The talk EP co-creator Brian Cross gave at last year’s Biopolitics of Popular Culture seminar is now online in MP3 format. The topic of his presentation was "Talking Transhumanism at the Table: Designing Games for Non-transhumanist Audiences." Here’s a summary: In creating, publishing, and promoting Eclipse Phase we wanted to makea product that made an …
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RPG Blog II Applauds EP
The folks over at RPG Blog II posted up their Best and Worst of Gaming in 2009, and they selected Eclipse Phase as the best sci-fi product of the year: Best Sci-Fi Product Gold: Eclipse Phase I don’t usually do Transhuman sci-fi, but Eclipse Phase mixes it with horror and a bit of investigative conspiracy …
EP on the Hebrew Gaming Podcast
Eclipse Phase co-creator Rob Boyle was interviewed on the Hebrew Gaming Podcast earlier this month, and they’ve now posted the mp3 online. This was a fun talk going over various elements of the game setting and system. Thanks guys!
Peter Watts on EP
Sci-fi writer Peter Watts commented on Eclipse Phase on his blog today. Thanks Peter! In addition to writing some great books and being one of the influences for Eclipse Phase, Peter is noteworthy as also adopting the Creative Commons model with his books. His novels are available online–check them out! (Blindsight here, and Starfish, first …
Grinders Interview
Rob and Brian were interviewed by Kevin from Grinding.Be about Eclipse Phase during GenCon. This talk covers some of the basics of EP and some of the politics behind it, while also meandering into other random territory.