Character Creator

Brian Fabry Dorsam

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Character Creator Podcast

A monthly podcast about video game characters and the people who create them.

10/03/2018

Side Quest - The Gun Show

Do violent video games cause violence? No. But some video games support the weapons industry through licensing fees and advertising revenue. If it's time to get gun money out of politics, it should also be time to get gun money out of games.
06/02/2018

Episode 04 - Going Home

In this episode, I talk with Beth LaPensée, an Anishinaabe and Métis deisgner, Don Saas, a games journalist, and Brontë Mansfield, a lifelong Sims fan, about the ways in which video games and 'home' intersect. Can games help us reclaim stolen space? Can they help us reckon with trauma? Can they show us a life that we never could have imagined on our own? The answer just might be 'yes'.

1h 14m
01/01/2018

Episode 03 - Gotcha!

Pokemon is one of the most famous video games in the world. This month, I talk with art historian Daisy Charles and writer Omari Akil about the influence of Pokemon Go on public space, and find out what happened to Nintendo's first United States Pokemon champion, Ian Garvey.

1h 7m
04/12/2017

Episode 02 - Patriot Games

War and gaming have a long and complex living history. In Level One, Brian talks with combat veterans who use video games to treat their PTSD. In Level Two, Robertson Allen talks about 'America's Army', and online FPS developed by the United States Army as a recruitment tool. In Level Three, Brian gets to know the man who created Wolfenstein way back in 1981, long before Nazis began marching openly down American streets.

1h 13m
20/11/2017

Side Quest: Cuphead's Racist Grandparents

Samantha Blackmon and Yussef Cole dig up the troubled history of Fleischer and Disney animation and hold 'Cuphead' accountable for its racist ancestors.

23 min
06/11/2017

Episode 01 - Origin Story

In the very first episode, Brian tells the story of how he got here and why this podcast was created. It started with him on the couch playing video games and ended all the way in his office recording the show (okay, he didn't move very far, but a lot of stuff happened in between). Along the way, he hears from scientists and gamers and journalists from all over the world, who try to help him answer one big question: Why do video games mean so much to us? Guests: Evan Narcisse, games journalist and writer for Marvel's 'Rise of the Black Panther'; Ahmed Ali Akbar, writer and podcaster for Buzzfeed; and Tom Boellstorff, anthropologist and author of 'Coming of Age in Second Life'.

53 min
26/10/2017

Side Quest: Interview with Gabby DaRienzo

Our first episode is due out in the beginning of November, but here's a little glimpse of what's to come! Side Quests are interviews or short pieces that didn't fit into any specific episode, but that I still wanted to explore and share. For this first Side Quest, I chatted with the creator of A Mortician's Tale, Gabby DaRienzo, about her life in games, her love of NeoPets, and the Death Positive movement that led to the creation of A Mortician's Tale.

25 min

7 Episodes

A monthly podcast about video game characters and the people who create them.

Creator

Brian Fabry Dorsam
Years Active

2017 - 2018
Episodes

7
Rating

Explicit
Show Website

Character Creator