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LikedGene Baur is the founder of Farm Sanctuary, a place of rescue, refuge, and adoption for hundreds of farm animals each year. Farm Sanctuary shelters enable visitors to connect with farm animals as emotional, intelligent individuals. Gene has also led campaigns to change laws about animal treatment and taken undercover photographs of farms, stockyards, and slaughterhouses, documenting deplorable conditions. His pictures and videos exposing factory farming cruelties have aired nationally and internationally, educating millions about the plight of modern farm animals, and his rescue work inspired an international farm sanctuary movement. Once called “the conscience of the food movement” by Time magazine, Gene walks the walk and talks the talk when it comes to food and animal rights. Jay and Gene discuss the political and cultural steps that will bring about the end of factory farming and a healthier approach to animals and food. Today's episode was produced by Tani Levitt and Mijon Zulu. To check out more episodes or to learn more about the show, you can visit our website Allaboutchangepodcast.com. If you like our show, spread the word, tell a friend or family member, or leave us a review on your favorite podcasting app. We really appreciate it. All About Change is produced by the Ruderman Family Foundation. Episode Chapters 0:00 Intro 1:05 The state of veganism 6:18 Cultural shifts around factory farming and veganism 14:58 Gene’s three paths of activism 17:44 Gene’s legislative successes 22:25 Accepting people where they are in their journeys 25:36 Thank you and goodbye For video episodes, watch on www.youtube.com/@therudermanfamilyfoundation Stay in touch: X: @JayRuderman | @RudermanFdn LinkedIn: Jay Ruderman | Ruderman Family Foundation Instagram: All About Change Podcast | Ruderman Family Foundation To learn more about the podcast, visit https://allaboutchangepodcast.com/ Looking for more insights into the world of activism? Be sure to check out Jay’s brand new book, Find Your Fight , in which Jay teaches the next generation of activists and advocates how to step up and bring about lasting change. You can find Find Your Fight wherever you buy your books, and you can learn more about it at www.jayruderman.com .…
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Returning "favorite" Laura Onderwater re-enters the clubhouse to talk about task tracking, naming conventions, and paper trails of various kinds in an engaging discussion on concept art workflows. Even if you’re not part of an art team, there’s a lot to take away from this one! We spoke with Laura previously in an episode on Visual Worldbuilding Concept Art Workflows Art Production Laura on Artstation Laura on Bluesky…
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Ellen's back for a serendipitously in-sync pair of metacognition-rich roundtable topics. In this episode, Lydia shares a chapter from one of her favorite books and tries to explain ganache while Stephen laments how easy it is to duct tape on features instead of solving problems. Together they discover four brains are better than one when it comes to figuring out how to get out of your head. 0:09:56 Composting Writing Down the Bones Natalie Goldberg Bonbon Wikipedia The Croissant Express diner mentioned in the book, formerly located on the corner of the Uptown Theater building. 0:36:00 Overdesigning Mural Miro via. "Writing at Night: Lewis Carroll, John Milton, and Me" by Mike Mason. https://www.mikemasonbooks.com/writing-at-night-lewis-carroll-john-milton-and-me/…
Ellen’s back in the clubhouse, let’s see what she remembers. Lydia brings a Dungeons and Dragons mechanic about recovering memories called 'Untitled Mechanic,' Stephen feels part of a club that is not Nice Games Club, and Mark brags about playing 2nd Edition in middle school. Untitled Memory Mechanic Lydia's website Lydia Symchych Oneshot inspirtation ZacSpeaksGiant YouTube Lydia's google doc Lydia Symchych…
Your nice host return to the complex and sometimes underappreciated world of quality assurance in the game dev space, and also explore discovery as a design focus. In this episode: Lydia is still looking for recommendations while at the Serious Play Conference (answer in Discord!), Mark hates on Jira and Stephen finally catches up to the latest gaming trend a couple of months late. Chants of Sennaar - Rundisc , Steam 0:06:27 QA Workflows What Is A Kanban Board? The Ultimate Guide Laura Hennigan, Cassie Bottorff, Rob Watts Forbes 0:50:37 Designing Discovery…
We welcome Freya Holmér back into the clubhouse to talk about 3D game development for independent game developers. We get into the specifics of the tools available for devs and why they work and don't work for different teams, but it's mostly an excuse to talk about Freya's new 3D modeling software. Half-Edge - Freya Holmér Shapes - Freya Holmér , Unity Asset Store Shader Forge - Freya Holmér , GitHub 3D Workflows for Indie Devs Game Design Tools UI / UX Valve Hammer Editor - Valve Developer Community PicoCAD - Johan Peitz , itch.io TrenchBroom - GitHub Crocotile 3D What’s the difference between OBJ and FBX? And when to you what - Reddit…
This week, your Nice Hosts have a new prompt from a new source. Lydia's husband, Ian, draws from a rainy source of inspiration and the Hosts are all-in. We brush up on the water cycle, requisition the equipment, practice our Trans-Atlantic accents, dunk on hot dogs, and puzzle over water-based cloud economies. Big Pharma - Steam Le Ballon Rouge - Wikipedia Water Cycle - Wikipedia Loop Hero - Steam Human Resource Machine - Steam Prompt to match the current weather - what goes on inside the clouds during a thunderstorm? Game type Design document Player count 1 Rules You control a cloud factory and manage what the cloud distributes Mission-based, scenarios Plenty of fun fantasy options Condition options Sunshine Water Static (use a balloon?) Wind The shape of your factory/cloud Water is your core resource Use it to build the factory, use it to make the rain and complete tasks, use it to expand Gain it from water vapor and such (water cycle) Your factory is also water, you can reuse it You go through a campaign Pick between a set of jobs each time, bigger jobs give more rep Isometric view Level 1: rain on the hot dog cart Have the cloud rain over an area for a specific period of time The mission before you just needed to dump some water The player needs to collect water to have enough rain on the hot dog cart Automation is the game You need to shape the cloud to fit all of the machines that you order from a catalog Catalog has a ton of options, with their own efficiencies Level 2: rain on a hot dog festival Level ??: Flood the Nile…
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Mark rushes through the introduction to talk about his two rush projects, one of which, Blippo+ , was announced on Sunday during the PC Gaming Show! You'll hear more about that next week, but until then, Lydia talks about feeling seen in Anime, Stephen laments that his filmmaking class has not only ruined movies for him, but also music, and Dale does a good job editing out Lydia’s coughs. Blippo+, coming to PC and Switch this fall! You Need To See FMV Cable TV Simulator Blippo+ - Wesley LeBlanc , Game Informer Emotional Effects of Music A New Foe Has Appeared!…
This week in the club house Adrian Sandoval describes how video games are speed running art history. Your nice hosts have their minds blown many times and Steven discovers he might actually like history!? Stay tuned to find out where the 90 day return policy came from. Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends - Team Nemo Chris Totten, co-author of Adrian's book, has been on the show Teaching Gamedev to Young People, Again! Adrian Sandoval Game Design Hardware Marketing Spacewar! - Wikipedia Adventure (Atari 2600) and its designer's easter egg - Atari Online Alex Smith, They Create Worlds - They Create Worlds Ep. 22: Remembering Atari with Howard Scott Warshaw - Robin Kunimune , Video Game History Hour Teach Me Something in 5 Minutes 2 - What Games Can Learn from Theatre w/ Adrian… - Adrian Sandoval , YouTube Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation - Blake J. Harris , Goodreads…
Your nice hosts all secured a Switch 2 pre-order... from a certain point of view. Then, Stephen examines the body, Mark attempts a vocabulary, and Lydia has recommendations. Chants of Sennaar - Wikipedia Nintendo Switch 2 preorders were a total mess — at first - Jay Peters , The Verge Missed out on a Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order? GameStop and Best Buy will have mo… - Demi Williams , TechRadar 0:22:17 What Happened With Future Club Part-Time Hero Campaign Ending Future Club Kickstarter 0:48:57 Design Surface Area Rubber duck debugging Wikipedia…
The clubhouse welcomes Ashley Phipps, producer for the game Clock Out at 2, to discuss the topic of mental health and discrimination. Mental Health and Discrimination Game Design Gaming Narrative Clock Out at 2 Demo - Borderless Studios , Steam What to know about microaggressions - Anna Smith Haghighi , Medical News Today Queerty Gamers - Queerty Gamers Spooktober 2023 Clock Out at 2 Build - itch.io Depression Quest - Zoe Quinn Adventures with Anxiety - Nicky Case Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn: How We Respond to Threats - "Olivia Guy-Evans, MSc" , Simply Psychology Good Reps for Mental Health depiction Final Fantasy XIV - SquareEnix The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood Tales of Arise - Steam…
In this episode the club house talks about the games that they have been playing. Mark attempts to define the terms good friction and bad friction, declares his distaste of rouge-likes, and talks about friction in his current projects. Lydia shows us how to make scoring sound way more academic. Civilization VII Age of Mythology Retold Blue Prince 0:18:21 Friction by Design Mark tries to define some terms: Good Friction - something that was designed into the game, or that could be described as a bug, or only confuses a player Bad Friction - unintentional friction 0:45:47 Diversity in Scoring Huffington Post News Triva Game Huffington Post…
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