During our interview with Vincent Baker, he agreed to tell us about a secret project in exchange for a promise to have him back on to discuss the topic of abandoning games. With GenCon right around the corner, this seemed like a great time to hold up our end of the bargain. We grabbed two of Vincent’s good friends Joshua A.C. Newman and Robert Bohl to join us in this discussion since, well, none of us here at The Walking Eye have designed, let alone abandoned, a game before. Kevin moderated as these three discussed the different aspects of abandoning games: how difficult it can be, what you can learn from it, and how to know when to let an idea go.

Relevant Links

• Vincent’s Blog
• Joshua’s Blog
• The Dragon Killer
• Under The Bed
• Shock: Social Science Fiction
• The Dark Crystal
• Human Contact
• Prime Time Adventures
• Apocalypse World
• The 20×20 Room
• Misspent Youth
• Otherkind
• In A Wicked Age
• Psi-Run
• Jared Sorensen
• Key Parties
• Paul Czege
• Acts of Evil
• Night’s Master by Tannith Lee
• Ron Edwards
• Beowulf
• Fantasy Heartbreakers
• GameChef
• Myers-Briggs Personality Test
• PAX East
• Mike and Jerry
• Dreamnation

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro and Outro music provided by 

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In a marathon session, CJ and Dan find the Heroic Age unfolding in a quartet of Avengers Books, while big numbers bring big changes to some of DC’s major characters.

Comics discussed:

• Superman #700
• Wonder Woman #600
• SHIELD #2
• Secret Warriors #17
• Invincible #72, 73
• Captain America #606
• Legion of Super-Heroes #2
• Adventure Comics #12
• Booster Gold #33
• Avengers Prime #1
• Avengers #2
• Secret Avengers #2
• Brightest Day #3, 4
• Green Lantern #55
• The Flash #3
• Action Comics #890
• Return of Bruce Wayne #3
• REBELS #17
• New Avengers #1

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro and Outro music: Pixelguru by Subatomicglue.

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After a few speedbumps we were finally able to get together with Jared Sorensen to discuss our experiences with FreeMarket. The original plan was to interview both Jared and Luke, but sadly  due to some technical difficulties Luke could not join us. Things ended up working out really well, though, as CJ and Kevin got a chance to dig pretty deep into some of their concerns and questions about FreeMarket.

Relevant Links

• FreeMarket
• Our FreeMarket Review
• Jared Sorensen
• Luke Crane
• Burning Empires
• Mutants and Masterminds
• System Matters
• Robert A. Heinlein
• Game Design is Mind Control GenCon Panel
• Beta Software / Feature Complete
• Peter Adkison
• Ron Edwards
• CHOIRS Project
• Rob Bohl
• Wikis
• Jason Morningstar
• Blade Runner
• The Coen Brothers
• Joshua Bell
• Existentialism
• Boing Boing
• Osprey VTOL
• Inside the Donut GenCon Panel
• Jared’s Events
• Inspectres Movie
• Parsley

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro Music “Inner Universe” from the Ghost In the Shell: Stand Alone Complex OST
• Outro Music “More Human Than Human (Meet Bambi in the King’s Harem Mix)” by White Zombie

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It is with great pleasure that we welcome Jen back to the podcast! She’s been away due to a scheduling conflict, and for the past few months has been exploring the wild and woolly world of White Wolf Live Action Roleplay. She sits down with Kevin, Brandon, and CJ to discuss her feelings on the Camarilla LARP.  Unfortunately, Jen’s experience was less than ideal. Listen in to hear about her experiences!

Relevant Notes

Special note:

Turns out you can’t just look up the FBI Cult Watch List. Funny that. Several people within the Camarilla have claimed that the LARP is on that list, but as far as we can tell, there’s no way to verify that information. It’s mostly likely a rumor. Update Jason Morningstar was kind enough to point us towards . Very informative, and makes it seem very likely the FBI is not watching the Cam at all.

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro music provided by
• Outro Music Brand New Sucker by Jonathan Coulton

A brief note about our comments:

The comments section is closed for now. We got a lot of great feedback! From my experience with the Internets, I’m guessing most of what needed to be said has been said. From here on out we’ll just be getting repeats on these basic themes. If you’d like to discuss this episode more, I welcome you to head to our forum, which is much more loosely moderated.

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