News: RPPR B-Sides Volume 5: Gaming Gains is now on sale! Get 20 exclusive actual play episodes featuring a Caleb mini-campaign, Red Markets, Delta Green, and more! Also, check out the trailer for our upcoming new podcast, Night Clerk Radio! Don’t forget to check out Best Pal Brigade as well.
Synopsis: Itch.io is an indie game storefront that has recently expanded to physical games like RPGs and card games. As a competitor to DrivethruRPG, Itch.io has attracted a variety of indie tabletop games, including ones that you can’t find on DrivethruRPG. Kyle from Best Pal Brigade, David, and I talk about the tabletop PDF marketplace and review a bunch of games:
- Crash Pandas: A one page game about street racing raccoons
- Beneath a Cursed Moon: A PbtA game inspired by Castlevania
- Dusk to Midnight: A sad mecha RPG
- Dead Halt: A 90s themed weird fantasy hotel dungeon crawling game
- The Flux: A new playbook for Masks the RPG
- Beam Saber: A Forged in the Dark mecha RPG
Shout Outs
- Pop Team Epic: It’s on Netflix! Watch it!
- Locke and Key: A weird mansion with magical keys that grant strange powers. A series on Netflix
- Cells at Work: an anime about cells in a human body, at work
- PAX South Raillery Special: Some of the RPPR crew play weird xbox games
- False Knees: A funny webcomic about birds
- Kipo and the Age of Wonder Beasts: a fantasy anime series on Netflix
- Nos4A2: a horror series about vampires and a psychic on Hulu
Song: Nightfall Aboard by New Gaia
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:17:55 — 71.6MB)
Subscribe: RSS
Heh, first time I heard about itch.io was during the Emotional Mecha Jam; which is where Dusk to Midnight came from (and I think I actually read about it on G+ first).
And I would definitely be interested in an episode about the drivethrurpg “guilds”.
Sign me up for critique of RPG publishing “guilds”.
Likewise, I’d be really interested in an analysis of the DriveThru guilds. Comparing and contrasting them with some of the open license agreements would also be helpful.
Great overview on itch.io, and these games all sounded excellent. Crash Pandas seems like a great one-shot game.