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I'm joined by Nels Anderson, who has worked on the likes of Firewatch and Mark of the Ninja to talk about designing the radio for Firewatch and a bunch of other stuff. You can find the radio video based off this interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCG0SKnxXhE MORE GETOBJECT: https://www.getobject.net/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/getObject_ email: getobjectpod@gmail.com Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/getobject

I'm joined by indie developer David "Colestia" Cribb to talk about his games A Hand With Many Fingers and The Bewitching Revolution, conspiracy boards, leftist games and more. You can find the conspiracy board video based off this interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhxElfzunbs You can find David's games here: https://colestia.itch.io/ MORE GETOBJECT: https://www.getobject.net/ SUPPORT: https://www.patreon.com/getobject Twitter: https://twitter.com/getObject_ email: getobjectpod@gmail.com Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/getobject

The getObject podcast is back! Albeit in a new form. I talk with Umurangi Generation designer Tali Faulkner about his plans for his next game, designing Umurangi Generation, why minimaps can be shit and lots more. Small parts of this interview where used for a video I made about Umurangi Generation's camera, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12d5k6Wl2_c The image Tali mentions is here: https://twitter.com/result_aoz/status/1404737611197870087 MORE GETOBJECT: https://www.getobject.net/ SUPPORT: https://www.patreon.com/getobject Twitter: https://twitter.com/getObject_ email: getobjectpod@gmail.com Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/getobject

The sky is falling, zombies are rising, and the centre cannot hold much longer. Welcome to getObject 16. It's the last show for now, and fittingly enough we tackle the Apocalypse. There's sadness, revelation, and the loss of humanity What a time to be alive!

Grab your magnifying glasses and join us as we go searching for CLUES. We discuss excesses of meaning, objects in context and Pierce's categorisation of signs as we seek to discover the secrets our virtual clues are pointing us towards. Twitter: https://twitter.com/getObjectpod email: getobjectpod@gmail.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getobject Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/getobject

Coming to you LIVE from the MAIN STAGE at E3, it's getObject 14 and we're talking CONSOLES. Join us as we discuss war, identity, and how to deliver the future. Twitter: @getobjectpod email: getobjectpod@gmail.com Patreon: patreon.com/getobject Twitch: twitch.tv/getobject

Welcome back listeners! We've made up the sofa bed and prepared your favourite meal so all is in readiness for a discussion of HOME in video games. Join us for the drive for shelter, the reification of the psyche, and the question of where Mario crashes. Twitter: https://twitter.com/getObjectpod email: getobjectpod@gmail.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getobject Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/getobject

It's time for some interpretation as Rosie & Paul delve deep into the subject of language. We talk scripts, accents, game literacy, translation, and the La Li Lu Le Lo. Twitter: @getobjectpod email: getobjectpod@gmail.com Patreon: patreon.com/getobject Twitch: twitch.tv/getobject

Puff puff pass dear listener, this time on getObject Rosie and Paul are expanding their reality-tunnels to examine how drugs are used and abused in video games. From big pharma to drunken benders, it's like your favourite object-focused games podcast ON ACID. Twitter: @getobjectpod email: getobjectpod@gmail.com Patreon: patreon.com/getobject Twitch: twitch.tv/getobject

Join us in the square listeners as we talk about towns. We discuss replicating real places, towns as expressions of ideas, culture and power, and stop off in a host of our favourite virtual towns and cities on the way. Twitter: @getobjectpod email: getobjectpod@gmail.com Patreon: patreon.com/getobject Twitch: twitch.tv/getobject

This carefully curated selection of highlights will give you a taste of what Rosie & Paul have been putting out on the getObject Patreon over the last month, from our astounding wit, to our penetrating insights. Sign up at patreon.com/getobject to unlock all this great stuff and the many extras to come.

getObject returns in heroic splendour this week as we turn our attention to swords. Featuring legendary weapons, the justification of violence, and the difficulty of sneaking in full plate armour. Strap on the katana guys, it's time to study the blade. Twitter: @getobjectpod email: getobjectpod@gmail.com Patreon: patreon.com/getobject Twitch: twitch.tv/getobject

Listener, there's a call for you. It's Rosie & Paul, here to talk about telephones. Why do they appear so often in horror? Why does the rotary phone possess such a strong aura? How do phones intersect with information and deception? You'll have to pick up to find out. Twitter: @getobjectpod email: getobjectpod@gmail.com Patreon: patreon.com/getobject Twitch: twitch.tv/getobject

Rosie & Paul tuck into the mouthwatering subject that is videogame food. They talk medieval fantasies, healing, stat buffs, culture, cooking and bonding, finishing the episode feeling very hungry indeed. Twitter: @getobjectpod email: getobjectpod@gmail.com Patreon: patreon.com/getobject Twitch: twitch.tv/getobject

A little taster of our ongoing Patreon series, Game Club. Rosie has started playing Metal Gear Solid, but does she like it? We catch up on Rosie's progress and hear her thoughts on a horny military force, Meryl, stealth, style and much more. Twitter: @getobjectpod email: getobjectpod@gmail.com Patreon: patreon.com/getobject Twitch: twitch.tv/getobject

In our first episode of Game Club, Paul reveals to Rosie that she will be playing an iconic game that she knows bugger all about. We lay out some rules, Rosie makes some predictions and we lay the groundwork for a fun series. Twitter: @getobjectpod email: getobjectpod@gmail.com Patreon: patreon.com/getobject Twitch: twitch.tv/getobject

Time to blast off into the stratosphere. Rosie & Paul talk about the symbolic power of the spaceship, solve Theseus' thought experiment and pick out some of their favourite craft. Twitter: @getobjectpod email: getobjectpod@gmail.com Patreon: patreon.com/getobject Twitch: twitch.tv/getobject

Darran Anderson, the author of a new book called Inventory that uses objects as a structuring force, joins Paul to talk about everything from the value of approaching a subject via objects, to Mario Kart's blue shell as a momento mori. Twitter: @getobjectpod email: getobjectpod@gmail.com Patreon: patreon.com/getobject Twitch: twitch.tv/getobject

The sartorial choices of videogames are up for commendation and castigation as we discuss the symbolic power of clothes, disguises, customisation, fashion and the age-old problem of aesthetics vs pragmatics when dressing protagonists. Twitter: @getobjectpod email: getobjectpod@gmail.com Patreon: patreon.com/getobject Twitch: twitch.tv/getobject

We're putting on our mirror-shades and hacking the mainframe as we talk about the object perhaps most emblematic of our current age: computers. We discuss paranoia, systems of control, hacking, abstraction, AI anxiety and more. Twitter: @getobjectpod email: getobjectpod@gmail.com Patreon: patreon.com/getobject Twitch: twitch.tv/getobject

Things get a little messy as we plunge headfirst into the assorted viscera that is the byproduct of videogame violence. We discuss the range of responses gore can elicit, the edgy 90's vs the super serious 2010's, and much more. Twitter: @getobjectpod email: getobjectpod@gmail.com Patreon: patreon.com/getobject Twitch: twitch.tv/getobject

Rosie and Paul chart their way through the territory of videogame maps, discussing the curse of the minimap, the power of the diegetic map and much more. Twitter: @getobjectpod email: getobjectpod@gmail.com Patreon: patreon.com/getobject Twitch: twitch.tv/getobject

We kick off our exploration of videogames through the objects that appear with them with keys. They hide secrets. They seal off the forbidden. We love 'em. Twitter: @getobjectpod email: getobjectpod@gmail.com Patreon: patreon.com/getobject Twitch: twitch.tv/getobject