042 - Designing Niche Indie TTRPGs with Imani of Margaret Catter Dev

Roll Play Grow: A TTRPG Business Podcast

Today’s guest is Imani, the founder of Margaret Catter Development. Imani is an indie game developer making some truly fun and pretty niche games. I really loved diving into the stories behind a lot of these games, learning about her processes and some upcoming projects they are working on this year. Imani is a lot of fun, so I hope you enjoy listening to them!
I’ve got a couple of business updates for you all today. The first is to announce that after some feedback about our Lightheart Adventures Patreon being a bit confusing, I decided to split Roll Play Grow off into its own separate Patreon, and I just launched it this week! This will allow posts to be more streamlined and less confusing. So if you want to support the show, you can go to patreon.com/rollplaygrow and you’ll find a tier as low as $3 a month. Perks include having early access to the guest list, being able to add your questions to upcoming interviews, behind-the-scenes content, and shout-outs on my website and the show. I would love if you’d go check it out and help me work towards some goals. Liiiiike I’m getting to a point that I need to hire an editor to help me keep up with episodes so we don’t get behind again. Editors tend to start at around $50 per hour’s worth of audio, so we’re looking at at least $200 a month just for the editor, not to include the other costs associated with producing a podcast. Either way, I hope you’ll check it out!
The other small update is that I have switched my Twitter handle slightly to be more aligned with this show. You can now follow me at KetraRPG.
Find Imani and Margaret Catter Dev at:

• Website
• Itch.io
• Ko-fi
• Twitter

Find Roll Play Grow:

• Show Page
• Patreon
• Lightheart Adventures Website
• Lightheart Twitter
• Lightheart Instagram

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Chapters

1. Introduction & Updates (00:00:00)

2. Imani Introduction (00:03:48)

3. How Imani began writing games (00:11:24)

4. Making niche story games (00:14:38)

5. Making Visual Novels (00:22:44)

6. Making one-page games (00:30:10)

7. Upcoming projects (00:36:50)

8. What has been the most challenging part? (00:46:04)

9. What has been the most rewarding part? (00:52:16)

10. Where can people find you? (00:53:22)

11. Wrap-up (00:54:19)