Listen "Episode 11 - A Conversation with Ron Martinez"
Episode Synopsis
In this interview episode we're transfixed by the career of Ron Martinez, whose interactive fiction began as a writer for the Be an Interplanetary Spy book series, the Trillium/Telarium home conversion of Rendezvous With Rama, and the design and implementation of Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy powered by his own TRANS Fiction System parser. Since then Ron has had a widely varied career, and a widely varied career since then including pioneering work in NFTs.
Ron and Jason discuss the wild experimental days at Electronic Arts, the nature of "post-linear" storytelling and the trade-offs of writing in the Star Trek universe, and Ron's brush with actual immortality.
Invention Arts
Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy on archive.org
Rendezvous with Rama on archive.org
Full GET LAMP documentary interview
Ron Martinez MobyGames credits
Ron and Jason discuss the wild experimental days at Electronic Arts, the nature of "post-linear" storytelling and the trade-offs of writing in the Star Trek universe, and Ron's brush with actual immortality.
Invention Arts
Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy on archive.org
Rendezvous with Rama on archive.org
Full GET LAMP documentary interview
Ron Martinez MobyGames credits
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