Podcast 31: Spiraling Out of Control 3/3
I’m talking again with game-designer, artist, and fellow ESL-teacher Ben Poulsen about:
“You want the game experience not to happen to the character, but to happen to the player.”
Egoraptor’s treatise on Megaman
And now you have to listen to me talk about my work! Bwa ha ha!
An update on Tyrannosaur Queen
Worldcon (no details, but I think it went well 
New Frontiers (no 70 percent or more done!)
Martian Law (done and ready to read here for free)
Sherlock Holmes and the Ladies’ No. 1 Detective Agency
Yes, a story in the same universe was the prototype for The World’s Other Side
Joe Abercrombie’s First Law books and their delightfully reprehensible characters
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld badguys and their goals
The difference between books with a single point-of-view character versus multiple
Winston Rowantree‘s very cool graphic comparison of video games to other storytelling mediums.
“make decisions that them”? Let’s hope none of my students listen to this.
