Your Insert Credit Panel discusses the future of Xbox, the difference between dad games and mom games, and weird little guys.
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SHOW NOTES:
1: When are you convinced to go back to a particular game after putting it down? (02:51)
- Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare
- Cronos: The New Dawn
- Red Dead Redemption II
- Deadwood
- Sega Genesis
- Sony PlayStation
- World of WarCraft
- Quest 64
- Quest 64 Official
- The Ooze
- barleybap
2: Through video game history, how has the job of level designer evolved? (07:44)
- TUME
- Disney's Aladdin
- Hirokazu Yasuhara
- Sonic the Hedgehog series
- Uncharted series
- Titanfall 2
- Iwata Asks
- Legend of Zelda series
- Shigeru Miyamoto
- Takashi Tezuka
3: What are the differences between a dad game and a mom game? (12:59)
- Pragmata
- Cooking Mama
- Bayonetta
- Amnesia: Rebirth
- Super Metroid
- NieR
- NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...
- Stardew Valley
- The Sims
- Black & White
- Peter Molyneux
- You know it's bad for AI when even Peter Molyneux, king of overpromising, is tepid on its use in game dev
- Grateful Dead
- Black Sabbath
4: Design a video game trilogy intended to grow up with the player base (19:39)
5: Death_Strandicoot asks, is Xbox a third party now? Is there still a Big 3? (28:01)
- Halo: Campaign Evolved launches on PS5
- 'We Are Xbox': read the memo defining Microsoft's gaming future
- Developers, developers, developers
- Nintendo
- Sony
- Roblox
- Epic
- Fortnite
- Circana
- List of largest video game companies by revenue
6: What are some new ways to torture players in masocore games? (33:42)
- Masocore
- Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
- QWOP
- Dark Souls
- Minecraft
- Marvel Rivals
- Jackass
- Virtual Boy
- Speedrunning
7: What is the McDonald’s Sprite of video games? (38:42)
LIGHTNING ROUND: GameFAQ&As - Roblox Mobile (43:51)
Recommendations and Outro (49:51):
- Frank: apply for Video Game History Foundation’s Charity Development Coordinator if you meet the qualifications
- Ash: For All Mankind
- Brandon: Boogiepop Phantom, Ikarie XB-1 (1963), Baby Steps Developers React to 7 Minute Speedrun
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Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.