S1E14 - Monica Fan (Part 1 of 2) - Dopamine Slinging As A Career

This week, Aaron chats with Monica Fan in the first of a two-part interview. Monica is a game designer currently working at Pipeworks on an unannounced AAA game, but they consider themselves an eccentric creative at heart, having worked in entertainment media including newspaper, radio, theater, and film.  

In this first half of our two-part interview, we talked about Monica's supervillain origin story (the world's worst Tinder date, I'm not kidding), who gets to create underdog narratives and why, the importance of creating games that fulfill fantasies other than typical male-driven power fantasies, how Roblox is driving a new generation of game design, and more!

00:00 Cold Open

00:30 Intro

03:05 Monica's Supervillain Origin Story (AKA The Worst Tinder Date Ever)

09:24 Dopamine Slinging As A Career

12:13 Slop And The Fantasy of Creating Art

18:03 Roblox And Game Design For A New Generation

20:59 The Elder Millennial Teenage Boy Power Fantasy

23:23 Diverse Fantasies For Diverse Audiences

25:38 White Men Can't Introspect(tm)

32:13 ...But The Video Game Industry Is Still (Relatively) Small

34:25 Outro

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