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EXTRA CREDITS

I am a regular guest writer for the YouTube show Extra Credits!

• SIEGE 2018 (not Extra Credits per se, but James Portnow and I analyzing a game).

• Mechanics Shaping Story

• Tabletop You Might Not Have Tried

• RPG Character Sheets – Designing Gameplay Around Customization

• Comfortable Play – Respecting Boundaries in Tabletop RPGs

• Bleed – Exploring Psychological Transference in Games

• Mixed Success - Winning and Losing in Tabletop Roleplaying Games

• Reciprocity in RPGs - How to Share the Spotlight

• Playing the Villain - Being Good at Being Bad

• Trolls & Touchdown - RPGs as Cinematic Entertainment

• Making Better RPG Classes - What Makes a Class Classic?

• Wrestling with Genre: Sports vs Fighting Games

• Designing Morality Systems - World Building and Morality in Gaming

• The Pandemic is Killing Board Games - An Extinction-Level Event

• Should You Care About Canon?

• The History of D&D Hasbro Refused to Learn From (HUGE BUMPER-SIZED EPISODE)

• Monopoly’s Dirty Secrets: Theft, Erasure and Capitalism

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GAME DESIGN TALKS

• I Didn’t Catch That: Audio Design for Hearing Loss

  • ECGC 2017 slides (PDF)

• Someone Else’s Sandbox: Writing for Franchises

  • ECGC 2018 slides (PDF)

• I Didn't Catch That 2022: Disability Representation

  • ​ECGC 2022 slides (PDF) ​

• Online Convention Panels

  • Game Development Journey​

  • Researching Real History for Fictional Worlds

  • 2020 - A Game Changing Year

  • You Have a Game Idea. Now What?

  • Accessibility in Gaming

  • Disability and Gaming Discussion

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ONLINE SERIES

• Eddy's Development Workshop

  • The Design Phase of RPG Development

  • The Production Phase of RPG Development

  • The Editing Phase of RPG Development

  • The Approvals Phase of RPG Development

  • The Proofing Layout Phase of RPG Development​

• History Check

  • ​Ep 1: Bunnies & Burrows (1976)​

  • Ep 2: The Mechanoid Invasion (1981)

  • Ep 3: Timemaster (1984)

  • Ep 4: Tales from the Floating Vagabond (1991)

  • Ep 5: Nephilim (1994)

• Lunch and Crunch​

  • Ep 1​: Core engine of the Storypath system

  • Ep 2: Subsystems

  • Ep 3: Emulating genre

  • Ep 4: Implicit and explicit rules

  • Ep 5 (part 1, part 2): Hacking Storypath to present different experiences

  • Ep 6: System knowledge

  • Ep 7: Mechanics and hacks

  • Ep 8: Playtesting

  • Ep 9: What Makes a Tabletop RPG?