Covert Generation review and Michael S. Miller interview

Show notes:

• 0:28 - Welcome to the third episode of The Voice of the Revolution! Brennan brings us IPR news, which is a little shorter than last time.
  Coming soon:
  • Agon
  • Swan Song
  • Intergalactic Cooking Challenge
• 4:05 - Covert Generation, by Caz Granberg, pits kids against Generation X in an over-the-top espionage setting.
• 17:42 - Brennan has Michael S. Miller, the designer of With Great Power. . ., in the New Jersey studio for an interview.
• 31:56 - In the section that's now being called Pravda, Paul takes a brief look back at the explosion of indie games in 2006.
• 35:05 - What are Brennan and Paul playing right now? Not a whole lot, but a little.

Other Games:

• Dogs in the Vineyard
• The Shab-al-Hiri Roach and Drowning & Falling
• The Secret Lives of Gingerbread Men
• Waiting for the Queen/Tea at Midnight (from PUSH, Vol. 1)

Other Links:

• Escape Pod (featuring the Union Dues stories Iron Bars and the Glass Jaw, Off-White Lies, The Baby and the Bathwater, and Cleanup in Aisle Five).
• Jeffrey DeRego

Find out more about these fine games and others at Indie Press Revolution.

To comment on this podcast, visit The Voice of the Revolution forum or send us an email.

carry review and Luke Crane interview

Show notes:

• 0:30 - Welcome to the second episode of The Voice of the Revolution! Brennan digs right in with IPR news.
  • New to IPR
    • Passages from Blue Devil Games
      
    • Panty Explosion from Atarashi Games
      
    • PUSH, Vol 1from One Thousand One
      
    • Perfect from Inciteful Entertainment
      
  • Coming soon
    • House of Horiku and InTERRORgation from itesser ink
    • Mechaton from lumpley games
    • The Zorceror of Zo from Atomic Sock Monkey Press
• 9:44 - carry. a game about war from Hamsterprophet Productions is a fairly serious look at the Vietnam War and the effects that war has on its participants.
• 20:04 - Paul sits down with Luke Crane at GenCon SoCal to talk about the last year (and beyond) in indie game design.
• 35:24 - Paul talks a bit about community building in the Southern California area and plugs NerdSoCal.
• 39:59 - Brennan and Paul discuss their "currently playing" lists and wrap up the show.

Other Games:

• Primetime Adventures
• Mortal Coil
• The Burning Wheel
• Burning Empires
• Spirit of the Century
• Polaris
• The Mountain Witch
• Dogs in the Vineyard
• Sorcerer
• Spycraft
• Lacuna and Inspectres
• Thirty and Cat
• The Shab-al-Hiri Roach

Other Links:

• IPR News mailing list
• The Voice of the Revolution forum / email
• The Gamestas
• Geek Nights
• Have Games, Will Travel
• 1KM1KT
• Crafty Games
• NerdNYC
• Sons of Kryos

Find out more about these fine games and others at Indie Press Revolution.

To comment on this podcast, visit The Voice of the Revolution forum or send us an email.