Thanks for having us, Ria! Great questions, and I hope everybody enjoys the anthology — which is only $8 bucks, what!!!? :D

I’m totally with you on Wing Commander. “Thanks, Sparks!”

The nostalgia is so thick with these old games that it’s too bittersweet for me to really finish playing them, so www.gog.com doesn’t end up taking too much of my money. But it’s impossible for me to determine objectively whether the old games are really better, or if it’s just my childhood fucking with me.

I think the first game I ever played was Lode Runner on an Apple IIe. There was something amazing about walking into the computer store / flea market and buying super cheap floppy disks loaded with games — and some of them even worked! My aunt and uncle got me really hooked though, by introducing me first to Maniac…

I have tried out the Oculus and found that it made Alien: Isolation too intense to really even play. Yes, I’m a wimp. But the coolest opportunities won’t be straight ports.

Good morning, everyone! AFAIK, the big developers and indies are both absolutely taking VR seriously. Lots of people in the sci-fi writing community (including myself) are pitching stories and games right now. But VR is such unknown territory that whoever develops a game is inherently taking a big chance. Indies are…