Center for Science and the Imagination | CSI Skill Tree: Subsurface Circular with Liz Fiacco and Malik Toms @imagineASU | Uploaded June 2020 | Updated October 2024, 13 hours ago.
CSI Skill Tree is a new 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 chat with game developer Liz Fiacco and speculative fiction author and designer Malik Toms about Subsurface Circular, a mystery/adventure game about artificial intelligence, structural oppression, segregation, and public transit.
About our speakers:
Liz Fiacco is a game developer who has shipped a number of commercial games, such as Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, Pillars of Eternity, and South Park: The Stick of Truth. She is passionate about interactive narrative, and building emotional connections to characters through game mechanics.
Malik Toms is an author and an educator. He has written for a number of roleplaying games, most recently Shadowrun 6th Edition. He currently teaches a science fiction course at Chandler-Gilbert Community College.
About 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 new 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 chat with game developer Liz Fiacco and speculative fiction author and designer Malik Toms about Subsurface Circular, a mystery/adventure game about artificial intelligence, structural oppression, segregation, and public transit.
About our speakers:
Liz Fiacco is a game developer who has shipped a number of commercial games, such as Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, Pillars of Eternity, and South Park: The Stick of Truth. She is passionate about interactive narrative, and building emotional connections to characters through game mechanics.
Malik Toms is an author and an educator. He has written for a number of roleplaying games, most recently Shadowrun 6th Edition. He currently teaches a science fiction course at Chandler-Gilbert Community College.
About 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/.
