Dr. Inge Heyer has been involved with astronomy for over 30 years as a researcher and educator. She spoke to me at Far Point 2018 about what it takes to teach astronomy. (Photo provided by Dr. Heyer) 1:24 – Dr.

Anthony Ur is a graphics designer supporting the military but spends his free time helping design graphics and special effects for an independent science fiction show, Dark Operations: Terminus. I interviewed Anthony at Far Point 2018.

Peter David has been a professional writer for over 30 years. He’s written novels, comic books, television, video games and so on. He wrote Incredible Hulk for 12 years and has written both DC and Marvel comics.

Author Timothy Zahn has been writing professionally since 1984. He’s written a number of well-regarded Star Wars novels, as well as the Manticore Ascendent trilogy, the Cobra trilogy and the young adult Dragonback series. I was able to interview Mr.

Royce Essig has been pursuing a 25 year dream to produce a sci-fi drama. He and his team are close to completion and have used virtual reality technology to finish the product. I interviewed him at Far Point 2018.

Matt Stagmer is a prolific weapons maker. He’s part of the Man At Arms Reforged youtube show and he spoke to me at Magfest about his work. 1:14 – Matt was in charge of making the Optimus Prime sword handle. He loves the old school cartoon.

Jordan Pierson loves video games and started creating them himself. He’s with JEP games.com and I met him at Magfest 2018. He told me about their newest game Akari 1:22 – Jordan tells me about the game Akari. It’s a 3D anime inspired world.

  Rachael has been working with her friend on four games and I spoke to her at Magfest about their latest game, Akari. 1:40 – Rachael talks about the anime based game Akari. She has to go into the underworld to save her sister.

Amanda Schank is a digital artist. I interviewed her at Super Magfest 2018 about her art, inspirations and method of working. 1:26 – Her Demon Slayer picture on an alligator rug is one of her favorite works because it’s very much “her”.

I met one of the programmers and one of the developers of the indie game Super Rock Blasters at Super Magfest 2018 and interviewed them about making games. 1:36 – Christian explains what Super Rock Blasters is about.