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Game designer John Carr interview

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John Carr is developing his first video game. I interviewed him about it at Super Magfest 2018.

0:47 – John Carr talks about his first commercial game effort. He’s trying to finish elements of the game over the next few months. It’s a space campaign type game. He discusses details of how he’s adjusted the game.

2:42 – He discusses the other games that have inspired his work. Star Wars and Firefly have been big influences.

3:30 – John talks about the software he uses to create and program his game. It’s mostly been a solo effort.

4:26 – John likes working on balancing the game system. He likes pushing the RPS system in new ways.

6:30 – Having other people play your game is an encouraging experience. Feedback is always welcome.

7:30 – As a game designer he’s not trying to change society but he has some social responsibilities to make fun games that don’t exploit people.

8:23 – He’s been a guest at a middle school and lectured kids on programming. Game design should encourage people to learn science.

9:20 – Starcraft and many other games have been influencers. He enjoys LOTR and Harry Potter. His next game might be a fantasy game. He also enjoys the Conan type of stories.

11:12 – He’d like to create a party based RPG. He wants to combine strategy and role-playing. There’s some cross over in turn based games between table top and video games.

13:00 – His game is Empyrium Frontier on Steam. The website is galdorstudios.com

 

Links of interest

galdorstudios.com

 

For more “Creating Sci-Fi and Fantasy – An Inside Look” please follow me on Facebook at crisalvarezwlc, on youtube at Cris Alvarez and on Instagram @crisalvarezscifi

 

Guests: John Carr

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: science fiction, video game, galdor studios, Empyrium Frontier

Game designer John Carr interview – Super Magfest 2018 – youtube

John Carr is developing his first video game. I interviewed him about it at Super Magfest 2018.

0:47 – John Carr talks about his first commercial game effort. He’s trying to finish elements of the game over the next few months. It’s a space campaign type game. He discusses details of how he’s adjusted the game.

2:42 – He discusses the other games that have inspired his work. Star Wars and Firefly have been big influences.

3:30 – John talks about the software he uses to create and program his game. It’s mostly been a solo effort.

4:26 – John likes working on balancing the game system. He likes pushing the RPS system in new ways.

6:30 – Having other people play your game is an encouraging experience. Feedback is always welcome.

7:30 – As a game designer he’s not trying to change society but he has some social responsibilities to make fun games that don’t exploit people.

8:23 – He’s been a guest at a middle school and lectured kids on programming. Game design should encourage people to learn science.

9:20 – Starcraft and many other games have been influencers. He enjoys LOTR and Harry Potter. His next game might be a fantasy game. He also enjoys the Conan type of stories.

11:12 – He’d like to create a party based RPG. He wants to combine strategy and role-playing. There’s some cross over in turn based games between table top and video games.

13:00 – His game is Empyrium Frontier on Steam. The website is galdorstudios.com

 

Links of interest

galdorstudios.com

 

For more “Creating Sci-Fi and Fantasy – An Inside Look” please follow me on Facebook at crisalvarezwlc, on youtube at Cris Alvarez and on Instagram @crisalvarezscifi

 

Guests: John Carr

Host: Cris Alvarez

 

Writer Robin C. Farrell interview

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Robin C. Farrell is a writer and video editor. She has worked on the upcoming web series “Genre Wars” and has written a novel based on the story. I was able to interview Robin at Magfest 2018.

 

0:54 – Robin talks about writing screenplays and a novel.

1:29 – The novel grew from an online film competition and grew into a web series called “Genre Wars”. It began as a deadliest warrior kind of idea.

2:50 – Robin liked the idea of a genre being a culture and all these genres mixed together in one world.

4:52 – Robin discusses the writing process. Feedback from beta readers is an important factor.

6:22 – Robin likes to focus on characters in her writing. She often prefers character development to plot points when watching Doctor Who for example.

7:15 – Robin discusses her cosplay and steampunk Ariel.

11:13 – Robin again discusses how she goes about writing and what she needs to do her work.

13:08 – Her cosplay development involves watching her characters over and over or listening to sound tracks.

14:20 – Robin likes going back and forth between screenwriting and prose writing to compare the processes.

15:43 – Robin likes the display part of cosplay the most. She calls herself an extrovert introvert. She created an alternative storyline for her steampunk Ariel.

17:40 – Robin talks about how she got into writing and shy she continues to write. She then talks about how she got into cosplay because she was really into Halloween. She transitioned from that into cosplay to keep putting costumes together.

22:16 – Robin’s first big success was being able to work as a video editor since she loves it so much. That pushed her to take more risks with cosplay and putting her writing out there for people to comment on.

24:34 – Robin talks about how storytelling takes many different forms. She compares the kinds of escapism out there. Coplay has become more mainstream.

26:30 – Her writing also tries to educate people about dealing with different cultures.

27:12 – Steven Brust’s novels have been her biggest inspiration. She also likes Eddings’ fantasy series. She likes Megan Whalen Turner’s Queen’s Thief series too. She likes the Greco-Roman culture of the series.

29:07 – Robin talks about her future goals.

31:00 – Her stuff can be found at RobinCFarrell.com.

 

Links of interest

https://genrewarsresistancerising.wordpress.com/

https://robincfarrell.com/

 

For more “Creating Sci-Fi and Fantasy – An Inside Look” please follow me on Facebook at crisalvarezwlc, on youtube at Cris Alvarez and on Instagram @crisalvarezscifi

 

Guests: Robin C. Farrell

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: fantasy, writer, ariel, genre wars, cosplay