Another Castle

Another Castle episodes:

• 03.14.2011

  A Conversation with Brandon Boyer

  Chairman of the Independent Games Festival and former editor of Offworld talks to us about his long, of and on relationship with games, as well as his plans for IGF and beyond.

  
• 02.16.2011

  A Conversation with Jeremy Pope

  Producer Jeremy Pope talks about his rise in game industry, working on projects as big as GTA III: Vice City, and as small as the tower defense game, Ninja Town.

  
• 01.10.2011

  A Conversation with Steve Gaynor

  Steve Gaynor sits down to talk about making an expansion to the Bioshock franchise, narrative and player agency, and the games he comes back to.

  
• 12.21.2010

  A Conversation with Andy Nealen

  Andy Nealen describes his long path to game development, architecture, physics, Chess, and his award winning game Osmos.

  
• 12.06.2010

  A Conversation with Simon Ferrari

  Simon Ferrari talks about why he studies games, newsgames, skill, and the joys of Halo

  
• 11.14.2010

  Bonus Episode - No Quarter

  Ryan Theodores interviews the artists and organizers of the NYU Game Center's No Quarter Exhibition

  
• 08.09.2010

  Bonus Episode - Win Win

  Charles Pratt, Simon Ferrari, and artist Billy Rennekamp discuss games in galleries, cheaters vs spoilsports, and game designers vs artists.

  
• 07.21.2010

  End of Season One

  Noah and I sit down to thank all the people who have made the first season of Another Castle possible.

  
• 06.21.2010

  A Conversation with Richard LeMarchand

  Richard LeMarchand, lead game designer on Uncharted and Uncharted 2 sits down to talk about his career in the industry and a number of other subjects.

  
• 05.28.2010

  A Conversation with Adam Saltsman

  Adam Saltsman, co-founder of Semi Secret, developer behind Canabalt, and creator of Flixel.

  
• 05.03.2010

  A Conversation with Naomi Clark

  Game designer and producer Naomi Clark talks about working in New York, GameLab, Farmville, and the Fantasy of Labor.

  
• 04.14.2010

  A Conversation with Kevin Cancienne

  Kevin Cancienne, the Director of Game Development at area/code, dropped by to talk about his career as a game developer in New York City.

  
• 04.02.2010

  A Conversation with McKenzie Wark

  Professor of media theory, McKenzie Wark, talks about his book Gamer Theory, and the Situationist International.

  
• 03.19.2010

  A Conversation with Jeremiah Johnson

  Legendary chip musician and digital artist, Jeremiah �Nullsleep� Johnson, stopped by to talk about his work as well as the joy of �shmups�..

  
• 03.04.2010

  A Conversation with Adam Parrish

  Adam Parrish sits down to talk about his work in interactive fiction, his thoughts on language in games, and argues with me about whether or not we can look at games as 'texts'.

  
• 02.17.2010

  A Conversation with Greg Costikyan

  Greg Costikyan talks about his long career in game developement, from his early board games to his current projects. He also discusses the problems with the game industry and what gives him hope for the future.

  
• 02.04.2010

  A Conversation with Mark Essen

  Mark Essen, also known as 'messhof' sits down and talks about his short but so far illustrious career as a game designer. From his high school days to his rise as the art world's favorite game developer.

  
• 01.20.2010

  A Conversation with John Sharp

  John Sharp talks about his switch from art historian to game designer and professor of game studies. He also talks about games and art, his upcoming conference and his love of sports.

  
• 01.05.2010

  A Conversation with Wade Tinney

  Wade Tinney sits down to talk about his career in games, starting his company Large Animal Games, and the New York scene.

  
• 12.22.2009

  A Conversation with Wes Erdelack

  Wes Erdelack, aka Iroquois Pliskin, talks about his blog Versus CluCluLand, what philosophy can tell us about games, and whether games are 'real' or not.

  
• 12.08.2009

  A Conversation with Eric Zimmerman

  Eric Zimmerman talks about his career as a game designer and theorist, as well as the history of his compant GameLab.

  
• 11.23.2009

  A Conversation with Heather Chaplin

  Heather Chaplin talks about her book Smart Bomb and tells stories about her favorite game developers. She also discusses her famous GDC rant.

  
• 11.10.2009

  A Conversation with Richard Rouse III

  Richard Rouse III talks about his long career in the game industry, as well as writing one of the first books on game design.

  
• 10.27.2009

  A Conversation with Jesper Juul

  Jesper Juul discusses his career, the balance between theory and practice, and what kind of games he likes to play.

  
• 10.12.2009

  A Conversation with Greg Trefry

  Greg Trefry discusses the design of casual games, creating and running the Come Out and Play festival, and the aesthtics of game mechanics.

  
• 09.28.2009

  A Conversation with Anna Anthropy

  Anna Anthropy discusses her games and the craft of game design.

  
• 09.08.2009

  A Conversation with Frank Lantz

  Frank Lantz discusses his career, his games, the creative process, and the future of games.