{"id":1069,"date":"2009-11-19T00:32:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T04:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2009-11-19T00:32:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T04:32:56","slug":"oo-lets-make-a-game-episode-8-building-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2009\/oo-lets-make-a-game-episode-8-building-people","title":{"rendered":"[Oo! Let’s Make a Game!] Episode 8: Building People!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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54:46 long & 50.2 MB big<\/p>\n

In this episode<\/a>, Robert Bohl (designer of Misspent Youth<\/a><\/i>) and Joshua A. C. Newman (designer of shock: social science fiction<\/a><\/i>) finish developing the character-based situation for the game they’re designing \u2014 before your very ears! \u2014 then move on to discussing some ways that characters can be pushed to change away from baseline humanity<\/p>\n

Rob’s during-the-show notes<\/a>, the document<\/a> containing the complete write-up of the relationship map, and Joshua’s ideas<\/a> on the cloudkill technology.<\/p>\n

– Rob does a staged reading of the lyrics to “Prevenge” by They Might Be Giants
\n– We reflect on how much podcasting is like The King of Comedy<\/a><\/i>
\n– Obligatory references to Vincent Baker<\/a>, Radio Lab<\/a>, and Paul Beakley (we also talk about Ben Lehman<\/a>)
\n– COINTELPRO<\/a>
\n– The film Jarhead<\/a>
\n– The Wire<\/a><\/i>, Generation Kill<\/a><\/i>, and Battlestar Galactica<\/a><\/i>
\n– John Dillinger<\/a>
\n– Toxoplasmosis<\/a>, Brilliant Gameologists podcast<\/a>, and Peeps<\/i><\/a> by Scott Westerfeld
\n– Hampshire College<\/a>, the college Joshua graduated from
\n– Crank<\/i><\/a>, which has a sub-standard sequel
\n– Mortal Coil<\/i><\/a>
\n– My Life with Master<\/i><\/a>
\n– Cloudkill<\/a>
\n– A Scanner Darkly<\/i><\/a>
\n– JiffyCon<\/a>
\n– There are mysterious goings-on on the Facebook page<\/a> for shock:<\/i><\/p>\n

You can subscribe to the show by plugging the RSS feed URL<\/a> into your preferred podcatcher. You can also use the one-click iTunes button thingie: <\/p>\n

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The intro music is “Gotta Whizz” by Boris the Sprinkler<\/a>, from the album Mega Anal. The outgoing music is “Prevenge” by They Might Be Giants<\/a> from the album The Spine<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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