Okay, thanks to some timely advice, I’ve re-uploaded this and changed the title!
In short, this is little experiment I’m trying with podcasting: a 5-minute mini-history format inspired by Nate Dimeo’s excellent podcast Memory Palace. Please enjoy, and let me know what you think!
Very interesting tidbit of history! The narrative and sound effects were also very entertaining.
My first impressions: Cool “Sci-Fi-ish” beginning and interesting “ab ovo” character development. Really well written narrative arc, the details story- and characterwise (desire to colonize other worlds/ interest in apple II/ the helicopter game/ wish to put the background to live/ the critics…) help the imagination.
Are you planning to make a series out of this? Every session another “reimagination” of the “creational”
process behind a developer/video game? After listening to this short story I am really looking forward to more of that format.
Difficult to say how the sound effetcs work with other stories, but the Sci-fi/outerworldly allusions (father dies; longing for colonization -> computer pioneer) are a great match.
Keep up the great work you are doing, it really is fascinating what those “methusalems” of game design/development have to tell.
P.S. Upload your file to youtube. Really. It is GOOD.
P.P.S(off-topic) What´s the deal with the stickers in front of Planescape: Torment during your videos? Is there some ‘beef’ with good old Guido?
Those stickers were put their by Chris Avellone! 🙂
Thanks for the re-upload, I didn’t get to listen to this before.