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In this episode of Spikes Excitement Talks, Gordon sits down with Rob Bagot, founder of Story Machine and former Global Chief Creative Officer at McCann. With a career spanning some of the most legendary agencies—including Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Ogilvy, and Hill Holliday—Rob shares his incredible journey through the world of advertising, from writing for Apple at BBDO to leading creative for global brands.They discuss the power of curiosity, the lessons Rob learned from working with industry icons like Jeff Goodby, and why great advertising starts with getting inside people's heads. Rob also reflects on the changing role of creativity, the future of AI-driven storytelling, and why he believes advertising should be a humanist profession that adds meaning to people's lives.Tune in for an unfiltered, insightful conversation about the craft of advertising, the evolution of brand storytelling, and why staying curious is the secret to staying great.
Our normal recording schedule is a bit behind, so please enjoy this spooky story to celebrate the spooky season instead. A man goes for a drive early in the morning. We encourage you to check out our Patreon and/or Ko-Fi, as they've got sweet sweet benefits and also you can help us get to our goals--we're making great progress towards full episode transcripts! AND Our Store is a thing, with all your t-shirts, tote bags, stickers and more! Background music and sound effects: Eerie Low Fluctuating Synth Tone Ambience The Hollywood Edge https://hollywoodedge.com Email us at PodAgainsttheMachine@gmail.com Remember to check out https://podagainstthemachine.com for show transcripts, player biographies, and more. Stop by our Discord server to talk about the show: https://discord.gg/TVv9xnqbeW Follow @podvsmachine on Twitter Find us on Reddit, Instagram, and Facebook as well.
The Lenses of Game Design: Part 02 Welcome back, wanderer. It's time to peer through four more lenses from The Art of Game Design. Our guide this time is narrative design virtuoso Bárbara Framil. With a distinguished career in the entertainment industry, Bárbara's expertise in immersive worldbuilding and player-centric storytelling has left an indelible mark on critically acclaimed projects such as Hunt: Showdown and the Crysis franchise. We dive into: The Lens of Emotion. How keeping the desired emotions in mind helps create better games, and how to playtest for emotions. The Lens of The Story Machine. The importance of crafting systems that can lead to emergent stories and experiences. The Lens of The Hero's Journey. Bárbara shares her thoughts on this narrative structure, and brings a couple different ones to the table for comparison. The Lens of Story. Creating game experiences that resonate and impact the player - via story. Bárbara's holistic view of creating video games! Seriously, this topic comes up over and over again. Grab a seat and join in! Bárbara: -> Twitter -> Website -> LinkedIn The Corner of Story and Game: -> Discord -> Facebook -> Instagram -> Twitter -> TikTok -> Threads -> Bluesky -> LinkedIn -> Email: gerald@storyandgame.com Please let me know if you have any questions or comments on this or any other episode. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to hear more conversations with professionals in the video game, tabletop, and fiction industries. #BarbaraFramil #NarrativeDesigner #InflexionGames #Nightingale #TheLensOfEmotion #TheLensOfTheStoryMachine #TheLensOfTheHerosJourney #TheLensOfStory #TheArtOfGameDesign #TheLensesOfGameDesign #VideoGames #TheCornerOfStoryAndGame
We've just finished the first arc of Foul and Fair on the supporter feed! Here's a glimpse into the world of Foul and Fair, in the form of a lore interlude that gives some context for the war our main characters are fighting...or desperately trying not to fight. A scholar of history from one of Portus's most prestigious universities gets us up to date on the history of The Unending War. AND Our Store is a thing, with all your t-shirts, tote bags, stickers and more! The Following Supporters of Network Against the Machine contributed names to this story: DaftProdigy: Dr. Plutony of Gwyth, Lumy of Gwyth, Sir Hors of Balting Fizzgig: Pinzinger "Zin" of Gwyth, The Quicksilver River Machinany Gun: "Barry" Cade of Gwyth Bellandora: Annie of DuPont Jason: "Flower" Delancey of Gwyth, The Rusty Gear, The Lifeless Peaks RaneZero: Inubrix Aldebaran JRod, Fizzgig, and DaftProdigy: Potions by Plutony (formerly Potions in Motion) Grumpous: The Kolthoss Empire, Emperor Verkol the Weak, Dreykol Background music and sound effects: Music: Night on the Docks - Trumpet by Kevin MacLeod Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/4130-night-on-the-docks-trumpet License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Sneaky Snitch by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4384-sneaky-snitch License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Antiquarian Study Tabletop Audio https://tabletopaudio.com Email us at PodAgainsttheMachine@gmail.com Remember to check out https://podagainstthemachine.com for show transcripts, player biographies, and more. Stop by our Discord server to talk about the show: https://discord.gg/TVv9xnqbeW Follow @podvsmachine on Twitter Find us on Reddit, Instagram, and Facebook as well.
Thank you to Adrian Crane for joining The Dark Zone to share his adventure racing stories and wisdom. Adrian has competed in every Eco-Challenge, among many other events, and shares not only his stories from back in the day, but what he sees today as an Adventure Racing World Series referee. We are fortunate to have Adrian on the show and the TDZ community is grateful for his time. Thank you to this episode's sponsor: VJ Shoes - https://vjshoesusa.com/the-dark-zone and use code: darkzone20 for a $20 discount. And please visit TDZ's Charity Partner - Ascend Athletics at https://www.ascendathletics.org/ and learn more about their work with young women in Pakistan and Afghanistan. TDZ is happy to promote its work at no cost to Ascend.
After dealing with the softest robot of all, our heroes have to plot a new course through the forest. No matter what their track record with glowing things may be. Our Patreon and Ko-Fi have just gotten much better! The Story Machine--in the form of a patron-exclusive story called Foul and Fair--starts releasing this weekend. All of the other details are spelled out on https://podagainstthemachine.com, in the intro to Machine Learning 15, and on, you know, the Patreon and Ko-Fi. AND Our Store is a thing, with all your t-shirts, tote bags, stickers and more! Background music and sound effects: Forest: Day (Ambiance Only), and Yokai Forest (Ambiance Only) Tabletop Audio https://tabletopaudio.com Space Ambience with Low Sub Atmosphere The Hollywood Edge https://hollywoodedge.com Torus Zak Email us at PodAgainsttheMachine@gmail.com Remember to check out https://podagainstthemachine.com for show transcripts, player biographies, and more. Stop by our Discord server to talk about the show: https://discord.gg/TVv9xnqbeW Follow @podvsmachine on Twitter Find us on Reddit, Instagram, and Facebook as well.
It's time to say goodbye to Iadenveigh, to the Old Stag Daily, to some dear friends, and some money, before we're off to the woods to make new friends. Our Patreon and Ko-Fi have just gotten much better! The Story Machine--in the form of a patron-exclusive story called Foul and Fair--starts releasing on 3/26. All of the other details are spelled out on https://podagainstthemachine.com, in the intro to Machine Learning 15, and on, you know, the Patreon and Ko-Fi. AND Our Store is a thing, with all your t-shirts, tote bags, stickers and more! Background music and sound effects: Quiet Theme #4 (looped) and Quiet Theme #5 (looped) Andrew Sitkov Forest: Day (Ambiance Only), and Fishing Village (Ambiance Only) Tabletop Audio https://tabletopaudio.com Torus Zak Email us at PodAgainsttheMachine@gmail.com Remember to check out https://podagainstthemachine.com for show transcripts, player biographies, and more. Stop by our Discord server to talk about the show: https://discord.gg/TVv9xnqbeW Follow @podvsmachine on Twitter Find us on Reddit, Instagram, and Facebook as well.
After a short break to, you know, not die, our heroes are at it again. Surely they will try something safer this time. One would think. Our Patreon and Ko-Fi have just gotten much better! The Story Machine--in the form of a patron-exclusive story called Foul and Fair--starts releasing on 3/26. All of the other details are spelled out on https://podagainstthemachine.com, in the intro to Machine Learning 15, and on, you know, the Patreon and Ko-Fi. AND Our Store is a thing, with all your t-shirts, tote bags, stickers and more! Background music and sound effects: Music: Gymnopedie by Sascha Ende Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/222-gymnopedie License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Huge spaceship interior ambience The Hollywood Edge https://hollywoodedge.com Email us at PodAgainsttheMachine@gmail.com Remember to check out https://podagainstthemachine.com for show transcripts, player biographies, and more. Stop by our Discord server to talk about the show: https://discord.gg/TVv9xnqbeW Follow @podvsmachine on Twitter Find us on Reddit, Instagram, and Facebook as well.
It's the triumphant return of Machine Learning! No time has passed since the last time we did one of these, so let's jump in the "not far back at all" machine to recap some episodes from near the end of book 2, when absolutely nothing bad happened specifically to Vaargas. BIG SPECIAL THINGS Our Hopefinder Third Party Kon game with special guest GM Jason Bulmahn drops today! The creator of Pathfinder 2e and Hopefinder (a Pathfinder 2e hack) will be running the game he made through a one-shot he wrote on 2/19 at 2:00 EST (and whatever that time correlates to for you. Wherever you are.) We'll have a podcast version of it up later...but you're going to want to see this on the big screen. Or the small screen. The screen part is the thing I'm emphasizing. Check out https://www.pf2events.com/schedule for more details, and all the other great events that are going to be part of this convention, and maybe check out some of the independent, third party content that's going to be showcased there! Jeff and Sam will be joining Steve and Griffin from Hideous Laughter Productions on The Zone of Truth on 2/27! They'll be talking Iron Gods, taking questions from the audience, and probably not revealing how many cats Sam has. Hop into the Hideous Laughter discord server to pose your questions, and check out the episode on their main feed next week. ALSO! Network Against the Machine Patreon slash Ko-Fi are changing for the be better. Last year we hit a couple big goals, attaining self sufficiency for podcast expenses, and opening up the aforementioned bonus games, which have really rattled some peanuts. This year, we're going to turn things up a bit. More benefits, basically—more reasons to support the pod and network that fights against machines so you don't have to. Thought, I mean, you still have to fight against the Machine, probably. But that's for later, you know, when the revolution comes. In the mean time: fun podcast stuff! We want to make sure that we're providing value to those of you who are willing and able to support us on a month-to-month basis, but we also want to make sure that we're not unduly locking people out of content they might enjoy because of their economic circumstances. There's a needle to thread here—and we are always open to hearing feedback on how we're doing. $2 – The Glaucite tier When you join this tier, you already get access to original music on our crowdfunding sites, plus Discord role access, but now you're also going to get a thank you on our website—you know, since we thank you for supporting us. But the biggest change here is that we're adding a Patreon podcast feed, and it's going to be available to everyone who supports us. Well, what's going to be on this feed? The Story Machine. We're going to start releasing a Story Machine on this feed every month, starting with our first multi-part story, “Foul and Fair,” beginning at the end of March. We're going to have a new crowdfunding goal to up that rate to every other week in the future. If you can't afford to join in on our crowdfunding, don't fret! We don't want to lock you out of these stories—transcripts of them are still going to be available on our website. $5 – The Adamantine tier You get all of your existing benefits, including The B.R.I.A.N. Identity maps, the stuff described in the previous tier, and the new benefit: you're going to get a chance to name characters and places in new Story Machine arcs, and/or Gootube flavors. Here's how this is going to work: for the first part of Foul and Fair, for instance, we have eight character slots and two places up for names. Have a PC name you'd like to see immortalized in audio and text form, or a brilliant idea for a tavern, a shop, that sort of thing? If you're at the Adamantine tier and above, send it over to us via Discord or email or the built-in messaging thing in Patreon, however works for you. We'll work as many names as we can into the stories, and when they appear you get a credit in the show notes, in the transcript, and in the audio credits. If you'd rather throw us an absurd flavor combination to upset Izzy with, you can send those to us as well, and we'll find ways to work them in. For some reason, those tasty, goopy containers just keep coming up. $10 – The Djezet tier All the stuff listed before this, plus Skymedal dedications, and we always need more of those. The more dedications we have, the more Skymedals the cast gets. There's a mea culpa due at this tier—we've promised you an out-loud, personalized expression of gratitude on a Machine Learning and those haven't happened. We're very sorry about that! Starting next ML episode, the wrong will be rectified. As far as new stuff goes, we're going to share with you eBook and/or PDF versions of The B.R.I.A.N. Identity adventures so you'll have everything you need to run them in your home game, and eBook and/or PDF versions of some of our Story Machine stories. In that case, once part 1 of “Foul and Fair” is all up on the audio feed, we'll compile it into a reflowable eBook you can run on your Kindle or Nook or whatever, and a PDF you can look at on a normal screen. Compiling the adventures from B.R.I.A.N. is going to take a little while to get started, since we have to, you know, learn how to make a nice looking adventure PDFs and books. $20 – Siccatite tier You know the drill by now—all the lower tier benefits, plus the existing benefit of the discount code to our merch store (new code for 2023, along with new merch coming soon), and then the new stuff. If you're supporting us this hard, we want to make sure to put a physical benefit in your hands. So we're going to send you stickers. The Book 1 stickers are already out in the wild—you'll get all four of those. The Book 2 stickers we've been showing on social media lately—you're going to get all four of those. Book 3 will have a series of stickers by the time its finished, and those will come to you in good time. We'll also send you theoretical bonus stickers and other extras—things like The Dapple sticker that we produced for episode 100. $50 – The Orichalcum tier Hey, you're still here. Hello. All the other tier benefits apply here, both old and new, plus the game with some portion of the cast, but we're adding to that. Twice a year you're going to get free exclusive physical rewards. The idea is that we're going to generate special edition t-shirts, print limited edition Story Machine paperback books, and send them out to you. These are going to be bits of merch that will literally not exist outside this reward tier, so that's very exciting. We hope you'll consider joining one of our crowdfunding thingies, or upgrading your membership if you're already on there, and let us know what you think of the new rewards and anything we might be able to do better. We're not far from our next goal, at which point we can upgrade our website to one that can actually handle, you know, visitors. After that the goal to be able afford to pay someone to transcript our backlog of Pod Against the Machine episodes—that's a huge project, but one that we're really committed to. One of the first things we brought up when we started this podcast was that we wanted this show to be as accessible as we could make it, and transcripts are a huge part of that. In addition, we're adding another goal on the far end of that, and when we get there we can bump up the rate of releases for The Story Machine to every two weeks. AND Our Store is a thing, with all your t-shirts, tote bags, stickers and more! Background music and sound effects: Elf Meditation by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5728-elf-meditation-preview License: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/standard-license Sneaky Snitch by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4384-sneaky-snitch License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music: Action Sport Breakbeat by WinnieTheMoog Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/6391-action-sport-breakbeat License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Email us at PodAgainsttheMachine@gmail.com Remember to check out https://podagainstthemachine.com for show transcripts, player biographies, and more. Stop by our Discord server to talk about the show: https://discord.gg/TVv9xnqbeW Follow @podvsmachine on Twitter Find us on Reddit, Instagram, and Facebook as well.
Welcome to another special presentation from Network Against the Machine. In Jeff's premiere on The Story Machine, we'll follow a messenger for a long day, and a trip to Huey's Diner. The full text transcript of this story is available on our website. We encourage you to check out our Patreon and/or Ko-Fi, as they've got sweet sweet benefits and also you can help us get to our goals--we're making great progress towards full episode transcripts! AND Our Store is a thing, with all your t-shirts, tote bags, stickers and more! Background music and sound effects: Music: Air Of Mystery by chilledmusic Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/7119-air-of-mystery License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music: A Night In The Suburbs by MusicLFiles Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8209-a-night-in-the-suburbs License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Email us at PodAgainsttheMachine@gmail.com Remember to check out https://podagainstthemachine.com for show transcripts, player biographies, and more. Stop by our Discord server to talk about the show: https://discord.gg/TVv9xnqbeW Follow @podvsmachine on Twitter Find us on Reddit, Instagram, and Facebook as well.
Brian Reiss - The Dark Zone's Original Recording Guinea Pig - joins The Dark Zone to tell us how he jumped into adventure racing with two feet, the things he's learned along the way, and how to be a great teammate. Brian is always up for an adventure and he's always great for a story or five.
On this podcast, we spoke with Mike Sherrill, one of the founders of Machine Zone. In case you're not in gaming, Machine Zone released the legendary titles Game of War and Mobile Strike and generated over $5 billion in revenue with 310 million downloads. So, how did Mike go from an Atari play tester to launching Machine Zone? Why did he get cease and desist letters from record labels? How did his company get Apple to include in-app purchases on their platform? You'll find out all that and more on this episode of Creators at Work.
While trying to stay creative and maintain our distance, the Story Machine crew and friends have embarked on a Dungeons and Dragons style adventure. Please enjoy this teaser of our new miniseries, The Adventure Contraption 9000.
This week the Story Machine 9000 gives writing a try. We also let it write the tagline too. In snooty Dystopian Manchester, a cool and clever human with pink fingers and feathery arms is about to confront her proud patient antagonist. She is not prepared for it.
The concept of the Story Machine is a tool learned while during my undergrad. This tool is something that can be used to stimulate your imagination, help you cross genres if need be, and be perpetual! Don't cheat yourself out of the dynamic stories you house. Let the Story Machine be your secret weapon. Keep writing! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/onthewritersblock/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/onthewritersblock/support
We talk to Sam Ruddock, director of Story Machine Productions, about reinventing live literature and how to create transformative experiences based on the reading of books. Hosted by Simon Jones, writer and Digital Marketing Manager at the National Centre for Writing. Find out more about the National Centre for Writing: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/ Mentioned events: Life & Times of Michael K: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/whats-on/life-times-of-michael-k/ Related links: Story Machine Productions: https://storymachineproductions.co.uk/ Neil Gaiman on finding your tribe: http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/03/at-eastercon.html Norfolk & Norwich Festival: https://nnfestival.org.uk/ Wigtown: http://www.wigtownbookfestival.com/ Edinburgh Book Festival: https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/ Extract from 'The Quiet' by Carys Davies, one of the stories in the 2017 show The Story Machine: Under Surveillance, co-produced by National Centre for Writing and Norfolk & Norwich Festival. Sound design by Jose McGill, featuring the voice of Joanna Swann. Music by Bennet Maples: https://sonicfruit.co.uk/
The Story Machine 9000 was down for routine maintenance this week, so we had to activate our Email Machine 9000. If you'd like to send us an email, please send them to storymachine9000@gmail.com. listen now! Originally Uploaded 5/17/17
Jim Schuyler, Founder of DesignWare Jim Schuyler was Founder of DesignWare. Founded in 1980, Designware created educational software that was published by other companies — including SRA, Xerox, and Spinnaker — as well as software that it published under its own label. Designware's titles included Creature Creator, Grammar Examiner, Mission: Algebra, Spellicopter, and Trap-a-Zoid, among others. Jim programmed Story Machine himself, which was published by Spinnaker Software. Designware was acquired by PeachTree in 1984. In preparation for this interview, Jim wrote a seven-part article on his blog about DesignWare's pre-history, story, and legacy. This interview took place on September 11, 2017. In it, we discuss Peter Rosenthal, David Seuss, and Bill Bowman, all of whom I previously interviewed. The intro and outro music is Confusion Reigns, composed by Jim Schuyler. A video version of this interview is also available. Peter Rosenthal interview David Seuss interview Bill Bowman interview AtariMania's list of Designware software 1982 InfoWorld article about DesignWare 1983 InfoWorld interview with Jim 1984 PC Magazine Profile on Jim Jim on Twitter Jim's compositions on SoundCloud
The Story Machine 9000 Podcast is unique podcast in which host and guest story tellers alike are gifted a few words and prompts from the mysterious, magical Story Machine! This podcast, started by some Toledoans, can be found at http://storymachine9000.blogspot.com. Additionally, the guys have worked on the Tree City Film Festival in Sylvania the past few years. Checkout the films here: https://vimeo.com/treecityfilmfestival ****Toledo Trivia*** Q1. This Toledo Native starred as Maxwell Klinger on MASH … Hint: Used to have a LPGA Tournament named after him Q2. Formerly Married to a scientologist, this Toledo native Actress will be a judge at the Maumee Film Festival this September (and hopefully a guest on the Toledo Matters Podcast) Q3. Bonnie Turner, a Toledo Native, was formerly a staff writer on SNL who would go on to create two timeless TV series’ - Third Rock From The Sun, and this other classic starring Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher (among others). Bonus: This new NBC Sitcom starring Glenn Howerton from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Patton Oswalt is about an Ivy League philosophy scholar who losses his dream job and ends up teaching AP Bio at a local Toledo school. *****Credits****** - For more information on Dave and Josh visit storymachine9000.blogspot.com or listen to their podcast on iTunes - Toledo Matters is always recorded out of magnificent recording studios of WavFlow Media. Nate and the WavFlow team are the most professional Audio Engineering Studio around. We promise he will make you and your guests sound pretty dang crispy. www.WavFlowMedia.com - Thank you to Toledo Matters Trivia prize sponsor Actual Coffee. - Another thank you to the ridiculously talented designer, Jacob Parr. Our logo, cover photos, and much of everything else visual to Toledo Matters was created by Jacob. For more of his work, or if you want to kick your brand up a notch, visit jacobparr.design - You can always get more information about this show and a map of the hidden gems our guests have mentioned at Toledomatters.com - And thank you Toledo, for tuning in, and making Toledo Matter. Until next time, we wish you well.
In part one of this ridiculous episode of Candy Teeth Radio Jeremy Gregory and Geoff Weeg are joined by comedians Andy Miller and Shannon Koyano. They talk about a new show Andy is producing called Andy Millers Sweethearts of Comedy at Pies and Pints in Seattle. The guests help write some new questions for Story Machine game which leads into conversations on: Beastiality, taboo sex acts in a British Tv reality show, and the awful thought of sounding (don't google it) the group has a great time being disgusted, and fascinated by the things humans do. Artist Galen Turner plays the game over the phone, and we hear a story about him about artificially inseminated a cow when he was 8. In the second part (coming soon) the couple plays the game themselves. Thanks or listening Cavity Creeps, and until next time stay alive! Like the Candy Teeth Radio facebook page, if you like Candy Teeth Radio: https://www.facebook.com/CandyTeethRadio/ Also check out CandyTeethCreative for all things Candy Teeth! Andy Millers Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andy.miller.3990418?fref=ts Shannon Koyanos Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/shannon.koyanovieg?fref=ts
One of the elements of the Atmos Totnes Hub is Story Machine. What is it? We asked its creator, James Engwell.