Video: https://youtu.be/QKxNVGMAKWY
In which we explore the impact of the World of Code on stories and games… and speculate about its resultant impact on current concepts of identity and even parallel universes!
I had a lot of fun with this one—and, I could very easily keep on having fun with it indefinitely… which I may well do (well, maybe not indefinitely!) in future episodes. Given my own very personal investment in the content of this episode, I was disappointed with my first draft and was actually hoping to re-shoot more of it—but there’s also a dynamism to this first engagement with the content and ideas here that turns out to be delicate enough that I thought better of disturbing it too much. So I restricted myself to tightening up the intro and fixing a minor historical error that I’d inadvertently introduced, and I’ve left the rest largely as-is, with the intention of returning to the conversation that I’ve started here and elaborating further on some of these thoughts and ideas in future. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it!