Author and game developer merritt k joins the panel to cover recent industry developments, Gex, and coffin food.
Questions this week:
- Is the game development business getting better or worse? (05:43)
- You heard about Gex? (10:47)
- Design a new platforming mascot based around a working standup comedian. (16:32)
- How do you make a game demo? (22:59)
- Jim Bunt 0008 asks: If a game controls with just one hand, what do with the other? (31:14)
- How has a game frustrated you most when not letting you do something you really should be able to do? (42:36)
- Which video game most perfectly fits into the genre which describes it? (48:17)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Playground Rumors - Diablo IV (57:41)
Recommendations and Outro (01:01:51)
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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard
- Sega workers form largest multi-department video game union in the US
- Sega are still investing in NFTs, but will keep their biggest series away from the blockchain
- M2
- Hollywood actors hit picket lines in historic double strike
- Bungie wins landmark lawsuit against player who harassed Destiny staff
- Gex series
- Gex Trilogy announced for PS5, Xbox Series, PS4, Switch, and PC
- Bubsy series
- GEICO
- Dana Gould
- Red Dwarf
- Mad Men
- The Dana Gould Hour
- Spider-Ham
- John Mulaney
- Atari Jaguar
- Ricky Gervais
- Dave Chappelle
- Vole
- Rocky Rodent
- Awesome Possum Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt
- Hyper Gunsport
- VIDEOBALL
- Demonschool
- Final Fantasy VII
- Final Fantasy XVI
- P.T.
- Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
- Zone of the Enders
- Tobal No.1
- Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King
- Final Fantasy XII
- Super Mario Run
- Dead or Alive: Xtreme series
- Animal Crossing
- Super Mario 64
- Old Man Murray
- Half-Life
- Portal 2
- Peggy Hill
- Yakuza / Ryū ga Gotoku series
- Destiny 2
- Destiny's Child
- Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
- Cofagrigus
- Doom
- Call of Duty: Warzone
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Celeste
- Super Mario Bros. 3
- Croc: Legend of the Gobbos
- Uncharted series
- Jak & Daxter series
- Grand Theft Auto III
- Crash Bandicoot series
- Dragon Quest series
- Streets of Rage / Bare Knuckle series
- Final Fight series
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles licensees
- The Simpsons licensees
- X-Men
Recommendations:
merritt: OtherStrangeness.com
Brandon: Wishlist Demonschool on Steam if you want to, watch How It’s Made on Tubi, try telling yourself an incredibly boring story if you have trouble sleeping
Jaffe: the Dave’s Not Here sketch
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Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Tim Rogers, Brandon Sheffield, and merritt k. Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.