Directional

Apr 01 2024 12

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A Podcast about Videogames and the Creative Rebellion, with Chantal Ryan and Jörg Tittel.

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017 Chantal & Jörg - "Positive Disintegration"

Apr 01 2024 70 mins

While the podcast has gone through a period of hibernation, the game ‘industry’ has, well, shat the bed. In this first episode of a new season and format, Chantal and Jörg look past the doom and gloom and towards a more sustainable and beautiful future. The waves are crashing down - so let’s surf! Notes: C-Smash VRS on Meta Quest: https://www.meta.com/en-gb/experiences/72552

016 Luc Bernard — "Finding Light in the Dark"

Dec 12 2023 82 mins

Luc Bernard has built the Holocaust Museum inside Fortnite and put his own money into an acclaimed game about one of the darkest chapters in history. We talk about campaigning for peace and staying human in a world ravaged by politics. The Altruistic Personality (mentioned by Chan) Meghna Jayanth's thread on The Golden Joystick Awards

015 Sam Barlow — "Culture of the Auteur"

Dec 08 2023 79 mins

Auteurs can be geniuses, they can be villains, they can get all the credit even on games with big teams. We sit down with Sam Barlow, creator of "Her Story" and "Immortality", to dissect these curious creatures.

014 Off the Cuff — Gamescom Re-Examined (Reunion Special)

Sep 06 2023 28 mins

Directional was born at Gamescom 2022 - chiefly as a passionate response to gaming's biggest event. A year later, Chantal and Jörg reunite in Cologne and re-examine their relationship to the chaos. Recorded live amidst 320,000 attendees.

013 John Linneman — "Context Is Important"

Aug 22 2023 62 mins

While Chantal is flying to Gamescom (where this show began), Jörg talks to videogames' top time-traveller, Digital Foundry's John Linneman, about the need to touch our origins. Look out for an unexpected cameo by Steven Spielberg.

012 Off the Cuff — "The Joys of Festivals"

Jul 28 2023 50 mins

Chantal and Jörg took their games to different game events last week: BitSummit in Kyoto and AVCon in Adelaide. While Jörg was in nerd heaven, Chantal met the dark side of nerddom. Naturally.

011 Jörg Tittel — "Now We've Arrived, Where Do We Go?"

Jul 20 2023 39 mins

Games are the world's leading entertainment medium, our main forum, the ultimate artform. Now let's start acting like it. A provocation and a manifesto for new meaning. This special video podcast is Jörg's evening Keynote, recorded at Reboot Develop Blue in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in April 2023.

010 Caroline Marchal — "Empathy, Not Identification"

Jul 11 2023 55 mins

Caroline Marchal, Creative Director of independent narrative studio INTERIOR/NIGHT (As Dusk Falls), talks about the power and human endurance behind building multi-threaded, interactive stories.

009 Aaron Loeb — "Mobilizing Mobile Games"

Jun 20 2023 58 mins

In this first Directional Live, Jörg and Chantal took the stage at Reboot Develop Blue 2023 with Aaron Loeb, most recently Chief Business Officer at mobile games giant Scopely. The broken PC and console industry turned him into a mobile gaming pioneer. But could the mobile industry have created new and potentially more damaging problems for society at large?

008 Off the Cuff — "Summer Sausage Fest"

Jun 13 2023 44 mins

The globe is warming, the sun is out, and so the time has come for another Summer of Games—games, which as we all know, are only made by men. Or at least that's what you might think after watching the mega-sponsored trailer streams this week. In this first "off the cuff" Directional, Chantal and Jörg discuss this phenomenon (before talking about dickheads vs. inter