Welcome to the first episode of Series 66, everyone! In this series, we sat down with three different designers live at the AcadeCon 2023 convention in Dayton, Ohio in the US! In today's episode, Ryan was able to sit down with Shawn, aka Mallo, from the team behind Identeco, a cyberpunk RPG with western genre elements blended in! Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/charactercreationcast Announcements: Star Crossed: Love Letters Backerkit: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/bully-pulpit-games/Star-Crossed-Love-Letters Our social media info: https://contact.charactercreationcast.com Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests Shawn Rourk aka Mallo https://linktr.ee/identeco Games/Tools discussed this episode: Identeco: DriveThruRPG: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/14491/Humanoid-Games?affiliate_id=1601603 Website: https://www.playidenteco.com/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Announcements 00:01:50 - Introductions 00:03:18 - What's in a game? - Core Concept of Identeco 00:05:13 - Setting 00:06:57 - Materials needed 00:09:20 - What sort of characters can you make in Identeco? 00:12:22 - Let's make some people! - Choosing Backgrounds 00:17:41 - Attributes 00:25:12 - Skills 00:28:50 - Talents 00:32:56 - Cybernetics 00:35:47 - Equipment 00:40:33 - Final Details 00:43:34 - What was the process for creating these character creation mechanics? 00:45:39 - What inspirations were drawn upon for the character creation mechanics? 00:47:38 - Anything special coming up for Identeco? 00:49:04 - Episode Closer 00:49:42 - Call to Action 00:57:24 - Credits Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod Clip 1: Cowboy Club by Lunareh on Soundstripe: https://app.soundstripe.com/songs/16034 Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Website: https://www.charactercreationcast.com Contact Us: https://contact.charactercreationcast.com BlueSky: @CreationCast.bsky.social (https://bsky.app/profile/creationcast.bsky.social) Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Discord: https://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Amelia Antrim: BlueSky: @gingerreckoning.bsky.social (https://bsky.app/profile/gingerreckoning.bsky.social) Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Ryan Boelter: BlueSky: @lordneptune.com (https://bsky.app/profile/lordneptune.com) Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Our Network: https://oneshotpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices