An Interview with Mary Jane Treacy

For years after I first played Mary Jane Treacy's Greenwich Village game, Judith Shapiro, the former president of Barnard College, called me Emma (for Emma Goldman) whenever she saw me.  Our experience playing the game was that memorable.

A second edition of GV is now in the works.  In this interview, I talked with Mary Jane about how she became a game author, what led her to invent Personal Influence Points, about her other games (Paterson and Argentina) and about what will be new in v. 2.0 of GV.

The informal tagline for this podcast is "Great Guests, a Pretty Good Host and Good Enough Sound."  That last part is particularly appropriate for this episode.  There was a short somewhere in the system and there's a bit of crackle now and then during the episode.  Despite extensive editing, it's a little more obvious than I'd like at times.  But Mary Jane was so interesting I decided to go live with the episode anyway.  So--pretend you're a teenager listening to a baseball game on AM radio when there's occasional lightning in the area (and now you know just a bit more about how I spent my time growing up).