About This Episode

Our next guest on episode 2 of One Cool Thing is Mike Cook, Senior Lecturer in AI at King's College London who chats to Hannah Nicklin all about being on strike.

Mike Cook is a British game designer and Artificial Intelligence researcher, who’s currently a Senior Lecturer at King’s College London. He has been advocating in the AI research community to demand better ethics and responsibility in developing the technology and is a member of the Knives and Paintbrushes research collective. His personal practice is interested in the spaces AI and game design intersect.

Liner Notes

• Are Games Art School - Brendan Keogh
• Laika
• Modl.ai
• Puck
• Billy Bragg’s There’s Power in a Union
• Mike’s website
• Mike’s Twitter
• Knives and Paintbrushes

One Cool Thing Production Credits

One Cool Thing is hosted by Die Gute Fabrik's Studio Lead Hannah Nicklin and is produced, edited and sound designed by Tom Whalley. Additional production and research by Úna-Minh Kavanagh and our theme music by Nick Ellis who can be found on Bandcamp as tenby.

About This Episode

Our first guest on episode 1 of One Cool Thing is Die Gute Fabrik's Doug Wilson who chats to Hannah Nicklin all about the reality competition TV series, Survivor.

Doug is originally from the USA but now lives in Melbourne Australia, and as well as being a core part of Die Gute Fabrik is a senior lecturer in Game Design at RMIT University. Doug is best known for Johann Sebastian Joust and Sportsfriends which are both local co-op games made to make fun between friends.

Liner Notes

• A Small Town Anywhere - Coney
• The Money - Kaleider
• Taskmaster Podcast
• Freeplay talk - The Player is a Material Made up of People
• The Quiet Year
• Completely Improvised Survivor
• Factions
• Unreal: A Critical History of Reality TV 
• The Briefing w/ Melissa McGlensey @ Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2023

One Cool Thing Production Credits

One Cool Thing is hosted by Die Gute Fabrik's Studio Lead Hannah Nicklin and is produced, edited and sound designed by Tom Whalley. Additional production and research by Úna-Minh Kavanagh and our theme music by Nick Ellis who can be found on Bandcamp as tenby.

One Cool Thing is a podcast speaking with people in and around videogames about One Cool Thing not from games which is really fascinating them at the moment.

One of the founding principles of Die Gute Fabrik is interdisciplinarity - collaborating with people from other art forms to bring fresh ideas to video games. And that’s also what’s at the heart of this podcast series: what not from games is shaping how people think about making games right now?

As host, each week DGF Studio Lead Hannah Nicklin will introduce the exciting guest and their practice to you before getting into a deep dive into what their One Cool Thing is, how it’s shaping their thoughts at the moment and what they hope it could offer others.

This a chance to hear more about the practices of cool folks working in games, and hopefully somewhere where we can all reflect on how we think about how we make things together.

One Cool Thing Production Credits

One Cool Thing is hosted by Die Gute Fabrik's Studio Lead Hannah Nicklin and is produced, edited and sound designed by Tom Whalley. Additional production and research by Úna-Minh Kavanagh and our theme music by Nick Ellis who can be found on Bandcamp as tenby.