Clearly I've been thinking lots lately about how your relationship to games changes as you grow older. Games are changing as they grow too, and that has a lot to do with it. (I mentioned "Why Don't I Lose Myself In Games Anymore?" from Kotaku yesterday and if you've been following the FFVII Letters, you'll recognize some of the themes).
Besides the stuff I've already shown you, I've also found a slightly more obnoxious way to state my impatience with modern roleplaying games. If you follow my Twitter feed, you might have heard of Suparna Galaxy. For background, here's a helpful transcription of the conversation that started it all. Then we began to take it really seriously, and a big group of us made a wiki of lore for our fake game world.
Now we have done a podcast with the excellent Big Red Potion crew. There is professional voice acting. There is soundtrack material. And we thusly offer ourselves for interview as the developers on the project. We are very, very serious. I can't explain it. You should just listen.
And in more straitlaced commentary on the changing gamer, I've done a Gamasutra editorial today about the portable platform market and how, with his comments about how people are "too old" for the Nintendo DS, Jack Tretton suggests Sony might be misidentifying the market a little. Still really want an NGP, naturally. I get gadget-lust easily.
In other craziness, I am apparently a centerfold. Look, ma! In good fun, I participated in GayGamer's 'PlayNerd Centerfold of the Month', following in the tough-to-follow footsteps of friends of mine like Anthony Carboni and Andy Schatz and gave an interview and did a photoshoot. I had so much fun, as the team there's so cool.
Today's Good Song: via Pasta Primavera, Loud Valley, 'The Refrain' -- there is a Red Dead vibe here, I think.
3 comments:
There should be a general internet rule against hour and a half podcasts in general. That seems the norm, but it's really hard to find an hour and a half of free time to really focus on what is being said.
Listening to podcasts while I work makes me less efficient and half of the stuff said doesn't register. I'd love to hear more about this crazy idea of yours. I would love to see you try to really make a game... You've been an inside observer for the longest time, it would be interesting to read about your adventures in becoming a participant... I mean, just look at Greg Kasavin, he's doing really interesting things in the Indie space.
You might check out Medea: Harlan's World when moving forward with Suparnagalaxy. The first part of the book has writers discussing how to build a world, the second part has SF stories based on the world. But for Suparangalaxy, the first part would be pretty useful as the participants are pros. The actual stories, at least by reputation, aren't so great.
Hehehe Podcasts used to be for tech potheads back since it's inception. It can be boring if they run to long, it entirely depends on how charismatic the people are on the podcasts making the conversation. So like Sam said agree generallly their should be a limit, to how long someone can ramble on for. Why don't you do walkthroughs for games on youtube like many gamers do nowadays.
I'm an avid FF fan, so i follow you when i can, keep it up. I love your perspective on life and games in general. Tchau
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