Reviewing Games on Youtube (w/ Dave Thaumavore)
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English - August 14, 2023 06:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBArts Leisure Games rpg roleplaying storytelling interview game design Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Dave is a youtuber, reviewer and game designer. His Youtube channel, Dave Thaumavore RPG Reviews, currently has about 180 videos and more than 25,000 subscribers. He's also got a great newsletter where he publishes written interviews game design luminaries. Links to all of this stuff will be in the show notes. He's designed supplements for the Index Card RPG but his most recent standalone game is Fluxfall Horizon, a zany, scifi PbtA game of dimension hopping do-gooders (and some potential do-badders).
Show Notes:
00:52 - Introducing Dave
01:56 - Youtube journey and the challenge of constant comparison with other creators
09:29 - Dave's process
15:34 - Making sponsored content
16:55 - Favorite games to review
21:43 - Do reviewers have to play games?
35:52 - Advice for reviewers
38:12 - Infectious Enthusiasm: Wanderhome
39:22 - Tyranny of Numbers
41:45 - All Advice is Advice for Myself