Inside 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