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A Life Well Wasted

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A Life Well Wasted

Robert Ashley

Video Games, Leisure

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2010

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Robert Ashley edits listener-submitted game ideas into one big, crazy game, talks to the guy who owns the rights to Tetris about his plans to save the world, gets a lecture on the future of games from a New York University professor, and meets a struggling game blogger who happens to possess freakishly enormous genitalia.

Transcript

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And the When you called up on your listeners to come up with awesome, video game idea of pitches,

0:22.0

I immediately thought of

0:24.0

leprogons and domes, trolls and pelts,

0:27.0

mythological creatures.

0:28.0

Hockey creatures, I mean, zombies.

0:31.0

My game I did for life always did.

0:33.0

I think it would be fantastic and I hope to someday make it.

0:37.0

And it just might be interesting enough to play with three of your good friends.

0:41.0

Throwing ideas around for a video game one time me and my friend

0:44.0

was sitting around trying to think of a cool story I just started writing

0:51.0

like crazy.

0:53.0

Now without any kind of massive overarching plot or other such stuff.

0:58.0

You would take on the role of an ordinary man,

1:01.0

and one day in a tragic accent has his right forearm chopped off.

1:07.0

And it's really pretty, like I can tell him private ride.

1:12.0

So it's essentially a revenge story.

1:15.0

He's going on this feature and he's going across the land.

1:18.0

A desert level, an ice level at a sky level.

1:20.0

You know, climbing up to a hill and finding a nice rise and enjoying it with a nice

1:25.4

ambient soundtrack. Oh, When all of a sudden the Earth would open up like a gigantic earthquake and you'd find yourself falling down into a deep cavern. You use the shroud of Turin as a parachute.

2:03.0

And that the rest of the game is spent battling your way through health.

2:07.0

People would be attacked.

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