Theory From the Closet

Show052: Live interview with Vincent Baker

Here’s the Live Show. Man this was hard for me. I was cutting in and out,  my interviewee was across space and time, and I had a hard time focusing on the conversation, and paying attention to a chat box. On the plus, it was really cool to have live interaction with listeners. I’d like to make this standard operating procedure, but perhaps not through talkshoe.

What did you think?

This is cut and pasted from a post I made on story-games, anyway….
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I’m planning to do an interview with Vincent Baker on Saturday May 30th 9:30 PM (21:30) eastren, 8:30 central, 01:30 GMT. The plan is to take questions, we’ll be focusing mainly on Creative Agendas (GNS), but there might be some clouds and boxes questions, and perhaps a few other things. I don’t want questions here. I want to hear peoples voices. More about that later, but for now if you are interested you can look for Clyde Rhoer on Facebook, or follow radiofreeclyde on Twitter.

The plan right now is to use Skype. I can’t include a bunch of people as there is no control over who can talk, every person you add seems to increase the editing difficulty tremendously. I’ll announce via twitter and facebook when we’ve started talking, and again when were ready to start taking questions. Questions should be about Creative Agendas as that’s the focus of the show, if this works out perhaps sometime in the future we can talk to Vincent about something else.

Now if I can get it figured out and Vincent is okay with it, I’d prefer to use Talkshoe.com, as that would allow everyone to listen via streaming, and perhaps have more cogent questions.

This isn’t intended to be an argue with Vincent (or Clyde) show, you can do that later on the internet via whatever methods you normally employ, so approach this positively please.

Show051: Interview with Chris Perrin and Clyde L. Rhoer

This show was recorded at Gen Con for Cannon Punture by Chris Perrin. Chris recently left Cannon Punture on good terms, and I checked in with him to see if Cannon Punture had the audio of this show and planned to run it. When I found out he still had the file I asked him if I could run it. Chris and Rich both gave me permission, so here it is.

This is an interview about my ashcan, Silence Keeps Me A Victim, and Chris’s ashcan, Messiah. We go off the path a bit, but not too far.

Show050: Interview with Eero Tuovinen

Here is possibly the last of my Gen Con recordings. (I’m still searching for one.) This was with Eero Tuovinen, one of the three folks behind Arkenstone Publishing, and creator of Zombie Cinema, and Solar System. My questions were a little less focused than what I’d like, but I was really curious about what the Nordic roleplaying scene was like. It seems like half the interest in my game comes from Norway, Sweden, and Finland. I don’t think the show is bad, I just think I wasn’t prepared enough with interesting questions. I feel like there was something I wanted to dig at that I was unsucessful at bringing to the surface. Anyway, Eero has a lot more to say about roleplaying things if you read his blog

The Creative Agenda show will be next Monday, as I need more time. Presenting it correctly is tricky, and it seems that I keep getting dragged into making the show deeper and deeper. So much so I’m worried about presenting too much and losing people.

Creative agenda is a lot more complicated than the other theory shows I’ve done. It’s going to be an additional day.

Show049: Interview with John Wick

This is an interview I did with John Wick at Gen Con 2008. We talk about his new game, Houses of the Blooded, Legend of the Five Rings, torture-porn, and some of his thoughts about game design, and actual play.

I couldn’t get the volume correct on this one with out adding aliens and spaceships, so it may be a bit quiet. We also have vacuum cleaners, and the very efficient hotel staff once again. Someday I’ll learn they make signs to prevent that.

Show048: Techniques and Ephemera

This show we tackle the last two layers of the Big Model, Techniques and Ephemera. If you need a review the last layer was Exploration, and before that was Social Contract. Not much else to say.

Show047: Interview with Ron Edwards

Here’s an interview with Ron Edwards that I recorded at Gen Con 2008. It’s about half the time of the first interview I did with Ron, but still packed full of interesting information. In this show he corrects some info I’ve given before, plus we discuss Creative Agendas, and Actual Play. Then we discuss GM-ing in a Narritivist game via 4 types of responsibility needed for play; Descriptional Authority, Content Authority, Situational Authority,  and Plot Authority.

Ron also mentions posts by Frank T, and Frank Tarcikowski. As you can see there’s a lot of posts to go through… I just don’t have the time to dig, but at least I can point towards the right direction.

I also needed to remove the fridge noise, I couldn’t hear it live, hopefully it won’t flip Macklin out and make him kill things.

Show046: State of the Podcast 2

Another year down. Here’s the state of the podcast for this year. I’ve finally decided to halfway pursue turning podcasting into a job, so you’ll likely be seeing changes soon, as I gather the money I need for more hosting, possibly professional software, and gain knowledge. I’m not sure what else to say, except expect… holy crap those two words are beautiful together… anyway… except expect  a Ron Edwards interview on Monday the 19th and a theory episode on Monday the 26th.

Links

Brilliant Gameologists

Narrative Control

Atomic Array

I installed Disqus  for the site today. Disqus turns the comments into something a little more like a forum, but not quite. Think of it as working somewhat like Vincent’s anyway blog,  but with the ability to track what the users say, across other Disqus enabled blogs. It’s fairly easy to start an account,  you can use a sign-in you likely already have, if you are like me and get frustrated by having to record another password.

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