”That’s not a friendship!” Parasocial Relationships; Narrative Pacing

Your nice hosts bring deep topics to the clubhouse this week! Listen in as Stephen forgets the name of the Uncharted lead character (but remembers the voice actor), Ellen brings up Mass Effect many, many times and Mark describes more interesting tidbits about Widget Satchel's development.

• Serious Play Conference
• LumbearJack - YouTube
• Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer - Steam
• Max's award! - Twitter
• Reed the Robotanist - Steam
• Here's a CableACE award.

Parasocial Relationships 0:09:25 Ellen Burns-JohnsonIRLNarrativeParasocial Interaction - Wikipedia“The Player’s Parasocial Interaction with Digital Entities”  - Katrine Kavli, IT University in Copenhagen“Is It Weird for Adults to Have Imaginary Friends?” - Stephen Dubner and Angela Duckworth, No Stupid Questions“Tragic but true: how podcasters replaced our real friends” - Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian Narrative Pacing 0:45:21 Stephen McGregorGame DesignNarrative"Kurt Vonnegut on the 8 'shapes' of stories" - Stephen Johnson, Big Think