Locked On with Jason Maddison

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Show Notes

Squidge had a philosophical question for us all, as the episode opened:

What am I doing here? I could have still been in bed
- Squidge

Something for the great philosophical minds to ponder on, for sure. It's also a point that Jason - our illustrious guest for the episode - brings up:

I'm knackered. I wanna get back in bed, like Squidge here
- Jason Maddison

Why was everyone - except for Jay - tired? Because it we recorded this episode on a Monday morning. Perhaps we should have recorded this episode in bed. Who can say?

Our guest this week is Jason Maddison, one of the people behind Lost in Cult, and an all-round nice guy. We've actually chatted with Jason earlier this year, in a bonus episode that we put out called "lock-on Volume 1 - A Discussion on Passion"

Back then (March 20th, 2021), the kickstarter for volume 001 was just coming to a close and we'd asked both Jason and Jon Doyle to talk with us about the passion that they have for preserving physical media, [lock-on], and what they had in mind for it.

At the time of recording this episode, the kickstarter for volume 002 was wrapping up, so we wanted to get Jason back on the show to talk about it, his piece from volume 001 (called "I have lived"), and what volume 002 might have in store.

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We wanted to let Jason describe what [lock-on] is, in his own words:

[lock-on] is a curious beast...I'm the sort that likes to collect gaming art books, even if it's fan art or unofficial art... So what we have here is a kind of hybrid of an art book but also, what I felt like was an academic journal. And being someone who works at a university with academics, and working on university journals, I felt like we're on to something here.
- Jason Maddison

And after a lengthy discussion on the genesis of the project, Jason asked for our viewpoints on the project. 

I've got to say that I still haven't finished reading through it, because... normally when I have a paperback, I've got it cracked open and laying flat. But I'm looking at the quality of the paper and the print and stuff like that, and I'm thinking that if I break this - it would take a lot to do it - but if I break this somehow, I can't get another one. So the hardback copy has stayed in the bubble wrap that it was delivered in.
- Jay

This is something that should be opened and experienced... and a lot of effort has gone into creating this.
- Jason Maddison

But what about the future of the publication? Well, the kickstarter campaign for volume 002 was still on going at the time of recording - it has since closed, rather successfully - and it was on track to do much better than anyone had imagined:

[for volume 001] it took us about a month to get to 17k [pounds in funding]. Within about six days, [the kickstarter campaign for volume 002 is] already at about £30,000.00... and Andrew told me that [volume 002 was] fully funded within 18 hours, and as a gaming magazine on kickstarter we had the biggest opening three days [of any product] on kickstarter.
- Jason Maddison

Wow! Just wow!

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Jason's Article: I Have Lived

We wanted to talk to Jason about the piece he had penned for volume 001, called "I Have Lived" and how impactful it was on both of us to have read that article

Thanks for the feels, by the way
- Squidge

For those who haven't read his piece, Jason describes it as

Video games are one of the most powerful mediums for story telling... you come across people who say "it's just a video game"... when Jon talked to me about it, he said, "when you talk about video games, you have that emotional weight to what you're saying. And I want you to write something about all that baggage and emotion, because of the place that you've come from"
I always remember an advert that Sony London put out called "double life"...people from all walks of life talking about their live with the PlayStation. They go through their normal life, but at night they go to these fantastical worlds. And I wanted to write about how I have lived, and how I've played these games and gone on these journeys.
A lot of people, when they were kids, had holidays and had lots of things. I didn't have that. My Mum raised me on my own. And people say, "You didn't have holidays? You haven't lived!" Well, I **have** lived!
There's not enough talk about the storyline of a game, the experience of a game. There's too much d*ck waving about graphics and the console wars. I feel like certain video games helped raised me, improve my emotional growth, and set my moral compass. They can be great emotional tools for education.
I wanted to tell people that, "this, the experience, is what it's all about. It's about games being fun, and going into a new world
- Jason Maddison

And he is completely right. #weHaveLived

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