119. Using Games To Design Our Futures With Randy Lubin, Part 1 How To Write The Future podcast

119. Using Games to Design our Futures with Randy Lubin, part 1

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“I think games are excellent at building intuition for complex systems, and if you're trying to think through the future, trying to get a grasp of the system dynamics and second order effects and points of leverage are all super helpful.”
--Randy Lubin
In this episode of How To Write the Future podcast, host Beth Barany interviews game designer and entrepreneur, Randy Lubin. They discuss how games can be used as powerful tools for shaping the future and how world building games help you write stories.

ABOUT RANDY LUBIN

Randy Lubin is a game designer and entrepreneur. He makes foresight games that help organizations explore the future via his studio Leveraged Play. He also makes lighter consumer storytelling games through Diegetic Games.

Website: https://randylubin.com/

X: https://twitter.com/randylubin

LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/randylubin/

Foresight games studio: https://leveragedplay.com/ Consumer storytelling games: https://diegeticgames.com/ Blog post on integrating foresight games into creative writing:

https://blog.randylubin.com/foresight-workshop-games-creative-writing
RESOURCES

Randy Lubin’s game: Premise: Setting, Character, Plot: https://randylubin.itch.io/premise-setting-character-plot

Dialect by Thorny Games: https://thornygames.com/pages/dialect

You're Gonna Need a Bigger Story: https://www.superstory.works/ourbooks

School of International Futures (SOIF): https://soif.org.uk/retreat/soif-summer-foresight-retreat/

Association of Professional Futurists latest COMPASS magazine: https://www.apf.org/apf-resources/compass

Get your free World Building Workbook for Fiction Writers: https://writersfunzone.com/blog/world-building-resources/

Henrietta The Dragon Slayer, A short film (We’re in post-production and fundraising!) https://author.bethbarany.com/henrietta-short-film/

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CO-PRODUCTION AN SHOW NOTES by Kerry-Ann McDade

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