Fictional Reality

This week I chat to enthusiastic and adorkable escape room owner Keziah about how she designed her latest room and the fundamentals of an immersive experience.

EPISODE NOTES: Welcome back dear explorers!

This is the first episode of the new season of Fictional Reality. This season I will be interviewing experience designers, puzzle developers, and escape room enthusiasts to find out how they design experiences.

This week I chat to enthusiastic and adorkable escape room owner Keziah about how she designed her latest room and the fundamentals of an immersive experience. She tells us some tips and tricks to designing our own experiences too.

When it comes to designing escape room experiences Keziah believes in the power of story, and to let the puzzles augment the narrative.

I hope you enjoy this episode, remember to like and subscribe and catch you next time!

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I am joined by two other chrononauts this week as we discuss the trials and tribulations of living as a time traveler.

Time-traveling freelancer Zane C Weber and TIME agency sellout Ol Matty join me in the booth this week and discuss what time adventures they've been on. We go back to the early Cretaceous, to the golden age of pirates, and catch a little glimpse into the future as we find out how time travel is regulated and some clever ways to earn a dollar here and there.

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Thank you for creating me. You are the world you experience, here let me show you.

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Joined by Zane C Weber, Johanna Lyon, and Paula Arujo we dive into the world of propaganda and how stories delivered to us about the world shape the world. An interesting discussion that moves across propaganda in popular culture, to children's advertising, to the blurry line between privacy and insidious messages targeted directly to us.

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Zane C Weber is a prominent futurist, doctor, and used car salesman and has a lot to say about the nature of late capitalism in dense urban environments. Callan Davies is an esteemed guest lecturer at the college for independent research toward marine intelligence. We talk at length about ideal Utopias and how they might be the most fictional realities of all before touching on fascism. All in all, an enlightening conversation.

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This week I talk with my friend Nick about what type of narrative The Bible tells us, and in turn, what type of fictional reality.

My friend Nick, a fellow philosophy undergrad, pizza enjoyer, and devout Christian. We talk about the bible and its place in the world as a reality shaping document. What kind of reality does the bible offer us, and in turn, shape us into? Listen to find out.

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Your host James Elliott comes to you from the year 2021 and tells us all about a puzzle adventure made by The Brisbane Treasure Hunt Society called The Time Traveler. We also get a bit of info on what time travel is like in the future.

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I am joined by Professor, Artistic Director, and wild apothecary Dr Rob Pensalfini this episode. We had already sampled some of the finer concoctions he had recently conjured , but the important thing is that we had fun.

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In about 2 years a TV show simply titled "TIME" will air. It will change the medium, and our view on time, time travel, and fictional reality forever.

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What do games do for us? Why are they so addictive? Well this week I talk to Jack Ford Morgan and Callan Davis from Half-Monster Games about how we immerse gamers within fictional realities (yet again). We go nice and deep into how games fulfill our wishes, what those wishes are, and where they come from.

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