Paper Labyrinths

We talk with Holly Nielsen about Amberspire, games in historical contexts, citing sources, and the Whiggish nature of skill trees.
Follow Holly on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/hollynielsen.bsky.social
Amberspire releasing May 6! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3350750/Amberspire/
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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

Sorry folks, but no ep this month - scheduling didn't work out to get a convo done on time. But weirdly enough, it DID work out with me and Nic in the same place at the same time, so please accept our phone-recording apology.

We talk with Chris Kindred about DJing, teaching game design, and hauntology.
Follow Chris on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/chriskindred.com and find their work at https://chriskindred.com/
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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 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