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Sci-fi film producer Royce Essig interview – Far Point 2018 – youtube

 

Royce Essig has been pursuing a 25 year dream to produce a sci-fi drama. He and his team are close to completion and have used virtual reality technology to finish the product. I interviewed him at Far Point 2018.

1:07 – Royce Essig and his team are doing an independent sci-fi series called Dark Operations Terminus. It’s been a 25-year dream and ten years ago they released their first DVD. It’s a three part sci-fi drama.

2:32 – They hope to release it next fall. It has a virtual reality element to it. One is the Oculus Rift where you get into the world. They have also applied the Microsoft Hollow Lens technology. It projects a hologram you can see and record and import into the game.

4:49 – The game is done in memoriam to some developers who they’ve lost. One of the people who helped with Terminus was a Major who passed away in Iraq.

5:52 – He uses Magic Vegas to edit. Everyone on the team is self-taught. He uses music to inspire his work. Muppets music and tv for example. He also loves to edit.

7:37 – They all started doing this twenty-five years ago when they were all in a sci-fi club and wanted to do a fan film. The realized they needed a good camera guy, good equipment and so on. Now they can do it professionally.

10:03 – Royce likes The Greatest Showman because it breaks the typical mold of American television actors and actresses. Star Trek inspired the film they’re working on now. He also liked Space Battleship Yamato, Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica. The people into this nerdy stuff are the best people around. He loves John Williams and James Horner. Horner used his Battle Beyond the Stars music for Star Trek II.

13:07 – He wanted to be a pilot when he was young.

13:27 – They’re on Facebook/Dark Operations and post updates from the set.

 

Links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Battleship_Yamato

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080421/

https://www.facebook.com/DarkOperations/

 

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Guests: Royce Essig

Host: Cris Alvarez

 

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

 

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Guests: John Carr

Host: Cris Alvarez