Episode 203: Natalie and The Fields of Despair

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🗓️ 16 November 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This week's Waypoint Radio is about the anxieties surrounding commercial art and the way they can often overshadow art's cultural value, and how the latter often has more to do with personal meaning and artistic goals than performance in "the marketplace". Our first point of entry to this topic comes via an article by Liz Ryerson, over at the New and Improved Deorbital, called "There Are Not 'Too Many Games': What The Indiepocalypse Panic Ignores". Then we look at a gorgeous personal essay over at Unwinnable by Amanda Hudgins, "The Kentucky State Fair", which ends up providing a way of considering one way of practicing what Ryerson is alluding to. More importantly, it's a story about the place you come from, and the ways you work and experiences can be a gulf between you and the people that you care about.

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0:00.0	Posthons
0:24.0	The current panic about too many games carries with it a notion that those who don't
0:31.2	have big enough budgets to make or promote their games don't deserve a place in the market.
0:36.1	But the wave of cheaply made corporate cations that led to the crash of 1983 are not really
0:40.7	analogous with small developers all trying to find a place for their visions of today.
0:45.1	The sheer variety of types and styles of games that exist in the marketplace now would not
0:49.5	even be remotely conceivable in 1983.
0:52.5	Now, especially with a relative ease and access of software like Unity or Twine or Game
0:56.6	Maker, many new voices are throwing their hats in the ring.
0:59.8	From any other perspective other than a failure of most of these to achieve large scale commercial
1:03.9	successor visibility, there are not too many games.
1:08.5	That is the voice of not the voice, rather, but the words of Liz Ryerson in a D orbital
1:13.5	piece called There Are Not Too Many Games, with the indie apocalypse panic ignores.
1:18.5	I'm Danielle Riendo and this is Waypoint Radio Episode 203.
1:22.9	Joining me today are Natalie Watson.
1:25.1	Hi Patrick Kleppek.
1:27.3	Hello, hello.
1:28.6	And Rob Zackney.
1:29.6	Hey, hey.
1:30.6	So today I figured, not just me, we all figured, we might look at a couple of pieces of recent
1:36.3	criticism, sort of in keeping with the theme lately of kind of looking at a few pieces
1:41.7	of things.
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