Chet Faliszek , lead room decorator on Valve Software ’s Left 4 Dead , talk zombie , television game , and the end of the humans in this rerun of episode one of The Geek ’s Guide to the Galaxy .
The Geek ’s Guide to the Galaxy is host by John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley .
show on for this instalment ’s fabulous SHOW note ! ( line : Show bank bill sentence signature may me more or less off , as the show was re - edited prior to this rebroadcast — it ’s the theater director ’s cut ! )
00:00 Introduction
00:38 Dave and John insert the show
John and Dave spill the beans about Valve Software
01:05 Valve Software , desktop and their ground - break gamesHalf - Life and Portal .
06:20 Valve ’s stress on strong writing , and the role of skill fable authorMark Laidlawin create Half - Life .
07:09 The third - party mod biotic community ’s function in Valve ’s evolution .
consultation – Chet Faliszek , lead author on Left for idle and Left For bushed 2
9:13 John and Dave preface Chet Faliszek
10:15 Chet talk about getting his start in writing for website and magazines and the bounce to Valve package .
10:58 The piece of writing cognitive operation at Valve
11:46 Origins of Left 4 Dead atTurtle Rock Studios , Chet ’s theatrical role in its development , and what the true radical effort that it is to make a Valve biz .
14:04 Chet weighs in which game he recollect have the strongest writing outside of Valve : Call of Duty : Modern Warfare , Grand Theft Auto 4,Bioshock .
15:42 Advice for listeners who require to write for video games .
17:38 The introduction of melee weapons into Left 4 Dead 2 , and we learn that the sound of the Frying Pan is the ring - tone on Chet ’s phone .
19:31 Valve and Hollywood
20:53 Will we ever hear the close of any of Ellis ’s taradiddle ?
21:30 How developer ’ experience in the south eastern United States helped to form the setting and the story .
23:04 Researching Left 4 numb 2
23:58 Deciding how challenging to make Left 4 Dead
25:44 The Special Infected , the origins of the virus , and the hereafter of Left 4 Dead
29:19 How Chet would survive the zombi Revelation .
30:22 Dave and John speculate about rumor of Portal 2
31:57 Dave talks about a prankster whocalled into a radio show pretend to be Gordon Freeman , the independent character from Half - life story .
33:35 Dave and John hash out the all - significant doubt of their eventuality plans for survive the Zombie Apocalypse , including comparison of the comparative merits of helping hand gun vs. dead reckoning gun .
39:22 Versus Mode tale – John babble about play Survivors vs. Infected againstStephen Gould , generator ofJumper , and about on-line swordplay as networking .
John and Dave talk about their early vulnerability , influence and favorites in post - apocalyptic media
42:00 John and Dave proceed the discussion pop with Chet about which games they believe feature just writing . John brings upFalloutandUltima 4
44:02 Dave talks aboutWasteland , and a moment that changed his expectations of fib - relation in video games .
46:56 Ron Gilbert’sSecret of Monkey Island , its connectedness to the Pirates of the Carribean dealership , and both of their debt toOn Stranger Tides , by Tim Powers .
47:20 Dave negotiation about Richard Garrett ’s Ultima series , and his ground - breaking turn in Ultima 4 , in which reference counts .
49:17 John and Dave discussCormac McCarthy‘sThe Road , now a major motion picture .
52:35 Dave and John talk over their favorite pieces of post - apocalyptic fiction : Day of the Triffids , Earth Abides , A son and His Dog . John talks aboutA Canticle for Liebowitz , by Walter M. Miller , Jr. and its place as the classical post - apocalyptic novel , and Dave narrate us why he admiresAdam and No Eve , by Alfred Bester .
Thanks for hear !
John Joseph Adamsis an anthologist , a writer , and a geek . He is the bestselling editor of the anthology By Blood We Live , Federations , The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , The Living Dead ( a World Fantasy Award finalist ) , Seeds of Change , andWastelands : story of the Apocalypse . His most recent books are The Living Dead 2 and The Way of the Wizard , and he is currently assembling several other anthologies , include Brave New Worlds and The Mad Scientist ’s Guide to World Domination . Barnes & Noble.com name him “ the reigning Martin Luther King Jr. of the anthology world , ” and his books have been named to numerous best of the year lists . In increase to his anthology work , he worked for more than eight year as an editor program at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , and is presently the editor in chief ofLightspeed MagazineandFantasy Magazine .
David Barr Kirtleyhas published fabrication in mag such as Realms of Fantasy , Weird Tales , Lightspeed , Intergalactic Medicine Show , On Spec , and Cicada , and in anthologies such as New Voices in Science Fiction , Fantasy : The good of the Year , and The Dragon Done It . lately he ’s contributed stories to several of John ’s anthology , including The Living Dead , The live Dead 2 , and The fashion of the Wizard . He ’s attended legion writing workshops , include Clarion , Odyssey , Viable Paradise , James Gunn ’s Center for the Study of Science Fiction , and Orson Scott Card ’s Writers Bootcamp , and he holds an MFA in screenwriting and fiction from the University of Southern California . He also teaches regularly at Alpha , a Pittsburgh - area science fiction shop for young writers . He lives in New York .
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