Titans of Text (Titans of Text)

We sat down with Justin Seabrook-Rocha to talk about his time on Age of Legacy and his new project Ataxia. Find these projects online at: Age of Legacy - http://legacy.digitalinertia.net/ Ataxia - https://github.com/xenith-studios/ataxia Special Guest: Justin "Xenith" Seabrook-Rocha.

Join us to chat with Michael Seifert as we explore the realm of beastly fidos. Special Guest: Michael Seifert.

We take a break from normal episodes to release this special episode to celebrate 1 year of Grapevine. Join us to talk a bit about the history of Grapevine & Titans of Text and why they were started. Plus hear more about what's coming up in the future for both.

Join us to chat with Steve Meretzky, a true titan of text adventures. Find Steve online at: - boffo.us (http://boffo.us/) Special Guest: Steve Meretzky.

Mike "Tamarindo" joins the Titans to talk about StickMUD. Special Guest: Mike "Tamarindo".

Join the Titans as we bring on Sean from Materia Magica to talk about its history and future. Find Materia Magica online at: www.materiamagica.com (https://www.materiamagica.com/) Special Guest: Sean.

We continue with Doc on the failings of some AAA space games to deliver narrative Special Guest: Doc "Squiddy" Burford.

We have with us today the one and only Austin, the veritable Pattern of the text gaming world. Today we’re going to take a trip on the Wheel of Time and talk about how Austin got into mudding, more specifically WoTMUD and dive into the world of WoTMUD itself. Find Austin online: http://wotmud.info/ Special Guest: Austin.

We have with us today two guests, Ioan and Laura. The Producer and Assistant Producer/Lead Builder of Starmourn, a game produced and developed by Iron Realms Entertainment. Find Starmourn online at: https://www.starmourn.com/ https://ironrealms.com/ Special Guests: Ioan and Laura.

Thibaud joins us to talk about his history with mudding as well as the creation and future of Written Realms. Special Guest: Thibaud.

Join the Titans as we bring on Huw the creator of Warsim a single player ascii art based kingdom and war management game currently available in Early Access on Steam. We go over Huw's history with designing games and trace Warsim's development from its initial inception through today. Special Guest: Huw Millward.

Johnny comes to us from the epic cyberpunk roleplaying MOO Sindome. We're going to talk about the rise of Sindome, what makes it unique, what has contributed to its longevity and the ins and outs of fostering and maintaining an RPI style mud. Find Sindome online at: https://www.sindome.org/ https://play.sindome.org/ Special Guest: Johnny.

Join Dentin, creator and head admin as the Titans explore the world of Alter Aeon. We discuss Alter Aeon's origin and engage in discussion about its mechanics and a fountain of wood. Special Guest: Dentin.

Alexis Kennedy joins us to talk about the books and authors that inspire him, his history of game design through founding Failbetter, making Fallen London and Sunless Sea there up to founding Weather Factory with the creation of Cultist Simulator and the upcoming Book of Hours. He drops a few tidbits about Book of Hours and drops names of other upcoming games that have strong narrative elements that he's looking forward to. Keep a look out on Kickstarter for the Book of Hours campaign launching on August 29th of this year! Weather Factory https://store.steampowered.com/app/1028310/BOOKOFHOURS/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/718670/Cultist_Simulator/ http://weatherfactory.biz/ Special Guest: Alexis Kennedy.

We go in depth on IRE's gothic mud Aetolia and even get some tidbits about IRE's inner workings from lead producer Adam. Find Aetolia online at: - aetolia.com (https://www.aetolia.com/) - @AetolianDevs (https://twitter.com/AetolianDevs) Special Guest: Adam.

Jon and Nick joins the Titans to talk about Legends of the Jedi MUD. Special Guests: Jon "Rojan" and Nick "Gathorn".

Join Niklas and Matti as the Titans explore the world of BatMUD. We discuss the recent Steam release along with the history and future of the game. Special Guests: Matti and Niklas.

Caelyn Sandel joins the titans to talk about Caves of Qud, Lorefinder and her own body of work in fiction writing and game design. Special Guest: Caelyn Sandel.

Having just celebrated its 25th anniversary, Carrion Fields' own god of loss Rahsael joins the Titans to discuss the things that make it unique. Find Carrion Fields online at: - carrionfields.net (http://www.carrionfields.net/) - Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/carrionfields) - Twitter (http://twitter.com/CarrionFields) - Discord (https://discord.gg/uy9rHGz) Special Guest: Rahsael.

Jason McIntosh and Jacqueline Ashwell join the Titans to talk about the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation, IFComp, Narrascope and everything else Interactive Fiction. Find more about the IFTF online at https://iftechfoundation.org/ Special Guests: Jacqueline Ashwell and Jason McIntosh.

We take a break from our normal episodes to talk about the upcoming event NaMuBuMo. Find more about NaMuBuMo on the website (https://namubumo.com/).

Join the Titans as we bring on Vadi of Mudlet, a popular MUD client, to talk about it's history and future. Find Vadi and Mudlet online at: - Mudlet (https://www.mudlet.org/) - Mudlet Discord (https://discord.gg/XSxkVFE) Special Guest: Vadi.

Doc Burford, game and narrative designer extraordinaire joins the Titans to discuss why Half Life 2 sucks and proves that horses are definitively a real thing. This is a two part series with Doc, look to episode 31 in 2 weeks for the rest. Special Guest: Doc "Squiddy" Burford.

Join the Titans as we bring on Devon and Eric from DuneMUD to talk about it's history and future. Find DuneMUD online at: - DuneMUD.net (http://dunemud.net/doku.php) - Twitter (https://twitter.com/DuneMUD) Special Guests: Devon and Eric.

Griatch is the lead developer of one of, if not the most well known, modern mud platforms Evennia as well as an accomplished artist and illustrator. Find Griatch and Evennia online at: http://www.evennia.com/ http://github.com/evennia/evennia Special Guest: Griatch.

We sat down with Jason "Acer" Alexander to talk about DarkWind. Find DarkWind online at: https://darkwind.org https://play.darkwind.org Special Guest: Jason "Acer" Alexander.

Join Thibaud, owner and maintainer of Written Realms, and Addison one of the NaMuBuMo participants as we discuss NaMuBuMo and Written Realms. Special Guests: Addison and Thibaud.

Join us for a truly titanic episode as Dr. Richard Bartle, one of the fathers of not just muds but all online multiplayer games, comes on the podcast to talk about cars, old cinema but mostly MUDs! Special Guest: Dr. Richard Bartle.

Join us to chat with Ryan Feeder as we explore his interactive fiction games. Find Ryan online at rcveeder.net (https://rcveeder.net/) Special Guest: Ryan Veeder.

Erto, Jinu lukte ske scall uu ff Titans of Text podcast. We’re breaking tradition a bit today too as we have a second guest today. Both Ruthie and Lindsey come to us from Star Conquest. We're going to talk about a bit about Star Conquest but a lot more about accessibility, how Star Conquest achieves it and what we can all do better towards that goal. Find Lindsey & Ruthie online: Star Conquest (https://web.squidsoft.net/games/sc/) Support one of the charities mentioned: American Council for the Blind - www.acb.org American Foundation for the Blind - www.afb.org National Federation of the Blind - www.nfb.org Special Guests: Lindsey and Ruthie.

Join the Titans as we bring on Karl from DartMUD to talk about its history and future. Find DartMUD online at: - DartMUD.com (https://www.dartmud.com/) Special Guest: Karl.