On:
avatar Elise Terranova
Host
avatar Sagan Yee
Guest
avatar Patricia Ziehn
Intro
avatar Rico Valtin
Production

Soft-Boiled Wonderland – A MAZE Special

In this episode we talk to Sagan Yee, guest speaker and Workshop host at A MAZE 2018. We cover niche corners of the internet, Vaporwave, 2D animation and to how to make weird things in Canada. Her Exploring Weird Unity for Beginners Workshop notes are also available if you missed her workshop.

Sagan is the director of the Hand Eye Society an organisation ‘dedicated to supporting and showcasing videogames made primarily as a form of creative expression.’

Shownotes

6:00 The last of the first Vaporwave Game Mall Quest
9:30 2D Animation start
14:00 Accidental Twine Wine
17:25 How to go from 2D to games
20:00 How to make weird game things in Canada

On:
avatar Elise Terranova
avatar Dr. Sabine Harrer
avatar Patricia Ziehn
avatar Rico Valtin

Grief, pain, play and the Muse

This episode we sit down with Dr. Sabine Harrer to talk about grief and games.  Using her research and experience in grief we cover her main methodology in making games, using Muse based design.  Sabine has presented this talk at the Gotland Game Conference, at GDC and also in Berlin at the Schaufenster PainGame Event.

Shownotes

7:00 Where Sabine started to make games, ITU and Copenhagen Game Collective
15:00 Parallels between grief and playful design and muse based design
28:00 The anti-birth
32:00 How people grieve
35:00 What happened to the lamb?
41:00 Attachment and loss as a bereaved badgers
44:00 Being inclusive in design

On:
avatar Elise Terranova
avatar Zöe Jellicoe
avatar Patricia Ziehn
avatar Rico Valtin

Back after a break, Life and Dev welcomes Zöe Jellicoe @geneva__diva for a talk about writing about games and writing in games. Zöe reveals her favourite narrative game of all time and what she really spends her time doing in open world games.

We thank Berlin Game Scene and Nomi,  she created our new logo.

Shownotes:

10:00 Cutting grass and driving games
14:40 Reviewing games
19:00 Talk and Play and a developing Scene
22:40 Critical of criticism
26:50 Narrative picks – Kentucky Route Zero
32:00 Choice in games – the Wolf Among us
37:45 Mosaic – the project with a branching narrative that is DEFINATELY NOT A GAME
45:40 NO

On:
avatar Elise Terranova
Host
avatar Franziska Zeiner
Guest
avatar Patricia Ziehn
Intro
avatar Rico Valtin
Producer

Heart Games

This episode of Life and Dev is a live show from the English Theater Berlin where Franziska Zeiner introduces her works on display. We talk about small games that play with love, caring and past relationships including Social me, Kiss me maybe and Single Player. This show was recorded after the performance #Instalove by Catherine Duquette.

This special event was organized by Lorenzo Pilia for Berlin Games Scene.

Shownotes

4:30 Creating content from chat
10:00 Real life game mechanics
13:00 All about awkwardness
16:00 Art games and games in different contexts
23:00 Audience questions