Jerry Belich's guest appearances

Jerry Belich

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Geeks Without God

indie(Radio);

GameDev Loadout | A Game Developer Podcast

Rob Morgan

Blair Leggett

Meg Jayanth

Karla Zimonja

Brad Muir

Michael Sweet

Matthew Burns

Anna Kipnis

Tim Schafer

Victoria Tran

Jay Powell

Richard Rouse

Jill Murray

Kelly Wallick

Garry Schyman

OwlTail

This week’s episode was recorded live at CONVergence. Because it was recorded live, the possibility of technical difficulties goes up and indeed, about five minutes before the end of the episode, our mixer turned off! Fortunately, we had a recording taken in the room that is fairly poor sound quality but we were able to play with it enough to hear what’s going on. Sorry for the abrupt sound issues about 20 minutes in! We had a lovely conversation with Jerry Belich, who was chosen at random from our audience to join our podcast! He wondered if calling yourself agnostic is just being lazy. He also answered our five questions (which is the part of the episode with sound problems)!

<a href="https://i0.wp.com/geekswithoutgod.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Lazy-Agnostics.jpeg?ssl=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a>This week’s episode was recorded live at CONVergence. Because it was recorded live, the possibility of technical difficulties goes up and indeed, about five minutes before the end of the episode, our mixer turned off! Fortunately, we had a recording taken in the room that is fairly poor sound quality but we were able to play with it enough to hear what’s going on. Sorry for the abrupt sound issues about 20 minutes in! We had a lovely conversation with Jerry Belich, who was chosen at random from our audience to join our podcast! He wondered if calling yourself agnostic is just being lazy. He also answered our five questions (which is the part of the episode with sound problems)!

Episode 575 – Lazy Agnostics with Jerry Belich

Jerry Belich, the creator of the award winning Choosatron, is an alternative game designer, using hardware, electronics, and software to create immersive interactive and storytelling experiences. He went independent in 2013 after a decade of professional software development, and in the summer of 2016, after touring the world exhibiting his work, giving talks, and putting on workshops, he joined Miami University as a Professor in Game Design. He hopes to use his experience in game design, narrative writing, and installation work to inspire a new generation in the field. Today we talk about how players engage with your game. For example, do they use a touchscreen to play your game, a controller, or mouse and keyboard? It can make a huge difference because of the way it feels and controls.

Jerry Belich, the creator of the award winning Choosatron, is an alternative game designer, using hardware, electronics, and software to create immersive interactive and storytelling experiences. He went independent in 2013 after a decade of professional software development, and in the summer of 2016, after touring the world exhibiting his work, giving talks, and putting on workshops, he joined Miami University as a Professor in Game Design. He hopes to use his experience in game design, narrative writing, and installation work to inspire a new generation in the field. Today we talk about how players engage with your game. For example, do they use a touchscreen to play your game, a controller, or mouse and keyboard? It can make a huge difference because of the way it feels and controls.

52: How Players Engage With Your Game with Jerry Belich

Mitu Khandaker

Social simulations and the storytelling potential of hardware-based games are the main topics in today's discussion with Mitu (Creator of Redshirt, PhD holder in Aesthetics of Interactivity in Video Games, and current Assistant Arts Professor at NYU's Game Center) and Jerry (Game designer and developer behind Robo Mama’s Cooking Kitchen, MysteryPhone, Discourse, The Choosatron, and Afterglow)! We talk about the importance of player choice, The Witness and the dialogue that happens between a creator and the player, why freedom in games isn't always a good thing, how controllers and interfaces affect the way we think about games, why Animal Crossing is an amazing social simulator, how fleshing out a game's world can influence the design, the problems with making a social simulation, what happens to our engagement with games as interfaces become more mimetic, slaying Chris Crawford's Dragon, and man, that's just the stuff that's off the top of our heads! Our Guests on the Internet Mitu's Twitter and The Tiniest Shark Jerry's Twitter and Website Stuff We Talked About Mitu's GDC Talk - Thinking About People: Designing Games for Social Simulation ELIZA and The ELIZA Effect Loved by Alexander Ocias The Immersive Fallacy (excerpted from Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals) by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman Lygia Clark Redshirt Notary Bear by Lisa Brown Chris Crawford's Dragon Speech Our theme music was composed by 2Mello, and our logo was created by Lily Nishita.

Social simulations and the storytelling potential of hardware-based games are the main topics in today's discussion with Mitu (Creator of Redshirt, PhD holder in Aesthetics of Interactivity in Video Games, and current Assistant Arts Professor at NYU's Game Center) and Jerry (Game designer and developer behind Robo Mama’s Cooking Kitchen, MysteryPhone, Discourse, The Choosatron, and Afterglow)! We talk about the importance of player choice, The Witness and the dialogue that happens between a creator and the player, why freedom in games isn't always a good thing, how controllers and interfaces affect the way we think about games, why Animal Crossing is an amazing social simulator, how fleshing out a game's world can influence the design, the problems with making a social simulation, what happens to our engagement with games as interfaces become more mimetic, slaying Chris Crawford's Dragon, and man, that's just the stuff that's off the top of our heads! Our Guests on the Internet <a href="https://twitter.com/mituk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mitu's Twitter</a> and <a href="http://thetiniestshark.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Tiniest Shark</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/j3rrytron?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jerry's Twitter</a> and <a href="http://jerrytron.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Website</a> Stuff We Talked About <a href="http://mitu.nu/2015/03/22/thinking-about-people/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mitu's GDC Talk - Thinking About People: Designing Games for Social Simulation</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ELIZA</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The ELIZA Effect</a> <a href="https://ocias.com/loved.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Loved by Alexander Ocias</a> <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=UM-xyczrZuQC&amp;pg=PT425&amp;lpg=PT425&amp;dq=the%20immersive%20fallacy%20zimmerman&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=2AHGu_5C-s&amp;sig=gXz_-1Mxwrucpi73VzBKkKYPrUA&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiKlsuittXKAhXFLmMKHYUOC9kQ6AEIKjAC#v=onepage&amp;q=the%20immersive%20fallacy%20zimmerman&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Immersive Fallacy (excerpted from Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals) by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lygia_Clark" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lygia Clark</a> <a href="http://www.redshirtgame.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Redshirt</a> <a href="http://www.wertle.com/projects/personal-game-projects/notary-bear/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Notary Bear by Lisa Brown</a> <a href="http://n42c.com/2014/03/02/thedragonspeech/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chris Crawford's Dragon Speech</a> Our theme music was composed by <a href="http://2mello.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2Mello</a>, and our logo was created by <a href="https://lilynishita.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lily Nishita</a>.

Mitu Khandaker & Jerry Belich