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🗓️ 17 March 2014
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0:00.0 | Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley. |
0:20.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 105 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. |
0:25.0 | Today on the show, guest geeks James Sutter and Wendy Wagner, |
0:28.0 | will be joining us to discuss Dungeons and Dragons media tie-in novels. |
0:32.0 | But first up, we've got an interview with legendary... Dungeons and Dragons Media Tie-In novels. |
0:33.0 | But first up, we've got an interview with legendary game designer Richard Gariot, |
0:36.9 | aka Lord British. |
0:39.1 | His long-running Ultima series of computer role-playing games are considered by many the high watermark of interactive entertainment. |
0:46.0 | In the early 90s, financial pressures forced Gariot to partner with electronic arts, which led to the demise of Ultima. |
0:53.0 | After further adventures, which included a trip into outer space |
0:56.0 | and another ill-fated partnership with a large publisher, |
0:59.0 | Gariat turned to Kickstarter, |
1:00.0 | and successfully raised over $3 dollars to help fund his new game |
1:04.0 | Shroud of the Avatar a spiritual successor to Ultima. And now here's our |
1:09.2 | interview with Richard Gariot. All right so we're here with Richard Gariot. |
1:14.0 | Welcome to the show. |
1:15.0 | Hi David, good to be here with you. |
1:17.0 | All right, so your ultimate games are absolutely my all-time favorite video games, |
1:21.0 | and they really had a big effect on me as a kid. |
1:23.0 | In college, I actually studied mostly law and ethics and I really traced my interest in those subjects back to my years spent playing ultimate. |
1:30.0 | And I imagine that you must hear a lot of stories like that. |
1:32.0 | So do any stories stand out in your mind about your game? And I imagine that you must hear a lot of stories like that. |
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