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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 possible structures for a session of play, talk about how to structure technological and interpersonal relationships, and talk a bit about how mechanics might work. Lots of meaty game design here.<\/p>\n Joshua<\/a>‘s and Rob<\/a>‘s homeworks<\/p>\n – Listener feedback: Paul Beakley, Nathan Wilson, Simon C, Doc Holaday Rob’s during-the-show notes<\/a><\/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 The intro music is “Gotta Whizz” by Boris the Sprinkler<\/a>, from the album Mega Anal. The outgoing music is I Wish I Was a Boy<\/a><\/i> by Angry Red Planet, provided by Podshow’s Podsafe Music Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 01:06:30 long & 63.8 MB big In this episode, Robert Bohl (designer of Misspent Youth) and Joshua A. C. Newman (designer of shock: social science fiction), discuss possible structures for a session of play, talk about how to structure technological and interpersonal relationships, and talk a bit about how mechanics might work. Lots of meaty … Continue reading “Oo! Let’s Make a Game! Episode 4: Social Networks!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,11,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-game-design","category-making-stuff","category-olmag","category-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– The book Starfish<\/i> by Peter Watts<\/a>
\n– Discussion of how many players the game should service
\n– Initialization, a word to be used a lot in the game
\n– Drop initialization phase created NPC?
\n– Primetime Adventures<\/a><\/i>
\n– Spotlight characters, scene order, and whether scenes are about players or characters
\n– Are there too many scenes? Can you run out of interesting stuff before you run out of time?
\n– The roles that PCs play in spotlight characters’ scenes when they’re not spotlight
\n– The Wire<\/a><\/i>
\n– Introducing new NPCs and new tech, tying Currents to them
\n– Talking about the tech web
\n– Separate relationship maps on each character sheet to reflect different visions of relationships
\n– What am mechanics?
\n– Joshua = power, Rob = meaningfulness
\n– Joshua promises a diagram
\n– Mind control!
\n– Personality Anchors, and we argue over it
\n– Richard K. Morgan’s Takeshi Kovacs<\/a> novels
\n– Rob keeps talking about “spotlight scene” when he means “spotlight episode”
\n– Anchors and immunity
\n– Vincent Baker’s thread<\/a> where he’s asking for critique on Apocalypse World<\/i>
\n– What to call the co-GMs?
\n– Homework: write up what a scene might feel like, which we’re probably going to do on the forum
\n– No listener homework<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/joshuanewmandesign.com\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/itunes.gif\")
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