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The history of video games through the lens of everyday developers. We cover the obscure, unpublished, forgotten, and even a few well-known games, but always through the perspective of people who were working hard to make them happen. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to be a developer, or about what happened behind the scenes of your favorite games, this podcast is for you.
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Episode 4: Let's Pretend... but for Grown-Ups!
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Tracy and Kel talk about the ways people role play beyond the screen and text-based games, including costume events, Renaissance Faires and the SCA, D&D, and LARPs. They also discuss some of the history of that tradition, and how far into the past role play nerds can be traced.Kel Bachus and Tracy Seamster által
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Episode 3: The Internet is for P*rn
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In their third episode, Tracy and Kel talk about getting into the game development industry from a slightly different angle: spicy chat rooms on the earliest incarnations of the World Wide Web. Kel talks about their break into the industry from a different kind of text-based role playing, and why no one would let them touch the live build ever agai…
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Episode 2: A Role to Play
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In this episode of "A People's History of Video Game Development," hosts Kel Bachus and Tracy Seamster talk about the very early origins of text-based role play, and what players were looking for in immersive experiences. They talk about community building across the fourth wall, and how a surprising number of successful designers in those contexts…
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90s Text-Based Online Games: The Pioneers
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Join Tracy Seamster and Kel Bachus as they delve into the fascinating world of early online gaming, specifically the text-based adventures that shaped the industry. From the start of Tracy’s developer journey designing content for Gemstone 3 in 1996 to managing the intricacies of player experience in classic text-based multiplayer environments, the…
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