Sep 23 2024 13 mins 1
“I think games are excellent at building intuition for complex systems, and if you're trying to think through the future, trying to get a grasp of the system dynamics and second order effects and points of leverage are all super helpful.”
--Randy Lubin
In this episode of How To Write the Future podcast, host Beth Barany interviews game designer and entrepreneur, Randy Lubin. They discuss how games can be used as powerful tools for shaping the future and how world building games help you write stories.
ABOUT RANDY LUBIN
Randy Lubin is a game designer and entrepreneur. He makes foresight games that help organizations explore the future via his studio Leveraged Play. He also makes lighter consumer storytelling games through Diegetic Games.
Website: https://randylubin.com/
X: https://twitter.com/randylubin
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/randylubin/
Foresight games studio: https://leveragedplay.com/ Consumer storytelling games: https://diegeticgames.com/ Blog post on integrating foresight games into creative writing:
https://blog.randylubin.com/foresight-workshop-games-creative-writing
RESOURCES
Randy Lubin’s game: Premise: Setting, Character, Plot: https://randylubin.itch.io/premise-setting-character-plot
Dialect by Thorny Games: https://thornygames.com/pages/dialect
You're Gonna Need a Bigger Story: https://www.superstory.works/ourbooks
School of International Futures (SOIF): https://soif.org.uk/retreat/soif-summer-foresight-retreat/
Association of Professional Futurists latest COMPASS magazine: https://www.apf.org/apf-resources/compass
Get your free World Building Workbook for Fiction Writers: https://writersfunzone.com/blog/world-building-resources/
Henrietta The Dragon Slayer, A short film (We’re in post-production and fundraising!) https://author.bethbarany.com/henrietta-short-film/
- SHOW PRODUCTION BY Beth Barany
- CO-PRODUCTION AN SHOW NOTES by Kerry-Ann McDade
c. 2024 BETH BARANY
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CONNECT
Contact Beth: https://writersfunzone.com/blog/podcast/#tve-jump-185b4422580
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethbarany/
CREDITS
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