Working As Intended Podcast #22 – With Special Guest Gordon Farrell, Lead Writer on Dawn of Fantasy

By Steven Crews | February 24, 2010 | | Filed under: News, Podcast

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Welcome to the 22nd episode of the Working As Intended podcast!

In this week’s show we’re joined by Gordon Farrell of Reverie World Studios to discuss Dawn of Fantasy, the company’s inaugural MMORTS.

Gordon is Lead Writer on the project, and as story quality (or lack thereof) in the genre is a favorite topic of discussion here at The MMO Gamer, you can bet that we had a lively conversation.

For those wondering about his credentials to pontificate on such topics, when he’s not working on Dawn of Fantasy, Gordon teaches screen and playwriting at NYU, as well as courses in Narrative Theory for Electronic Games, which he literally wrote the book on.

Having said that, it was Technical Difficulties Week here at Working As Intended, and as a result the audio quality of this podcast is not quite up to par with some of our other productions.

But, if you can bear with the occasional hiccup (and our usual epic-length interviewing style) you will be rewarded.

Topics

• Special Guest: Gordon Farrell. Topics of discussion include building a story-centric RTS, “serious writing” in the gaming industry, and of course, the age-old debate whether or not games can ever rise to the level of art.
• Age of Conan Introduces Update 6 – Return of Thoth-Amon
• Allods Online Enters Open Beta
• EVE Online Announces Tyrannis, Expansion Allowing Planet Interaction

Hosts

• Jeffrey Philipp
• Steven Crews
• Siam Choudhury

As always we appreciate your feedback! You can also send us your questions or topics you would like us to discuss by dropping a comment here or sending an email to podcast@mmogamer.com.

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