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The Indie Game Reading Club

Deep reads, analysis, and talk about small press roleplaying

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    A Decade of Indie Roleplaying: 2018

    April 13, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    Closing in on the finish now, and not a moment too soon. The games in these last couple years are going to be familiar with most everyone, I think. Another...

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    Indie Game Reading Club 2019: A Retrospective

    December 10, 2019 - By Paul Beakley

    Hello and welcome, welcome. It’s been a busy year! So let’s go over it all. Please read to the end, where I announce the launch of my Patreon. 🙂 2019:...

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    Goblinville is Your Next High Tech Low Tech Popcorn Game

    May 3, 2019 - By Paul Beakley

    A few weeks ago I got the coolest little surprise in the mail: a copy of Goblinville Gazette #1. It’s the first of four ‘zines, published as part of Kickstarter’s...

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    Pattern Completion and Intermittent Rewards

    March 25, 2019 - By Paul Beakley

    The greatest gaming lab ever created is the Las Vegas casino industry. That lab’s most significant finding is that humans crave two things in games: pattern completion and intermittent rewards....

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    Recalibrating

    March 13, 2019 - By Paul Beakley

    Has it really been a month since I last posted? I swear, there’s something about running the Indie Game Reading Club Slack channel that consumes whatever bandwidth I used to have to...

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