October 2015 Archives

The latest episode of the Justin Hall Show is live!

I've spent many hours happily hunched over the macabre city builder Rebuild on my iPad, rebuildgame.com, contributing just a few of the millions of games of Rebuild that have been played in the last few years. So I was eager to have a chance to learn from Rebuild's developer, Sarah Northway. Sarah herein describes Rebuild 3, her experience with open game development, her taste for the end of civilization, her voracious travel lifestyle, and the design of a game about wealth inequality. Please enjoy this latest episode of the Justin Hall Show! And consider supporting future episodes here: patreon.com/justin

Watch Sarah Northway: Post-Apocalyptic Game Developer on YouTube:

or watch Sarah Northway: Post-Apocalyptic Game Developer on Facebook:

Sarah mentions a banned iPhone game called "Phone Story" - I interviewed the Phone Story maker Paolo Pedercini back in March 2014.

More episodes of the Justin Hall Show are coming, and I'm over $200 per episode on Patreon. I'm grateful for the folks who support me there, and the people who continue to watch these crazy irregularly scheduled productions. I'm having fun, I'm having good conversations, and I'm pushing my skills as a storyteller.

But I'm not making enough money to keep up with my expenses, so I'm hanging out my shingle as Transformative Communications Services - helping firms tell their story to recruit the right talent to help them grow.

In a few weeks, people will gather in a darkened room to watch overshare: the links.net story. I produced this documentary home video and released it free on the web so it might find its audience. I didn't expect that people would want to show it live so soon!

If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, get thyself to Omni Commons this Tuesday 3 Nov, 5:30-8:00pm at 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland. I'll be there to help screen my film, and we'll enjoy a talk from Michelle Krasowski, experimental archivist from the Internet Archive.

Here's some background: Michelle Krasowski and Justin Hall at Translating the Archive or find this event on The Facebook.

Now I am wedded, to Ilyse Iris Magy. Our friends stepped forward into documentation roles that we had assigned to professionals, so our friends could just focus on their duties mingling with strangers. Fabrice Florin posted a photo gallery which links to our wedding web site - I hadn't thought about whether I would link it directly from my life here, and I still haven't, so for now it's just a hint in a Flickr photoset description.

Meanwhile, my bride and I have returned home. Today I filmed and posted a short video with her, to share a glimpse into our new lives together: