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.
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.
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.
Show044: Interview with Mike Mearls
This is the first interview coming out of Gen Con ‘08. I’ve wanted to talk to Mike for a bit, but didn’t catch him at Origins. Fortunately I caught him at Gen Con. I questioned him about Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition’s design principles. It was a really interesting interview, and I think gives a good perspective of what’s going on under the hood.
I have to thank Rob Donoghue for giving me many interesting questions for this interview. He posts quite often about 4th Edition, on his blog.
Show043: Interview with Andrea Sfiligoi
This is the last of my Origins interviews. This interview is with Andrea Sfiligoi, creator of Song of Blades and Heroes, which was an Origins award nominee. It came about due to Paul Czege’s sharp eye as we were looking at the Origins awards nominees. Paul pointed out that one of the minatures games didn’t seem to have a publisher, just an author. We both thought it was cool to see an Indie minature game designer and I decided to see if we could hunt Andrea down and see if he was at Origins. Half an hour later as I talked with different Origins folks we found out he was there and set up this interview.
I really enjoyed talking with Andrea… after the end of this recording I think we spent a good 3 hours or more talking about Italy, America, Politics, and Metaphysics.
Show028: Interview with Jason Walters
This is the last of the Gen Con interviews, and the last of the Ashcan Front interviews to boot. I talk with Jason Walters about his game, “You Brought This On Yourself,” a game based in Slasher film fiction. I recorded this Gen Con Sunday, and I think we could have gone a bit longer but I was trying to get done in time to also meet Kevin Allen Jr. I think. I didn’t make it. It’s a shame as I think we were just starting to move to some interesting territory. Although I do believe there is some really interesting stuff in the interview especially when Jason hits on different deconstructions of slasher movies. I know I had never really considered them very deeply until after talking with him.
Show025: Interview with Ron Edwards and Vincent Baker
I’m going to do notes and links for this one tomorrow, but I wanted to get this out so I could listen to it at work tonight.
Show023: Interview with Darren Watts
We’re back. The site has been transferred to the new computer and as promised here is a new show. I sat down with Darren Watts, President of Hero Games at Gen Con. We talked about how Hero is designed as a very large toolkit, what the heck Indie means, and several Hero products. If you hear a repetitive thumping that’s Darren punctating his speech by thumping his hand on the desk in karate chop motion. Kind of like those 70’s Steve Austin dolls. He might have had to buy the hotel a new desk, but it was certainly indicative of his passion for Hero.
Show022: Interview with Paul and Danielle Czege plus Matt Synder
3 weeks. Wow. I didn’t think I’ve been goofing with my computer that long. Here’s one with Paul, Danielle, and Matt the folks behind the Ashcan Front. I’ll do links and stuff later, but I need to take a quick nap and then head back to Geek.kon.
