Ep. 212: 'Achievement Oriented' on 'Batman,' the Telltale Model, and the Storytelling of 'Firewatch'

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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The Ringer's Ben Lindbergh and Jason Concepcion talk about how Telltale Games created a successful assembly line for licensed, episodic adventure games, and report their impressions of 'Batman: The Telltale Series' (1:33). Then, they bring on Telltale alum and Campo Santo co-founder Sean Vanaman to discuss how he wrote 'The Walking Dead' and 'Firewatch' (15:55) and what he has in mind for the 'Firewatch' film adaptation (54:53). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Bill Simmons.
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0:29.0	Hello and welcome to Achievement Oriented, the gaming podcast from Channel 33.
0:51.6	My name is Ben Lindbergh and I'm a writer for The Ringer.
0:54.1	And on the other line, this podcast adapts to the choices he makes.
0:58.0	It's my Ringer colleague, Jason Kinsensia.
1:00.8	We've done it.
1:01.8	We've made a hard choice to be here with you and we took a lot of time thinking about
1:06.2	that choice and then we clicked on the choice.
1:09.4	We selected it from the dialogue wheel and we're here with you today.
1:13.0	And we will all remember that choice.
1:16.8	So we hope that you all had tolerable or better thanks-givings and we're able to sneak away
1:22.2	from any uncomfortable family conversations and hide in front of a screen somewhere.
1:26.9	This is our second themed episode of the week.
1:29.9	So we talked about stealth games on Tuesday and today we're talking about storytelling
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