Paper Labyrinths

We speak with Meredith Gran about nostalgia, sense of time and place, cartooning, and getting a project across the finish line.
Follow Meredith on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/meredithgran.com Meredith's new game, Perfect Tides: Station to Station, is out now on Steam for PC and Mac, and coming soon to Switch. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2088810/Perfect_Tides_Station_to_Station/
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Paper Labyrinths is hosted by Nic Tringali (https://blog.enceledean.com/) and Brendan McLeod (https://brendanmcleod.dev)
Our theme music is by Megan Carnes (https://www.megancarnesmusic.com/)
https://paperlabyrinths.com

We talk with Non-Breaking Space about expressive play, mechanics of scale, hidden information, and librarians.
 
Non-Breaking Space (https://www.nbsp1618.games/) is the designer of Cross Bronx Expressway (https://www.gmtgames.com/p-953-cross-bronx-expressway.aspx), a competitive city-builder that simulates urban and societal development in the South Bronx between the years 1940 and 2000. He is also the designer of The Archivist's Dream (www.nbsp1618.games/session/the-archivists-dream), a hybrid RPG-megagame adaptation of Wehrlegig's John Company, a game about the rise and fall of the British East India company.)
 
Listen to the episode of End Notes that Brendan mentions here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/endnotes-cross-bronx-expressway/id1840058034?i=1000726985016
 
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Paper Labyrinths is hosted by Nic Tringali (https://blog.enceledean.com/) and Brendan McLeod (https://brendanmcleod.dev)
 
Our theme music is by Megan Carnes (https://www.megancarnesmusic.com/)
 
https://paperlabyrinths.com

We talk with Andrew "dicey" Shouldice about teaching game development, making maps, managing projects, and the joy of the game manual.

Andrew Shouldice is the creator of TUNIC (http://tunicgame.com). Follow him on social media (https://bsky.app/profile/dicey.bsky.social) and check out the PICOSteveMo game he made with his partner, King Stephen, out now (https://dicey.itch.io/king-stephen)

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Paper Labyrinths is hosted by Nic Tringali (https://blog.enceledean.com/) and Brendan McLeod (https://brendanmcleod.dev)

Our theme music is by Megan Carnes (https://www.megancarnesmusic.com/)

https://paperlabyrinths.com

We talk with Sophie Abromowitz about stage comedy, worldbuilding through systems, FROMSOFT games as detective stories, and the origin of the hot dog.
 
Follow Sophie on Instagram (https://instagram.com/soph.abromowitz) and check out her portfolio at https://sophieabromowitz.cargo.site/
 
HOT STREAK is available from CYMK games: https://www.cmyk.games/collections/games/products/hot-streak
 
Read Sophie's short story JAN IS IMPORTANT on Joyland: https://joylandpublishing.com/fiction/jan-is-important/
 
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Paper Labyrinths is hosted by Nic Tringali (https://blog.enceledean.com/) and Brendan McLeod (https://brendanmcleod.dev)

Our theme music is by Megan Carnes (https://www.megancarnesmusic.com/)

https://paperlabyrinths.com

We talk with Joannes Truyens about burnout, secrets, narrative confusion, and Michael Crichton technotrillers.

Follow Joannes on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/playthroughline.com) and read their blog at https://playthroughline.com/ Play Neurocracy 3.0 at https://neurocracy.site/

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Paper Labyrinths is hosted by Nic Tringali (https://blog.enceledean.com/) and Brendan McLeod (https://brendanmcleod.dev)

Our theme music is by Megan Carnes (https://www.megancarnesmusic.com/)

https://paperlabyrinths.com