After a long hiatus, I’m back. This week I have an interview from GDC 2007 with gaming luminary Greg Costikyan of Manifesto Games. We talked for half an hour about his history in the gaming industry — covering wargames, tabletop RPGs, and his later work in online and independent digital games.

Show Notes:

• Apologies for long hiatus
• Now a member of the Gaming Podcast Network!
• Politika games have finally shipped
• Game Developer’s Conference update and upcoming interviews
• Listen to Groovy Gamers Groovecast!
• Interview with Greg Costikyan
• Attend the UK Games Expo!
• Feedback
• Closing

Links:

• Supercharge (wargame)
• Swords & Sorcery (wargame)
• The Creature That Ate Sheboygan (wargame)
• SPI Died For Your Sins (article)
• Bug-Eyed Monsters (wargame)
• Toon (RPG)
• Paranoia (RPG)
• Mongoose’s Paranoia Page
• Star Wars RPG
• The Willow Game (board game)
• Crossover Technologies (from 3D Gamers site)
• MadMaze
• Article on Unplugged Games
• Violence: the roleplaying game of egregious and repulsive bloodshed
• Gaming Needs an Indy Label (originally published in Game Developer)
• The Scratchware Manifesto
• GDC 2005 Rant
• GDC 2007 Maverick Award acceptance speech

Final thoughts:

A big thank you to Greg Costikyan for agreeing to sit down for this interview. He’s a very busy guy and I appreciate all the time he was willing to give me.

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