Our new intern Tami has convinced us to let her record our board meetings for your listening pleasure! Come and have an exclusive look behind the scenes of award-winning indie studio Hypnotic Owl!
Making pizza! Playing The Wizard (or Kevin's Path to Wizdom as it will soon be known)! EATING pizza! What more could you want?
We sadly had to scrap the first half hour due to terrible sound issues. Still, delicious burgers and new prototypes are on the menu for this Cookout test run!
We participated in the bpb's game jam on food scarcity last week, chatting process and looking at the resulting games -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/hypnoticowlgames
Heat, Reddit, Wizard play styles, WIPs, Monkey Island, interconnectedness, art, oppression
Haircuts, Game Maker workshop, music production, depression, Wizard rebranding, indie success, aging, radicalized relatives
Catching up, South Africa, Rothko & Pollock, physical therapy, Making Games Is..., new projects, how to level design
Robin Hunicke on Designer Notes, Dark Souls, Redecor, MyHome, Solitaire Cruise, pirate stories, digitizing Mbali, raycasting, #NoticeMe Jam
Ukraine conflict, Mbali's landscape paper art, Superstore, Wendesil's Wizard stream, The Walking Dead, death, politics
Ukraine, The Wizard scores, board game workshop, EvnTide, visas, African politics, Wordle, She-Ra
The Wizard's score system headaches, happy accidents, composing and Hans Zimmer, Nokia Jam WIP, Peacemaker, Hawkeye
The Wizard scoring system, boosting, weight, men's shorts, One Style Man, Death Trash, funding, unfinished projects, Disney+
Tales from the bathroom, Mbali's artworks, corona and testing, unfinished projects, antiwork and the German government
Catching up, corona, Unavowed, Cruelty Squad, Super Auto Pets, Mike Flanagan, James Bond and other movies, The Witcher
Tinder, long spoilery complaining about Dune, blackish, hiatus
Shaka Zulu, Only Yesterday, Tarantino, Testing The Wizard, tutorials, writing and procrastination
RABATT, "Wir sind alle LinX" demo, Fridays for Future, performativism, democracy, Werewolves Within
Bachelor party, Quake, Magic: The Gathering, Taskmaster, procrastination, bully brain, therapy, silly jokes
Payback, water parks, paper piece, Loki, Bob Ross, iconic/brand looks, inner monologue, The Messenger, Control, The Hobbit (1977)
Free on Epic, the Taliban, Psycho Goreman, Gunpowder Milkshake, Working Moms, Youths, Among Us and Fortnite
Protests and looting in South Africa, Activision/Blizzard, engaging with problematic artists, Tekken 3, Death of Winter, The Suicide Squad, Black Widow
Post-party depression, bully brain and the inner child, social constructs, authenticity and confidence, cellphone cancer studies, Beware, The Wire
More vaccinations, home improvement, Entourage, Wish Dragon, Paddington, Miss Marple, dumb debates, Mutant Year Zero, work
Social security nonsense, Wizard, Mutant Year Zero, Sin City, Doctor Sleep, Team Foxcatcher, Mass Effect 3, skill trees, anime, Alita: Battle Angel
Youth Day, Juneteenth, Waldorf education, Kim's Convenience, Little Shop of Horrors, Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
Vaccination, catching up, state trojans, Promising Young Woman, He-Man, X-Files, Overboard!, Strangeland, procedural storytelling, Reconnect
Today in history, Pride Month, Frostpunk, new tools, confidence and self-esteem, work, Cruella, Friends Reunion
The end of Roommategate, Army of the Dead, live idea thievery, base building strategy, revisiting games, AssCreed II
Roommategate, writing, Palestine, transphobia, gaming news, Journey to Ecrya, pen and paper systems
Flatmategate, narcissism, personal growth. This was a really rather focused one, you see.
AssCreed II, Tabletop Simulator, Dome Romantik, Pine, corona, fighting games, Wizard improvements, blocking
Hootout anniversary, chicken soup, introducing the WizHarder Laboratory, anime, reevaluating entertainment
Wizard updates, Ionic & Vue, The Beast Lived Underwater, Speed Racer, characters most in need of hugs
Toxic roommates, fault and responsibility, Ted Lasso, Hearthstone Battlegrounds, AssCreed, Yakuza 0, Valheim
Crabman's soapy life, CUII and copyright, AssCreed: Black Flag, Zack Snyder's Justice League, Jordan PeteRed Skull
AssCreed IV: Black Flag, Valheim, social mechanics, relaxation, dream company models, The Conquest of Bread
Meetings, transphobia, work and productivity, Valheim
Hamburg Games Conference, Valheim, pitching boldly, dating sims, Raya and the Last Dragon, The Mandalorian, Gilson B. Pontes
Telephone scammers, traveling while Black, NFT shenanigans, Queen's Gambit, Enola Holmes, time loops in games and movies
Being over Valheim, lessons in game design, Loop Hero, I Care A Lot, the awfulness of WW84, Monster Hunter, The Wizard's Early Access roadmap
More Valheim (of course), showing off Crabman's house, The Wizard and game pricing, work, failure, pants
Branding, bad connection, Hanau, violent men and mental illness, Valheim, more bad connection, free games on Epic
Hangovers, the cold, WandaVision (no spoilers), The Mandalorian (spoilers), soapies, Alto's Adventure, Beyond: Two Souls
Porn magazines, INVITE gaming, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Beyond: Two Souls, queerness in these trying times, Moonlighter
Hair, exercise, Alexa, stock shenanigans, addictive game mechanics and addiction in general
Surgery, Harry Potter, good and bad TV, Ash vs Evil Dead, struggling with family and old trauma
Hack'n'slash games, project selection criteria, how we actually select them, Rat King creative writing questionnaire, Gender Jam result
Hackenstein's crowning, Schitt's Creek, Maleficent, nazi terrorism, bpb game jam, gender, utopias, Cloudpunk
New Years, hangovers, Hades, mediocre movies, goals for 2021, bpb jam, load shedding
Surprisingly little Christmas, sweets, corona, presents, art, #blessings, gaming experiences, movies
Introducing our new addition, Crabman's meet-cute, religion, struggling with Reddit, Wizard updates, DC movies and The Gentlemen
Ailments, The Wizard's choice of protagonist, problematic elements and ideas for addressing them (SPOILER talk from about 0h34m to 1h17m), representation in games, programming exercises