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#167 – Writing Spider-Man Miles Morales: A Passion for Video Games, Comics & The Gamer Girls Book With Mary Kenney

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Episode notes

Mary Kenney: Senior Writer for Insomniac Games, Narrative Design Teacher at Indiana University, writer of several IDW Publishing comics and author of her own book Gamer Girls is this week’s guest, and her & Mike have a bunch to discuss!

In more detail, Mary confirms how she first got into video games and how she eventually became a writer of them. Mary also confirms some details of her time creating elements of Spider-Man: Miles Morales including how she landed the role, before delving into why she wrote Gamer Girls & what that experience was like, how the process for writing comics, books and video games differ, her experience in teaching and so much more is discussed in this uniquely informative look into the world of video games!

Mary’s Website: https://marykgames.com – Twitter: @MaryKNews – Mary’s Book Gamer Girls: https://amzn.to/3PskGOG

Mary also appeared on the She Plays Game podcast (https://sheplaysgames.co), which gets mentioned, and Mary mentions the book Professionals At Play.

The promo for this episode is Era Of Geek, check our Mike’s appearance here: https://spoti.fi/3nLumHS & https://youtu.be/r1o53g69Gi0

To listen to a completely free Patreon episode, check out the first in Mike & Megan’s Tom Hanks rewatch here: https://bit.ly/TomHanks1

The last episode of GCC (166) was a special episode taken from Mike’s Patreon where Mike & Megan talk about their trip to Malta, plus they also talk about languages and a few other silly subjects along the way!

If you enjoyed this episode, please check out Mike’s Patreon, where he releases at least 1 episode of his & Megan’s “Afterthoughts” a week, plus there’s early access to episodes of GCC and more, so if you want to support the show and get more content, check it out at http://patreon.com/genuinechitchat  

Outro read by BZ The Voice: http://www.bzthevoice.com     

Find Mike’s other show; Star Wars: Comics In Canon on Spotify & the other podcast apps on the feed of Comics In Motion or on GCC’s YouTube channel. Episodes are out every Saturday; episodes 0-102 are out now, in ep 102 Mike embared on the first volume of the Crimson Reign crossover event, while in ep 101, Mike tackled the final volume of Poe Dameron comics and in 100 Mike answered 20 listener questions! Previous episodes include the War Of The Bounty Hunters crossover (all 34 tie-in issues), every other canon Star Wars comic by Marvel, the Journals of Old Ben Kenobi, full High Republic coverage (book reviews & comics) & much more – https://podfollow.com/comicsinmotion  

Mike’s guest spots: Mike appeared on Spider-Dan & The Secret Bores to talk about Maximum & Absolute Carnage: https://pod.fo/e/13304a Mike appeared on Indie Comics Spotlight, discussing Cavan Scott’s Shadow Service with Tony, listen on the feed of Comics In Motion! https://pod.fo/e/1259e4   Mike returned to Star Wars Timeline to talk about Villains in each of the SW trilogies here: https://youtu.be/V7382WWkSP0 – they also discuss accents in the Star Wars universe; the original trilogy here: https://youtu.be/1X0PyXkQZGg & the prequel trilogy here: https://youtu.be/3L4qWeYOzhw  

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