On this episode, we meet Jill Murray who chats to Hannah Nicklin about skating.

Jill Murray is a Canadian creative director, coming fresh from the launch of Invincible Presents: Atom Eve. She is a writer for indie and AAA games, best known for her work as Lead Writer on Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and a bunch of the Assassin's Creed games but other highlights of her credits include Moon Hunters, été, and Subnautica: Below Zero.

After starting out by studying theatre, she’s also worked in web development and published two YA novels. She’s been working in games for an impressive amount of time, with credits going back to 2012, and has among her many awards the Writers Guild of America award for Excellence in Videogame Writing stands out as a particular highlight.

Liner Notes

• elladjbalde
• Invincible Presents: Atom Eve
• http://discoglo.be/

One Cool Thing Production Credits

One Cool Thing is hosted by Die Gute Fabrik's Studio Lead Hannah Nicklin and is produced, edited and sound designed by Tom Whalley. Additional production and research by Úna-Minh Kavanagh and our theme music by Nick Ellis who can be found on Bandcamp as tenby.

On this episode we meet Wren Brier who chats to Hannah Nicklin about Eki Stamps & Goshuin.

Wren is a Brisbane-based game artist and creative director with a particular talent for and interest in pixel art. She’s curated a whole pixel art exhibit with the Brisbane Powerhouse as well as running workshops alongside other outreach work with Women in Games Brisbane.

Wren has been working in games for about a decade as a freelance and in-house artist before most recently undertaking a major collaboration with Witch Beam Games as the creative director on the hit indie game UNPACKING.

Liner Notes

• unpackinggame.com
• Example of Eki Stamps
• Example of Go-shuin
• Wren on Twitter
• Wren on Bluesky

One Cool Thing Production Credits

One Cool Thing is hosted by Die Gute Fabrik's Studio Lead Hannah Nicklin and is produced, edited and sound designed by Tom Whalley. Additional production and research by Úna-Minh Kavanagh and our theme music by Nick Ellis who can be found on Bandcamp as tenby.

On episode 20 we meet Char Putney who chats to Hannah Nicklin about "Negative Space" by BR Yeager.

Char Putney is a multiple award-winning Irish writer from Dublin who currently lives in Copenhagen. She’s been a lot of things in her rich and varied life so far, from a yoga teacher to working production and management positions at Google and Facebook, writing for games such as Divinity Original Sin, Baldur’s Gate, NUTS and Char was also the story lead on our recently announced brand new story-driven adventure game SALTSEA CHRONICLES.

Liner Notes

• M John Harrison’s unrelatable
• "Teatro Grottesco" by Thomas Ligotti
• "Experimental Film" by Gemma Files
• "The Visible Filth" by Nathan Ballingrud
• "Things We Lost In The Fire" by Mariana Enríquez
• "House of Leaves" by Mark Danielewski
• The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Char’s website
• Write with Laika
• Negative Space by B. R. Yeager
• Saltsea Chronicles

One Cool Thing Production Credits

One Cool Thing is hosted by Die Gute Fabrik's Studio Lead Hannah Nicklin and is produced, edited and sound designed by Tom Whalley. Additional production and research by Úna-Minh Kavanagh and our theme music by Nick Ellis who can be found on Bandcamp as tenby.

On this episode, we meet Goldie Bartlett who chats to Hannah Nicklin about wimmelbilder.

Goldie Bartlett is an illustrator and artist based out of Melbourne Australia. She works in paint, pencil, digital media and videogames. Recent games which feature her work include Florence and Movement Study 1, and most recently launched Wayward Strand as part of the core team of Ghost Pattern Games. Wayward Strand is described on their website as a heartfelt interactive story, told in a curious way.

She’s also in the art and digital art field, contributing to graphic novels, and the internationally exhibited Now Play This commission THE GRANNIES which is a documentary short film about Goldie and their pals The Grannies, pushing the boundaries of Red Dead Online. She also produced a beautiful hand drawn map for the merch for Untitled Goose Game.

Liner Notes

• Goldie’s twitter thread on the making of the Untitled Goose Game map
• The Melbourne Map
• BoschBot - by The White Pube
• The Garden of Earthly Delights
• Hidden Folks
• I commissioned some bees
• Flow
• Wayward Strand
• A Puzzling Day at Castle MacPelican
• Wimmelbilder Subreddit
• Lynda Barry - What it Is

One Cool Thing Production Credits

One Cool Thing is hosted by Die Gute Fabrik's Studio Lead Hannah Nicklin and is produced, edited and sound designed by Tom Whalley. Additional production and research by Úna-Minh Kavanagh and our theme music by Nick Ellis who can be found on Bandcamp as tenby.

On this episode, we meet Terry Burdack who chats to Hannah Nicklin about natural philosophy.

Terry Burdak is a game developer based out of Melbourne Australia. The company he co-runs is called Paper House, and they make games and other creative things inspired by the world around them - that’s everything from a wonderful short story game where you play as a wombat in the heat of an Australian Summer available, to their upcoming single-player god game set in a tiny wooden toy version of Melbourne.

As well as a strong sense of Aussie, and Melburnian identity Wood & Weather also has a sense of physical comedy and humour which really brings the game to life.

Liner Notes

• A Short History of Nearly Everything
• Plus Paper House Games
• Wood & Weather on Steam
• Paperbark

For context on the land on which and about which Paperhouse makes games:

• This map gives a rough outline of Victoria
• This map shows language groupsThere’s also this incredible interactive physical map at the Melbourne Museum that’s a part of Bunjilaka. You can see some info here.

One Cool Thing Production Credits

One Cool Thing is hosted by Die Gute Fabrik's Studio Lead Hannah Nicklin and is produced, edited and sound designed by Tom Whalley. Additional production and research by Úna-Minh Kavanagh and our theme music by Nick Ellis who can be found on Bandcamp as tenby.

On this episode, we meet Sharna Jackson who chats to Hannah Nicklin about barges.

Sharna Jackson is a British game writer, artistic director and author. Before writing full time she was artistic director at Site Gallery in Sheffield, on the board of Sheffield Doc/Fest - a film festival that focuses on documentaries - and an advisor on several projects centering on children. Her award-winning books for children - around tween age, 10+ - as well as being great fun, are also interested in lifting up voices lesser heard in fiction. She is also the curator of ENSEMBLE - a UK based exhibition which celebrates UK games talent from Black, Asian and underrepresented ethnicities.

Liner Notes

• The Anna Maria (Sharna's boat)
• Sharna's homepage
• Sharna on Twitter
• The Good Turn
• High Rise Mystery
• Black Artists Shaping the World
• Saltsea Chronicles on Steam
• The log of Rek and Devine (100 Rabbits) of their 51 day passage from Japan to CanadaSelina Thompson’s Salt

One Cool Thing Production Credits

One Cool Thing is hosted by Die Gute Fabrik's Studio Lead Hannah Nicklin and is produced, edited and sound designed by Tom Whalley. Additional production and research by Úna-Minh Kavanagh and our theme music by Nick Ellis who can be found on Bandcamp as tenby.

On episode 16 we meet Des Gayle who chats to Hannah Nicklin about The Matrix.

Des Gayle is a prolific British producer who has over 20 years of experience in the field of games. From working on the launch of the original Xbox at Microsoft, to being the original producer for the Square Enix Collective, and work on the first Life is Strange series. As well as being on BAFTA-winning teams, Des is a deputy chair for the BAFTA games committee, a key member of the POC in Play team, and currently divides his time between being an Exec Producer at Radical Forge, and his indie outfit Altered Gene, as well as living in Thurigen in Germany with his family.

Liner Notes

• The Hellbrand on Steam
• Des' Twitter
• Life is Strange
• Flashpoint
• The Analyst: Redacted

One Cool Thing Production Credits

One Cool Thing is hosted by Die Gute Fabrik's Studio Lead Hannah Nicklin and is produced, edited and sound designed by Tom Whalley. Additional production and research by Úna-Minh Kavanagh and our theme music by Nick Ellis who can be found on Bandcamp as tenby.

In this episode, we meet Lisy Kane who chats to Hannah about being in a band.

Lisy Kane is a Melbourne-based videogame producer and co-founder of Girl Geek Academy, a social enterprise set up to achieve (trans and nb inclusive) gender equality in the tech industry. As a producer, Lisy made a huge impact as a Production Director at League of Geeks (who mostly recently released Armello in 2019, and recently announced Jumplight Odyssey). She has since moved to running production initiatives for Kelper Interactive, which is the new publishing arm of Kowloon Nights.

Liner Notes:

• Brendan Keogh - The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist
• DIY, and DIY Too - two collections on DIY performance edited by Robert Daniels
• Girl Geek Academy
• The report ENOUGH TALK
• Lisy's band, Epithets epithets.bandcamp.com
• Kelper Interactive
• League of Geeks
• The Tyranny of Merit by Michael Sandel
• Lisy's website

One Cool Thing Production Credits

One Cool Thing is hosted by Die Gute Fabrik's Studio Lead Hannah Nicklin and is produced, edited and sound designed by Tom Whalley. Additional production and research by Úna-Minh Kavanagh and our theme music by Nick Ellis who can be found on Bandcamp as tenby.