{"id":918,"date":"2009-08-25T19:33:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T23:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=918"},"modified":"2009-08-25T19:33:37","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T23:33:37","slug":"oo-lets-make-a-game-episode-001-what-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2009\/oo-lets-make-a-game-episode-001-what-now","title":{"rendered":"Oo! Let’s Make a Game! Episode 001: What Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Oo!\"<\/a>
\n01:05:25 long & 59.9 MB big<\/p>\n

This episode<\/a> is the first in a new endeavor by Robert Bohl (designer of Misspent Youth<\/a><\/em>) and Joshua A. C. Newman (designer of shock: social science fiction<\/a><\/em>), wherein they create a new roleplaying game before your very ears! Over the course of the next howevermany weeks, for one hour each week, Joshua and Rob are going to design, develop, test, and publish a brand new roleplaying game from start to finish.<\/p>\n

In this first episode, we talk about what the show’s about, and decide what game we’re going to design. Linkworthy stuff we mention:<\/p>\n

– Joshua’s earlier game, which makes you cry, Under the Bed<\/a><\/em>
\n– Kurt Vonnegut<\/a>
\n– Primetime Adventures<\/a><\/em>
\n– R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)<\/a><\/em>
\n– The Penny Arcade series Automata<\/a>
\n– Luke Crane’s Burning Sands: Jihad<\/a><\/em>
\n– John Wick’s Houses of the Blooded<\/a><\/em>
\n– HBO’s Deadwood<\/a><\/em> and Rome<\/a><\/em> TV series
\n– The Mob Justice<\/a><\/em> RPG
\n– Emily Care Boss of Black and Green Games<\/a>
\n– George Carlin on “servicing the account<\/a>”
\n– The Shockwave Rider<\/a><\/em>
\n– Guns, Germs, and Steel<\/a><\/em>
\n– Sons of Liberty<\/a><\/em>
\n– Neill Blomkamp<\/a>
\n– PALEO-FUTURE<\/a>
\n– Dogs in the Vineyard<\/a><\/em>
\n– COINTELPRO<\/a>
\n– The Project Orion<\/a> engine
\n– Fritz Lang’s Metropolis<\/a><\/em>
\n– Eclipse Phase<\/a><\/em>
\n– Charles Stross’s Accelerando<\/a><\/em> and Singularity Sky<\/a><\/em>
\n– Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon<\/a><\/em>
\n– The Joss Whedon TV series Dollhouse<\/a><\/em>
\n– The Cyberpunk RPG<\/a><\/em>
\n– The question of whether squids have brains, revealed<\/a>
\n– The game may take place over the course of the technological singularity<\/a>
\n– Bruce Sterling<\/a>
\n– An episode<\/a> of my other podcast where I talk to Ron Edwards about finding who the protagonist is in play
\n– Ron’s game Spione<\/a><\/em>
\n– The Blomkamp film District 9<\/a><\/em>
\n– The Big Three<\/a> game design question
\n– Gardner Dozois edited Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future<\/a><\/em>
\n– GURPS Transhuman Space<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The intro and closing music for this episode is “Gotta Whizz” by Boris the Sprinkler<\/a>, from the album Mega Anal.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

You can subscribe to the show with this feed url<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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