http://blog.pjsattic.com/corvus Where Story, Play & Community Meet Thu, 15 May 2008 12:38:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Man Bytes Blog, Episode #4: Today's podcast delivers a twisted retelling of Jorinda & Joringel, a brief recap of the the last week of posts on theme and metaphor and issues a game design challenge that draws upon the conversation over the last week. Download Thematic Game Design Today's podcast features Creative ... http://blog.pjsattic.com/corvus/2008/04/podcast-thematic-game-design/ This podcast, my third, is thematically related to April's Round Table topic. In it, I start a discussion on theme that we'll continue throughout the week's posts--exploring together how finding the metaphors within a narrative can be used to understand its theme. As the basis for our discussion, most of ... http://blog.pjsattic.com/corvus/2008/04/podcast-exploring-theme/ Today's podcast takes a brief look at four sneaky protagonists--Garrett, Agent 47, Sam Fisher and Altair--in order to explore how the third-person action genre produce radically varying gameplay, depending on the focus of the story. Download The Four Jacks http://blog.pjsattic.com/corvus/2008/03/podcast-the-four-jacks/ If you had difficulty with the podcast links in the last post, the problem should now be fixed. Here's the link again. Sorry for the issue. Download Inaugural Podcast http://blog.pjsattic.com/corvus/2008/03/podcast-take-two/