Podcast – Yaruki Zero Games

Yaruki Zero Podcast #23 (26 minutes, 51 seconds) Listening to way, waaaaay too much of The Bugle (a comedy news podcast by John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman), I wound up doing a YKZ podcast that’s a weird mix of my usual blather and some weird attempts at humor. I talk in silly bullshit mode about … Continue reading Yaruki Zero Podcast #23: The Trumpet →

Yaruki Zero Podcast #22 (39 minutes, 42 seconds) 2013 was quite a year for me, plus I haven’t done a proper podcast in ages (literally over 2 years…), so I decided to do an overview of my year, covering the Channel A and Golden Sky Stories Kickstarters, Maid RPG, Fate and Adventures of the Space … Continue reading Yaruki Zero Podcast #22: 2013 in Review →

This special episode is a compilation of the second half of the “Today in Geek History” daily podcast I posted on Tumblr. (Here’s Part 1) This is a part of I’ve been working on a humor book titled “I Want to be an Awesome Robot,” and one of my many goals for 2014 is to … Continue reading Yaruki Zero Podcast #21: Today in Geek History Part 2 →

This special episode is a compilation of the first six months of the “Today in Geek History” daily podcast I’ve been posting on Tumblr. I’ve been working on a humor book titled “I Want to be an Awesome Robot,” and one rather large section of it is a calendar with a fake fact about the … Continue reading Yaruki Zero Podcast #20: Today in Geek History Part 1 →

If you know me at all, you know that I’m really random about when I get inspired to actually do things, such that I jump from project to project all the time. The other day I got inspired to revive my project to do an iRiff of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, which in turn … Continue reading Yaruki Zero Podcast #19: Back in Action →

Yaruki Zero Podcast #18 (45 minutes, 19 seconds) This is Jake Richmond’s second appearance on the podcast (the first was Episode #11, back in late 2009), and he joined me to talk about Cel*Style, his new games, and his experiences selling and promoting those games at anime conventions like SakuraCon. I’m also a contributor to … Continue reading Yaruki Zero Podcast #18: Cel*Style With Jake Richmond →

Yaruki Zero Podcast #17 (60 minutes, 13 seconds) I became acquainted with Malcolm Harris because we’d both been invited as guests of honor for A-Kon (an anime convention in Dallas) in 2010. He’s the driving force behind Channel-M Publishing, an independent publisher of comics and RPGs, including Witch Girls Adventures. I’ve met very few people … Continue reading Yaruki Zero Podcast #17: Malcolm Harris →

Yaruki Zero Podcast #16 (24 minutes, 48 seconds) This episode presents a succinct but interesting interview with Steven Savage, the man behind both Seventh Sanctum and Fan To Pro. In the interview, Steven talks first about the Seventh Sanctum generators site and his philosophies of how randomness can inform creativity, and then about how RPG … Continue reading Yaruki Zero Podcast #16: Steven Savage →

Yaruki Zero Podcast #15 (34 minutes, 58 seconds) This episode is an attempt to unpack certain underlying “big picture” things in role-playing games that I’ve been thinking about lately. It’s not about how they fare in the marketplace (though there’s a little bit of that), but RPGs are and how they work. There’s a good … Continue reading Yaruki Zero Podcast #15: The Big Picture →

Andy Kitkowski and Ben Lehman join me for this long-overdue overview of Maid: The Role-Playing Game, and our experiences discovering, translating, publishing and playing what wound up being the first Japanese tabletop RPG ever released in English. Yaruki Zero Podcast #14 (72 minutes, 7 seconds) Show Notes Introductions What is Maid RPG? Penguin Musume Heart … Continue reading Yaruki Zero Podcast #14: Maid RPG →