Description: An audio series about video games and the games industry, as they were in the past and how they came to be the way they are today.
The Life & Times of Video Games is an award-nominated documentary audio series about video games and the video game industry — as they were in the past, and how they came to be the way they are today.
It combines context, analysis, interviews, and discussion that ties every story back to the present day, because history doesn't just vanish into the distance behind us; it casts a very long shadow that affects everything that comes after it. The things that happened in the games industry 10, 20, 30 years ago all have a lasting legacy — sometimes small, sometimes large — and in The Life & Times of Video Games I try to draw those through lines in the course of telling fascinating stories about the past.
Here, for instance, is the story I did on legendary game designer and Game Developers Conference founder Chris Crawford's famous Dragon Speech — wherein he left the industry, sword held aloft, to pursue his dream that games would one day stand at the pinnacle of art and storytelling. To craft the story, I used a combination of interviews, audio from the talk itself, music/SFX clips from some relevant games, bespoke music I composed myself, and a bit of sound design:
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Ash Kapriyelov - blogger, public speaker, Twitch streamer
Ash Kapriyelov - blogger, public speaker, Twitch streamer
Ash Kapriyelov - blogger, public speaker, Twitch streamer