{"id":1087,"date":"2009-12-05T00:53:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T04:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2009-12-05T00:53:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T04:53:16","slug":"oo-lets-make-a-game-episode-9-secret-powerz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2009\/oo-lets-make-a-game-episode-9-secret-powerz","title":{"rendered":"Oo! Let’s Make a Game! Episode 9: Secret Powerz!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ooh-lets-300\"<\/a><\/p>\n

57:39 long & 52.8 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>) discuss the abilities of the hunter-fog-cloud thing, talk a bit more about the tech web, then get into brainstorming some of the possible powers that the different characters in the game have.<\/p>\n

Notes<\/a> taken by Joshua and I before and during the episode, with lots of detail on what we came up with.<\/p>\n

– Joshua tells a story about badasses and kukris
\n– Listener feedback from Renato Raimonda, Dave Michalak, and Noah Trammell (02:54 – 10:00)
\n– Archetype \/ Dramatic role as a class \/ race combination
\n– Vincent Baker’s Apocalypse World<\/a><\/i>
\n– Ibrahim Dahlstrom-Hakki’s (aka “Slash”) board game, Salah Ad-Din: Rise of a Leader<\/a><\/i>
\n– We tried to use Google Wave, and there’s a public Wave<\/a> to look at from our planning session (you need a Wave account)
\n– The James Herbert novel The Fog<\/a><\/i>, which Joshua conflates with the Stephen King novella, The Mist<\/a><\/i>
\n– The German boardgame Keep Cool<\/a><\/i> (you may be able to buy this if you speak German), and Vincent Baker’s Mechaton<\/a><\/i>
\n– The Steven Spielberg sci-fi film Minority Report<\/a><\/i>
\n– The limbic system<\/a> (for those of you perplexed by Joshua’s “limbically”)
\n– The unlinkable but cool Chris Moore game, Psi Run<\/i> (it was an Ashcan Front<\/a> game
\n– Return of singularitarianism<\/a>
\n– Return of the tech web!
\n– Brennan Taylor’s Mortal Coil<\/a><\/i>
\n– DARPANET<\/a><\/p>\n

Listener homeworks (2 of them): <\/p>\n

1) Give us a name for the cloudkill
\n2) Give us a name for the little quanta of information the cloudkill gets on you<\/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 “Games Without Frontiers” by Peter Gabriel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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