There is plenty of virtual tabletop news as RPG publishers hurry to get their systems in place in the booming digital marketplace. In this RPG news podcast, we also talk about intellectual property rights, and potentially problematic old D&D content now being given away for free.
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Summon Skate: An interview with Silver Vine Publishing as they translate Japanese TTRPGs into English
Summon Skate is an extremely global game in that it has very few concepts or terms that I would say are uniquely Japanese, so we were able to leave it fairly untouched in that sense.
Where would you go to survive an alien invasion?
As part of the competition to win a copy of The After RPG readers were asked where they would go to survive an alien invasion.
Connect & Play: Asmodee launch the digital board game school
Asmodee’s Print & Play program has had nearly 4 million downloads of free board games, and so Connect & Play has been founded to teach people how to play them.
Flash sale pre-alert: Pop in a Box exclusives
Every Friday in November, Pop in a Box will reveal one of their exclusives. Right now, four silhouettes tease what the characters might be.
Competition: Get Bit!
Get Bit! is a quick and casual game featuring robots and sharks! It’s good for 2 to 6 players and only takes between 10 and 20 minutes to play.
Atlas Architect: Build your own gorgeous 3D hex crawl
Danial Rashidi is a Swedish computer game designer who’s worked in DICE and on projects like Battlefield and Battlefront. Danial is now on Kickstarter with a “creative world-building” game that’s intended to be a cathartic art project.
Incredibly detailed cyberpunk cityscape built in Minecraft
Redditor Deltagon showed off their Minecraft design talents with an amazingly detailed and complex cyberpunk cityscape.
Short film: Toonocalypse
See Geek Native’s gorgeous home city of Edinburgh, via the lens of an alien invasion.
Imagining Among Us bedside clocks
Designer Kim Min Soo has imagined what a digital clock, perhaps something to watch over you from your bedside, might look like in the Among Us universe.
