The RE:BIND.io Podcast Emily Rose

Yussef comes onto the show tot talk about the origin of critical writing online and how it evolved through forum then later blogging, the culture behind games crit, liminal literary spaces, how games crit has evolved, the weird cold war politics of Call of Duty: Black Ops, and what it's like to be an editor.

Joining us this week is Nicholas O'Brien, creator of environmental conscious visual novel "The Last Survey", entirely hand drawn / animated in charcoal. Nicholas talks to us about how he came to create the project and the sustained impact of our economy on the globe.

We sit down for a speculative discussion on the future of theatre & the performance arts in the quarantine era. Is HLVR:AI and other live Twitch events a sign of things to come? How can we build infrastructure and software that caters to this purpose instead of simply improvising solutions via gaming?

Jack Hart, our guest this week, discusses the struggles of games academia, public funding institutions, and what it's like to go from academic studies of games to making them.

James Johnston of Rude Ghost comes on the show to talk about the art of a good, wacky trailer, how producing live action media works, Pixel Puzzle Makeout League, and the evolution of visual novels.

Master game memester Kino Fabino joins us to talk about the anatomy of internet humor, what goes into a good joke, YouTube Poop culture, and the impact of copyright on preserving the history of internet humor.