A Life Well Wasted - Big Ideas

  I listened to the "Big Ideas" episode of the A Life Well Wasted podcast. The show has a pretty high production value for an independently created piece. I think this speaks to the ability to work in this medium and produce quality shows for a relatively low cost.

 This was the episode with the opening music created with samples recorded by the host responding to the question "what kind of game would you create?" I thought this opening was a lot of fun and showed how the host uses his own music intermixed with bytes of his interviews.

There was a lot of intriguing material in this episode, even for people that have no interest in videogames. I really liked the story about how the game Tetris came over to the US. The only thing that I wanted out of this story was a link back to the game at the end. The subject of the story goes on to talk about his life after a near death experience and even went as far as to talk about colonizing mars. I really wanted just a tiny link back to how this related to the story about tetris

I loved the story about big games and I think it ties to the kind of work that I want to make in the theatre. It's amazing how the game in minneapolis was able to bring people together through a collaborative experience. I want to read up on the big games manifesto.