Titans of Text

Join the Titans as we bring on Huw the creator of Warsim a single player ascii art based kingdom and war management game currently available in Early Access on Steam. We go over Huw's history with designing games and trace Warsim's development from its initial inception through today. Special Guest: Huw Millward.

We have with us today two guests, Ioan and Laura. The Producer and Assistant Producer/Lead Builder of Starmourn, a game produced and developed by Iron Realms Entertainment. Find Starmourn online at: https://www.starmourn.com/ https://ironrealms.com/ Special Guests: Ioan and Laura.

Thibaud joins us to talk about his history with mudding as well as the creation and future of Written Realms. Special Guest: Thibaud.

Alexis Kennedy joins us to talk about the books and authors that inspire him, his history of game design through founding Failbetter, making Fallen London and Sunless Sea there up to founding Weather Factory with the creation of Cultist Simulator and the upcoming Book of Hours. He drops a few tidbits about Book of Hours and drops names of other upcoming games that have strong narrative elements that he's looking forward to. Keep a look out on Kickstarter for the Book of Hours campaign launching on August 29th of this year! Weather Factory https://store.steampowered.com/app/1028310/BOOKOFHOURS/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/718670/Cultist_Simulator/ http://weatherfactory.biz/ Special Guest: Alexis Kennedy.

We take a break from normal episodes to release this special episode to celebrate 1 year of Grapevine. Join us to talk a bit about the history of Grapevine & Titans of Text and why they were started. Plus hear more about what's coming up in the future for both.

We have with us today the one and only Austin, the veritable Pattern of the text gaming world. Today we’re going to take a trip on the Wheel of Time and talk about how Austin got into mudding, more specifically WoTMUD and dive into the world of WoTMUD itself. Find Austin online: http://wotmud.info/ Special Guest: Austin.

Erto, Jinu lukte ske scall uu ff Titans of Text podcast. We’re breaking tradition a bit today too as we have a second guest today. Both Ruthie and Lindsey come to us from Star Conquest. We're going to talk about a bit about Star Conquest but a lot more about accessibility, how Star Conquest achieves it and what we can all do better towards that goal. Find Lindsey & Ruthie online: Star Conquest (https://web.squidsoft.net/games/sc/) Support one of the charities mentioned: American Council for the Blind - www.acb.org American Foundation for the Blind - www.afb.org National Federation of the Blind - www.nfb.org Special Guests: Lindsey and Ruthie.

Griatch is the lead developer of one of, if not the most well known, modern mud platforms Evennia as well as an accomplished artist and illustrator. Find Griatch and Evennia online at: http://www.evennia.com/ http://github.com/evennia/evennia Special Guest: Griatch.

Johnny comes to us from the epic cyberpunk roleplaying MOO Sindome. We're going to talk about the rise of Sindome, what makes it unique, what has contributed to its longevity and the ins and outs of fostering and maintaining an RPI style mud. Find Sindome online at: https://www.sindome.org/ https://play.sindome.org/ Special Guest: Johnny.

We sat down with Jason "Acer" Alexander to talk about DarkWind. Find DarkWind online at: https://darkwind.org https://play.darkwind.org Special Guest: Jason "Acer" Alexander.

We sat down with Justin Seabrook-Rocha to talk about his time on Age of Legacy and his new project Ataxia. Find these projects online at: Age of Legacy - http://legacy.digitalinertia.net/ Ataxia - https://github.com/xenith-studios/ataxia Special Guest: Justin "Xenith" Seabrook-Rocha.