This episode we get into the cultural history of Minecraft with the explosion of let’s plays and creepy pastas. Then we talk through our experiences playing and struggling to survive on our shared server, our terrible luck, and our feelings on the game. Finally we talk about Wurm: Online, 0x10^c and other failed projects Notch […]
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Minecraft asks you to return to the days of yore, before modern conveniences and commodities. The days when a man had to build his own wooden pickaxe. So what better time to discuss the Romantic era’s own Mary Shelley, her marriage to playboy Percy, Frankenstein and of course Roald Dahl? Season 2, Episode 17 | […]
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Hot Doom Summer is coming to a close on Gameography, but we have one more episode on Quake to give you your last fix of the Johns. This week we get into the level design, similarities to Mario 64, the mod scene, and the Quake engine’s continued influence on video games to this day. Season […]
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While today it appears to be little more than a 3D retread of Doom, Quake broke new ground in 1996 with its fully 3D rendered first person gameplay and internet networked deathmatch. Perhaps surprisingly, John Romero, the lead designer of the game didn’t want Quake to be just another shooter. He envisioned a fantasy epic […]
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John Carmack’s fateful decision to create a standalone file format for Doom’s levels and other data rather than bundle them with the game’s code let others create new levels without overwriting the original Doom data. Carmack opened the path to a modding culture to be born. Soon enough there were total conversions like the Aliens […]
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This episode is a bit all over the place, talking Lennon and McCartney, Halo, the legacy of Doom, and where shooters went after it. Season 2, Episode 13 | 49 mins https://gameographypod.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/S2E13%20Doom,%20the%20Modfather.mp3 Notes Roots: The Evolution of Doom Level Design Lilith
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Id Software put out one ad for Doom in a single enthusiast magazine. Within a few years the shareware version of Doom was on more computers than Windows. Doom defined first-person shooters for over a decade with its fast paced transference of arcade action to an immersive world filled with demons. This week on Gameography […]
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Arguably video gaming’s one and only true rock star programmers, John Romero and John Carmack road computers from lives as juvenile delinquents to worldwide fame and success. This week we look at Romero and Carmack’s turbulent lives up until they created Doom at Id Software. We also look at some of Id’s lesser known figures […]
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Paul Neurath took a look at the dungeon crawling landscape and knew he could do better. He wanted something immersive and fluid that you could lose yourself in. What he and his team ended up creating was the first texturemaped 3D first person game. Not only that it is considered the first immersive sim, with […]
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When Will Wright pitched SimCity, a game where you watch a city grow under your guidance, game publishers saw it as an unmarketable product. How could you sell a game you couldn’t win? But Wright self-assured, or obsessed enough with his virtual simulation, built on the back of years of enjoying model train and semi-professional […]
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By the late 80s, the 8-bit computer boom set off by the Apple II was winding to a close, but not before Brian Fargo could prove that there was still some untapped potential in those archaic chips. Fresh off the success of A Bard’s Tale, Fargo hired up a team of pen and paper roleplaying […]
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Searching for the inspiration behind Wasteland and the Fallout series, we look back at the independent film that started it all. And, if you haven’t seen the film in a while or ever, it probably isn’t what you think it is. Seriously, where are the fights over gasoline and desolate unpopulated spaces? This week on […]
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This episode we continue our discussion of The Beatles: Get Back and the post-Beatles fab four solo careers. Get Back | 70 mins https://gameographypod.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Get%20Back%202,%20Devin%20is%20Dead%20(Devin%20is%20Devin).mp3
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This episode and next we break from our regular season to bring you a conversation on the new documentary Get Back. Our conversation roves between observations on the filmmaking and the four who fab along with their post-Beatles careers. Get Back | 60 mins https://gameographypod.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Gort%20Bork-%20and%20now%20your%20hosts%20for%20the%20evening,%20The%20Gameographies.mp3
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It wasn’t until 1985, 14 years after the original, that the game most people associate with The Oregon Trail name was released for the Apple II. Benefiting greatly from the Apple II’s breakthrough success, especially in the education sector, Philip Bouchard reimagined The Oregon Trail as a real-time simulation, breaking from the text only, turn […]
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Looking for a way to get his students engaged in the material, Don Rawitsch decided he was going to make a board game about the western migration to Oregon in the 1800s. His roommates who knew a little about computers suggested they build it as a computer program instead. The year was 1971. Yes, before […]
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Video games, like Richard Garriott were still in their adolescence in the early 80s. Garriott, known as the father of computer role-playing games, straight off the success of the first three games in his groundbreaking Ultima series that he developed while still in school, moved away from home for the first time and felt a […]
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Surreal psychedelics come to video games. In 1982, Mel Croucher, an anti-establishment music producer and father of the British video game industry, released Pimania a puzzler that blended a virtual mystery with a real one. Pimaniacs, as he referred to the players sucked in by the game were tasked with finding a golden sundial hidden […]
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Where did Rogue and the Roguelike come from? Created to appease its own programmer’s lust for adventure, Rouge (1980) built the game world from scratch each time you played. On top of that, it is one of the first games that based its play and setting on the still relatively new Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying […]
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Computers were built for war. Specifically, calculating artillery bombardments. It wasn’t until a group of students at MIT, uninterested by the traditional, often painfully practical, applications of computers, challenged themselves to create a game, that the true potential of interactive entertainment became clear. But of course, it was about war. 1969’s Spacewar! is often considered […]
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