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The Indie Game Reading Club

Deep reads, analysis, and talk about small press roleplaying

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    Two Great Tastes etc: Lavender Hack + Trilemma Adventures

    June 18, 2026 - By Paul Beakley

    IGRC Global Operations had gamer visitors from California recently. We knew we’d be playing something while they were here, but we never quite nailed down what it’d be. So over...

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    A Decade of Indie Roleplaying: 2018

    April 13, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    Closing in on the finish now, and not a moment too soon. The games in these last couple years are going to be familiar with most everyone, I think. Another...

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    Indie Game Reading Club 2019: A Retrospective

    December 10, 2019 - By Paul Beakley

    Hello and welcome, welcome. It’s been a busy year! So let’s go over it all. Please read to the end, where I announce the launch of my Patreon. 🙂 2019:...

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    Goblinville is Your Next High Tech Low Tech Popcorn Game

    May 3, 2019 - By Paul Beakley

    A few weeks ago I got the coolest little surprise in the mail: a copy of Goblinville Gazette #1. It’s the first of four ‘zines, published as part of Kickstarter’s...

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    Pattern Completion and Intermittent Rewards

    March 25, 2019 - By Paul Beakley

    The greatest gaming lab ever created is the Las Vegas casino industry. That lab’s most significant finding is that humans crave two things in games: pattern completion and intermittent rewards....

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