{"id":953,"date":"2009-09-01T19:53:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T23:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=953"},"modified":"2009-09-01T19:53:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T23:53:22","slug":"oo-lets-make-a-game-episode-2-whats-it-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2009\/oo-lets-make-a-game-episode-2-whats-it-all-about","title":{"rendered":"[Oo! Let’s Make a Game!] Episode 2: What’s It All About?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/p>\n

01:00:59 long & 55.9 MB big<\/p>\n

In this episode<\/a>, Robert Bohl (designer of Misspent Youth<\/a><\/em>) and Joshua A. C. Newman (designer of shock: social science fiction<\/a><\/em>), discuss what the transhumanist science fiction game they’re designing\u2014before your very ears!\u2014should be about. What is transhumanism about? Where does the design want to focus?<\/p>\n

– We start with listener feedback: Simon C, Paul B, and Sven Holmstr\u00f6m
\n– Sufficiently Advanced<\/a><\/em>
\n– Eclipse Phase<\/a><\/em>
\n– The Cyborg Handbook<\/a><\/em>
\n– The Wikipedia article<\/a> on transhumanism
\n– Squids do<\/em> have brains
\n– 12:00: Aboutness in game design
\n– I misquote Jared Sorensen’s big three<\/a> game design questions, reading instead from Nathan Paoletta’s blog<\/a>
\n– Dualism<\/a>
\n– The Radio Lab episode we’re talking about is either Choice<\/a> or Who Am I?<\/a> (or maybe both (I think))
\n– Richard K. Morgan’s Takeshi Kovacs<\/a> novels
\n– The game is (possibly) about “identity, change, and human nature.”
\n– 25:00: What we know is in the game so far: a transhumanist game that supports narrativist play that involves character generation during play, wherein you see how your characters survive the technological singularity<\/a>
\n– Charles Stross’s Accelerando<\/a><\/em>
\n– Possibly stealing Ganakagok<\/a><\/em>‘s tarot-like situation generation
\n– Vincent Baker’s game Rock of Tahamaat, Space Tyrant<\/a><\/em>
\n– Cards vs. dice and various systems that work differently for different things
\n– Connections between the characters
\n– Ben Lehman’s Polaris<\/a><\/em>
\n– Currents in transhumanist thought from the Wikipedia article
\n– The Jeepform The Upgrade<\/a><\/em> by Olle Jonsson, Thorbi\u00f6rn Fritzon, and Tobias Wrigstad
\n– Homework: Aboutness, and a pass at character creation
\n– Talk about the show, do reviews
\n– The Trapcast forum thread<\/a> I was talking about
\n– Listener homework: Give us your “aboutness” answer<\/p>\n

You can subscribe to the show by plugging the RSS feed URL<\/a> into your preferred podcatcher.<\/p>\n

The intro music is “Gotta Whizz” by Boris the Sprinkler<\/a>, from the album Mega Anal. The outgoing music is “Screamin’ Demon Martians Ridin’ Go-Karts in My Head” from the album Saucer to Saturn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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