Hello, and welcome to another Canaan Rince interview special. My name is Jacob Geller. I've written

many a blog for our website in the past. I've often focused on how the design of our favorite game

worlds influences how we relate and interact with them. I was delighted, therefore, to run across

heterotopius, an online zine dedicated to the exploration and study of video game spaces, especially with an eye

towards their virtual architecture.

Herotopius' newest book is a, or as a newest project is a book.

It's entitled The Continuous City, and the book is a photographic journey through the most

exciting, diverse, and strange urban spaces of our time, those of video games.

It is therefore my absolute pleasure to welcome writer, game designer, journalist, photographer,

and founder of heterotopious Gareth Damian Martin.

Gareth, thanks so much for joining me.

Thanks for having me.

So let's start with, I think, one of the major hooks of the book,

which is your method of capturing these

games, which is rather unorthodox. Do you want to kind of describe how you're getting this

game photography? Sure. So, yeah, the unorthodox aspect of it is that it is actually

35mm analog photography of games, which is a little confusing

the first time people hear it because, yeah, it's difficult to understand how you can actually

do that. But it's kind of a relatively simple process, but one I've been developing for, I guess,

about a year and a half now since I first started doing it for

Hedrotropias as a kind of strange idea that suddenly became something interesting, which is

I project the games using a DLP projector. The reason I say that is because DLP projectors

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