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.