Something Old Something New

This is the second episode of Something Old Something New, a new podcast from Hannah Nicklin. Using the old western wedding rhyme as a formal construct off which to hang a conversation with interesting folk she knows from the realms of games, performance, criticism, writing, and the spaces in between these things. In each episode Hannah will invite the interviewee to talk about cultural phenomena/artefacts of interest/important to them: Something Old (that has been with them for a while); Something New (recently discovered); Something Borrowed (stolen or recommended to them); Something YOU are working on (what are they making right now?). In this second episode Hannah chats with game developer Katharine Neil in a cafe during the AMAZE International Independent Videogames Festival in Berlin. (Apologies in advance for the wildly varying sound quality) Katharine describes herself as a games industry ‘hack’ - dismissing the term ‘veteran’ which she reckons should be used by "people who have achieved more recogn

The first episode of Something Old Something New, a new podcast from Hannah Nicklin. Using the old western wedding rhyme as a formal construct off which to hang a conversation with interesting folk she knows from the realms of games, performance, criticism, writing, and the spaces in between these things. In each episode Hannah will invite the interviewee to talk about cultural phenomena/artefacts of interest/important to them: Something Old (that has been with them for a while); Something New (recently discovered); Something Borrowed (stolen or recommended to them); Something YOU are working on (what are they making right now?). This first episode features Mark Sorrell - who at the time of interview was a freelance consultant in the area of free-to-play games. Free-to-play games are often a bogey man in the world of fringe and contemporary game design, but as ever, the reality is always less clear-cut and more complicated than the consensus allows. Here, Hannah and Mark discuss some of the means by which g