just finished listening, very lovely interview with eric, really enjoyed it!
you seemed to approach it with a genuine interest/admiration and i liked the fact that you had him reflect on the period in his life that led to another world's creation. i was never all that much of a gamer but i have always had a special connection with another world, it just resonated on such a deep level with me at the time, the starkness of it, the lonely ambience, the feeling of being lost in a world you are completely alien to and are struggling to make sense of and find a friend to relate to in. it was such a metaphor for that era of the early 90's, coming of age, and just life itself. i suppose a lot of this is due to the fact that i always looked at games from an artistic perspective being an artist myself, but i feel like it was an artistic statement as much as it was a game. i consider it a kind of "unknown pleasures" of video games: stark, minimal, hauntingly beautiful and so completely different from everything else around it that it seemed to come from another world.