When I found out Chuck Tingle released The Tingleverse, an RPG set in the world of his Tinglers books, I was immediately on board – and super excited when Chuck granted me an interview! Check out Chuck’s responses below.
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Tell me a little about The Tingleverse. What excites you about it?
first question is good but it has many answers because WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW IS THE TINGLEVERSE this is just layer of reality we are on (these are in stacks that go from top to bottom) and outside of this is THE VOID. so each layer of this stack is a potential timeline they are infinite and together they make up the tingleverse. but i can say that GAME of the tingleverse is an important way to explore other layers or timelines that buckaroos might not have been to mostly the timelines that i write about in my books. so i think if you are fan of tinglers by worlds greatest author chuck tingle then you will definitely like this important game because it will give you a chance to trot as a unicorn or a bigfoot or a raptor and maybe even a human to. i think that games in this way help with empathy and understanding that we all have our own unique trot and that is a WONDERFUL THING i think this is proof of love thats for dang sure
What was it like collaborating with others on making The Tingleverse into a roleplaying game?
thank you not really sure if this is reference to something but i did not really collaborate much in this way it was normal edited by son jon and there were playtests way but i do not really see this as collaboration just helpful buds along the way. this does not mean they were not important in fact they were VERY IMPORTANT mostly to say to man name of chuck ‘wow this is good and this works you should keep going’ so i appreciated that way for buds. sometimes you need an extra voice to say ‘ you can do it bud’ this bit of encouragement is nice even fore worlds greatest author. but mostly i think i was able to make game because of unique and important way my brain works with is very methodical way and says that if you take things piece by piece they might not make sense but eventually they will make BIG TIME SENSE just gotta but head down and work a little every day thats how you prove love at the end of the road buddy
What were some of your favorite elements of your Tinglers and books to bring into the Tingleverse RPG project?
i think i enjoyed being able to talk on the lonesome train as this is very important to me and i have a lot of anxiety on its way and its call. so anytime i get to prove love is real by speaking about it and making it into a force that I CAN HANDLE by putting it into a game is very good. DEEP DANG DOWN i think this makes me feel better but in broader sense i think this is a way of the artistic bud to take issues that we have and to turn them into something that you can process through a game or a story or a song and then reflect on these issues in way that MAKES SENSE TO YOU. so i would say talkin on the lonesome train felt very nice in this context and other times it can be a difficult way.
The Tingleverse book is pretty big! It had to have taken a lot of time and love to put it together. Did you have a particular process for developing the game and organizing the book?
thank you for saying book is very big i think so to it took LONG DANG TIME to make and was sometimes very daunting process made me shake and drool on a number of days thinking ‘dang this is a lot of work’ but now that it is done i can look back and think even though it was a work time it was a fun time, and now i am working on monster book so whenever this makes me shake and drool i feel same way and that helps. but i would say most of all process was to ask self ‘what would YOU be wondering right now?’ normally in books you ask this to think about journey of reader feelings but in instructional book like this it is journey of readers thinkings but it is basically same at the end of the dang day
I’m a game designer who has mental health struggles but fights through them to try to create projects with messages of love, so this project appeals to me! When you look at The Tingleverse RPG project, why did you feel it was a good suit to put forward the stories you tell and the messages you like to send?
i am glad you have put up a first in your struggling way to say GUESS WHAT BUDDY TODAY IS MY DAY NOT THE DAY OF SOME SCOUNDREL INSIDE MY WAY THAT IS NOT REALLY MY WAY so i think that is so important and i think that you have proved love very much. and also when you make an artistic way with love at the core it will only bring people towards it and that is very special but also powerful. so i will say that with TINGLEVERSE GAME i think it is a good way to tell stories and prove love because it is community game and it makes me think of good times trotting with buds, and i think that it is nice to make something that others can used together and maybe laugh and maybe cry but most of all love. it is okay to have this journey on your own with a dang good but and i have written many of those so with this i just thought ‘what the heck lets try something new’
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Thanks so much to Chuck for the awesome interview! I hope you all enjoyed it and that you’ll check out The Tingleverse today!
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