Show060: Interview with David Wesely
I spent so much time trying to fix the sound on this one… at least 24 hours total. It either can’t be done well, or is beyond my ability. Which sucks as this was the interview I was most excited about, from Gen Con. Major David Wesely, Ret., is the guy who Dave Arneson credits with inventing the idea of the Roleplaying Game. It was so very interesting to hear about stuff that was going on before I was born to make this thing I’m fascinated with today. It’s interesting to see how closely our beginning was tied to LARP.
I think it is worth the effort of having to concentrate to focus on what is being said over the background noise.
Show058: Interview with Robert Bohl
Here’s an interview I did with Robert Bohl a few weeks ago. I think the Skype interviews are really improving, there seems to be much less of the falling in and out that used to occur when using Skype.
In this show we talk about; Misspent Youth, defeating blank page syndrome, mechanizing fun, “my guy” versus “our guy,” why Rob is a more successful designer than me, Ashcans, and abusing people through games and psychology. (Note to literal.net: there is a tongue in cheek in that description.)
If you got a This Week in Start-ups episode, instead of Theory From the Closet, the problem should be fixed now. Try deleting that episode and pressing the refresh button in itunes.
Show057: Interview with Michael S. Miller
I did an interview with Michael S. Miller via Skype tonight. We discussed a blog post he made some time back, and Serial: Homicide Unit, which he created with his wife Kat Miller.
Some additional stuff, courtesy of Mike.
Ron Edwards post about main stream games.
No Anthology Press.
Show056: Reincorporation with Ryan Macklin
This is a long show, about Two hours and Twenty minutes. It served as a way for me to have my Gen Con talk with Ryan, as I didn’t have that opportunity this year. We talk about reincorporation, niche protection, and what a Roleplaying game is. Part of this show is a follow up to Ryan’s previous show about reincorporation. There were some moments when I forgot I was being recorded and was playing with a pen, and a clickable eraser, sorry about that.
Show054: Interview with Judd Karlman
Holy wow! This is from Gen Con 2008 and I thought it was lost. Well it was lost, but now it’s found. It’s a bit rambly, I didn’t have an outline which was par for the course for 2008. As always this post is the last thing I do, and I’m cranky, and want to be done. Maybe more notes later.
Later:
This was a good time to find this interview. I am facing the same thing Judd was/is at this years Gen Con, as I wanted to be done with SKMaV by now. Although no one harangued me, so maybe folks are happy not to see it. Heh. I’m still anxious to see what Judd comes up with for 1stQuest, it seems like it will hit many of my interests, kids, coming of age, low points of contact, clear flags, etc. I think it’s a decent interview considering I had no pre-done questions at all.
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.
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?
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.
