What is horror and how do you make it? Our second conversation with Ed McRae, kiwi horror author, narrative designer and narrative paramedic for the video games industry. Ed's been a screenwriter and story designer for over 13 years, and was lead writer on the hit online RPG Path of Exile.
Follow Ed at www.edmcrae.com.
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Outline:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(04:44) - Education in game development, careers in startups
(13:22) - Survival horror (Dawn of the Dead) and creativity
(17:25) - Cujo by Stephen King and mental illness, Alfred Hitchcock, Writing in the Dark by Tim Waggoner
(25:56) - Devolution by Max Brooks (World War Z), Batman: Arkham Asylum, Grant Morrison, Batman’s katabasis
(34:36) - Horror in NZ: Growing up in small-town Aotearoa. Viktor Antonov and Half-Life 2, making space for influences beyond America
(39:19) - Scandinavian noir vs NZ
(42:53) - Personal motivation in horror: a journey of self discovery. Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens and Homo Deus, art as a path forward
(44:32) - Fitting in and feeling like an outsider. Majority vs minority. Social media creates mobs
(59:15) - Creative plans for the future. Project Tempest, Thousand Year Old Vampire by Tim Hutchings. Responsibilities of a narrative curator to an audience
(1:14:20) - Finishing up
Mentioned:
Cujo by Stephen King
Writing in the Dark by Tim Waggoner
Devolution by Max Brooks
Elizabeth Knox, NZ writer
Yuval Noah Harari, Israeli historian & philosopher
Thousand Year Old Vampire by Tim Hutchings
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