About

My name is Sean McCoy.

I co-created the game Two Rooms and a Boom over at Tuesday Knight Games. We used to do a weekly podcast about board games. I also designed Mothership, you can read a lot about the design on this blog.

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Interviews & Appearances

26 December 2022 - Dungeon23 Is the Perfect Low-Pressure Writing Ritual

16 September 2022 - Can AI art democratize tabletop game publishing?

28 July 2022 - Inside the Million Dollar Sci-Fi Horror RPG

26 July 2022 - Empty Rooms: Architecture in Horror Games | EF Con Panel

10 November 2021 - The Lost Bay Podcast interview with Sean McCoy

2 November 2021 - Award-winning indie horror RPG Mothership is getting a boxed set…

2 February 2021 - Thought Eater Humpday RPG Show with Special Guest Sean McCoy

17 June 2020 - DnDnQnA Ep 05 - Chris McDowall & Sean McCoy

8 June 2020 - Electric Bastionland Actual Play - The Droner House

18 May 2020 - Appendix N Podcast: Jack Vance’s Star King” with special guest Sean McCoy

6 May 2020 - Electric Bastionland Commentary: Setting with Sean McCoy

27 April 2020 - Off the Shelf: Mothership’s Sean McCoy

4 March 2019 - Interview: Sean McCoy Talks Mothership, Dead Planet, Game Design and More!

2 March 2020 - Game Mechanics: Sean McCoy, Meeting Players Where They Are

2 Feb 2020 - Mud & Blood #71: Sean McCoy Interview

7 June 2018 - Board With Life Adventures Plays Mothership

5 April 2018 - Board With Life Adventures Plays Heist

17 April 2017 - Pixels & Pieces: Production and Logistics with Sean McCoy

11 February 2016 - Pixels & Pieces: Prototyping and Design with Sean McCoy

Other Things I’ve Worked On

I directed an indie feature film when I was in college, called Waiting Rooms.

I had a short story published in an anthology of the Year’s Best Body Horror.

I also put out a small dungeon synth EP.




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