{"id":985,"date":"2009-09-08T19:11:52","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T23:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=985"},"modified":"2009-09-08T19:11:52","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T23:11:52","slug":"oo-lets-make-a-game-episode-3-human-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2009\/oo-lets-make-a-game-episode-3-human-evolution","title":{"rendered":"Oo! Let’s Make a Game! Episode 3: Human Evolution!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Philip<\/a>
\n58:55 long & 56.6 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 what character creation should be like in the transhumanist science fiction game they’re designing\u2014before your very ears! What are the characters going to do? What are the meta-fictional mechanics going to be like? What will the system potentially care about? We get a lot of substantive design work done here and come up with a nascent mechanic that I know Joshua and I are both very excited about.<\/p>\n

– We start with listener feedback: Simon C and Nathan Wilson
\n– Talking about eschatology<\/a>
\n– Rob’s<\/a> and Joshua’s<\/a> homework from last episode
\n– Thor Olavsrud<\/a> and Terry Hope Romero got shock:<\/i> to do some interesting things at JiffyCon<\/a>
\n– We talk about a possible initializing phase of the game (character creation, only not)
\n– Joshua’s blog post about memory erasure<\/a>
\n– What can you use technology to change in the game?
\n– A Radio Lab episode called (and about) Memory and Forgetting<\/a>
\n– We don’t want the world to crush characters like it does in shock:<\/i>
\n– Linus Torvolds<\/a>
\n– Charles Stross’s Singularity Sky<\/a><\/i> and Accelerando<\/a><\/i>
\n– We talk about whether the technological singularity<\/a> will necessarily be a part of the game
\n– Lyndon LaRouche<\/a>
\n– Waffling on libertarian transhumanism<\/a>
\n– The tv show Connecti ons<\/a><\/i>
\n– Jared Sorensen, of Memento Mori Theatricks<\/a>, was the first person to suggest to Joshua the idea of non-person-based relationship maps
\n– The technology web mechanic
\n– Vincent Baker<\/a> and his idea about capping things
\n– Our homework: describe what a session of play would be like
\n– Listener homework: Tell us about protagonists undergoing change in transhumanist fiction; what are your favorite examples or trends?<\/p>\n

Rob’s during-the-show notes from episode two<\/a> and this one<\/a>. Also, initializing-phase 2.0<\/a> (aka character creation but not).<\/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. For outgoing, rather than music this time, we have a talk by Joshua’s old professor, Slavko Milekic<\/a>, on the important role touch plays in human nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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