Watching other people play videogames is a time-honored tradition, since the days when you more controllers than siblings.<\/p>\n
The other night I watched as a great sci-fi writer played Skyrim. She has a channel on twitch.tv. It was lovely, just cruising along with N. K. Jemisin<\/a> as she fought vampires to raise money to improve her house. So chill. I started poking around in twitch, checking out some videos and channels, and decided that Zeno Stede needed to make a return.<\/p>\n I started a new twitch channel in which I play the new content in No Man’s Sky<\/a> as if I were\u00a0the protagonist from\u00a0From The Void<\/a>, my serial fiction space adventure podcast. Because why not?<\/p>\n The challenge will be seeing how this works from a narrative sense. FTV was a man sending audio messages to his sister about his latest escapades. After a few tries, it seems like this will be more of a running commentary on Zeno’s thought processes as he gads about this procedurally-generated universe. What is his conflict? How does one\u00a0frame these stories in an interesting way? Without a previously-scripted experience, is this more like improv than writing? Further updates as events warrant.<\/p>\n