This is a work in progress. I got a thought a while back when I was working on a game I back-burnered called Outside. I thought, “Clyde what exactly do I need in a roleplaying game?”
The other day I’m looking through my mess I call an apartment for all the notebooks I have that have like 5 pages of writing. I found what I wanted for one of the many side projects I’m goofing with as I try to think deep thoughts about my main game. Anyway I found this Outline.
What do I need to add, what have I put that sucks, and what might it be good for? I’m thinking it’s good for thinking about all the pieces you need to think about after you have a good idea of your game design goals. But hey, what do I know.
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Show002: Conflict and Task Resolution
Section 1: Introduction
I introduce myself and give my email address. Then I discuss thee feedback from show 2, which was to fix the glitches and add music. I was able to get the music but am still learning the techniques for recording. I’ve figured out what I need to do to edit post recording, so I don’t need to have the input so loud. I’m going to try backing off the mike a bit. Hopefully the show is understandable.
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Here’s a picture I made to help show what I was talking about in show001. You can tell I’m no Art student.
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Here’s a visual aid for show001 to help understand how I see Shared Imaginary Space or S.I.S:
It’s released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License as indicated over to the right under license. So feel free to spread it around, just… you know– give me some credit, and leave it open.
I’ve been checking my feedburner account for a couple days now and came across something interesting.
First let’s explain what feedburner is. Feedburner is a website that you join and point an RSS feed at. Then Feedburner basically mimics that RSS feed, and lets you do additional modification to their copy magically. This means you don’t have to learn the XML tags for RSS. I lose some geek cred by admitting this is my reason for using it, but whatever, I just wanted to get going fast. Back to the story. I was looking at this:
So as you can see the number is two. I find that deliciously funny but it was even better when I read the data. Go look for yourself… no really. I’ll wait. It’s here:
http://theoryfromthecloset.com/pics/subscribers.png
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I haven’t submitted the show to ITunes, I want to get the second show done. Itunes examines your shows quality and I’m worried show001 won’t cut it. Show002 will though. In the mean time you may not want to wait, or you might use a podcatcher other than ITunes. If you don’t know what I’m talking about there will be more instructions below.
If you use ITunes:
- Launch iTunes.
- In the Advanced menu, select Subscribe to Podcast.
- Type – http://feeds.feedburner.com/theoryfromthecloset into the text box
- Rock on!
If you use another podcatcher (like me- hello Penguin lovers):
- You can look over to the right under subscribe to get to the feed.
- Copy that link and paste it to the appropriate part of your podcatcher software, or save time with this one: http://feeds.feedburner.com/theoryfromthecloset
- Rock on!
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I’m curious.
Was the crackling too much? Was it understandable? How were my examples? Could you follow along? If this was your first time encountering some of these ideas did you learn anything? Is my lisp, um’s, so’s and ok’s, irritating? I didn’t realize I was doing them until I could hear myself outside of my head. I’m wondering if I need to go back to speech therapy. *grins*
Thanks for listening.
Here it is:
Show 001:Does System Matter?
Section 1: Introduction
This is where I introduced myself, and explained why I have no business discussing RPG theory or design. I then discussed the goals of the show, which are to be about 90% correct, that’s an A, and to build from the ground up so new folks can learn as we go through shows. The specific theory the show is going to start with is GNS theory and the Big Model as that is what I’m most familiar with. I also let people know that I wasn’t going to edit cursing, because this is a hobby, and I just don’t want to take the time to police that. I think I dropped one F- bomb, and one D-bomb later in the show. Read the rest of this entry »
