Matthew Seiji Burns on Two Visions of Zen

One Cool Thing

On this episode we meet Matthew Seiji Burns who chats to Hannah Nicklin about Two Visions of Zen.

Matthew Seiji Burns is a writer, director, composer and game designer based in Seattle on the West Coast of the USA. All in all Matthew has worked on games as varied as AAA games like Halo 3, to high-concept Indies like Eliza as part of his long standing collaboration with Zachtronics, and on high impact yet tiny works of Interactive Fiction like The Writer Will Do Something or The Arboretum. He has a 6 record back catalogue on bandcamp with Zachtronics.
Liner Notes

Matthew’s work:

• Matthew Seiji Burns - Personal website
• Eliza - on Steam and Nintendo eShop
• Music for Zachtronics games

Books and other references on the show:

• How the Swans Came to the Lake by Peter Fields
• Shunryu Suzuki (Wikipedia):
• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
• Zen Is Right Here by David Chadwick and Shunryu Suzuki
• Xuanhua (Wikipedia):
• Touching Ground by Tim Testu
• Three Steps, One Bow by Heng Ju and Heng Yo

One Cool Thing Production Credits

One Cool Thing is hosted by Die Gute Fabrik's Studio Lead Hannah Nicklin and is produced, edited and sound designed by Tom Whalley. Additional production and research by Úna-Minh Kavanagh and our theme music by Nick Ellis who can be found on Bandcamp as tenby.