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A Life Well Wasted – Episode Six: Big Ideas

by Jonathan Downin in Games, Misc595 days ago

A Life Well Wasted is back with this episode featuring 3 segments. The first one focuses on Henk Rogers who tells the story of how he managed to score the worldwide publishing rights to Tetris. He talks about the difficulty of procuring the deal in a then very anti-capitalistic Russia. Henk also discusses a health scare that prompted him to change his focus from games to the bigger issues facing humanity. The second segment focuses on Frank Lantz, game designer and NYU professor. He discusses his ideas about bringing games back into the social space...

A Life Well Wasted – Episode Five: Help

by Jonathan Downin in Games, Misc806 days ago

It has been over 2 months since the last episode, but as always, it was well worth it. The first focus this week is the Desert Bus for Hope group that plays the Penn & Teller derived game for charity. The second segment features an interview with Matthew Shafeek about his decision to give up games for 1 year, and the impact this had on his life. He talks about a metaphor that he came across that relates life to a 4 burner stove, with the burners representing family, friends, health and career, and to be successful in life, you have to turn down...

A Life Well Wasted – Episode Four: Artists, Fans & Engineers

by Jonathan Downin in Games, Misc892 days ago

Get ready to step into another world again with Robert Ashley’s A Life Well Wasted.  The first segment focuses on a cosplayer named Kelly who is very active in the community and has dressed up as many notable anime characters. The second segment is an interview with Jon Gibson, the founder of the game-inspired “i am 8-bit” art show.  He talks about what the idea was behind the show and how he got is started.  The concept behind the show was hard for many to understand at first, but people came around to the idea that it wasn’t...

A Life Well Wasted | B-Side: Why Game?

by Jonathan Downin in Games986 days ago

A Life Well Wasted is often pretty difficult to sum up well.  It is always more than a sum of its parts and that is again the case here, maybe even more than usual. This is a follow-up to episode 3 where Robert asked people at GDC why they game.  He solicited answers to the same question from whoever wanted to submit.  One especially difficult and heart-wrenching story comes from Joystiq’s Justin McElroy. It sounds like Robert may have secured some kind of funding for the show, but he is taking a month off, so this one will have to last...

A Life Well Wasted | Episode 3: Why Game?

by Jonathan Downin in Games1016 days ago

We are lucky enough to get another episode of Robert Ashley’s A Life Well Wasted this week and it starts out on the question of “Why do you play video games?”  This is an interesting question that few, even when they are asked, take too seriously.  Would many be just as thoughtless with their answer to “Why do you watch films?” or “Why do you read books?”  Are those questions even really comparable? The bulk of this show is spent hearing about and listening to Jason Rohrer.  In the December issue of...

A Life Well Wasted | Episode Two: Gotta Catch ‘em All

by Jonathan Downin in Games1073 days ago

In this second episode of Robert Ashley’s topical and introspective take on covering games we get a view into collectors and “curators.”  This episode is as enlightening and well produced as the first.  The care with which the topic here is handled and the maturity level is unparalleled without pulling any punches. It’s really amazing how even within such a seemingly narrow subject matter such as “collectors,” there can be such a chasm between the derivations between the people involved. There is a great discussion...

A Life Well Wasted | Episode One: The Death of EGM

by Jonathan Downin in Games1108 days ago

Robert Ashley, a former freelancer for 1UP and EGM has released the first episode of his podcast A Life Well Wasted.  You haven’t heard anything like this. The format of the show is: one topic will be covered in each episode.  No typical “what you’ve been playing” segments here, just real topics taken seriously. This first edition covers the life and death of EGM.  There are interviews with former EGM and 1UP people cut together in a very interesting and well-produced manner. This is the real thing.  This is the way to...

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