A quick intro notice. This interview was recorded a couple of months ago now, and to my shame,

life and the daunting prospect of editing three hours of raw audio down to something less than half

that. Delayed me from posting this in a more contemporaneous manner. Since this was recorded, Escape Pod,

CY's fourth game, has been released, which you should absolutely check out. I'd like to apologize

to CY for the delay and give a massive thank you to him for the time he spent in the interview

you were about to hear. I hope you find this as fascinating as I did. So yeah, this is Canaan Rince and I'm James Carter and I'm joined by CY. Reed.

You may know him as Fail Not on Twitter and you may have heard of and played some of his games.

We're going to talk about them and we are going to see if we can pick through CY's mind and see what makes him

tick and what made him make the jump into into creating games rather than consuming games.

Good evening CY. Hi, hi there. For anyone who doesn't know you, you are a writer by day, I suppose, is the best way to put that.

How long have you been employed as a writer?

Full time, I've been working as, I work as a copywriter at marketing agency,

and I've been doing that for just under three years now.

It's about three years next month.

And as far as your writing that I know of,

I know you from your blog and also from Gamer's with Jobs.

You've been writing there for...

That must be a not dissimilar period of time.

I think it was I started writing for them quite a while ago,

and then I stopped for agents, and then I started again more recently. But since then, yeah, it's been pretty constant. And that's kind of how this, certainly, aside from Twitter, it's kind of how I first heard about your game jam that you were going to be making your first game for a month

because it was a series of, I think, four or five articles you wrote.

Yeah, I mean, for me it was somewhat disappointingly.

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