of
RPG rules
32:15: Why design this game?
33:25: Any other designs arise out of Serial?
35:20: The Czege Principle (named after Paul Czege)
37:18: Who did you steal from the most?
38:02: Acts of
Evil by Paul Czege
38:38: My Life
with Master
38:53: InSpectres
39:15: Michael's game, Discernment, in the No Press Anthology
39:22: Division of labor in the design process
40:56: Lessons learned from playtesting
43:17: Anything you had to drop that you wish you didn't?
45:59: The hardest thing to fix
46:34: Don Corchran
48:34: How to press CDs, the new frontier
51:48: "This is Not a
Pipe"
51:52: Two definitions of success for Serial
53:52: Spirit
of the Century
55:20: Illusionism
55:44: Planned (hoped-for) release date
Closing song is Skinhead Boi by
the Hub City Stompers
Logo courtesy of Daniel Solis: http://danielsolis.com/
