Gaming with D and Taylor

Indie studios and AAA studios...what makes their game different at their core? What game development philosophies do each of them have. WARNING: THIS EPISODE IS COMPRESSED TO HELL (we had a microphone issue). Oh and sorry for being a week late! Our bad.

Modifications in gaming has been a pretty giant part of the PC gaming community. Taylor and D explore what they've done with mods as well as talk about emulation and full-conversion games.

VR is quite a wavering subject in gaming. Sometimes it's the future, sometimes it's a fad. We discuss what we think VR is and how it'll affect gaming in a permanent way.

Player choice is a huge subject in game design and a can become a very frustrating things for players if not done correctly. We talk about Fallout 4, Bandersnatch, The Stanley Parable, and lots of other games that use player choice as a center-point.

Story isn't always communicated well enough in the medium of video games...lets talk about why. Our youtube channel "Karman Line Studios": https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6nt72R4GV41fObp6v_TeTw

Kojima is without a doubt one of the most creative game directors in existence. We talk about how Metal Gear Solid 2 seems to be the point that Kojima went all in on his insane ideas. To see our in-depth analytical video essay of this game, keep an eye out for our new YouTube show called "Von Karman Art Musuem" on the channel "Karman Line Studios."

What exactly is Casual Gaming? D and Taylor try to define the frowed upon term and relate to how their gaming habits may be a lot closer to casual than they thought.

D and Taylor take on the massive topic of where the purpose of "fun" lays in games. Do games have to be fun to be enjoyable? What constitutes having fun in a game?

D and Taylor talk about Gamers and how they represent themselves from Doritos and Mountain Dew to Indie smugness.Our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6nt72R4GV41fObp6v_TeTw

D and Taylor discuss how games and the interactive medium as a whole is shifiting toward a respected form of art. 

Hotline Miami is a game right up D's alley...Taylor not so much. We talk about why our brains seem to sync with or without this kind of "think on your feet" gameplay.

In our first episode, D and Taylor talk about their opposing views of Dark Souls.D hates it, Taylor loves it, let's talk about why.