#indie opera

[castingpods]

Listening to stuff from the audio drama renaissance is so funny. why were there only like 5 voice actors and how were they all in each others shows

[starstrider-productions]

LOOKING FOR SENSITIVITY READERS (PAID!)

I am looking for two sensitivity readers for my next audio drama project from the following backgrounds: Jewish and Hindu. I am very committed to making my portrayal of these religions as accurate and respectful as possible, so would love to hear from readers with lived experiences.

Both readers will be asked to read 5 scripts. Each script is between 15-20 pages long. I will also give background information on the project to give you contextual knowledge of the over-arching themes/ideas of the plot.

If you are interested, please email starstriderproductions@gmail.com with your rates/experience, or any questions you might have! You are also welcome to reblog/comment with questions.

(Just a heads up - I am very bad at checking Tumblr messages, so I am MUCH more likely to see an email than an ask/message.)

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Francesca (Audio fiction writer - previous credits include The Pilgrimage Saga and H.G. Wells Has His Regrets)

EDIT:

I have been advised to be a little more specific in my post regarding the characters! Here are some additional details:

Character 1: Female, 20s, British Asian, practising Hindu. She celebrates Diwali in one of the episodes.

Character 2: Female, 70s, Dutch, Jewish. She regularly attends the synagogue, celebrates Jewish holidays such as Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and her faith is an important part of the story. This podcast is set in 2004, and this character is a Holocaust survivor (imprisoned in Dachau as a child).

FURTHER UPDATE: Thank you to those of you who have emailed me so far - a reader has been found for Character 2! Still looking for a Hindu reader :)

FINAL UPDATE: Thank you everyone who has contacted me - I have found readers for both characters! I hope you all enjoy the final product :)

[alpha-beta-gamer]

Another Space Opera is a beautiful and brutal supernatural pixel art Sci-Fi horror action adventure where you risk everything to save your sister.

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[kotaka-kun]

hate my face indie rock by takayan but make it cherik

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Tracklist:

The Signal • Apocalypse When • Succinct, the Optimist • Doctor • He's Right • The Paranoid Blur • Tiny Rushes • The Page at the End of the Internet • Punctuation! • Wrung • Flatpack • A Martyr's View from The View at the Marriott Marquis • The Page at the End of the Internet (Reprise) • Underture • Temporarily • Stillwave • The Improbable New Sensations • "GENERATOR" by The Improbable New Sensations • "UNTIL THE BALL STOPS" by The Improbable New Sensations • "MY SECOND-TO-LAST MONDAY" by The Improbable New Sensations • Notches on the Scale • The Runner's High • "The Sudden Walk" • On Companionship • Weirdness Flows • Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve • A Choice! • Firebrand • 30 Seconds of Silence! • Fruit Bat

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Submitter's Note: If ever there was an album to listen to in order at least once, it would be this. It is, according to the band, "a sprawling five-act rock opera about the internet, culture, human relationships, and the apocalypse". Technically the album invites you to choose your own ending, but I think there's a lot of meaning in listening all the way through. As a heads up, the album is, at various points, quite emotionally heavy.

[arcprojecthq]

Hey, listeners! 🚀

We’re excited to announce the launch of The Terra Alpha Audio Drama, an immersive science fiction podcast that takes you into the world of Shadows Over Sol TTRPG setting. This is a story of survival, exploration, and humanity’s desperate push to reach the stars.

We’re kicking off with The Road to Launch, a series of prequel vignettes that delve into humanity’s struggles before the Terra Alpha launched. The first vignette, "The Shadows Over Sol", introduces the world in which is our possible future.

✨ Join us this Tuesday -12/17/24, on Podbean and its partner platforms to hear the first entry in humanity’s journey to the stars.

If you love immersive science fiction and rich storytelling, this is the series for you.

🎧 Listen: Podbean 📸 Follow us: X, BlueSky, Facebook, Instagram, Patreon Website: The Terra Alpha Audio Drama

[culinarycarnage]

Phantom of the opera AU :D

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Hi! I'm looking for a game in the space opera genre, and I'd love some suggestions. More specifically, I'm trying to find something that's pretty easily customizable or setting-agnostic. Pretty soft as far as sci-fi is concerned, even science fantasy. (And my players have a very brief attention span when it comes to learning rules, so some degree of simplicity would be appreciated, too, haha!)

For context, I have a friend who loves worldbuilding and has fleshed out a whole galaxy, and I want to run a one-shot set in his world for his birthday. In the past, we've tried using a homebrew amalgamation of D&D, SW5e, and miscellaneous other bits, but I want to find a system that fits a bit better.

Thanks for the help! 😁

Theme: Simple Space Operas.

Hello friend, this sounds like such an awesome idea! I think I’ve got a few pretty good options for you to take a look at. Many of these games pull from Star Wars as their idea of what a space opera is like, but not all of them do. Also, don't forget to check the bottom of the post to see what I've recommended in the past!

Laser-Ritter, by Bad Quail Games.

Laser-Ritter is an analog adventure game about swashbuckling heroes journeying among endless stars to embrace their destiny. There are rendezvous in hazy tap rooms, chases across distant moons, and showdowns with the forces of galactic evil. We play to find out how our Laser-Ritters follow their passions and face their pasts to triumph over adversity.

Laser-Ritter gives space for you to create your own saga. There's no burdensome timeline of canon events or overwhelming lists of characters, spaceships, and alien species to be contradicted. Every group begins their saga by creating their own dramatic title crawl to establish what's happening when the adventure begins!

This is a game all about embracing your destiny, with plenty of space to build your own universe. The game can be played episodically, or cover a long-spanning story over a series of sessions. This means that if you just want to run a one-shot, it can be pretty easily self-contained, but there’s also room to expand the game.

Players in this game have 4 stats and a health track labelled Vitality. You also have something called a Pathos track, which represents how attrition and trauma affect your character. If you fill your Pathos track, your character becomes vulnerable to dying. If you want a game with dramatic action and tragic scenes, Laser-Ritter might be for you.

Galaxy Goons and A Goons’ Guide to the Galaxy, by John Erwin.

Galaxy Goons is a space fantasy adventure hack of the Ennies-award winning Tunnel Goons. If you want a light-hearted game about rascals just trying to make their way in the universe, this is worth checking out. Tunnel Goons is known for being pretty light-weight, and Galaxy Goons is true to this legacy. Your characters are rolled randomly, with stats used to add onto dice rolls to try and beat a difficulty level.

A Goon’s Guide to the Galaxy is made for the same kind of setting, but uses a different set of rules, namely the 24XX SRD. This means that instead of just rolling d6’s, your characters will have a few things that they have a d8 or d10 for, and there might even be a few skills that only allow you to roll a d4. 24XX games also tend to carry roll tables to help the GM come up with obstacles and goals, so that might help the GM decide what about this homemade galaxy might be interesting to follow.

Rebel Scum, by 9th Level Games.

REBEL SCUM tells the story of how scrappy, anti-fascist heroes can fight back against a government with unlimited power (including giant lasers and space magic). Inspired by a love for a certain line of 3 and 3/4 inch action figures, this is a fast paced, feel good, space opera of rebellion and adventure.

In this TTRPG, characters are all expressed as action figures, with their pertinent stats and abilities "on the back of the card." Choose your toy and get out into battle!

So Rebel Scum borrows very obviously from Star Wars, but of course the book can’t just put the game in the Star Wars setting, so they create their own. What this means is you can pretty easily throw out that lore and build your own world, although the expectation in this game is that your characters will be working to overthrow some sort of galaxy-wide power. The rules are very simple to learn - in fact the booklet is under 100 pages, and that’s including art, setting, and example characters. If you have a standard set of polyhedral dice (and I’m assuming you do, if you’ve played D&D) then you’ll be able to play this game.

Save the Universe, by Don Bisdorf.

Tyranny and cruelty have spread across the galaxy, and only you can stop it!

Save the Universe is a sci-fi adventure roleplaying game in which the players create their own great galactic menace and then portray the brave heroes battling against it.

I think the biggest pull for this game is that it encourages you to build your own galaxy. The game even comes with a number of questions for you to answer, and if you already have a world decided, you can slot in the answers according to your friend’s world. In fact, assigning world creation to one player is actually a recommended option in the game!

Even though this game is pretty open in terms of the details of your galaxy, there’s still an overarching theme of an Empire or large enemy that your characters will be resisting. Then again, I have a feeling that’s a common theme in space operas.

Plerion: Space Opera Adventure Game, by Zotiquest Games.

Intrepid spacers ply the vastness of the Five Galaxies in search of fortune and glory.

This is Plerion, a sci-fi hack from Cairn designed to play radiant space opera. Inspired by classic science fiction and the RPGs that emulate it, but with a more modern twist, winking at transhumanism and cyberpunk.

Plerion is an adventure game for one referee and at least one other player. Players act as hardened spacers exploring, exploiting and commerce through the vastness of space in the far future.

The author of this game cites Mass Effect, the Traveller roleplaying game and the Wayfarer series by Becky Chambers. Cairn, the game that inspired this one, is a game that makes survival difficult and daunting for the players, and asks them to put the fiction first. This means that combat shouldn’t always be the answer. Instead, players are encouraged to find ways to solve problems using their tools at hand, which is a common trend in many of the games that inspired this rule system.

What’s So Cool About Outer Space, by Jared Sinclair.

WSCAOS is a tiny little system for going to space no matter where you are! 

This is an incredibly tiny game, with just two pages to print out and use as a rules reference in any galaxy you like. It’s also the parent of a number of “What’s So Cool About" games that use the same philosophy - minimal rules, and plenty of agency left up to the group in terms of what possible backstories you might have, as well as what might be considered an advantage and what might not.

No-one Owns The Sky, by Free Radicals Press.

A band of misfits lives aboard a rundown starship, traveling from one frontier world to the next, hoping to make a name and a living for themselves. Along the way, things always seem to go sideways, but the crew holds on, no matter what.

NO ONE OWNS THE SKY is a sci-fi roleplaying game that is rules-light and relies on players to craft and flesh out the universe of the setting as a collective. This game was designed for two or more players. One player is always the referee (REF), a neutral arbiter and guiding force for the game. The others act and play as player characters (PCs). These players, with their REF and their PCs, will tell amazing, collective (and interactive) stories with the help of imagination, dice, roleplaying, critical thinking, and problem-solving.

This game uses a staggered success layout, which means that you could roll a failure, a success, or a mixed success during any given roll. Anything above a 5 is a success! It looks like the game uses more than just d6’s though, so the larger dice you roll, the higher your chances of succeeding. The setting is also up to the players, pretty good for folks who want to build their own galaxy.

Games I’ve Recommended in the Past

Space Fantasy Rec Post

Impulse Drive, by Adrian Thorn.

Syzygy, by Ostrichmonkey Games.

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[starstrider-productions]

EPISODE ELEVEN: ORBITS, PART 2: HOME

Out now wherever you get your podcasts.

Spotify: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/turpentine-productions/episodes/3-11--Orbits--Part-2-Home-e2r1t2t

Starstrider out.

[scifimagpie]

Hey hey, look at THAT, a little bump in the sales ranks! Meaning Wars is getting some love.

https://www.amazon.com/Meaning-Wars.../dp/B0BHXRZ8NP

So if you want like, a queer space opera that feels good and involves activism winning over a tyrannical government and religion, check this out? The first 4 books are short (novella-length, about 30-45K) and only the last book is longer (about 80K). Also book 4 is a beach episode. And there's some kissing.

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[ettawritesnstudies]

Indie Book Review: Suspended in the Stars

Synopsis A girl in hiding. A boy on the run. The fate of the galaxy between them. When Talie Zarna is forced to hide rogue soldier, Renner Cartha, her life isn’t the only thing threatened. Living as the famed Soaring Staress on the circus spaceship Midway masks her true identity, but Renner’s very presence threatens to draw unwanted attention. As a former royal guard, Renner holds secrets of his…

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Tracklist:

Clean Slate • Ground Level • Only One Way • Fresh Tattoo • Cleaning Crew • Murder at the 18th St. Garage • From the Nebraska Plant • Same as Cash • Water Tower • Jenny III • Going to Dallas • Great Pirates

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[outlawnights]

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/outlaw-nights-issue-1-second-chance/coming_soon#/preview

My name is Ben Fuselier. I am a writer from New Orleans. In 2019, I successfully crowdfunded Issue 1 of my space opera comic series Outlaw Nights. I am doing a second campaign to build up my readership and raise money to complete Issue 2.

Cyrus Lawson finds himself caught up in the underworld of the 31st century. Can he fend off a group of pirates? Why are they invading a remote settlement with no real value?!