Composers Vincent Diamante and ThorHighHeels join Tim in covering modern video game news sources, mysterious games, and excellent yacht names.
Questions this week:
- Here and now in 2023, how do you get video game news? (08:59)
- What qualifies a game as mysterious? (14:39)
- Tell me about a project that you really believed in at one point, but couldn’t find a way to make it come together. (18:46)
- What subject could you give an unprepared GDC talk on? (28:29)
- From Kyle: What's the newest game genre, excluding overt combinations of established genres? (36:36)
- Are YouTube audiences more interested in hearing about bad video games than good ones? (48:26)
- Why do you think people like what you do? (54:17)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Pull Quotes (59:32)
Recommendations and Outro (01:09:39)
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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- The Witcher series
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
- Assassin's Creed series
- Phonopath
- Elden Ring
- Christa Lee
- Shadow the Hedgehog
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Starfield
- Germs: Nerawareta Machi
- Bullet Witch
- NieR
- Sonic Adventure 2
- Blender
- Unity ProBuilder
- Flower Sun and Rain
- Final Fantasy XV
- Undertale
- Celeste
- Yoshi Bongos
- Banjo-Kazooie
- Grant Kirkhope
- Vampire Survivors
- Animal Crossing series
- Harvest Moon / Story of Seasons series
- Boku no Natsuyasumi series
- MySims
- Love-de-Lic
- Captain★Rainbow
- Chulip
- L.O.L.: Lack of Love
- Moon: Remix RPG Adventure
- Giftpia
- Star Wars: Jedi - Fallen Order
- Disaster Report series
- Kyoei Toshi
- Resident Evil series
- Flower
- Demon's Souls
- Evony
- Yakuza / Ryū ga Gotoku series
- Jack Reacher
- Left 4 Dead
- Gears of War series
- Bubblegum Crisis
- Umurangi Generation
Recommendations:
Vincent: Baseball, Chair Simulator
Thor: Boot up a Zed X
Tim: The city of Detroit
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Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Tim Rogers, Vincent Diamante, and ThorHighHeels. Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.