Quite out of the blue I came across this article in the Guardian this morning.
It’s really odd when you accidentally stumble upon yourself in the newspapers. It’s happened to me a few times. Maybe the journalist tried to get in touch with me (Edit: it turns out he did), but I’ve had my head down, too busy being a socially awkward game dev to go alongside his socially awkward game journo. Pity, we could have been socially awkward together!
“Creatures creator Steve Grand bears similarities to the Plaything (and Bandersnatch) coder Colin Ritman.”
I don’t have Netflix and I’m a cultural numbskull, so I know nothing about it. Has anyone seen Black Mirror? I gather Peter Capaldi played the journo, but I’m not sure if anyone played ‘me’.
I have a lot of (somewhat fuzzy and confused) memories about game mags in the 1990’s, and the lovely people who worked for them. I’m fairly sure I was interviewed by PC Zone, and definitely by PC Gamer. I have a fondness for the Guardian, too, which I ineptly wrote a few science columns for. Happy times! Perplexing, stressful, but fascinating. Maybe I’ll tell you about the Olden Days sometime. I think I probably lived through a bunch of historic stuff that I was only dimly aware of.
Meanwhile, I promise I’ll try not to kill anyone.
Nice!
By the way, how was the gaming magazine industry back then?
Today gamers cheer when game magazines struggle. It became a very toxic relationship….
I only just watched this episode last night!
‘You’ were played by Will Poulter, and didn’t kill anyone (directly at least).
Off topic, after watching my new ducklings, I noticed a pattern. It seems most “protective” behaviours can be seen as a result of not wanting anything new.
Neophobie and Neophilie are also some patterns I often saw while I was breeding fancy rats. It switched while selecting for classic domestication syndrome.
I assume there is something in the brain that detects new patterns/stuff and it also seems that nosy animals like that more and fearful animals avoid it.
Since it is a struggle with the animals, if they should be afraid or nosy, I assume those systems work independent and against each other.
Would make sense that animals that really more on instincts (ducks) can be more fearful. While animals that need to learn (dog, cat, rat) have a struggle, because they need to interact with new stuff to learn
I hope I didn’t go way to much off topic?
This interview you did with PC Format popped up on the first Google search:
https://oxon.bcs.org/downloads/PCF151.interview.pdf