It was hard to find someone more excited about this mash-up pack than I am, but Marsh nailed it: he interviewed Pendleton Ward, the creator of Adventure Time! WHAT.

MARSH: Play games much?

PENDLETON: I do. Right now I'm getting into virtual reality games. VR makes me feel like I'm somewhere else entirely ... the first games I tried were The Blu, which sent me under the ocean to kiss a big whale on its eyeball, and Tilt Brush which sent me to space and let me paint with rainbows ... but I'm really excited about being inside abstract visual spaces that make me feel like I am no longer in this dimension. VR can take me to that episode of The Twilight Zone where the little girl gets lost in the 4th dimension where time and space merge into one. I want to be that little girl!

M: Do you have a fondness for a particular period in gaming, or a particular series?

P: My favorite game is MYST. When I was little I'd leave the game running on my computer and just listen to the wind blowing sound effects, imagining that I was on the island. The characters in MYST had the ability to create worlds by describing them in books using special ink and paper and then transport into those worlds by placing their hands inside the book ... that really stuck with me.

M: Adventure Time has a lot of direct references to games, but do you feel like any one game in particular has had a strong influence?

P: Adventure Time is heavily inspired by Dungeons and Dragons. I loved poring over the D&D Monster Manuals when I was a kid ... ah and still do as a grown man! I play D&D regularly and I enjoy how much attention is paid to creating a fully realized world. All of the monsters have cultures and traits and habits. They felt like they existed outside of the story I was in. In one background of an episode of Adventure Time, Jesse Balmer drew a little door on the side of a staircase ... who lives in that staircase?! That's the kind of stuff that I love, stuff that makes the world feel larger than I can even know.