How Many Mummies Should You Own? / How Much Are You All Just Winging It? / What Are Some Of The Weird Little Things You Love About Your Craft? 05:03 - Tom's thoughts on optimal mummy quantity 07:32 - An answer filled with Neb-Soul 10:58 - Main Topic - Weird Little Things We Love 21:26 - Tom on Jared presenting ideas in a meeting…

What Would You Do If You Knew You Could Do It? / What's The Worst Creature To Give Wings To / Fantasy Vs. Sci-fi 00:58 - What Lacey Would Do If She Could 08:40 - Tom's apt research 10:50 - Main Topic - Fantasy Vs. Sci-fi 23:41 - Subdividing The TwoBy Orange Nebula

How Do You Make Your Work Feel Like Play? / What Is Your Coffee Order? / What Are Ghosts That Haunt Your Creative Mind? 02:18 - How Krista Adds Objects To Her Work & Process 08:00 - Marc's Coffee Order 12:51 - Main Topic - Ghosts That Haunt Your Creative Mind 24:52 - Krista's Thoughts On Creative Ghosts Relating To Our…

Obstacles You Wrestled With Early In Your Career? / How Would You Like To Die Vs. How You Think You're Going To Die? / How Does Media's Portrayal Of Your Artistry Effect You? CONTENT WARNING: This episode of the Outpost contains descriptions of ways someone could die. The context is playful, but if this is a subject you’d like to avoid, we recommen…

What Is An Old Reliable Muse? / What Is The State Of Your House? / Fail Share 04:07 - Jared's musical musings 17:43 - Tom's major fixer-upper 20:16 - Main Topic - Fail Share 36:26 - Approaching repeated failuresBy Orange Nebula

What's Your Favorite Way To Consume Media? / If You Could Be A Music Genre, What Would You Be? / What Does Your Work Day Look Like? 02:03 - Derick describes his preferred environment for media consumption 06:59 - Krista has an existential crisis as to her music-genre personification 10:00 - Main Topic - What Does Your Work Day Look Like? 17:50 - De…

How Different Is O-Neb Off Camera Compared To On Camera? / What Makes Designing Games More Problematic Than Designing Other Things? / Is Creativity Contagious? 01:42 - Tom claims off camera to be funnier 04:50 - Jared compares fulfillment of a game online to a board game 12:42 - Main Topic - Is Creativity Contagious? 16:39 - Krista describes the in…

In What Ways Do You Sabotage Your Own Creative Potential? / Do You Think People's Interests Are Remaining Childish For Longer Than Past Generations? / Comparison & Cynicism In the Creative Space 03:10 - Tom discusses frittering away creativity on frittery things 17:50 - Childish Vs Childlike 23:25 - Main Topic - Comparison & Cynicism In The Creativ…

When You Switch To A New Project, How Often Do You Resurrect Old Ideas? / When Are You Most Creatively Motivated? / The Language of Visual & Verbal 03:37 - How Tom usually goes to his Idea Well 10:13 - Marc differentiates inspiration & motivation 16:36 - Main Topic - The Language of Visual & Verbal 19:25 - Tom discusses what you control & what is o…

What Is A Misunderstood Pop Culture Franchise That Doesn't Get Enough Credit? / Does A Team Made Up Of Creative-Types Handle Adversity Better Or Worse Than A More Traditional Team? / Fear's Role In Creativity 01:32 - Lacey shares which franchise she wishes was still around 08:23 - Kevin, joined by everyone, struggles to say "adversity" 12:46 - Main…

What is missing from Pop culture that would make it more for you? / How much do you think people's interests are the results of everyone else's? / Using Pop Culture as Escapism vs Catharsis 2:46 - Lacey recounts super powered squirrel 9:30 - Krista being suggested media 12:37 - Main Topic - Pop Culture As Escapism Vs Catharsis 22:45 - Derick's Esca…

Is Creativity Narcissistic? / Collecting Vs Consuming / Relationships With Hobbies 4:31 - Creating For Yourself Vs Others 12:23 - The Major Difference Between Consuming & Collecting 19:22 - Main Topic 19:17 - Jared's HobbiesBy Orange Nebula

How Important Is It To Keep Up On Emerging Industry Tech? / Best Or Most Powerful Memories At Orange Nebula / Villains In Storytelling 6:30 - Lacey distinguishes different ambitions of growth 13:23 - Lacey Recounts Vindication's First Kickstarter 22:42 - Main Topic - Villains In Storytelling 28:48 - Lacey discusses the background of the word "Villa…

Do You Follow The Industry Happenings? / The Most Frustrating Things In The Board Game Business? / Control Issues 4:29 - Lacey's Industry Analysis 13:41 - Marc's Least Favorite Part Of It All 25:03 - Main Topic - Control Issues 37:40 - Jared Tells A Story Where He Seized ControlBy Orange Nebula

What Is Creativity To You / Is Creativity Inherent or Nurtured / Importance of Environment on Creativity 2:05 - Theresa illustrates the two variations of creativity 14:23 - The difference between creatives & creative professionals 16:14 - Main Topic - Importance of Environment on Creativity 23:48 - Marc on exploring environments & horizons…

Working With Freelancers & Other Creatives / Is It More Productive To Work On A Single Project Or Several? / Destruction's Role In Creativity 10:21 - Krista's forest research 17:13 - Tom's focus cube 24:45 - Main Topic - Destruction's Role In Creativity 36:47 - Lacey's ritual of out destructionBy Orange Nebula

What Memories Does Theresa Have From Her Time At O-Neb? / What Perspective Has Tom Gained From Heart Surgery? / Passion Burnout 1:49 - Theresa recalls witnessing her impact 6:28 - Tom's inverse relationship with how connected you are to the world and how much you bring to it 15:04 - Main Topic - Passion Burnout 30:56 - Theresa's estimation on Marc …

What Lasting Impression Do You Hope Your Work Will Have On Others? / Have Childhood Experiences Influenced Your Creative Endeavors? / Knowing When To Quit 4:43 - What kind of impression does Derick want to leave? 13:45 - Marc looks back on childhood 26:25 - Main Topic - Knowing When To Quit 38:30 - Lacey's describes productively starting over…

Is There Anything You Haven't Yet Achieved That You Feel Compelled To In The Future / How Much Of Your Own Life Is Reflected In Your Work / The Lottery Lie 5:50 - Marc's book on his suffering 8:46 - Lacey's 3 Core values as a person 14:51 - Main Topic - The Lottery Lie 19:50 - Jared's reframe of the "Lottery"…

How storytelling and world building relate to each other and work together as key components of a strong narrative experience. Come weave narrative with us on the Outpost podcast. 01:10 - Community Question: The journey from idea to execution is hard - "The Shower Principle" 14:16 - Community Question: You can work on your creativity whenever/where…

Perfection Vs. Excellence / Determining Value of Board Games / Finding Your voice 02:10 – Community Question: Is the final push toward excellence a good use of time? 13:02 – Community Question: What determines the value of a board game? 18:30 – Main Topic: Finding your voice 36:00 – Lacey’s Getting-It-Together methodology…

How do analog vs. digital tools affect creativity? 1:19 - The “no accent” memo 1:22 - Is using GameFound as an alternative to Kickstarter good for the industry? 8:26: - Is the O-Neb team mostly alike or very different? 12:30 - Main Topic Begins: What are the differences between Analog and Digital creativity 35:11 Digital tools can be really distrac…

What gives a creative endeavor charisma? Is it subjective? Tackling what x-factors the team explores how humans are hardwired to detect excellence. 2:39 - What’s the point of slip-n-slides? 6:05 - Are we moving away from Kickstarter? 8:47 - Main Topic - Charismatic Products and Creators 22:58 - Derick sings, “A new hole.”…

17:57 - I’m a storyteller - board games 24:16 - Wrinkle City 27:10 - Giant cheesecake trap 30:00 - Favorite house-rules for VindicationBy Orange Nebula

Do you need a mentor? Is it even worth it? What does even having one look like? After listening to this, we’re curious about your take. How has having a mentor helped you? Does having a mentor make you better enough to recommend it to others? 5:35 - Professional break taker 19:15 - Tank of dead fish 21:17 - Mentos defined 47:51 - Can you reach exce…

Look we have been gone a while and just like a car that hasn’t been driven in 8 months we had a rocky start. After the group got Theresa to be more than present everything went perfectly. 3:09 - Lacey implies her kids are still alive 14:21 - Theresa requests burn cream 36:56 - Do you have an obligation to share what you create? 57:29 - Emotional-su…

Sometimes improving ourselves is just too dang hard. Sometimes we lack the where-with-all for genuine improvement. It's moments like these where all we can attempt to do is just suck less. Tom, Theresa, Marc, and Lacey break down their trials and errors.By Orange Nebula

Agility, adaptability, flexibility - these are not inborn skills. Right? The O-Neb fam unpacks the importance of being agile.By Orange Nebula

4:10 Tom stares blankly at the wall with the refrigerator open eating olives 14:55 The team plans on how they are carefully annoying 34:31 The book, How to Win Friends and Influence People is summarized as, “Just listen to people and shut up.”By Orange Nebula

How do you feed the machine of your creativity? The team tackles their individual challenges to consume content to inspire them. We also talk about what we avoid. Are you similar?By Orange Nebula

We're tackling that gap between comfort and success. What happens when we leave our comfort zone? How can we manifest opportunities and push our projects to the next level? The team identifies how to embrace that discomfort and get to that next level.By Orange Nebula

With the team spending so much time working remotely, what discoveries have we made? We dive into fears, bad habits, and a deeper understanding of who we are. Have you found out the same things about yourself?By Orange Nebula

With a huge focus on work revolving around maintaining passion - how can you do it? The team tackles how to define passion, and then how they create space to cultivate their excitement for projects.By Orange Nebula

How does a personal brand drive your success? Derick and Mark get candid and share their journey working with clients and managing Blue Blazes. Expanding on that the team explores how charismatic brands invite others in and they share.By Orange Nebula

We're exploring all the warning labels that should accompany the creative life. So what are the hidden pitfalls? What dangers await those living a creative life? Dive in and tackle this issues with us.By Orange Nebula

From extra body parts to reflecting on our need to extend grace, the team is at it again. Entitlement culture. Is this a new thing? How do we view this as a challenge to conquer this within ourselves? How does this need affect how with our internal dialogue?By Orange Nebula

Whew. It's been a while and the Outpost has recorded a new podcast. As the team brushes off the rust of not recording in a while, they tackle their self-care and the importance of working with pain to frame their creativity.By Orange Nebula

What’s the morality of time travel? Are we wise enough to wield time travel responsibly? We had a lot of fun delving into the perils of traveling through space and time. Tune in as we dive into our favorite tales of time travel and the important lessons this genre teaches.By Orange Nebula

What's the importance of having a thick skin? Marc, Lacey, Derick, Mark “Daffirmation” Daffron lightly chatting about psycho-savage driving, our passions, and the importance of developing a thick skin.By Orange Nebula

What makes a healthy community? What is the purpose? Why should you pursue it? What brings people together? It's an awesome time with some community questions about personal injuries -- join us! *Hey, friends. This episode was recorded before COVID-19 hit and in it we discuss food washing habits. Obviously times have changed. Please refer to curren…

What does it mean to be an adult? Marc, Lacey, Tom, and Derick explore creativity and the meaning of work. Why do we do what we do? Why does it matter? And then close things off with a discussion about what it means to be an adult, and (re)learning how to be a kid.By Orange Nebula

Creativity throughout our lives changes in how it's expressed. Once creative people become parents, then what happens? Is their creativity sucked out of them? Does it grow superpowers? Lacey, Marc, Mark, and Theresa explore how parenthood caused them to explore creativity while raising children.By Orange Nebula

What is world-building, and are there secret methods to getting it right? (There are always secret methods, and they rarely get it right.) Lacey, Marc, Theresa, and Tom dive into this, your mailbag questions, trusting your own imagination, and producing garbage. It's been a few weeks. We've missed you.…

Trashed vocal cords, cell phone destruction, and World of Warcraft round out a deeper discussion on finding healthy versions of yourself amid a culture that amplifies your own worst instincts. Really though, WOW players, you are needed. Help a lost fire mage find its forever home.By Orange Nebula

The mailbag opens up the most detailed dive yet into the mechanics and experience of the upcoming cosmic survival game: Unsettled. Then Lacey makes things all weird by asking the fam to explore their perceptions of themselves.By Orange Nebula

What is the creative process? Can it be defined? Should it be defined? HAVE WE GONE TOO FAR!!?By Orange Nebula

Career Path Analysis! How the heck did we get to this place doing these things alongside all these other....super normal people?By Orange Nebula

The O-Neb Fam smile as they welcome a new member and then laughing maniacally as they throw her into the deep end with a truly weird discussion about obsessions and fascinations. References to complicated orifices and drug-loving shrimp abound! Also, new microphones. Expect fancy sound effects.By Orange Nebula

Welcome to the Barn! The Outpost Podcast moves to the Orange Nebula offices and complications arise. F16s interrupt after we mock Marc for suggesting they might, new recording equipment demonstrates its quirkiness, there are all sorts of chicken nugget issues happening off-mic... just go with it! A brief dive into the mail bag gives way to a discus…

What comes first: theme or mechanics? Yeaaaaa neither. Join the O-Neb Fam for the very last episode to be recorded in The Barn; rife with animal noises, chats about misconceptions, multiple panic attacks we feel were decently well edited out, and a long dissection of one of gamings most frequent (and most short sighted) conversations. It's a monume…