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CSI Skill Tree: Chrono Trigger with Aidan Moher and Troy L. Wiggins

CSI Skill Tree is a series that examines and celebrates how video games envision possible futures, build rich and thought-provoking worlds, and engage people as active participants in unfolding and interpreting stories. In this episode, we discuss "Chrono Trigger" (1995), a time-hopping roleplaying adventure that is often featured on lists of the best and most influential video games of all time. We explore how "Chrono Trigger," alongside many other roleplaying games developed in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s, presents an alchemical blend of ideas from science fiction and fantasy. This combination of elements from across genres enables the game to unfold an elegant story about time, causality, moral responsibility, environmental collapse, technological hubris, and solidarity. About our special guests: Troy L. Wiggins is a writer and editor based in Memphis, Tennessee. His work focuses on Black speculative fiction, the Black imagination, Afrofuturism, and liberation technologies. His short fiction has appeared in anthologies including "Memphis Noir" and "Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda," and his nonfiction has appeared in magazines and journals including MLK50 Memphis, Literary Orphans, and Reactor. He coedited the international speculative fiction anthology "Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue" and cofounded and coedited FIYAH, a literary magazine of Black speculative fiction that has won Hugo and World Fantasy Awards. Learn more at https://troylwiggins.com. Aidan Moher is a writer of speculative fiction and nonfiction based in Vancouver Island, British Columbia. He is the author of the book "Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West," which was published in 2022 by Running Press. He founded the Hugo Award–winning speculative fiction blog A Dribble of Ink, as well as Astrolabe, a newsletter on science fiction, fantasy, and retro video games. His work has appeared in Wired, Washington Post, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Kotaku, Reactor, and a variety of other outlets. Learn more at https://aidanmoher.com. The Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University engages in research, outreach and radical collaborations to reinvent our relationship with the future. From writers, artists, and teachers to scientists, engineers, and technologists, we bring diverse intellectual practices together to create visions of the future that are inspiring, inclusive, and imaginative. Learn more and sign up for email updates about publications, events, and projects at https://csi.asu.edu. Thanks to Om Gawali for expert editing and postproduction.