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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 5/1/26 |  Dr Holly Nielsen on Canon & Ambiguity | We talk with Holly Nielsen about Amberspire, games in historical contexts, citing sources, and the Whiggish nature of skill trees. Follow Holly on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/hollynielsen.bsky.social Amberspire releasing May 6! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3350750/Amberspire/ --- Paper Labyrinths is hosted by Nic Tringali (https://blog.enceledean.com/) and Brendan McLeod (https://brendanmcleod.dev) Our theme music is by Megan Carnes (https://www.megancarnesmusic.com/) https://paperlabyrinths.com | — | ||||||
| 3/31/26 | No episode this month! | Sorry folks, but no ep this month - scheduling didn't work out to get a convo done on time. But weirdly enough, it DID work out with me and Nic in the same place at the same time, so please accept our phone-recording apology. | — | ||||||
| 3/1/26 | Chris Kindred on Cards & Crates | We talk with Chris Kindred about DJing, teaching game design, and hauntology. Follow Chris on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/chriskindred.com and find their work at https://chriskindred.com/ --- Paper Labyrinths is hosted by Nic Tringali (https://blog.enceledean.com/) and Brendan McLeod (https://brendanmcleod.dev) Our theme music is by Megan Carnes (https://www.megancarnesmusic.com/) https://paperlabyrinths.com | — | ||||||
| 2/1/26 | Meredith Gran on Comics & Memories | We speak with Meredith Gran about nostalgia, sense of time and place, cartooning, and getting a project across the finish line. Follow Meredith on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/meredithgran.com Meredith's new game, Perfect Tides: Station to Station, is out now on Steam for PC and Mac, and coming soon to Switch. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2088810/Perfect_Tides_Station_to_Station/ --- Paper Labyrinths is hosted by Nic Tringali (https://blog.enceledean.com/) and Brendan McLeod (https://brendanmcleod.dev) Our theme music is by Megan Carnes (https://www.megancarnesmusic.com/) https://paperlabyrinths.com | — | ||||||
| 1/1/26 | Non-Breaking Space on Artifacts & History | We talk with Non-Breaking Space about expressive play, mechanics of scale, hidden information, and librarians. Non-Breaking Space (https://www.nbsp1618.games/) is the designer of Cross Bronx Expressway (https://www.gmtgames.com/p-953-cross-bronx-expressway.aspx), a competitive city-builder that simulates urban and societal development in the South Bronx between the years 1940 and 2000. He is also the designer of The Archivist's Dream (www.nbsp1618.games/session/the-archivists-dream), a hybrid RPG-megagame adaptation of Wehrlegig's John Company, a game about the rise and fall of the British East India company.) Listen to the episode of End Notes that Brendan mentions here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/endnotes-cross-bronx-expressway/id1840058034?i=1000726985016 --- Paper Labyrinths is hosted by Nic Tringali (https://blog.enceledean.com/) and Brendan McLeod (https://brendanmcleod.dev) Our theme music is by Megan Carnes (https://www.megancarnesmusic.com/) https://paperlabyrinths.com | — | ||||||
| 12/1/25 | Andrew Shouldice on Maps & Manuals | We talk with Andrew "dicey" Shouldice about teaching game development, making maps, managing projects, and the joy of the game manual. Andrew Shouldice is the creator of TUNIC (http://tunicgame.com). Follow him on social media (https://bsky.app/profile/dicey.bsky.social) and check out the PICOSteveMo game he made with his partner, King Stephen, out now (https://dicey.itch.io/king-stephen) --- Paper Labyrinths is hosted by Nic Tringali (https://blog.enceledean.com/) and Brendan McLeod (https://brendanmcleod.dev) Our theme music is by Megan Carnes (https://www.megancarnesmusic.com/) https://paperlabyrinths.com | — | ||||||
| 10/1/25 | Sophie Abromowitz on Comedy & Mystery | We talk with Sophie Abromowitz about stage comedy, worldbuilding through systems, FROMSOFT games as detective stories, and the origin of the hot dog. Follow Sophie on Instagram (https://instagram.com/soph.abromowitz) and check out her portfolio at https://sophieabromowitz.cargo.site/ HOT STREAK is available from CYMK games: https://www.cmyk.games/collections/games/products/hot-streak Read Sophie's short story JAN IS IMPORTANT on Joyland: https://joylandpublishing.com/fiction/jan-is-important/ --- Paper Labyrinths is hosted by Nic Tringali (https://blog.enceledean.com/) and Brendan McLeod (https://brendanmcleod.dev) Our theme music is by Megan Carnes (https://www.megancarnesmusic.com/) https://paperlabyrinths.com | — | ||||||
| 9/1/25 | Joannes Truyens on Secrets & Lore | We talk with Joannes Truyens about burnout, secrets, narrative confusion, and Michael Crichton technotrillers. Follow Joannes on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/playthroughline.com) and read their blog at https://playthroughline.com/ Play Neurocracy 3.0 at https://neurocracy.site/ --- Paper Labyrinths is hosted by Nic Tringali (https://blog.enceledean.com/) and Brendan McLeod (https://brendanmcleod.dev) Our theme music is by Megan Carnes (https://www.megancarnesmusic.com/) https://paperlabyrinths.com | — | ||||||
| 8/1/25 | Cameron Kunzelman on Writing & Academia | We talk with Cameron Kunzelman about Magic the Gathering, writing for different kinds of audiences, the conditions of producing things, and xenomorphs. Follow Cameron on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/ckunzelman.bsky.social) and listen to his shows at Ranged Touch (http://rangedtouch.com) Preorder his next book, Everything is Permitted (https://tinyurl.com/buyCMRN) --- Paper Labyrinths is hosted by Nic Tringali (https://blog.enceledean.com/) and Brendan McLeod (https://brendanmcleod.dev) Our theme music is by Megan Carnes (https://www.megancarnesmusic.com/) https://paperlabyrinths.com | — | ||||||
| 7/1/25 | Brian Bucklew on Big & Small Numbers | We talk with Brian Bucklew about the joy of collaboration, outer space, Jenga, and water. Follow Brian on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/unormal.bsky.social). Caves of Qud is available now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/333640/Caves_of_Qud/ --- Paper Labyrinths is hosted by Nic Tringali (https://blog.enceledean.com/) and Brendan McLeod (https://brendanmcleod.dev) Our theme music is by Megan Carnes (https://www.megancarnesmusic.com/) https://paperlabyrinths.com | — | ||||||
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| 6/1/25 | Jason Grinblat on Words & Bugs | We talk with Jason Grinblat about the joy of bugs, extrapolative narration, system suspense, and milk. Follow Jason on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/jfg.land). Caves of Qud is available now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/333640/Caves_of_Qud/ --- Paper Labyrinths is hosted by Nic Tringali (https://blog.enceledean.com/) and Brendan McLeod (https://brendanmcleod.dev) Our theme music is by Megan Carnes (https://www.megancarnesmusic.com/) https://paperlabyrinths.com | — | ||||||
| 5/1/25 | Megan Carnes on Tarot & Musicality | We talk with game designer and composer Megan Carnes about generative music, scoring games vs film, and making use of the tools you have at your disposal. Follow Megan on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/magmacranes.bsky.social), Bandcamp (https://megancarnes.bandcamp.com/), and Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/magmacranes). --- Paper Labyrinths is hosted by Nic Tringali (https://blog.enceledean.com/) and Brendan McLeod (https://brendanmcleod.dev) Our theme music is by … Megan Carnes! (https://www.megancarnesmusic.com/) https://paperlabyrinths.com | — | ||||||
| 3/31/25 | Grace Benfell on Faith & Narrative Tension | We talk with Grace Benfell about faith, narrative tension, and god's favorite princess, Shadowheart. --- Follow Grace on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/gracemachine.bsky.social), at her website (https://graceinthemachine.com/), on her podcasts (https://www.patreon.com/c/thesaferoom/about) and The Imaginary Engine Review (https://www.tier-review.com/). --- Paper Labyrinths is hosted by Nic Tringali (https://blog.enceledean.com/) and Brendan McLeod (https://brendanmcleod.dev) Our theme music is by Megan Carnes (https://www.megancarnesmusic.com/) https://paperlabyrinths.com | — | ||||||
| 3/1/25 | Gareth Damian Martin on Dice & Storytelling | We talk with Gareth Damian Martin finishing projects, making a dice-driven game, and butting up against audience expectations and desires. Find more about Gareth at their website (https://jumpovertheage.com/) or on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/jumpovertheage.com). Citizen Sleeper 2 is out now (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2442460/Citizen_Sleeper_2_Starward_Vector/) --- Paper Labyrinths is hosted by Nic Tringali (https://blog.enceledean.com/) and Brendan McLeod (https://brendanmcleod.dev) Our theme music is by Megan Carnes (https://www.megancarnesmusic.com/) https://paperlabyrinths.com | — | ||||||
| 3/1/25 | Nic Tringali & Brendan McLeod on Analog to Digital | Nic and Brendan talk about what dice mean, the difficulty of converting analog games into digital, and character relationships. --- Paper Labyrinths is hosted by Nic Tringali (https://blog.enceledean.com/) and Brendan McLeod (https://brendanmcleod.dev) Our theme music is by Megan Carnes (https://www.megancarnesmusic.com/) https://paperlabyrinths.com | — | ||||||
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