One Cool Thing
One Cool Thing is a podcast speaking with people in and around videogames about One Cool Thing not from games which is really fascinating them at the moment. One of the founding principles of Die Gute Fabrik is interdisciplinarity - collaborating with people from other art forms to bring fresh ideas to video games. And that’s also what’s at the heart of this podcast series: what not from games is shaping how people think about making games right now?
As host, each week DGF Studio Lead Hannah Nicklin will introduce the exciting guest and their practice to you before getting into a deep dive into what their One Cool Thing is, how it’s shaping their thoughts at the moment and what they hope it could offer others.
This a chance to hear more about the practices of cool folks working in games, and hopefully somewhere where we can all reflect on how we think about how we make things together.
One Cool Thing Production Credits:
One Cool Thing is hosted by Die Gute Fabrik's Studio Lead Hannah Nicklin and is produced, edited and sound designed by Tom Whalley. Additional production and research by Úna-Minh Kavanagh and our theme music by Nick Ellis who can be found on Bandcamp as tenby.
One Cool Thing
Char Putney on "Negative Space" by BR Yeager
On episode 20 we meet Char Putney who chats to Hannah Nicklin about "Negative Space" by BR Yeager.
Char Putney is a multiple award-winning Irish writer from Dublin who currently lives in Copenhagen. She’s been a lot of things in her rich and varied life so far, from a yoga teacher to working production and management positions at Google and Facebook, writing for games such as Divinity Original Sin, Baldur’s Gate, NUTS and Char was also the story lead on our recently announced brand new story-driven adventure game SALTSEA CHRONICLES.
Liner Notes
- M John Harrison’s unrelatable
- "Teatro Grottesco" by Thomas Ligotti
- "Experimental Film" by Gemma Files
- "The Visible Filth" by Nathan Ballingrud
- "Things We Lost In The Fire" by Mariana Enríquez
- "House of Leaves" by Mark Danielewski
- The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Char’s website
- Write with Laika
- Negative Space by B. R. Yeager
- Saltsea Chronicles
One Cool Thing Production Credits
One Cool Thing is hosted by Die Gute Fabrik's Studio Lead Hannah Nicklin and is produced, edited and sound designed by Tom Whalley. Additional production and research by Úna-Minh Kavanagh and our theme music by Nick Ellis who can be found on Bandcamp as tenby.