Talks & Interviews

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Lectures, podcasts and interviews on our narrative design and worldbuilding processes.

Talks and Interviews

Over the years we’ve given lectures and interviews on aspects of our narrative design and worldbuilding processes. Here are recordings of a few of these design discussions.

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The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope Podcast: Episode #7 – Ian Thomas
Ian talks to Jon Ingold (Inkle) and Sagar Beroshi (The Chinese Room) about design for different game types.
inklestudios.com
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Crafted Reality #7: Narrative Game Design
Ian talks to Ali at Yellobrick about narrative design as a discipline in videogames.
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Crafted Reality #5: Larp Design
Ian and Rachel talk immersive design for larp: musketeers, ghosts, and pulp action adventure.
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Couple, Games, & Careers
Rachel and Ian on how they got into roleplaying and larps, for 2021’s virtual RopeCon in Helsinki.
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The Economics of Larp
Rachel on the costs, pricing, and commercialisation of larp events, for 2021’s virtual RopeCon.
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Game Dev London Podcast
Rachel and Ian with Chris Payne of Game Dev London on writing and designing live roleplaying events (2020).
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Making Horror: Hacking the Player’s Brain
Ian’s talk for Narrascope 2019 at MIT.
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Script Lock Podcast #18
Ian with Laura E Hall on larp, videogames, and escape rooms.
scriptlock.simplecast.com
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Interview on Engadget/Joystiq
Interviewed on Joystiq’s Halloween 2015 livestream, discussing SOMA.
engadget.com