[insert quest here] is a Queer Australian podcast that focuses on Role Playing Games. We love telling diverse stories, and so we do our best to lift up the voices of our community by showing off new and innovative games, from a bunch of designers. We have a lot of Actual Plays, and interviews, and sometime host other content that is harder to define.
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Recently Ray got to sit down with Xavier Ho, the main organiser for the Pride at Play exhibition back in 2023. It was a short retrospective chat about the queer games exhibition, and what went into creating such wonderful event.We hope you enjoy this episode. You can find out more about Pride at Play by following this link: https://prideatplay.org/…
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This month Ray got the chance to chat with Logan, a game maker from down Melbourne way. We've followed Logan's work for a while and have found it to be unique and inspiring in the way he experiments with the art form. It was great to finally get to sit down an chat with Logan about game design and his work.You can find more from Logan at the links …
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Content Warning for this episode, we will be talking about revolutionary struggle.This month we got to chat with an amazing game maker out of the states Basheer Ghouse. Basheer has done a lot of consulting work in the industry, including for giants like Wizard's of the Coast and Paizo. Now he's launching his own game, Guns Blazing.We talked about t…
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Solo But Not Alone is an amazing charity bundle that happens every years.Game devs donate their Solo RPGs to benefit Jaspers Games Day, a charity fighting to improve mental health for young people. The bundle is packed full of RPGs you can play on your own, across a myriad of genres and themes. We were very fortunate to have a chat with the person …
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Back in 2021 we were fortunate enough to talk with Sin and Pam about their game Navathem's End. Now we're catching up again because it's going to print!We discuss all the challenges and excitement around finding a physical publisher for a game that's already be released digitally. As well as discussing the work that went into game previously, and w…
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Hellpiercers Interview with Nem
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The first of our interviews for 2023, and hopefully many more ahead.This month I had the pleasure of talking to Nem who you may also know as Sandy Pug. She has done a lot of work supporting others and helping them get their games published, but also makes her own games too.HELLPIERCERS is their next big project, a tactical RPG about posthuman demi-…
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On today's episode Rei talks with Chloe about here awesome new sports anime inspired RPG Tournament Arc. Tournament Arc borrows from Belonging Outside Belonging type games and blends that with a broad definition of sport.It's an exciting conversation and one we've been dying to have!If you want to check out more of the games Chloe is making, you ca…
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Our last episode for 2021, and what an episode!Ray talks with Cat MacDonald about Symphogear, Creating for the LUMEN engine, and Kickstarters moronic blockchain announcement.We also talk about Cat's new Actual Play show, Roar To Heaven!You can find it on Kickstarter right now(https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peachgardengames/roar-to-heaven) or …
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Make Our Own Heaven Interview
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That's right! I'm this episodes guest!I'm appearing on my own show to talk about my new game Make Our Own Heaven. A biopunk angel RPG about Community Building, Found Family, and Meaningful Resistance.Hosting this episode is Sam, a pervious guest and game maker. You can find Sam's work here: https://babblegumsam.itch.io/Make Our Own Heaven comes out…
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Recently we had the pleasure of talking to Tristan Zimmerman about his new game Shanty Hunters. A game about trying to collect a record of the oral history stored in sea shanties before they disappear. An also the music sometimes comes alive!One of my favourite parts of this game is that it wants you to sing. More singing RPGs please!We also talked…
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Iron Edda Reforged is the latest iteration of an ongoing multiverse of games and other fiction. Like it's forbears Iron Edda Reforged is built (almost literally) around the bones of giants and Ragnarok! Reforged adds a cyberpunk flare to the mix.It's all the brain child of Tracy, who is this weeks guest on the show. We had a chat about running a ki…
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This week on the show we are talking to Chris Sellers about his recently Kickstarted game Raccoon Sky Pirates! Which is about exactly what it sounds like is about. Raccoon heists.You can find Chris on Twitter (https://twitter.com/hecticelectron) Itch(https://hecticelectron.itch.io/), and his Website(https://www.hecticelectron.com/).You can find out…
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In this, our 50th episode of our interview series, I have the pleasure of talking to Momatoes about her Doomsday RPG, ARC. It's currently up on Kickstarter and their next stretch goal blew my mind (more on that at the end of the interview.)Back the Kickstarter here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/exaltedfuneral/arc-doom-tabletop-rpgMomatoes li…
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In our latest episode Rei talks with Spencer Campbell about his upcoming kickstarter, a combat rpg in a world of exploded stars, sun shards, strange evolution, and superpowered exosuits called Sparks.https://twitter.com/GilaRPGshttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thegilaboy/nova-2/https://gilarpgs.itch.io/…
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In the lead up to the new Kickstarter we got to talk to Jeff Barber about his work shaping the New Edition of Blue Planet. The changes, what's staying the same, and what it is for those who've never heard of it before.https://twitter.com/BiohazardJeffhttps://www.biohazardgamespublishing.com/https://www.gallantknightgames.com/https://www.kickstarter…
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This is the last of our trio of interviews celebrating the Our Shores Kickstarter. Today I’m talking to Joaquin a Filipino writer, novelist, serialist, and game designer from the Philippines.Joaquin along with partner Gio, is working on perhaps my favourite of the 3 tentpole Our Shores projects. Maharlika, a technomystic Science Fantasy mecha RPG i…
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Our Shores Interview - Sin and Pam
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This is the 2nd of our trio of interviews celebrating the Our Shores Kickstarter. This time we’re talking to Pammu & Sin, two amazing game makers from the philippines. Together they are creating Navathem's End.Support the Our Shores Kickstarter and help make Navathem's End a reality.https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sandypuggames/our-shores-an-r…
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We are back with a trio of interviews over the next 3 weeks, diving into the various projects that make up the Our Shores Kickstarter.This week we’re talking to Sam, a game maker from Malaysia working on Capitalites. A game exploring the messy archetypes and relationships of young people living in the big city.you can find links to the kickstarter …
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It's been a long, exhausting year. We're all trying to survive Plagues, Ecological Collapse, and Capitalism. Sounds like a perfect time to talk about woodland bandits robbing vampires! It's time to talk about Brinkwood!This week, to get you all excited for their kickstarter, we've pulled this interview out of the depths of long distant January...it…
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First Look: [Ruins]
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Ruins is a game we've fallen in love with since playing it.It's multi format, with room and support for a lot of different kinds of role play.it brings you in, so many different ways.This first look is a bit of an experiment, like the game it focus on.Something vloggy, that focuses more on Ray's experiences of playing the game for the first time.En…
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It's been a hard for me to work on the podcast the last few weeks. I've been struggling with organising content for months, and the current global crises just made me collapse inward.But on Friday morning I woke up determined to record something, and after racking my brain a bit I realised that the game I wanted to play...hadn't been written yet.I …
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This week I play another Ritual game. This time I'm a wizard trying to change themself into something new, in an attempt to overcome the past.This is a lovely, poetic, and kind of cossy little game. It's intimate and tender, yet also brooding and ominous.It's a game by Luke Jordan, and outstanding Australian creator who I've interviewed twice!Luke'…
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Meinberg is a designer from the states making some interesting work, we sat down to talk about what motivates thons creative process.We also talked about thons zinequest project, inspired by the Oz series.EDIT: there was an issue with the original file where some audio from the end of the interview went missing. We've restored the missing audio and…
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Descent into Midnight Interview
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This week we have a lovely conversation with Taylor LeBresh, one of the many people working on the upcoming RPG release Descent Into Midnight. The game focuses on community, family, and hope. Set in a technologically advanced aquatic civilization whose culture has never been touched by humanity. Players take on the roles of guardians, defending the…
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An interesting solo rpg that prompts you to delve deeper into yourself, and come out stronger on the other side...while also fighting capitalism with your cyborg psychic powers.If you'd like to get the game for yourself, you can buy it here: https://goat-song-publishing.itch.io/psyber-knightsRaymond
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