#188 - How Do You Pitch a Game? (w/Tim Clare)

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Leisure, Games

4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Ava: Well look at that! It’s an interview. Well something like that. I spent the evenings of the ‘United’ Kingdom’s Game Exposition chatting with my favourite podcaster-poet-editor-writer Tim Clare, then convinced him to get together to have a chat about a thing. We’re offering tips and thoughts on how to ‘pitch a game’, both at a convention, and in your very own home. Do we stay on topic? Occasionally! But hopefully it’s a fun listen.

Go find Tim on twitter or his very own website timclarepoet.co.uk. I genuinely think Death of a Thousand Cuts, and particularly the couch to 80k bootcamp/100 day writing challenge are the absolute best ways to get stuck into creative writing, and his first page critiques (the reason I thought he’d be a great person to speak to about this) are the absolute best writing advice you can get! Check him out, he’s lovely.

I’m hoping to put together a few more interviews and other ‘special’ podcasts over the coming months, so do let us know what you think. Opinions and suggestions welcome to ava@shutupandsitdown.com or on our website. If it doesn’t sound up your street, do feel free to skip it! It’ll probably be a normal pod with more familiar voices next time you visit!

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1:32.4	Thank you very much for listening and now we'll get on with this week's episode. This is a lovely
1:36.7	chat with friend of the show Tim Clair about pitching games. This is an unusual format for us.
1:41.3	So do let us know what you think over on Shut Up and Sit Down.com. Oh, and we're going to be talking
1:46.3	about undaunted Starling Grad next week. I know we promised to talk about it this week,
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