Center for Science and the Imagination | CSI Skill Tree: Citizen Sleeper with Gareth Damian Martin and Phoebe Wagner @imagineASU | Uploaded June 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
CSI Skill Tree is a series that examines and celebrates how video games envision possible futures, build rich and thought-provoking worlds, and engage people as active participants in unfolding and interpreting stories. In this episode, we take a close look at “Citizen Sleeper” (2022), a roleplaying game set in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism that challenges you to survive, build relationships, investigate mysteries, and secure a liveable life for yourself. The game was developed by Jump Over the Age and published by Fellow Traveler. A sequel, “Citizen Sleeper 2: Starboard Vector,” was announced in June 2023.
Watch all CSI Skill Tree episodes: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN5muqvLAASr3XmjnUyXUnnShIPzlTfkp
About our special guests:
Gareth Damian Martin is the developer of “Citizen Sleeper” and the game “In Other Waters,” both developed through their one-person studio, Jump Over the Age. They are the founding editor of Heterotopias, a zine covering video games and architecture. They hold a PhD in experimental literature from Royal Holloway, University of London. Learn more at jumpovertheage.com and https://citizensleeper.com.
Phoebe Wagner is a writer, academic, and editor of three solarpunk anthologies, including “Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk & Eco-Speculation” and “Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures.” She holds a PhD in literature and teaches creative writing at Lycoming College. Learn more at https://phoebe-wagner.com.
CSI Skill Tree is hosted by Joey Eschrich, managing editor at the Center for Science and the Imagination.
The Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University engages in research, outreach and radical collaborations to reinvent our relationship with the future. From writers, artists, and teachers to scientists, engineers, and technologists, we bring diverse intellectual practices together to create visions of the future that are inspiring, inclusive, and imaginative. Learn more at https://csi.asu.edu.
CSI Skill Tree is a series that examines and celebrates how video games envision possible futures, build rich and thought-provoking worlds, and engage people as active participants in unfolding and interpreting stories. In this episode, we take a close look at “Citizen Sleeper” (2022), a roleplaying game set in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism that challenges you to survive, build relationships, investigate mysteries, and secure a liveable life for yourself. The game was developed by Jump Over the Age and published by Fellow Traveler. A sequel, “Citizen Sleeper 2: Starboard Vector,” was announced in June 2023.
Watch all CSI Skill Tree episodes: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN5muqvLAASr3XmjnUyXUnnShIPzlTfkp
About our special guests:
Gareth Damian Martin is the developer of “Citizen Sleeper” and the game “In Other Waters,” both developed through their one-person studio, Jump Over the Age. They are the founding editor of Heterotopias, a zine covering video games and architecture. They hold a PhD in experimental literature from Royal Holloway, University of London. Learn more at jumpovertheage.com and https://citizensleeper.com.
Phoebe Wagner is a writer, academic, and editor of three solarpunk anthologies, including “Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk & Eco-Speculation” and “Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures.” She holds a PhD in literature and teaches creative writing at Lycoming College. Learn more at https://phoebe-wagner.com.
CSI Skill Tree is hosted by Joey Eschrich, managing editor at the Center for Science and the Imagination.
The Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University engages in research, outreach and radical collaborations to reinvent our relationship with the future. From writers, artists, and teachers to scientists, engineers, and technologists, we bring diverse intellectual practices together to create visions of the future that are inspiring, inclusive, and imaginative. Learn more at https://csi.asu.edu.
