by mort
I’ve really enjoyed this Arte documentary featuring a conversation between two very influential game designers, each of them belonging to different generations and both sharing a bit of an outsider fame as well as a discontent with the current mainstream of the video game industry: Jason Roher and Chris Crawford.
The conversation sheds a lot of enlightening points about the craft and art of game design and is ripe with tidbits and references to explore: Little Computer People, Façade, Crawford’s current endeavour, Storytron, M.U.L.E., and many more.
Highly recommended if you are into narrative, digital storytelling, game design or simply creativity and innovation, and have 50+ minutes to spare:
Into the Night with Jason Rohrer and Chris Crawford from gmzzz on Vimeo.