BONUS EPISODE: FAILBETTER GAMES' Alexis Kennedy

The Writers Panel

Ben Blacker

Tv & Film, Tv, Writing, Movies, Hollywood, Screenwriting

4.7 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2015

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Indie game creator Alexis Kennedy (Fallen London, Sunless Sea) of Failbetter Games plumbs the murky depths of games with Heath Corson (Bizarro, Justice League: Throne of Atlantis) as they discuss the role of Kickstarter in indie gaming, game pacing, managing world creation, how to keep game franchises fresh, oh, and cannibalism. Theres actually a fair amount of talk of cannibalism.

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0:00.0	Now entering nerdist.com
0:04.8	Hey there, folks. Heath Corson here on special assignment for the Nerdist Riders panel.
0:10.4	In this episode, I'm going to interview Alexis Kennedy of Fail Better Games, Indy Game Designer,
0:18.1	designer of Fallen London and Sunless Sea.
0:20.6	It's going to be hopefully the first of a
0:23.0	couple video game people that we're going to talk to on the writer's panel, and I'm looking
0:27.7	forward to many, many more. But here's me and Alexis. It's the nerd. Nerd is writers panel and
0:33.6	his hoaxed by Ben Blacker where he gets a bunch of writers and he asks him lots of questions
0:37.0	and it's starting now
0:37.7	so this will be the end of the theme.
0:39.9	I'm a big gamer.
0:41.2	I'm very interested in this.
0:42.5	You're one of my very first writers of games.
0:46.5	I noticed there didn't seem to be any other than most.
0:48.9	We haven't got,
0:49.1	we haven't sort of cracked into those people and getting to talk to them yet. And it's a big bummer because I'm a big gamer and I really would love to talk to people
0:59.9	about the craftsmanship and how to do it and the page count.
1:03.6	And so this is going to be very exciting.
1:05.9	I would be delighted to hook you up with anybody I can.
1:08.3	Oh, it's fantastic.
1:09.5	I'm going to take you up on that because...
1:11.6	I'm at the end of the scene.
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