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The Geekbox

The Geekbox: Episode 91

The Geekbox

Ryan Scott

Leisure, Video Games

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2010

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Wherein we discuss Bastion, software incompatibility, Good Old Games, the journey from gaming press to game development, Metroid: Other M, anime influences in games, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, The Walking Dead, the pitfalls of serialized fiction (including Lost!), Red Dead Redemption, choice in games, Fable III, elevator pitches, and zombies. Starring Ryan Scott, Justin Haywald, Ryan Higgins, Alice Liang, and special guest Greg Kasavin.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Geek Box episode 91. This is the podcast for the week of

0:14.4

November 8th 2010 and this is the second take of recording this because

0:19.8

Alice didn't want to introduce yourself while she was eating on a ear.

0:23.2

Cool. I'm your host Ryan Scott. Hello who's with me? Alice Leing

0:28.1

Ryan Higgins Justin Heywald Craig Kasabin. Yay

0:32.1

we finally got you. Walt. Craig Kasabin. Yay.

0:33.0

We finally got you.

0:34.0

Yeah.

0:35.0

Family wrangled you.

0:36.0

How's it going?

0:38.0

It's going great.

0:39.0

Who is this guy?

0:40.0

Who are you and why are you famous?

0:42.0

Who? Well, you might be able to answer the second part better than me, but I, um...

0:47.0

Are you one of the doctors?

0:48.0

Yeah, no, I wish though, because they made some pretty sweet games back in the day. I'm the

0:55.4

creative director at Super Giant Games so we're working on a game called Bastion

1:00.2

Action RPG do out next year but I'm better known for working at GameSpot for a bunch of years where I was at Dernchief before I left.

1:10.0

But I split at the beginning of 2007 to get into game development so I worked at

1:17.1

electronic arts for a few years and that's where I met the guys who are now my colleagues at this

1:24.2

little startup company of a whopping five people so. And Bastin actually if people

1:31.6

had attended PACs they might have had a chance

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