Podcasts about chella ramanan

My guest today is a writer and narrative designer for independent and blockbuster video games. Born in London she studied English Literature at Kingston University, then completed her postgrad in journalism. She worked as a freelance writer, contributing to the Guardian and the BBC, often covering in games and the lack of representation of people of colour within the industry.In 2014 she took a course titled ‘Writing For Games', which resulted in ‘Before I Forget', an affecting indie game in which you play as a dementia sufferer. In 2020 she joined Massive Entertainment, the Swedish developer of The Division series, to work as a senior narrative designer on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, an open world action-adventure game based on the James Cameron-directed Avatar films. She is also writing Windrush Tales, a narrative video game about the triumphs and tribulations of two Caribbean immigrants to post-war Britain, in the world's first Windrush-themed video game. Welcome Chella Ramanan. Thank you for listening to My Perfect Console. Please consider becoming a supporter; your small monthly donation will help to make the podcast sustainable for the long term, contributing toward the cost of equipment, editing, and hosting episodes. https://plus.acast.com/s/my-perfect-console. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We sat down with Chella Ramanan, Narrative Designer at Massive Entertainment, to dig into the complicated subject of storytelling in video games – in everything from smaller indie projects to giant AAA games. Chella has had a long career, spanning over disciplines like literature, games journalism and indie games, before coming to Massive. How did all of them inform her current job? How does game journalism help a career in actual game development, and what can video games learn from literature and theater? Resources: GDC Narrative Talks Playlist - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY9igWPHZ4w&list=PL2e4mYbwSTbYD6zfuWTwz2nTfvKOZBWMe&index=1 AdventureX - https://adventurexpo.org/ Game Maker's Toolkit - https://www.youtube.com/c/MarkBrownGMT

In this special episode, GDL host Lorraine talks games treasures and more importantly, Launch Day for “Before I Forget” with Chella Ramanan who is a BAFTA nominated games designer, writer and games journalist. She is now narrative designer for Ubisoft Massive and co-founder of POC in Play actively aiming to increase the visibility and representation of people of colour in the video games industry. Along with Claire Morwood as part of 3 Fold games Chella has worked on the game “Before I forget" a first person narrative game dealing with the subject of Dementia. Chella talks through two of her Games Treasures she's picked up over the years as well as the inspiration for the game launching today. “Before I Forget” comes out today April 29th on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Xbox series. Visit Our Website - gamedev.london - for meet-ups, game jams, competitions and more! And why not come chat with us and hundreds of other devs? Join Our Discord - discord.gg/Mx7Sh2G Also Follow Us On Twitch! - twitch.tv/gamedevlondon --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/game-dev-london/support

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY! Here's a big Dragon Hug to all you listeners out there, we heart you very much! Here is what's in store for this weeks episode . What we played this week: NUTS, Hitman 3, Concrete Genie, Before I Forget, and Immortals Fenyx Rising . Industry News:  HBO's Last of Us casted, Nintendo World opens, and more . Tasty Topic: Videogame Power Couples. Cloud & Aeris? Mario & Peach?Tell us your favorite and why on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tasteofdragons/ . Dragon of the Week: This is our chance to talk about Industry professionals. This week we talk about designer, advocator, and all around amazing person, Chella Ramanan. (maker of Before I Forget) Here is the link we mentioned in the episode about her speech on Afrofurturism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_jOeKGAHQY . Join us LIVE 6 days a week on Twitch: Twitch.tv/tasteofdragons And on Social Media here: Linktree TasteofDragons . Go out and have the best week in gaming!

BAFTA has announced this year's BAFTA Breakthrough Brits. The initiative that identifies the most exciting new talent coming up in the film, games and television industries and gives them access to unique career development and mentoring opportunities.  TBB's Hannah Shury-Smith and Whelan Barzey spoke to some of the Breakthrough Brits about being recognised by BAFTA at this point of their career and what they hope they will get out of it ... We speak to - Bukky Bakray, Performer - breakthrough credit: Rocks (Rocks is on Netflix now) - watch Rocks trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqXhMYjasHM (HERE) Bukky had never acted before when approached to star in Sarah Gavron's coming-of-age film Rocks. Bakray plays the title role of schoolgirl Rocks Tamara Lawrance, Performer - breakthrough credit: The Long Song (on BBC and you can also watch episode one https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6z6ek5 (HERE)) - watch Long Song trailer https://vimeo.com/307738709 (HERE) Tamara Lawrance graduated in 2015 and established herself on the stage in lead roles at London's Royal Court Theatre and National Theatre. In December 2018 she starred as Miss July, a former slave on a sugar plantation in 19th-century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica (Jamaica), in the three-part https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Song_(TV_series) (BBC adaptation) of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Levy (Andrea Levy)'s novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Song (The Long Song). She was selected as one of the 2018 Screen Stars of Tomorrow. Abigail Dankwa, Multi Camera Director - breakthrough credit: Love Song (on BBC) Abigail Dankwa has multi-camera directed WonderBall (BBC Scotland, 2019), !mpossible (BBC 1) Tipping Point (ITV 1) , 24 Hours in A&E (C4), Big Brother & Celebrity Big Brother (C5) and Multi Camera Director VIP Arrivals Champions League Final Milan (UEFA), after working as a Studio Floor Manager, with a background in TV production and broadcast management. Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor, Producer - breakthrough credit: Blue Story (Blue Story is on Amazon now) - watch Blue Story trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H7hy7jZII0 (HERE) Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor, is a producer and writer whose recent works include the highly acclaimed Blue Story, written and directed by Andrew “Rapman” Onwubolu. In 2019, she was nominated for “Breakthrough Producer” at the BIFAs. In 2020, Joi Productions was awarded a BFI Vision Award and selected as one of the Screen 2020 Stars Of Tomorrow. She currently has projects in development at BFI, BBC Films and Film4. Bim Ajadi, Director - breakthrough credit: Here / Not Here - watch Here / Not Here trailer https://vimeo.com/415081089 (HERE) Bim Ajadi is an accomplished and award winning independent filmmaker with more than 15 years experience. He has worked for leading broadcasters and independently as a director and editor and produced high quality television documentaries, music videos and dramatic shorts. Here Not Here is a hip hop music drama showcasing a new visual language for story-telling by combining British Sign Language, Visual Vernacular, urban dance, music, and football. It is led by deaf artists and directed by Bim Ajadi who is also deaf. Ruka Johnson, Costume Designer - breakthrough credit: Blue Story  Ruka Johnson is a Costume Designer and stylist who worked on both Blue Story and Rocks. Additional credits include Through The Gates, Bruno, Sliced, amongst others. Chella Ramanan, Narrative Designer/Writer - breakthrough credit: Before I Forget - 4* review https://www.theguardian.com/games/2020/jul/18/before-i-forget-review-compassionate-game-about-living-with-dementia (HERE) Chella Ramanan was a games journalist. Three years ago, she started building her own game along with artist and programmer, Claire Morley, and a small team of art, music, and audio contributors. The indie,...

For this first episode of series 2, Jordan invites her good friend Chella Ramanan to talk about her new game Before I Forget, which tells the story of a woman with dementia. They discuss the main characters—Indian cosmologist Sunita and her pianist husband Dylan—and how Chella wrote mental illness into the game, which may well teach you something you didn’t know about what having dementia is really like.This episode contains discussion of some key moments from the game, which some listeners may want to save for after they’ve played it, but avoids spoiling the central mystery of the story.Chella mentions the film Still Alice and the novel Elizabeth is Missing.

This week in a very special episode of Indie Pod: An Indie Games Podcast Josh sits down with Claire Morwood and Chella Ramanan of 3-Fold Games developers of a new adventure game, Before I Forget. Please if you enjoy the interview be sure to check out Before I Forget over on Steam and at the very least add this awesome game to your wishlist. If you love Indie Games and want to stay informed, better yet entertained, be sure to listen in to our standard episode on Fridays. Each and every week we bring you all the news in the world of Indie Games, check out Indies over on crowdfunding sites, answer your listener questions, and much more. So be sure to subscribe to Indie Pod: An Indie Games Podcast on your favorite listening platform. Links: Before I Forget Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1126600/Before_I_Forget/ Music Credits: Song: Overworld Artist: Kubbi Direct Download: http://bit.ly/Overworld_Download

I discuss the context out of which Southern Gothic literature arose, describe some of its distinguishing features, and explain why I think it is such an important genre. ************************************************************************************************************************************************** Email me: marisadellefarfalle@gmail.com Twitter: @marisadee13 I'd also really appreciate it if you could rate & review this podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher, as it'll help a lot more people find out about my show! ************************************************************************************************************************************************* Helpful links: "Southern Gothic Literature," by Thomas Aervold Bjerre: https://oxfordre.com/literature/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.001.0001/acrefore-9780190201098-e-304 "What is the Southern Gothic Movement in Literature?" by Niki Foster: https://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-southern-gothic-movement-in-literature.htm "6 Elements of Southern Gothic," by Chella Ramanan: https://writersanontaunton.wordpress.com/2017/06/13/6-elements-of-southern-gothic/ "The Evolution Of Southern Gothic," by Jamie Kornegay: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-evolution-of-southern-gothic_b_6987510?guccounter=1 "Southern Gothic": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Gothic "Gothic vs. Southern Gothic," by EAKiehn: https://eakiehn.blogspot.com/2010/10/gothic-vs-southern-gothic.html "Genre: Southern Gothic": https://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/southern-gothic-distinguising-features/all "African-American Writers of Gothic Literature," by Julia O'Connell: https://www.thegothiclibrary.com/african-american-writers-of-gothic-literature/

In the second episode of this five-part mini series all about Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Jordan and Chella discuss how well the game introduces his systems to players. With millions playing New Horizons and sharing their progress on social media, what is it like for those players who are taking things more slowly and learning as they go?

From the comfort of your very own podcast stream, join us at London’s Barbican for an evening of talks, installations and an interactive performance about the future of storytelling…    Stories of the past have been carved, painted and printed. Today, they are whispered through earbuds, watched through screens and available to download.    In this episode, host Tiernan Douieb talks to writer and critic Olivia Laing, near-future author Stephen Oram and writer and narrative designer Chella Ramanan.    We will also explore how stories might be told in the future through installations from the Royal College of Art, and immersing ourselves in an animal love story with performance artist David Finnigan. Find out about Nesta’s new Alternarratives Prize -  a £15,000 prize for writers to explore innovation in short-form storytelling.    And don’t forget to listen out for your discount code for Nesta’s FutureFest on 20 March 2020.   Alternarratives Prize:  https://www.nesta.org.uk/project/alternarratives/ FutureFest 2020: https://www.futurefest.org/futurefest-2020   Get in touch with the Future Curious team: futurecurious@nesta.org.uk    Or on twitter @Nesta_UK, #futurecurious   Future Curious is presented by Tiernan Douieb and produced and published by Nesta’s communication team. This episode was recorded on location by Sonia Foday and edited at Wardour Studios. Original music by Ged Flood.

Chella Ramanan is the cofounder of POC in Play but also joining Ubisoft Massive as a Narrative Designer. This week we go through a range of topics about diversity, writing in games, and a blossoming industry in interactive movies. For the video version, please visit https://youtu.be/voS6XobvJnA Follow Chella on Twitter: @ChellaRamanan  http://www.arguethetoss.libsyn.com/ https://t.co/SKyn12jQNS Support us on Patreon and get Games ReCAP, our spinoff show of Roundtable News, in podcast form to hear us on your daily commute! To watch future GDU episodes live, go to twitch.tv/blu_champs every Tuesdays at 11 AM PST Grab some Merch! Give us a rating on iTunes: apple.co/2IKxTmU

Compare and contrast the previous episode on E3 with this one on Feral Vector, an annual festival of games and play that takes place in an old church up a hill in a Yorkshire town called Hebden Bridge. Chella Ramanan, a games writer and one of the founders of POC in Play, explains why this left-field festival is so important to her and to the UK games scene.Chella also wrote about Feral Vector for gameindustry.com

On this episode of the show Stuart talks to Chella Ramanan of 3 Fold Games about their game Before I Forget, convention feedback, diversity in the gaming industry, and target demographics. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at www.lapsedgamer.com and you can get in touch with us via Twitter @lapsedgamer You can also see our videos over on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAGtlQOKR97vqxhyXekAVwg The Lapsed Gamer Radio Team created this episode. Edited by Stuart Neill Original LGR themes, FX and music cues created and composed by Cevin Moore.   You can stream or directly download our episodes via our Podbean homepage http://lapsedgamerradio.podbean.com   If you’re enjoying our content, please subscribe to and review Lapsed Gamer Radio on iTunes.

Has the technology industry truly embraced diversity? What more needs to be done to make it a more inclusive industry? Inspired by Black History Month, Jordan Erica Webber and Chella Ramanan try and answer these questions.

GiN's own Chella Ramanan moderated a panel on diversity in videogames at the European Women in Games Conference this year. We chat with her in the lounge this week about how well the industry is doing, and where we can improve. The post The GiN Lounge Talks Diversity in Games appeared first on Game Industry News.