http://www.alifewellwasted.com en-us Robert Ashley Robert Ashley A Life Well Wasted is an internet radio show about videogames and the people who love them. A Life Well Wasted is an internet radio show about videogames and the people who love them. Each episode focuses on a specific subject and employs interviews, music, writing, and fast-paced editing to create something unique in the podcasting space . Robert Ashley robertashley@gmail.com Robert Ashley Yes Robert Ashley edits listener-submitted game ideas into one big, crazy game, talks to the guy who owns the rights to Tetris about his plans to save the world, gets a lecture on the future of games from a New York University professor, and meets a struggling game blogger who happens to possess freakishly enormous genitalia. http://cdn3.libsyn.com/alifewellwasted/alww_ep-6_big-ideas.mp3 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:00:00 GMT 58:18 video games, games, videogames Robert Ashley Robert Ashley helps people in videogames instead of helping people in real life, meets a comedy group who spend hundreds of hours every year playing the most boring videogame ever created, talks to a guy who quit playing games for a year, and profiles the best selling pinball designer of all time. http://cdn3.libsyn.com/alifewellwasted/ALWW_Ep5_Help.mp3 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMT 45:00 video games, games, videogames Robert Ashley Robert Ashley visits a cosplay enthusiast, talks to the founder of an art show about videogames, discovers the strange world of fan fiction radio plays, and profiles a self-taught computer chip designer racecar driver/roller derby bruiser. http://cdn3.libsyn.com/alifewellwasted/ALWW_Ep4_Artists-Fans-and-Engineers.mp3 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:00:00 GMT 1:00:28 video games, games, videogames, cosplay, fan fiction, Robert Ashley Listeners tell stories about why they play videogames. http://media.libsyn.com/media/alifewellwasted/ALWW_b-side-why-game.mp3 Thu, 28 May 2009 12:00:00 GMT 25:30 video games, games Robert Ashley Robert Ashley wonders why he spends his free time playing videogames, asks random people on the street about it, talks to a researcher whose work attempts to harness the brain power wasted on gaming, gets to know an eccentric, forward-thinking game designer who lives sustainably with his family of four on $14,000 a year, and gets a first-hand account of what it’s like to work on terrible games (and what it's like to get terrible reviews) from an anonymous game developer. http://media.libsyn.com/media/alifewellwasted/alww-ep3_why-game.mp3 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:00:00 GMT 53:00 video games, games, game developers, game design Robert Ashley Pretty much the opposite of A Life Well Wasted, this is the unedited, full interview with Stanford University gaming curator Henry Lowood, as partly heard in Episode 2. http://media.libsyn.com/media/alifewellwasted/alww_henry-lowood-interview.mp3 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:00:00 GMT 1:03:05 video, games, gaming, virtual worlds Robert Ashley Robert Ashley explores the world of collectors and archivists, visiting a massive underground collection of videogames, a vintage pinball museum, and a program at Stanford University that hopes to save the history of online gaming. http://media.libsyn.com/media/alifewellwasted/alww-ep2_gotta-catch-em-all.mp3 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:00:00 GMT 44:09 video, games, gaming, hobbies, pinball Robert Ashley Robert Ashley talks to former Electronic Gaming Monthly writers and editors about their experiences at the long running magazine. http://media.libsyn.com/media/alifewellwasted/alww-ep1_the-death-of-egm.mp3 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:00:00 GMT 45:47 video, games, egm, gaming, publishing, print, magazines