El Juego

Words: Discovery, Expensive, Shock Special Guest: Pete Wanat, Executive Producer, NBC/Universal Explore a window to the ancient world by excavating undiscovered egyptian tombs containing artifacts and relics tied to other civilizations around the world.

Words: Brother, Remote, Whistle Special Guest: Michael De Plater, Design Director at Warner Brothers Games Fighting to become whole, two people play a campaign of split personalities, where actions made by one, directly effect the other. Only able to communicate through delayed sound and implied emotion, warning can be sent as a prelude to an impending action on the opposing player's journey! As you delve further into madness on a quest to The Tower, fantasy and reality will blend as you seek completion.

Words: Heap, Immense, Envy Special Guest: Randy Pitchford, President of Gearbox Software In a world of food, you must cook to survive. Join a food faction, conquer ingredient hubs, and take down immense food monsters to complete your recipe repertoire.

Words: Year, Painless, Depreciate Title: iSellCars Special Guest: John Vignocchi, Development Director at Disney Interactive Studios As a used car salesman in a new town, it’s time to build your clientele! Appeal to your community through a unique system of dialogue, test drives, new clothes, additions to your dealership, a personal rally track, and more! Tread carefully though; natural disasters, mismanaged clients, broken down vehicles, and client relationships will test your memory, reaction time and persuasiveness!

Words: Cabin, Carnal, Imitate Title: Captain Nervy's Curvy Scurvy Special Guest: Frank O'Connor As a female captain moonlighting a male cabin boy, you must keep the ship afloat and operational as you set sail delivering tropical meat! Through your escapades to understand the lower deckhand's life, you're faced with situations of abuse and opportunity to quell mutiny. As the captain, you must guide the ship and handle quarrels between the upper and lower decks! Quickly switch between each character without being seen to handle problems as they stack up in this side scrolling adventure on the high seas!

Words: Workman, Crippled, Irk Title: Under Construction Life is stressful. Unfortunately, you don't take stress well. As a contractor, it's up to you to take on the big projects! Start small with house upgrades and move up to skyscrapers and beyond! Control your stress to avoid uncontrollable freakouts, which cause damage to your work, and make you prone to future mistakes. Explore success and failure in this funny action puzzler!

Words: Aerobics, Funky, Shoplift Title: SMELL-O-VISION In a world of the blind, the two nostriled man is king! Use scent echolocation to sense your surroundings, mark targets, and steal specific items. Don't get caught! Those around you can also hone in on scents and track your path through the store. Stay undetected and get out with the items you need!

Words: Powerhouse, Uncouth, Discourage Title: Ups and Downs This is a tale of mortality. Chase yourself through life, correcting the mistakes of your past. If you fail to right your wrongs, you will move lower into hell, if you succeed, you will move up towards heaven! Where will you end up in this unique platformer?

Words: Snout, Sadistic, Strut Title: The Warren Your boss is an evil woman with the power to destroy morale faster than you can blink. It's time to fight back! Recruit your rag tag squad of officemates for an all out assault! As a class based, top down RPG, The Warren explores both sides of the equation. Choose to fight establishment by selecting meeting places, developing secret codes, and formulating & executing plans during office hours, all while keeping off the radar of the higher ups! Or join the (wo)man, by weeding out the uprising using techniques like blocking out email, calling last minute meetings, etc! Very special thanks to our guest Adam "Atomic" Saltsman , developer of Flixel , Canabalt , the upcoming Gravity Hook HD , and many many more!

Words: Unabashed, Misinform, Montage Title: Did I Ever Tell You About The Time... You just can't seem to shake the habit of embellishing your stories! Unfortunately for you, today you play them. Take a trip down memory lane and play supercharged, often insane shells of your favorite games of yore.

Words: Observer, Concrete, Punish Title: The Bystander Effect Exploring the idea of group think and reaction to events such as the Kitty Genovese case, you are presented with a potential emergency. AI and player controlled character reactions impact your own response, but to what degree? Track reactions through a crowd, and get to the bottom of the crime, or do nothing and face the potential consequences.

Words: Tension, Moaning, RaiseTitle: CollapseAs a rescue team, your job is to help those injured in major events get to safety. A Co-Op experience, one player controls the rope and has to react to structural deficiencies and the chaos around them. The other player must be lowered into a situation to rescue an individual, then communicate through tugging the rope (vibrations), in addition to a proximity voice chat, to climb out of the rubble. Occupational hazards on both ends, paired with a lack of solid communication and visibility, really help sell the concept of tension. Work quickly or risk becoming victims yourselves!

Words: Milk, Arrested, EscapeTitle: Breast PoliceThere is absolutely no reason that an actual game concept should have escaped from the breast fueled buddy cop dramedy that was Police Breasts, but I managed to actually come up with something I would want to play!Fighting breast cancer, in a real time strategy game! A tumor is producing cancer cells, your task is to surround it with differing white cell production sites, which combat certain levels of the cancer. The farther away the cancer cells gets from the initial source, the different phases they transfer through. Push the disease back, using heavier duty white blood cell conversions, until the tumor is gone. Use special attacks such as chemotherapy, and other cancer treatments as they become available! The game is intended as not only a fun strategy game, but also a basis for actionable education.

Words: Pauper, Succulent, SpliceTitle: Maligno, A Steampunk MusicalAs a mad scientist trying to take over the world, Industrial Era London has become your playground. Build your notoriety and take down superheroes of the day (prominent members of parliament in costume). With a unique dynamic musical system, NPC's break out in song as you walk down the street, and sing the chorus as you perform common actions. The soundtrack is alive around you! Find the ringleader of these crime fighting heroes and prepare for the next major city to fall under the wrath of Maligno!El Juego Classico is a pre-historic version of El Juego de Palabras. Prior to breaking it off into it's own show, El Juego used to be a weekly segment on Crunch Time. This is one of those earlier runs in all it's technically deficient glory. You can find new episodes of El Juego at www.crunchtimepodcast.com

Words: Catcall, Daring, SingTitle: Se-DatedAlex's hard drive committed suicide this week, and as such there's no full Crunch Time episode to entertain you all! In its stead, I've invited Brendan back for another fun El Juego!As a drunk bar patron, you're reached the stage where you no longer comprehend reality. Discover where you are and what surrounds you using tools in your environment to find the exit and call a cab home. Get out faster, or pick up a date for bonus points!

Words: Marker, Broke, WorkingTitle: In Me You TrustSpecial guest, head of Activision's social media initiative Dan Amrich joins us today for an absolute blast of an El Juego! As a young con artist, you've always skirted the law. Upon realizing nobody in your town was all too bright, you begin an enterprising counterfeiting scheme. Initially only hitting smaller local venues, you exponentially grow to an international crime lord, peddling your faux bills. Take over the global monetary system and show off your funny money!

Words: Tea, Enthusiastic, EraseTitle: The Greater GoodUnfortunately due to events that transpired earlier in the week, Dan Amrich was unable to join us, but look for him on again in the future!As a time traveler, you make it your mission to correct the global problems currently facing the planet. By finding the links from past events, you travel to famous periods and locales in history, to put an end to such issues as global warming, genocide, extremism, water shortages, hunger, etc. As you change the past to effect the future, you soon realize that you can't solve them all, and some problems you cause might be worse than the ones you've solved.

Words: Proposition, Rosy, PreachTitle: Path To RedemptionThis week we have special guest Matthew LoPresti, designer at Powerhead Games, developers of the new hit Glow Artisan for DSiWare!You've done horrible things. As a committer of the 7 cardinal sins, you seek redemption at your church. In confessional you relive the horrors of your past, and gain purpose to correct them, but at what cost? Suffer your sins and attempt to rectify them on your path to redemption.

Words: Puffball, Frosted, Digest Title: Grubopolis This week we have special guest Gian Cruz, co-founder of FeelEveryYummy and designer on the new iPhone (soon to be iPad) title Bongo Blitz! There is a VERY special giveaway in this episode: get a free copy of Bongo Blitz AND get your favorite song in the game! There are two chances to win, so listen up and listen early! Even if you think someone else might have claimed the codes, give it a shot :) On a strange world thousands of years in the future, volcanoes with the power of replication are used to make food rain from the hevens! When an alien spacecraft crash lands in Grubopolis, the main city, strange foods from a farway planet (Earth), are discovered. Rather than hoarding the stash, the leader of this civilization decides to replicate the goods. Many years pass, and the wrappers and plastics of these duplicate space foods begin to add up until one day someone decides to toss one into the volcano. It disappeared! Such becomes the trend, but unbeknownst to them, the replication clouds it was producing were delayed, dark, and ominous! Become the new leader of this burgeoning civilization and go back to your roots, manipulate the planets gravity by tapping into it's moons, and inspire social change within your people to save your planet!

Words: Box, Plastic, PoisonTitle: Good Robot, Bad RobotToys. Everyone loved them, but boy have safety standards become lax! As a customs sorting robot, its your responsibility to get safe toys into the market, and weed out hazardous ones. Will you take company bribes to an extreme and be forced to cover up at double speed when the factory gets raided? Will you be a beacon of righteousness and suffer company scrutiny when none of their product makes it into the channel? You decide!

As a family of people under the weather, you often get those around you quite sick! Try and infect your cohorts in social settings, and keep track of your progress via a stylized overhead HUD. Work quickly, manage the germaphobes, and make the leaderboards for the most infected in the time alloted! Words: Circle, Duplicate, Infect

You're in the jungle in the dead of night, when a beckoning roar flushes early birds from their nests, and the beat of your impending doom stomps forward. You look to your herd, tiny Compsognathus' (Compys), and decide to run back home. You are playing Dinosauria, an open world Dinosaur adventure, where you try and build your herd of dinosaurs (with many available) to become a force to be reckoned with. Start as an herbivore or carnivore and band together to survive the harsh world! Words: Weapon, Lacking, Herd

Hola! El Juego numero 6 is here, in all its wild glory! Embrace your inner bear and embark on this epic quest to travel north. Action packed with thunderstorms, flash floods, forest fires, hunters, and more, we refuse to let you hibernate (unless you are between areas). Recruit a friend to join the pack and make your presence known! Words this week: Bear, Vast, Journey

Welcome to El Juego Numero Cinco! How would you like to outcook your friends on a path to culinary exillence? What about losing a few pounds and eating healthier while saving money? Introducing Bon Appetit, the latest Project Natal branded game show from Microsoft, featuring connected cooking utensils that guide you in the prep of your new favorite foods! Play online and compete with your friends to cook a better dinner!

Welcome to El Juego Numero Quatro! Mid week El Juego is back! Ever feel weird in life? What if you knew you were insane? That's the challenge we pose you with today on El Juego. Control your outward appearance and remain normal to make the voices go away this week!

Welcome to El Juego Numero Tres! We’ve got something of a smorgasbord of game ideas today (ironically, a trio) of really original concepts. Some really neat stuff to think about today!

Welcome to El Juego Numero Dos! We’ve got an amazing guest this week! Martin Hollis, former head of software at Rare, director of Goldneye, and founder of Zoonami joins us for this fantastic double feature! We’re going to keep these shows in the same podcast feed, so no need to subscribe to something new! We’d love to have your feedback on this new mini-show, so send us an email! Info is below.

Welcome to El Juego Numero Uno! We’re going to keep these shows in the same podcast feed, so no need to subscribe to something new! We’d love to have your feedback on this new mini-show, so send us an email! Info is below.