this past week i was interviewed by the italian website indievault.it. in case you, like me, read english and not italian, i’m posting the questions and my answers in english below:

1.  There’s a thick fog around your person. You says you tell yourself in your games, but how would you present to someone that “had never played you”?

people tell me this (that i’m mysterious), but i don’t believe it. my blog and my games are pretty personal: there’s a lot of me in both. someone who hasn’t played ought to get started.

2. On Lesbian Gamers you said your favourite word is “Pervert”. So what “Pervert” means to you?

a pervert is someone who is what she is without apology. a pervert stands in the center of her circle, no matter what it is. it’s what i strive to be in all things.

3. Is really Mighty Jill Off the game that represent you the most or there’s another one which you are particularly bounded?

calamity annie is a better snapshot of a moment in my life: i began working on it right after i was kicked out of game design school (the guildhall at southern methodist university) for disagreeing with the purpose of the curriculum (that all it should teach us is how to get a job on a hundred-person game assembly line). it’s a game about proving oneself, and finding love along the way, because passion attracts passion, and love breeds creation.

4. Talking about critic, if you could run a videogame degree course, what should be the first lesson?

i would probably begin with the first stage of super mario bros. on a projector. i’ve actually written this lesson. it’s here, but only in english and french.

5. It seems that mature contents in videogames are still a great taboo for the public opinion, and also the big publishers are scared to create something not so politically correct. What is your opinion about using sex, drugs, racism and other themes in a videogame? Do you think that indie development is the only place where mature contents can grow up?

i’m skeptical of big publishers’ ability to treat subjects like sex, gender and race with intelligence. because marketing has so much sway over what the videogames industry publishes, all those subjects become mere marketing tools, valuable only for the shock effect they can produce among consumers.

i was also approached for a feature on super short game development jams like ludum dare (the next of which is this month, i’m told) for pc powerplay australia. here are scans of the first two (you can see my quote at the bottom) and last two pages. speaking of game jams, the best one, the two-hour klik of the month klub, is this saturday! better join in!