From gas stations to game studios: Rob Carroll on community, Roll Craft, and the comeback of text-based RPGs
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Rob Carroll discusses the revival of text-based RPGs and community engagement in game development.
Welcome to Coffee.Press.Play., brought to you by The Business of Games Podcast, powered by Xsolla. Recorded live at GDC 2026 inside the Xsolla Clubhouse, this series puts a twist on the traditional interview format: guests play a round of a classic video game against our Xsolla host and the outcome determines whether they face an easy question or a hard one. In this episode, host Ed Lin sits down with Rob Carroll, CEO and co-founder of Roll Craft — a studio on a mission to bring back the text...
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