Show053: Interview with Fred Hicks
This is a great episode that is marred because of me not being prepared. I thought I had a program to record Skype, but I bought it over two years ago, and have since wiped my windoze box so it was no longer installed. Fred had his recorder, so I recorded myself locally with my portable recorder, but it ran out of batteries about an hour into the recording. That left us with Fred recording both our voices and that doesn’t always work well as you hear later in the episode.
Fred and I were talking about having this discussion a year ago, but my back injury prevented me from having a chance to meet him in person this year. The one con I can get to this year, other than Forge Midwest, Fred couldn’t get to… so we Skyped it.
Links:
The post we refer to is here.
Don’t Rest Your Head is here in PDF, dead tree, and dead tree + PDF bundle, just in case you don’t already own the game.
11:52 pm on August 11th, 2009
The post we keep referencing in the episode is this one: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=26386.msg252501#msg252501
1:33 pm on August 21st, 2009
Great episode. You two covered a lot in just breaking down the mechanics of Don’t Rest Your Head.
I think about a game’s mechanics the same way when I am reading through a new set of rules. It all comes to me as a set of Legos. They are pieces that fit a certain way but could also be rearranged to get something completely different.
Good stuff!
11:22 pm on August 25th, 2009
Good ep, guys! The stuff about the static/slow/fast//sticky/ephemeral mechanics in DRYH are useful for something else I’m working on.
Hey, Clyde, missed you somehow at GC… so what’s the quote on the shirt?
12:06 am on August 31st, 2009
Hey Dave,
Someone took a picture, but I couldn’t find it. I’l try to grab a pic of the shirt soon. Glad the mechanics discussion was helpful.
4:33 pm on July 14th, 2010
When are you going to get to the “straighten out the blogosphere on GNS” that you promised before the Hicks interview?
1:09 pm on July 15th, 2010
Ha! Thanks for calling me out, Erik. I’ve tried once, but didn’t like the recording, I’m trying a different way to cover material and it didn’t work out. I’ve got to finish the Rob Bohl interview I have and I’ll try another recording.
Is there anything in particular you felt needed to be called out?