Another month, another Irrational Behavior. This episode focuses on multiplayer gaming and designer approach to playing games. Talk of successful audio and AI design in Dead Space and Condemned. The multiplayer segment focuses mainly on group dynamics and griefing shenanigans.
The design talk has a few of the Irrational designer talking about how they play games and their tendencies to analyze games as they play them. They also touch on how regular game conventions are often lost on those who are not long-time gamers.
Do game makers game different? ...
This episode is all about fear. The show kicks-off with members of the Irrational team listing some of their fear and then moves on to a segment with Shawn interviewing Professor Andrew Weaver of Indiana University regarding research he has done pertaining to fear and what scares people.
The final segment focus on how the different designers approach creating scary scenarios and what they think makes scares a player.
Sharks, spiders, the dark, and chemistry exams. These are just a couple of the things that we are scared of. In this episode of...
It’s another game-less episode, but these are proving to be among the best. The focus on this episode is all about the breadth of nerd-dome. The topics are varied, but they all share the same thread of indulgence of interests that fall outside “social norms.”
From stories of larping and cosplaying to a teenage boy who played on girl’s sports team, skirt and all, the anecdotes here are entertaining. Whenever it is that Irrational’s next game comes out, remember, these are the people behind the game you are playing.
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Episode 3 is a short one, but it is exactly the kind of episode that people like us want to hear. I focuses on the people of Irrational and their respective paths into game development. Get ready for a lot of stories about bad jobs. Hearing so many stories of transitions from game retail to game development shows how much things have changed in the past 10 years.
Ken Levine has a strong presence on this one and it is cool to hear his experience. As apposed to previous episodes, this one is strait forward and not overladen with different segmented...
Another month means another episode of Irrational Behavior. We still don’t get any new information about Irrational’s next game, but there is some fun to be had in hearing about the early days of some of the guys’ development experiences. The focus is much more on the development environment as opposed to specific game reminiscing as in the 1st episode, but Thief is brought up a few times.
The discussion start off with how things were different in the earlier years of game design and the impact that GTA 3 had on approaches...
Aside from Out of the Game, we haven’t heard too much from Shawn Elliott since his move to 2K Boston/Irrational Games. Developers and publishers are just now realizing the importance of community involvement and podcast, and Irrational Behavior is a strong offering in this burgeoning space with Shawn at the helm. Irrational Behavior takes a cue from Robert Ashley’s A Life Well Wasted and delivers a focused show with an emphasis on production quality.
This 1st episode is centered on failures in the development process. It takes a look...
