Podcast appearances and mentions of Bennett Foddy

We're joined by guest hosts Xalavier Nelson Jr. (I Am Your Beast) and Bennett Foddy (Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy) to discuss Rail Heist, the 28th game in the UFO 50 collection. “The most infamous train robbers in the west pull off a series of daring heists.” Next week: Vainger Audio edited by Dylan Shumway.   Discussed in this episode:   Colt Express https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/158899/colt-express Invisible, Inc. https://store.steampowered.com/app/243970/Invisible_Inc/ Gunpoint https://store.steampowered.com/app/206190/Gunpoint/  SteamWorld Heist https://www.gog.com/en/game/steamworld_heist  Hotline Miami https://store.steampowered.com/app/219150/Hotline_Miami/  Killer Queen https://killerqueenarcade.com/  Leisure Suit Larry https://store.steampowered.com/app/763970/Leisure_Suit_Larry_1__In_the_Land_of_the_Lounge_Lizards/ Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2116510/Creepy_Redneck_Dinosaur_Mansion_3/ Baby Steps https://store.steampowered.com/app/1281040/Baby_Steps/ https://www.youtube.com/eggplantshow  http://discord.gg/eggplant https://www.patreon.com/eggplantshow  

Doug and Rob chat with mut moochi, Jonny Hopkins, and Gurn Group about their experimental game and emulator hacking practice, which they call "plunderludics". We're also joined by special guest co-host Bennett Foddy. We describe some of their pieces, the comparison against plunderphonics and other related terms, the tools they've developed, and more. Show notes:  plunderludics wiki https://plunderludics.github.io/ Unityhawk https://plunderludics.github.io/tools/unityhawk.html boshi's place https://boshis.place/ mut's Tapestry https://2024.amaze-berlin.de/mentions/tapestry/ mut's Auto Mario https://nes.mut.media/goodluck.html Mario Mario's bro skater 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWHXMURV2vo tetris, but all at once, but all at once https://x.com/jwhopkin/status/1624188079408918528 jonny's Mario x film composites https://x.com/jwhopkin/status/1627367719518576656 https://x.com/jwhopkin/status/1628938203435614208 https://x.com/jwhopkin/status/1630298848479281153 Gurn Group's itch page https://gurnburial.itch.io/ Mario Tag documentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pul43sdWO8k Multibowl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multibowl "Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative" https://plunderphonics.com/ JohnLee Cooper's list Plundercore (Not By Me Mostly) https://itch.io/c/2861178/plundercore-not-by-me-mostly Water Level/b.l.u.e. EXPLORATION by hatimb00 https://hatimb00.itch.io/blue-exploration      

In this special pre-PAX West 2024 edition of the Two Vague Podcast… does Ben have a couple of imaginary guests, the titular “Drop Dead Fred” perhaps?  Nope!  He's got something far more engaging than a Phoebe Cates movie up his sleeve.  Christian and Erik from Imaginary Game Studios join Ben to talk about their experiences in the AAA gaming space and their latest project Rogue Climber!  It's an episode that is guaranteed to be more exciting and interesting than driving a desert bus from Las Vegas to Tucson, Arizona. Ben's interview with Christian  00:00:20 - Introducing Imaginary Game Studios founder and Meticulous game creator Christian 00:02:46 - Correction, the game Ben played at the Local H concert was Battle Arena Toshinden  00:04:25 - Finding the fun, exorcising the design demons, mixing inspiration, and rage climbers 00:07:52 - The indie game flavor of the month, Steam genre tag problems, and the Cybertruck 00:11:55 - Ben's arcade memories, Christian's time in Japanese arcades, and a Dreamcast tip 00:14:53 - Getting Over it with Bennett Foddy, Penn & Teller's Desert Bus, and Airplane Mode  00:17:54 - Capsule hotels, themed stuff in Japan, Studio Ghibli stores, and back to Desert Bus 00:21:25 - Cozy rage, Christian's experiences in the AAA space, and speculating on the cause 00:24:40 - Cutting Peter Dinklage's Ghost, and stratification of creatives, leaders, and execs 00:27:27 - The Imaginary Game Studios game jam, YouTube content creation, and the news 00:28:32 - Favorite word - imagination  Ben's interview with Erik 00:30:19 - Introducing 2VP to Erik, focus required, a lifeline for Meticulous, and the first to play 00:33:07 - Meeting Christian at EA, working at Blizzard on Diablo 3, and a heroine killing spoiler 00:36:38 - The perils of stories “under wraps,” crafting meaningful stories, and is it censorship?  00:39:19 - The easiest thing to change, creating a simulacra, incorporating feedback, and DEI 00:42:55 - Everyone is NOT a narrative expert, the creative process, and remembering Anthem 00:45:08 - Getting to the fun questions, Counter-Strike bunnyhopping, and a Venn diagram 00:48:34 - Correction, only review copies of Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors were made 00:51:11 - Favorite word -  a tie between scofflaw and bindlestiff  Erik's interview with Ben 00:52:50 - Where did you come up with the word concept? 00:54:44 - Tell me about your dad, what would his favorite word be, and connecting with Norah 00:57:54 - Ben gets a little personal about his relationship with his father 00:59:42 - What story about your father do you think had the biggest impact on you? 01:00:40 - Erik talks about his experiences writing for a Sports Illustrated subsidiary 01:02:19 - Andrew and Erik are in the same boat, the 23 year gap, and the booth babe sash Follow Two Vague on… Our website: https://www.twovaguepodcast.com  On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/two_vague_podcast On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@twovaguepodcast For show appearance and other inquiries, contact us at twovaguepodcast@gmail.com -AND-  …for all of your PRI and 2VP merch check out the Partly Robot Industries store at TEEPUBLIC! https://www.teepublic.com/user/partly-robot-industries References, Links, and Tags Follow all the shenanigans Imaginary Game Studios is up to… On their website: https://www.imaginarygamestudios.com/  On their Discord: https://discord.gg/YyDD7ECtdJ  On their YouTube channel - they post all sorts of stuff from gaming news, to gaming podcasts, to game jams, to the occasional cooking video: https://www.youtube.com/@caxtnova Imaginary Game Studios GAMES on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2673440/Rogue_Climber/  

Doug and Zach talk to prolific game maker sylvie (love game), together with guest co-host Raigan Burns (Metanet Software). We talk about sylvie's design process, freeware games, subverting traditional orthodoxies around gamefeel, sylvie's influences, and more. Show Notes: sylvie's website Catalog of sylvie's games sylvie's blog posts sylvie's post on playtesting Bennett Foddy on JIGGLY ZONE Eggplant Episode 11 with Raigan Melos Han-Tani on Living in the Relational Playworld John Thyer's How To Make Good Small Games     

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a bold new take on Track & Field by Bennett Foddy, creator of Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy. This weekend's Patreon Bonus Get episode will be CYBERMORPH — the pack-in game that was expected to sell the Atari Jaguar to the world! Donate at Patreon to get this bonus content and much, much more! Follow the show on Bluesky to get the latest and straightest dope. Check out what games we've already ranked on the Big Damn List, then nominate a game of your own via five-star review on Apple Podcasts! Take a screenshot and show it to us on our Discord server! Intro music by NORM. 2024 © Hardcore Gaming 101

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we begin a new series on 1998's Dreamworks Interactive title, Trespasser. We set it in its time (a year with many great games... and also Trespasser) and then discuss a bit of the games foibles and noble attempts. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: First level or two Issues covered: an intro that works on many levels, repeating lines, games from this great year, a fan base that loves this game, Steven Spielberg bringing weight to bear, a relic, shooting for the stars, experimentation and memorability, the blase noting of dinosaurs, not reflecting a player's needs, learning from bad games, bringing in film people to do a game person's job, needing to get the game out, spotty voice acting, representing the character poorly, the weird IK and dinosaur behaviors, open spaces, committing to the bit, leveraging my hand, having to figure out how to solve a puzzle, outsmarting a procedurally generated raptor, other wonky games swinging for the fences, shipping a game without patches,  Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Jurassic Park, Minnie Driver, Richard Attenborough, Ocarina of Time, Metal Gear Solid, Baldur's Gate, Half-Life, Thief, Starcraft, RE 2, Grim Fandango, Unreal, Myth II, Fallout 2, Descent: Freespace, Starfighter, Rogue Squadron, MediEvil, Gran Turismo, Starsiege Tribes, Banjo Kazooie, Steven Spielberg, Boom Blox, EA, Wii, Louis Castle, Seamus Blackley, The Dig, Gilmore Girls, Quake, Velvet Goldmine, Studio 54, Good Will Hunting, Circle of Friends, Big Night, RTX Red Rock, Austin Grossman, Spider-man 2, Jamie Fristrom, Clint Hocking, Far Cry 2, Wayne Knight, Jeff Goldblum, DOOM (1993), System Shock (series), Surgeon Simulator, Goat Simulator, Octodad, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, X-COM, Julian Gollop, Arkham City, Galleon, Toby Gard, Die By The Sword, Artimage, Bloodborne, Kenneth Baker, Sea of Stars, SNES, Chrono Trigger, Sabotage Studios, Twin Suns Corp, Nintendo, Switch, Tacoma, Maas Neotek, Space Oddity, David Bowie, Alan Wake, Epic, Omicron: The Nomad Soul, Quantic Dream, Microsoft, Quantum Break, Roy Orbison, The Coconut Song, Guitar Hero, Brutal Legend, Ozzy Osborne, AC/DC, Def Leppard, Megadeth, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Arkham Knight, Control, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia.  Next time: More of Trespasser Twitch: brettdouville or timlongojr, instagram:timlongojr, Twitter: @timlongojr and @devgameclub Discord  DevGameClub@gmail.com

In which we speedrun GIRP (2011), and engage in some good old-fashioned digital mountaineering. Pippin decompiles a seagull. David embraces the Way of The Bride. These, and other GAMETHINGS. GIRP was developed and published by Bennett Foddy.

This community is a big tent. We welcome folks from all backgrounds, and all levels of experience with computers. Heck, on our last episode, we celebrated an article written by someone who is, rounding down, a lawyer! A constant question I ponder is: what's the best way to introduce someone to the world of FoC? If someone is a workaday programmer, or a non-programmer, what can we share with them to help them understand our area of interest? A personal favourite is the New Media Reader, but it's long and dense. An obvious crowd-pleaser is Inventing on Principle. Bonnie Nardi's A Small Matter of Programming deserves a place on the list, especially if the reader is already an avid programmer who doesn't yet understand the point of end-user programming. They might ask, "Why should typical computer users bother learning to program?" Well, that's the wrong question! Instead, we should start broader. Why do we use computers? What do we use them to do? What happens when they don't do what we want? Who controls what they do? Will this ever change? What change do we want? Nardi challenges us to explore these questions, and gives the reader a gentle but definitive push in a positive direction. Next time, we're… considered harmful? #### $ We have launched a Patreon! => patreon.com/futureofcoding If, with the warmth in your heart and the wind in your wallet, you so choose to support this show then please know that we are tremendously grateful. Producing this show takes a minor mountain of effort, and while the countless throngs of adoring fair-weather fans will surely arrive eventually, the small kilo-cadre of diehard listeners we've accrued so far makes each new episode a true joy to share. Through thick and thin (mostly thin since the sponsorship landscape turned barren) we're going to keep doing our darnedest to make something thought-provoking with an independent spirit. If that tickles you pink, throw some wood in our fireplace! (Yes, Ivan is writing this, how can you tell?) Also, it doesn't hurt that the 2nd bonus episode — "Inherently Spatial" — is one of the best episodes of the show yet. It defrags so hard; you'll love it. #### Init Bug report: Frog Fractions. Oh the indignity! Hey, it's The Witness in our show notes again. Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy is the better game, even if it spawned Only Up and other copycats that miss the point. The Looker gets the point. Getting Over It is a triumph that emerged from a genre of games that are hard to play: Octodad, QWOP, I Am Bread Braid arguably spawned the genre of high-minded & heady puzzlers that all try to say something profound through their design. Cookie Clicker and Universal Paperclips are good incremental games. Jump King and Only Up are intentionally bad. Flappy Bird was accidentally good. Surgeon Simulator and Goat Simulator are purely for the laughs. Stanley Parable, like Getting Over It, brings in the voice of the creator to (say) invite rumination on the fourth wall, which is what make them transcendent. Here's the trailer for Bennett Foddy's new game, Baby Steps. So on the one hand we have all these "bad" and """bad""" and sometimes badgames, which actually end up doing quite well in advancing the culture. On the other hand we have The Witness, The Talos Principal, Swapper, Antichamber, QUBE, and all these high-minded puzzly games, which despite their best efforts to say something through their design… kinda don't. When comparing the "interactivity" of these games, it's tempting to talk about the mechanics (or dynamics), but that formal definition feels a little too precise. We mean something looser — something closer to the colloquial meaning when "Gamers" talk about "game mechanics". Silent Football might be an example of "sports as art". Mao is a card game where explaining the rules is forbidden. #### Main The Partially Examined Life is one of Jimmy's favourite philosophy podcasts. Two essays from Scientific American's 1991 Special Issue Communications, Computers and Networks are referenced in the first chapter, one by Larry Tesler and one by Alan Kay. The other essays in this issue are also quite interesting to reflect on from our position 30 years hence. Apple's Knowledge Navigator video, and HP's 1995 video, are speculative fiction marketing about conversational agents. Rewind.ai is one of those "Computer, when did I last degauss the tachyon masticator?" tools. (Oh, Lifestreams…) S-GPT is Federico Viticci's iOS/Mac Shortcut that strings together ChatGPT and various Shortcuts features, so that you can do some nifty automation stuff via a conversational interface. It feels like similar things could be built — heck, probably already have been built — with "If-Tuh-Tuh-Tuh" or Zapier. When Ivan reaches for domain-specific terminology, LUT, Arri Alexa, and Redcome easily because, like, he wishes he had occasion to use them. To hear the story about the Secret Service busting down young Jimmy's door, listen to his episode on the Code With Jason podcast. C Is Not a Low-level Language — a fantastic article about the illusion that our source code closely matches what actually happens during execution. What Follows from Empirical Software Research? Not much, according to Jimmy in this delightful article. Jimmy likes to reference Minecraft's "redstone" which acts a bit like a programming system, so here, have a video about redstone. Ivan saw this video via Mastodon, about someone making a "real" camera in Blender, and… just… 

What's more rage inducing than failing time and time again when faced with a particularly challenging area in a video game? The real answer, for those of us with a temper, is ultimately being unable to complete the challenge indefinitely due to the fact that you've resorted to breaking your controller over the same thick skull that couldn't figure out how to "Get Over It" with Bennett Foddy. While sometimes all it takes is a quick head smack, or an "ah-HAH" moment, a few levels in video games tower above the rest, planting their flags mountains of busted controllers and earning their spot in a list of the 100 Hardest Levels in Video Game History. Thankfully the talented folks over at Vulture have put in a painstaking amount of effort to piece together a wonderful article which outlines their picks for this list. We figured we'd use this wonderful bit of gaming journalism as a jumping off point to talk about some of the picks we agreed with, some we didn't, and the levels which would have topped our own lists. The article is a "must read" and we'd highly suggest digesting it, or even following along as the episode goes. You can find it here: https://www.vulture.com/article/hardest-video-game-levels.html?utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=vulture&utm_source=theretrogradepodcastWatch our gameplay segments and full video episodes over on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theretrogradepodcastGet monthly bonus episodes by joining our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theretrogradepodcastJoin us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod, @RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikeyTikTok: @RetrogradePodOr on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast Or visit our website at www.theretrogradepod.com/Questions, Comments, and business inquiries can be sent to theretrogradepodcast@gmail.comShow Notes: https://www.theretrogradepod.com/episodes/100-hardest-levels-in-video-games-vulture-article-review

IGN news director and Axe of the Blood God creator Kat Bailey joins the panel to discuss Metacritic scores, ranked polls, and what the ESRB actually does all day. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, Brandon Sheffield, and Kat Bailey. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman. Questions this week: Frank Cifaldi asks: What are the best British games? (05:11) Why doesn't a Sight & Sound-style poll work for video games? (12:22) How does IGN review games? (25:33) If ESRB ratings were literal, which games would actually be for everyone, for teens, and mature? (29:43) Insert Credit Ad Break - Sully: A Very Serious RPG (36:45) Azurelore Korrigan asks: What medium is best for adapting to video games? (38:29) What's something you wished video games would do, they eventually did, and now you've had enough? (45:14) What counts as video game news? (50:12) Did everyone here always know what IGN stands for? (58:09) LIGHTNING ROUND: From Yeso - Oblique Game Designs (59:24) Recommendations and Outro (01:06:54) Discuss this episode in the Insert Credit Forums A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: Final Fantasy VII: Remake Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Final Fantasy XV Final Fantasy V Sonic R Plok July 4th Best British Games Spectacular, with Bennett Foddy and Mathew Kumar Cannon Fodder Batman Ste and John Pickford Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warpship Equinox Tim Follin The Bitmap Brothers The Chaos Engine series Judge Dredd Alien³ OutRun series Snake Rattle N Roll Battletoads Bubsy series Slippy Toad Star Fox Croc: Legend of the Gobbos Donkey Kong Country Star Fox Adventures Slalom Highlander: The Last of the MacLeods Cobra Triangle R.C. Pro-Am Sensible Soccer series Football Manager series Dog's Life Red Dog: Superior Firepower Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) The Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2022 100 best video games, ranked by experts Ernest Borgnine Laser Mission (1989) From Here to Eternity (1953) Seven of Nine Wild Arms series The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time StarCraft The Last of Us Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings Super Mario Bros. Pac-Man Final Fantasy VI Tetris Sonic the Hedgehog games Academy Awards Goichi Suda NetHack Dwarf Fortress Factorio IGN Eurogamer Edge Metacritic Hyper Gunsport Deadly Premonition ESRB Ratings Call of Duty series Wii Sports Diablo II Mad Planets California Extreme Skies of Arcadia Koudelka Flappy Bird Candy Crush Saga Grand Theft Auto series Mortal Kombat games MSCHF's Tax Heaven 3000 Star Wars: Jedi - Survivor Disco Elysium David Cage VIDEOBALL Baroque Neon White 2K Sports Jake From State Farm Is A Character In NBA 2K22's City God of War Marko's Magic Football Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City Fire Pro Wrestling series Dear Boys Captain Tsubasa licensees Football Drama Dragon Quest series Carcassone Baldur's Gate Forgotten Realms Pathfinder licensees Cyberpunk 2077 Disney's DuckTales Battlefield series Legend of the Red Dragon series Final Fantasy XIV Online Ultima Online EverQuest World of WarCraft Kingdoms of Amalur series The Lord of the Rings Online series Star Wars: The Old Republic The Matrix Online Destiny Phantasy Star Online Monster Hunter series GameDeveloper.com Thegia Recommendations: Brandon: Continue to listen to this if we keep doing it, I Am a Hero (2015) Kat: Episode 400 of Axe of the Blood God with Felipe Pepe Frank: Episode 34 of Video Game History Hour with Felipe Pepe This week's Insert Credit Show is brought to you by Sully: A Very Serious RPG, and patrons like you. Thank you. Subscribe: RSS, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and more!

IGN news director and Axe of the Blood God creator Kat Bailey joins the panel to discuss Metacritic scores, ranked polls, and what the ESRB actually does all day. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, Brandon Sheffield, and Kat Bailey. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman. Questions this week: Frank Cifaldi asks: What are the best British games? (05:11) Why doesn't a Sight & Sound-style poll work for video games? (12:22) How does IGN review games? (25:33) If ESRB ratings were literal, which games would actually be for everyone, for teens, and mature? (29:43) Insert Credit Ad Break - Sully: A Very Serious RPG (36:45) Azurelore Korrigan asks: What medium is best for adapting to video games? (38:29) What's something you wished video games would do, they eventually did, and now you've had enough? (45:14) What counts as video game news? (50:12) Did everyone here always know what IGN stands for? (58:09) LIGHTNING ROUND: From Yeso - Oblique Game Designs (59:24) Recommendations and Outro (01:06:54) Discuss this episode in the Insert Credit Forums A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: Final Fantasy VII: Remake Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Final Fantasy XV Final Fantasy V Sonic R Plok July 4th Best British Games Spectacular, with Bennett Foddy and Mathew Kumar Cannon Fodder Batman Ste and John Pickford Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warpship Equinox Tim Follin The Bitmap Brothers The Chaos Engine series Judge Dredd Alien³ OutRun series Snake Rattle N Roll Battletoads Bubsy series Slippy Toad Star Fox Croc: Legend of the Gobbos Donkey Kong Country Star Fox Adventures Slalom Highlander: The Last of the MacLeods Cobra Triangle R.C. Pro-Am Sensible Soccer series Football Manager series Dog's Life Red Dog: Superior Firepower Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) The Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2022 100 best video games, ranked by experts Ernest Borgnine Laser Mission (1989) From Here to Eternity (1953) Seven of Nine Wild Arms series The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time StarCraft The Last of Us Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings Super Mario Bros. Pac-Man Final Fantasy VI Tetris Sonic the Hedgehog games Academy Awards Goichi Suda NetHack Dwarf Fortress Factorio IGN Eurogamer Edge Metacritic Hyper Gunsport Deadly Premonition ESRB Ratings Call of Duty series Wii Sports Diablo II Mad Planets California Extreme Skies of Arcadia Koudelka Flappy Bird Candy Crush Saga Grand Theft Auto series Mortal Kombat games MSCHF's Tax Heaven 3000 Star Wars: Jedi - Survivor Disco Elysium David Cage VIDEOBALL Baroque Neon White 2K Sports Jake From State Farm Is A Character In NBA 2K22's City God of War Marko's Magic Football Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City Fire Pro Wrestling series Dear Boys Captain Tsubasa licensees Football Drama Dragon Quest series Carcassone Baldur's Gate Forgotten Realms Pathfinder licensees Cyberpunk 2077 Disney's DuckTales Battlefield series Legend of the Red Dragon series Final Fantasy XIV Online Ultima Online EverQuest World of WarCraft Kingdoms of Amalur series The Lord of the Rings Online series Star Wars: The Old Republic The Matrix Online Destiny Phantasy Star Online Monster Hunter series GameDeveloper.com Thegia Recommendations: Brandon: Continue to listen to this if we keep doing it, I Am a Hero (2015) Kat: Episode 400 of Axe of the Blood God with Felipe Pepe Frank: Episode 34 of Video Game History Hour with Felipe Pepe This week's Insert Credit Show is brought to you by Sully: A Very Serious RPG, and patrons like you. Thank you. Subscribe: RSS, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and more!

In this episode Gino, Pete, and Em discuss Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy and also Ape Out for a little bit. The Getting Over It discussion is a bit contentious, but we definitely discuss several of the different ways you can take that game. We wrap up by quickly discussing Ape Out. Come for the discussion of postmodernism, authorial intent, and pretention, stay for the fun game about apes. Please consider donating to the National Network of Abortion Funds: abortionfunds.org/donate If you've been enjoying the podcast, please consider supporting us at https://www.patreon.com/DeepListens If you like our new art and want to commission some of your own, reach out to Tyler at tylerorbin.net

The original panel reunites for Frank Cifaldi's two point-and-click adventure game recommendations, the best kind of game for Tim Rogers right now, and Brandon Sheffield's selection as the Whitney Houston of video games. Plus, Bennett Foddy designs a new game for the Steel Battalion controller. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman. Questions this week: What's your favorite tribute to a video game in another video game? (WARNING: This question features minor Death Stranding spoilers) (04:58) Categorize every type of mission in a video game. (10:01) Narratively, what is happening to a video game character when they lose a life? (13:10) What video game should get a new remake every year? (19:58) Design a new game for the Steel Battalion controller. (25:50) Design a new game for the Steel Battalion controller, Bennett Foddy. (31:27) Soup'um asks: What is the absolute minimum length a game has to be to no longer be considered ‘short'? (36:48) What is the Whitney Houston's cover of Dolly Parton's “I Will Always Love You” for the soundtrack of the film The Bodyguard of video games? (50:18) LIGHTNING ROUND: GameFAQ&As – Fortnite (55:47) Recommendations and Outro (59:36) Discuss this episode in the Insert Credit Forums A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: Vampire Hunter D Robert Wilson IV NieR series From Tokyo with Brandon Sheffield, Part I and Part II Lupin the 3rd licensees Galaga Namco Museum series Dragon Quest series Yakuza / Ryū ga Gotoku series Populous Bomberman games Death Stranding Super Mario series ICO Prince of Persia Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure Monkey Island series Loom The Last of Us series Madden series Ridge Racer 6 Fortnite: Battle Royale Boku no Natsuyasumi David Cage Gran Turismo series Forza Horizon series Steel Battalion Gundam licensees The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment Portal series How It's Made I Love Lucy Justin Roiland Rick and Morty High on Life Bennett Foddy Need for Speed series Lazer Command Silent Hill 2 Metal Gear Solid A Short Hike TearRing Saga: Berwick Saga - Lazberia Chronicle Chapter 174 Civilization series God of War: Ragnarök Elden Ring Biohazard / Resident Evil series Hyper Gunsport Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You The Bodyguard (1992) Dog Patch Google Stadia LG CX OLED TV Assassin's Creed series Cyberpunk 2077 Kickstarter Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Castlevania / Akumajō Dracula series Jason Schreier Staind Demonschool now wishlistable on Steam Recommendations: Brandon: Icey Jaye ‎- Icey (She's Bad), Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (2014) Anti-Recommendations: Brandon: What We Left Behind - Looking Back At Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (2018) if you enjoy the Star Trek Support on Patreon Subscribe: RSS, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and more!

The original panel reunites for Frank Cifaldi's two point-and-click adventure game recommendations, the best kind of game for Tim Rogers right now, and Brandon Sheffield's selection as the Whitney Houston of video games. Plus, Bennett Foddy designs a new game for the Steel Battalion controller. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman. Questions this week: What's your favorite tribute to a video game in another video game? (WARNING: This question features minor Death Stranding spoilers) (04:58) Categorize every type of mission in a video game. (10:01) Narratively, what is happening to a video game character when they lose a life? (13:10) What video game should get a new remake every year? (19:58) Design a new game for the Steel Battalion controller. (25:50) Design a new game for the Steel Battalion controller, Bennett Foddy. (31:27) Soup'um asks: What is the absolute minimum length a game has to be to no longer be considered ‘short'? (36:48) What is the Whitney Houston's cover of Dolly Parton's “I Will Always Love You” for the soundtrack of the film The Bodyguard of video games? (50:18) LIGHTNING ROUND: GameFAQ&As – Fortnite (55:47) Recommendations and Outro (59:36) Discuss this episode in the Insert Credit Forums A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: Vampire Hunter D Robert Wilson IV NieR series From Tokyo with Brandon Sheffield, Part I and Part II Lupin the 3rd licensees Galaga Namco Museum series Dragon Quest series Yakuza / Ryū ga Gotoku series Populous Bomberman games Death Stranding Super Mario series ICO Prince of Persia Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure Monkey Island series Loom The Last of Us series Madden series Ridge Racer 6 Fortnite: Battle Royale Boku no Natsuyasumi David Cage Gran Turismo series Forza Horizon series Steel Battalion Gundam licensees The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment Portal series How It's Made I Love Lucy Justin Roiland Rick and Morty High on Life Bennett Foddy Need for Speed series Lazer Command Silent Hill 2 Metal Gear Solid A Short Hike TearRing Saga: Berwick Saga - Lazberia Chronicle Chapter 174 Civilization series God of War: Ragnarök Elden Ring Biohazard / Resident Evil series Hyper Gunsport Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You The Bodyguard (1992) Dog Patch Google Stadia LG CX OLED TV Assassin's Creed series Cyberpunk 2077 Kickstarter Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Castlevania / Akumajō Dracula series Jason Schreier Staind Demonschool now wishlistable on Steam Recommendations: Brandon: Icey Jaye ‎- Icey (She's Bad), Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (2014) Anti-Recommendations: Brandon: What We Left Behind - Looking Back At Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (2018) if you enjoy the Star Trek Support on Patreon Subscribe: RSS, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and more!

We speak intentionally frustrating games, inspired by Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy

We're joined by dear friends of the show Laura E. Hall, Bennett Foddy, and Doseone for a Doug-mastermined, Eggplant-themed game of Just One. Stick around after the insanity for a reflection on the past four years of the show, how our lives have changed since, and what the show means to us (and you - thanks for the letters!). Show notes: Laura E. Hall 31 Days of Halloween newsletter Find Satoshi Bennett Foddy Doseone Demon Throttle Immortality Hyper Demon Just One Anthony Carboni

With Zipper for Playdate, game designer, developer, and philosopher Bennett Foddy wanted to share his love of the particular style of isometric tactics games he grew up playing on the ZX Spectrum--games that may be unfamiliar to people from the United States. Drawing on the influences of Akira Kurosawa, the anime and manga series "Bleach", and the British game "Last Ninja 2," Zipper is a beautifully-crafted homage to classic samurai films and 8-bit black and white games.

Uppföljning/uppvärmning Lite prylfilosoferande, och undrande över Skypes vara och icke vara Grillevlande Poddredigeringsfilosofi Christian starstruck: superspeciell gäst: Jezper Söderlund! Fredrik på skärmoffensiv, i alla fall tillfälligt. Vild diskussion av skärmars placering och fönsterhantering utbryter En kortis om Android auto Ämnen Livet med Tesla, är det enklare och bättre än livet med Polestar? Spoiler: nja Playdate - en mysig liten maskin M1 - vilken trevlig processor det är ändå. Med en utvikning om telefoner, deras datatrafik, och att skilja på jobb och fritid Bloggar, vad ska man egentligen bygga dem på? Quest-rapporten. Det är svårt att komma över användandetröskeln Länkar Jezper En podd om teknik Slashat Sista avsnittet av En podd om teknik Första sista avsnittet av En podd om teknik - uppdelat på massor av avsnitt med start här Första sista avsnittet av En podd om teknik på Youtube Sizeup - app Jezper använder för att placera fönster Mosaic - app Jezper använder för att placera fönster Förra avsnittet Playdate Hades The forgotten city Spelen som följer med Playdate QWOP - löparspelet där du styr benmuskler Zipper - spel av Bennett Foddy, skaparen till QWOP Teenage engineering Playdatehögtalaren med pennfack Johan Flat file-CMS Ruby Ruby gems - Rubys pakethanteringssystem Fredriks bloggmotor Hugo deepedition.com femte.se Bear Panda - Bears nya Markdowneditor Winfs Quest 2 Tales from the galaxy's edge Vanishing Grace - det “Firewatch-aktiga” spelet Lone echo Eleven table tennis Deisim - gudaspelet Ghost giant Moss Vader: Immortal Tetris effect Inside Presentationen om ljuddesignen i Inside Limbo Fullständig avsnittsinformation finns här: https://www.bjoremanmelin.se/podcast/avsnitt-315-en-skarm-som-inte-ar-upplyst-i-ett-land-som-aldrig-ar-ljust.html

Hello, Playdate Community! This week, Nick, Don and Ryan are joined by Nic Magnier, developer of Playdate Season One stand-out 'Pick Pack Pup', as he talks about his favorite Playdate game...'Hyper Meteor'!  We also cover the other huge Week 06 release, our Indie Game of the Week choices as well as Playdate news and updates.  Join us here each week as we examine all of the Season Pass games, as well as discussing news and indie finds from the Playdate community. News/Links: Follow Nic Magnier on Twitter Playdate Game Pitch! Retro Derby Updated Tenchi 2 teased SquidGodDev on YouTube Bennett Foddy's Games Zipper gameplay on Destination Playdate Intro/Outro Music - Made with Boogie Loops on Playdate Indie Games of the Week: A Joke That's Worth $0.99 by Kamibox (11:58) Escape from Complex 32 by SquidGodDev (15:40) Super Corporate Tax Evader by 96m96m (22:47) Crunky by Carson K. (27:48) Featured Season One Games: Hyper Meteor by VertexPop (33:15) Zipper by Bennett Foddy (53:32) Contact: Hello Playdate on Discord Hello Playdate on Instagram Hello Playdate on Twitter Playdatepodcast.com Helloplaydatepodcast (at) gmail dot com Voice Mail - 1-(724)-BINGOS-1  (1-724-246-4671) Our Previous Podcast, Gaming On Ten For Amusement Only Podcast, Nick's EM Bingo and Pinball Podcast Game and Cast, Ryan's Handheld Gaming Podcast Series Tags: video games, gaming, handheld, handhelds, panic, playdate, play, date, yellow, crank, gameboy, ds, pocket, videogames, nintendo, sega, xbox, playstation, sony, vita, psp, ngage, itch.io, Keita Takahashi, katamari

Well today is a weird one. Matt has come a long way in his relationship with difficulty and frustration and this is a chance to put that to the test. But the real test is the fact that Hunter is actually playing and trying to beat Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy for the first time while recording the episode. Experience the highs and the lows in real time and see if Hunter can Get Over It with Matt jabbering on in his ear. Mentioned in the episode: Bennett Foddy Plays Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy with Tim Rogers Music by nightcorey. https://soundcloud.com/nightcorey Email us your thoughts on the ongoing list at oldgamersalmanac (at) gmail(dot)com. Or come talk to us on our main Discord (Space Cats Peace Turtles).

We recap our first episode of the “Live from the Metaverse!” series. Vaguely hint about our first guest next week. Mention Opie & Anthony's Trainwreck radio. Kaz picked up some Quest accessories, we talk some VR comfort tips. Kaz finally played Half Life Alyx! We talk how rad the liquid shader aka booze shader in Alyx is thanks to Mathew Wilde. Kaz first adventures in Steam Vr & Population One talk, new map coming soon. Dgtlhrt celebrates achieving a year long goal of reaching top 20 global for the last season of Lonely Mountain Downhill, coming in at 19th in the world. Then proceeds to give Kaz tips as we learn he's been playing the game secretly the entire podcast lol. Shout out Ultimate Rich for great Lonely Mountain streams. Kaz then starts playing Getting over it with Bennett Foddy. Quick Elden Ring talk, none of us have got it yet. We talk about Steam Next Fest indie demos esp VR Noid. BillDance talks Green Hell, Hubris & Hyper Hook. Annapurna's Neon White demo discussed. Neodash is like Rocket League and Distance. BillDance played Crossfire Legion. We show an epic Henry Rollins rant from the classic film Johnny Mnemonic, BillDance recs Arcane. Shane from Love is Blind season 2 is basically a Chris Distefano doppelgänger. We talk about Brendan Schaub & the new Howard Stern effect, all his podcasts, Haters etc and dgtlhrt talks about one of his top 5 favs Theo Von. Live your life as if you've already made all your mistakes, dig yourself out of a hole. Do you say Orangutang??? Or orangutan? A rang a tang. Mandela effect? We end on distasteful prank vid discussion ft. Dobre brothers, ugh. 

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Brad * @bradspendlove on Twitter * Check out https://twitter.com/so_writing, especially episode 6 * Quil Topics: * What superpowers like shrinking and invisibility suggest about how we conceptualize reality * Is there a point where you can call the silly things you make "art" and not feel like an absolute tool about it? Not a debate about what is vs is not art. But I feel weird if I make a bunch of bad music and call it "my art" * Stinky meat and stinky feet * http://www.stinkymeat.net/ * https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hamilton-if-it-was-sung-entirely-by-adam-sandler/id1382504305 * Hope is a Thing with Feathers, by Emily Dickinson * https://poets.org/poem/hope-thing-feathers-254 * Visual novels are neat, but I'm never sure whether they belong in my video game queue or book queue and therefore I rarely play them because I always think I could be playing a "real" video game or reading a "real" book * Cortical homunculus * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corticalhomunculus * https://www.etsy.com/listing/509252848/angry-little-friend-taxidermy-monster * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculusloxodontus Microtopics: * Accidentally agreeing to be on the show. * Doing nothing in Chicago. * Computer creativity. * Making an argument that a computer program is creative. * "Honey I Shrunk The Kids" as a philosophical text. * Using a set of mirrors to give yourself 360 degree vision. * Imagining additional colors. * Assuming the listener knows what cellular automata is. * A platonic dude in the way you would conceive of a dude. * Trying to find a game that uses cellular automata but it's occluded by search results for Conway's Life and Nier Automata. * The top four Live 'em Ups. * A game that left the world when Flash stopped being a thing. * Putting tremendous creative effort into a project but not being willing to call it your art because that would be pretentious. * Calling your bad music your "works" because they make ye listeners despair. * How you conceptualize the things that you make. * Attaching a label to the semiotic representation of a thing and thereby changing the nature of the thing. * Making a song in the amount of time the song takes to elapse. * Having done NaNoWriMo once and then being able to tell people you're working on your second novel. * Wanting to have the identity of being a creator. * Something that is cool to be and do. * How to make art that feels meaningful when you are surrounded by art that is way better than yours. * Ancient handwriting samples. * Doing psychic damage by singing the wrong words to a song. * Leaving a plate of meat in your neighbor's yard. * Deciding it's time to stop your science experiment and go to a doctor. * A storied history of people screwing up their bodies for the sake of internet points. * The melding of art and science. * Piss Christ and other works that are intended to annoy. * Trying to elicit a strong emotion but not caring too much which emotion it is. * What it takes to know Bennett Foddy. * The idea that heavy metal bands were trying to get listeners to kill themselves. * The euphemism treadmill and the inverted euphemism treadmill. * How come there are still kids if kids keep growing up?? * Slurs in various stages of reclamation. * How there are stupid people out there and they're not bad people, they're just stupid. * Jabroni origins. * Replacing all your pejoratives with "ridiculous." * Mario running up the infinite euphemism treadmill saying successively more watered down swears. * The purpose of comparing an emotion to a bird. * What is a poem? A pile of lines about a bird. * Conceiving of hope as a bird sitting outside your window and waking you up way too early. * Enclosing poems in letters to your friends. * Making art for a person and sharing it just with that person. * Reading "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" in the Sick Sad World announcer voice. * Reading poems in a sarcastic voice and analyzing how it makes you feel. * Reading Emily Dickinson poetry in the voice of somebody begging for their life. * Whether Poe's Law is the sarcasm thing. * Whether Machiavelli was doing a bit. * A performance of the entirety of Hamilton in the Adam Sandler voice. * Getting famous for singing "All Star" and having to sing it for the rest of your life. * The realm between video games and books. * How the phone would be the perfect venue for a visual novel if it weren't for all the phone games. * Approaches to consuming media. * Watching half a movie and then falling asleep and eventually realizing that now there are at least five movies you've watched half of. * A library book from 2019 that you still haven't returned. * Mapping the size of your body parts to how much space they take up in your brain. * A Cortical Homunculus Funko Pop. * Shrimp Obama Magnet. * T-shirts about adrenal cancer. * Angry Little Friend Taxidermy Monster Sculpture Oddity. * Too good an idea to just let be a joke. * Symbolizing the emotions of people who wait at the dentist's office. * Max Rebo, the popular jizz-wailer. * Seeing the two tabs but not knowing the difference between them.

This week we had a little fun as we added this interesting and unique game to the Endless List: It's QWOP! This is our first browser based game on the Endless List (I think, I'm not paying attention, what?). Made by the one and only Bennett Foddy, we talk about the game's design, it's legacy and most importantly where it goes on the Endless List of video games. Where did it land? Find out on the podcast or check out our medium page for the full list!

Even with the higher than usual number of hard outs for guests and hosts this month, we bring you fine content cruelly withheld from the show proper. Find out more about some games that didn't quite make the Top 20 British Games, a commercial I sort of remember, and a good handful of Ed Semrad stories. Original music by Kurt Feldman. A SMALL DESCRIPTION OF EPISODES PULLED FROM: (Ep. 192) Pre-show. Special guest Mathew Kumar uses a hankie sometimes, and special guest Bennett Foddy is a bear. (Ep. 192) Extended outro. Special guests Mathew Kumar and Bennett Foddy reveal further games they wanted to discuss. Brandon pitches a potential #20. (Ep. 193) Extended break. Special guest Ian Bogost commiserates the end of California with Brandon. Jaffe quotes “a wise man.” (Ep. 194) Brandon reveals the elaborate plans for episode 199 of Insert Credit Show. Special guest Lotte May immediately deciphers a commercial. One ninety nine, are you out of your mind? (Ep. 194) Extended break. Jaffe shares his alternate subtitle for Shantae. Special guest Rachel Weil reveals a bargain collectors market that is guaranteed to go up, and identifies a Barbie game on the spot. Brandon talks about his family computer. (Ep. 195) Extended break. Brandon needs to be more positive about his excellent games. Frank shares more of Super Sushi Pinball. (Ep, 195) Extended outro. Brandon, Frank, and Special Guest Jeff Gerstmann discuss game promotional material they've accrued over the years. National Lampoons Gamers is discussed in greater detail. Brandon follows up on sharing a Giant Bomb memory. Jaffe explains the appeal of podcasts. Frank shares some great Ed Semrad stories.

Welcome back sweet, sweet listeners to episode 20, of season 3, of Great Morning! In this week's slightly special episode, the crew is joined by Twitch gaming streamer and childhood friend of Jimi's-GoonSquadKi! Relax and enjoy as this vocational tetrad discusses: Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, Ghettopoly, sex on the beach, and the greatest video game franchise ever! Enjoy episode 20 everyone, we ain't done yet! "Every bird is T-Rex!"

This week, Dan and a sickly Dudley are talking about the latest Valve hardware. Dan has finally started to figure out Sea of Thieves and The Outer Wilds. Dudley checks out the tutorials for Root and plays more of Resident Evil Village. Dan played more Getting over it with Bennett Foddy, Tetris Effect and the demos for The Darkest Tale, Orx, and Peglin.

Happy Canada Day! To celebrate, Brandon and Frank (American) along with writer, designer and Insert Credit regular Mathew Kumar (Scottish) and legendary game designer Bennett Foddy (Australian) determine the greatest British video games of all time. Original music by Kurt Feldman. The List, in order of discussion: Sonic R (05:51) Lemmings (09:02) Pipe Mania!! (12:03) Burnout Paradise (15:20) Alien Resurrection (17:29) Elite (21:27) Damocles (25:34) Where Time Stood Still (29:46) TxK (33:40) Skool Daze (37:56) Wizkid (42:20) Batman: Arkham Knight (45:52) The Chaos Engine (50:11) Head Over Heels (54:12) Populus (58:35) Grand Theft Auto IV (01:02:35) WipEout 2097 (01:06:55) Sensible World of Soccer (01:10:32) Deus Ex Machina (01:16:27) Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk (01:20:11) See the final rankings in the forums! A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: Charity shops Sonic R Lemmings Benefactor Troddlers GameCenter CX Pipe Mania!! Frisky Tom Burnout Paradise Alien: Resurrection Alien: Resurrection (1997) Alien: Isolation The making of Alien Resurrection PSOne Elite Elite: Dangerous Frontier: Elite II Zarch Damocles Outer Wilds Midwinter Lords of Midnight Where Time Stood Still Hardcore Gaming 101 on Where Time Stood Still Frankie Goes to Hollywood The Great Escape TxK Jeff Minter Skool Daze Bully Grange Hill Wizkid: The Story of Wizball II Batman: Arkham Knight Renegade Batman: Arkham Asylum The Chaos Engine Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe Gods Magic Pockets Head Over Heels Knight Lore Light Crusader Syndicate Populous Magic Carpet WipEout 2097 Sensible World of Soccer Kick Off Deus Ex Machina The Graveyard Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk Wonderland Dizzy Fantasy World Dizzy Treasure Island Dizzy Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.

Happy Canada Day! To celebrate, Brandon and Frank (American) along with writer, designer and Insert Credit regular Mathew Kumar (Scottish) and legendary game designer Bennett Foddy (Australian) determine the greatest British video games of all time.

Emma, Gil, and Scott discuss winning in games. What defines winning in a game, and what are the different ways games can handle it? Also, Emma shares a Big Announcement with us. SHOW NOTES 2m44s: Type 1 - One winner, everyone else loses: Catan, Terra Mystica, Terraforming Mars 3m47s: Type 1a - Conditional win: Dune, Red November, Mission Catastrophe, Glory to Rome 6m48s: Vast, COIN (Counter-Insurgency) games 6m56s: Type 2 - One loser, everyone else wins: Jenga, Cockroach Poker, Kackel Dackel (which Gil mispronounced, and which was published in the US as Doggie Doo), Don't Wake Daddy, Bimbado/Packesel/The Last Straw (the game mentioned about loading a donkey), Pie Face, Perfection. The balloon game Scott describes is likely Bumm Bumm Ballon, known in the US as Boom Boom Balloon. 8m40s: Gil is using the term "atom" here as defined in the book Characteristics of Games, defined as "satisfying chunks of play shorter than a full game." 9m09s: Type 3 - Co-op games: Pandemic, Lord of the Rings, the Forbidden games, Quirky Circuits 10m15s: CO2 12m05s: We discuss meaning in games, beyond simple "fun," in Ludology 201 - Are We Having Fun Yet? 12m30s: This War of Mine 12m43s: Type 4 - Semi-coop games: Hellapagos, We're Doomed 13m52s: Coup, Werewolf/Mafia 14m41s: The Resistance, Werewolf, Codenames 15m17s: Type 4a - "Variable Coopability" (thanks Emma!) - Dead of Winter, Who Goes There 15m42s: Geoff discussed this in GameTek Classic 129 - Semi Coop Tournaments. 17m06s: Type 5 - Individual wins/losses 18m38s: Fog of Love. You can hear more from Fog of Love designer Jacob Jaskov in Ludology 194 - Lifting the Fog. 19m52s: The Crossroads mechanism forces players to make choices related to the narrative of the game, and delivers consequences based on those choices. Note that Gil is using "Crossroads" casually here, as only Plaid Hat Games can officially release Crossroads games. 20m46s: Emma's storytelling game ...and then we died. 21m08s: Type 6 - Improvement/Personal Best: Scrabble, Bupkis 23m14s: The Board Game Stats app, Fantasy Realms 24m02s: Cribbage 24m42s: More info about the Donkey Kong high score competition. The board game Take it Easy. 29m00s: Bennett Foddy's GDC talk Making It Matter, where he discusses how eSports can emulate real sports. Also, Gil's communication tool for board games, Check-In Cards. 32m13s: Geoff and Mike discussed legacy games with Matt Leacock in Ludology 121 - Pandemonium. 33m16s: Type 7 - Personal Experience. The chess-themed TV drama The Queen's Gambit. 43m55s: King Me, Cole Wehrle's GDC talk on kingmaking. Also, Cole's game Root. Cole is a friend of the show and has been on a couple of times, most recently on Ludology 222 - Johnny Fairplay. 48m06s: T.I.M.E Stories 54m28s: Another shout-out for Characteristics of Games. Here's Gil's Game Design 101 talk. 57m56s: The board games Dungeonquest and Kingdom Death: Monster. The video games Super Meat Boy and Dark Souls. 59m37s: The video game Hades. 1h03m52s: Check out Errol Elumir's 13 Rules for Escape Room Puzzle Design. 1h05m44s: Scott's book Level Up! The Guide to Great Video Game Design. 1h06m54s: Betrayal: Legacy 1h07m54s: The video game Among Us, and the board games Nemesis and Zombicide. 1h10m23s: You can hear more about player psychographic profiles in Ludology 165 - Fowerian Slip.

Emma and Gil welcome game designer and publisher Omari Akil to the show to discuss the plight of the sports-themed board game. What kinds of unique challenges do we face when designing one of these games? Omari's game Hoop Godz will be on Kickstarter soon. SHOW NOTES 1m21s: Board Game Brothas, Tabletop Backer Party, Pathways Fellowship 4m55s: Gil was 5 years off - Mike's game is Baseball Highlights: 2045. 12m09s: Football Strategy 12m47s: Gil would like to shout out Arthur Franz IV's self-published game Breakaway Football as a game with a really nice mix of play deciding versus output randomness. 15m32s: Gil will defend the term "soccer," seriously. It's a perfectly good way to refer to association football! 16m06s: Strat-O-Matic Baseball, released in 1962. 17m41s: Dino Dunk 18m07s: Crokinole 18m25s: Nok Hockey, Air Hockey, Electric Football. We also neglected to mention the flicking game family Subbuteo, which represents all sorts of sports. 22m43s: Gil eventually gets to his curling thoughts at 39m22s. 25m48s: Madden is EA's long-running NFL gridiron football video game sim (named for legendary player, coach, and broadcaster John Madden). 28m58s: Ultimate is a competitive sport using a throwable disc (like a Frisbee) instead of a ball. 29m50s: In 2017, Geek and Sundry launched a "T-Sports" league for competitive tabletop games (strangely, announcing it on April 1, and then having to explain that it was real). Sadly, it did not go far. 30m57s: Bennett Foddy's talk "Making it Matter: Lessons from Real Sports". Foddy is known for making punishingly-hard digital games like QWOP and Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy. 38m36s: Omari is referring to the common sports term GOAT, an acronym of Greatest Of All Time. 41m28s: Hystericoach 43m16s: Bottom of the Ninth 45m09s: Blaseball. RPG designer Meguey Baker's thread on it. 46m56s: Omari wrote more about how his lived experience affected the design of Rap Godz. 48m24s: More info about how Omari and YouTuber (and all-around excellent person) Danny Plays Gamez raised $80,000 for BLM:  56m25s: Paula Deming's channel, Things Get Dicey, is absolutely amazing to behold. Top-notch writing, performing, and filming. 57m11s: For those of you who don't have the honor of consuming Capri Sun in the part of the world where you live, it's a (vaguely) fruit-flavored beverage.  1h01m16s: The GIF Omari is referring to, featuring young Brazilian skater Rayssa Leal. The GIF Gil is referring to, linked to from famous skater Tony Hawk. 

Finn wants to talk for an hour about games where you climb a mountain. If that sounds deprecating, know that I am Finn. Spoilers for Celeste, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, The Witness, Hatch, and A Short Hike. Discuss at reddit.com/r/foolsandfiction. Email us at foolsandfiction@gmail.com. Check out other shows on the W&M network at spreaker.com/user/pnwm. by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhew theme music by Finn Mayhew cover art by Chris Lee produced by Finn Mayhew

Finn wants to talk for an hour about games where you climb a mountain.  If that sounds deprecating, know that I am Finn.Spoilers for Celeste, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, The Witness, Hatch, and A Short Hike.Discuss at reddit.com/r/foolsandfiction.Email us at foolsandfiction@gmail.com.Check out other shows on the W&M network at spreaker.com/user/pnwm.by Joe Brown and Finn Mayhewtheme music by Finn Mayhewcover art by Chris Leeproduced by Finn Mayhew

Chance Morris AKA Sodapoppin (Twitch) joins Nick and Heather to discuss the extremely difficult platformer Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy. They talk about getting started with WoW, speedruns, how completing difficult tasks becomes satisfying, and more.

In this first installment of our new miniseries focused on Noita (with guest co-host Bennett Foddy), we share our early stories and beginner tips, discuss the genealogy of the game, and contemplate how we feel about shooting being its primary verb.  Some things we discussed: Noita Bennett Foddy Crayon Physics Deluxe The Swapper Baba Is You Liero Worms Kuron and the Jelly Islands Sisu

Crack and share. Until it is done. At least, if there's anything to crack. For the second time Bethesda have managed to release a game with a built-in crack for the Denuvo DRM. What's the story behind it? Incompetence, a rogue agent, or are Bethesda secretly the DRM free heroes we don't deserve? Doom Eternal is the latest casualty of Bethesda's DRM mistakes, and Professor wants to know why.DJ has a list of the newest anime to watch this spring, or autumn if you live in the south. Southern Hemisphere Best Hemisphere. Get the latest ridiculously long anime names here!Just when you thought it was safe to go outside after the fires, COVID-19 swept in. Where did it come from? A lab has dissected the DNA behind this threat and all signs point to COVID-19 not being a Chinese bioweapon. Keep the conspiracies coming, science knows what's what.This week, both nerds played a Doom related game. Professor plays an official series game, but DJ plays a parody.As usual, the Nerds discuss the latest shoutouts and events of interest. RIP Al Worden, Albert Uderzo and Kenny Rogers.We'll be back next week for another episode. We're not going anywhere, and by the looks of things, neither are you.DRM Eternal- https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/03/bethesda-apparently-broke-its-own-denuvo-protection-for-doom-eternal/Upcoming Spring Anime Lineup and other anime news-https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2020/03/20-1/crunchyroll-announces-spring-2020-anime-lineupThe origin story of COVID-19-https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200317175442.htm- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9Games PlayedProfessor- Doom 3 : BFG Edition - https://store.steampowered.com/app/208200/Doom_3_BFG_Edition/Rating – 3.5/5DJ– BDSM: Big Drunk Satanic Massacre Demo - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1209860/BDSM_Big_Drunk_Satanic_Massacre_Demo/Rating – 3/5Other topics discussedQueensland borders closed due to Coronavirus- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-26/coronavirus-threat-sparks-calls-to-close-nsw-border-with-qld/12091632MyGov is down due to a “cyber-attack” – Minister- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-23/mygov-website-down-centrelink-massive-queues-coronavirus/12080558Alcohol restrictions are now limited in Western Australia- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-25/coronavirus-covid-19-wa-alcohol-sales-from-bottle-shops-limited/12087974Panic buying in alcohol leads to more drinking- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-26/coronavirus-crisis-has-people-drinking-more-experts-say/12086790Rage 2 drops Denuvo DRM- https://www.kotaku.com.au/2019/05/rage-2-drops-denuvo-drm-in-record-time/Rage (a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_(video_game)- https://store.steampowered.com/app/9200/RAGE/Rime allegedly runs faster with Denuvo DRM stripped out- https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/06/crackers-say-denuvo-drm-caused-slowdown-on-rime/Bleach Anime Returning With Thousand Year Blood War Adaptation- https://www.cbr.com/bleach-anime-return-thousand-year-blood-war/Bleach: The Thousand-Year Blood War, Explained- https://www.cbr.com/bleach-thousand-year-blood-war-explained/Fate/Grand Order Announces New Solomon Anime- https://comicbook.com/anime/2020/03/21/fate-grand-order-final-singularity-solomon-anime-announced/Fate/Grand Order: Camelot Film Confirms Release Date with New Trailer- https://comicbook.com/anime/2020/03/22/fate-grand-order-camelot-film-release-date-trailer/Definition of anime filler- https://www.quora.com/What-does-a-filler-mean-in-animeTite Kubo’s reaction to the new anime announcement- https://comicbook.com/anime/2020/03/22/bleach-anime-comeback-revival-tite-kubo-comment-manga/Fullmetal Alchemist (Japanese anime television series adapted from the mangaof the same name written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa. During production, Arakawa requested an original ending that differed from the manga, leading to the series deviating into an original plot halfway through.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullmetal_Alchemist_(TV_series)Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (Japanese anime television series adapted from the Fullmetal Alchemist manga by Hiromu Arakawa. Unlike the previous adaptation, Brotherhood is an almost 1:1 adaptation directly following the original events of the manga.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullmetal_Alchemist:_BrotherhoodPrince Charles tested positive for Coronavirus- https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52033845History of H.I.V/AIDS (AIDS is caused by a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which originated in non-human primates in Central and West Africa. While various sub-groups of the virus acquired human infectivity at different times, the global pandemic had its origins in the emergence of one specific strain – HIV-1 subgroup M – in Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo (now Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in the 1920s)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_HIV/AIDSPlague Inc.- https://www.ndemiccreations.com/en/22-plague-incGetting Over It with Bennett Foddy- https://store.steampowered.com/app/240720/Getting_Over_It_with_Bennett_Foddy/Markiplier plays Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH9w9VlyNO4Cacodemon (Doom 3) (The Cacodemon in Doom 3, as compared to the original monster, is taupe in color, has a wider mouth, and has multiple green eyes, as well as some longer, thin tentacles hanging from the bottom of its body.)- https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Cacodemon/Doom_3Doom 3 (2004 horror first-person shooter video game, developed by id Software and published by Activision.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_3Rugby Football Union (The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is the governing body for rugby union in England. )- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_Football_UnionShout Outs18 March 2020 – Alfred Worden passes away - https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2020/03/20/apollo-15-astronaut-al-worden-has-died/#2315b43836c6Alfred Worden, American astronaut and engineer who was the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 15 lunar mission in 1971. One of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon, he orbited it 74 times in the Command Module Endeavour. During Apollo 15's return flight to Earth, Worden performed an extravehicular activity to retrieve film cassettes from the exterior of the spacecraft, the Apollo command and service module. While orbiting the Moon alone, farther from other people than anyone has ever been, Worden mapped a quarter of the lunar surface, measured the composition of lunar rocks from space, picked out a landing site for the final Apollo mission, and launched a miniature satellite into lunar orbit to study the Moon’s gravity and magnetic field. It was the first "deep space" EVA in history, at great distance from any planetary body. As of 2020, it remains one of only three such EVAs that have taken place, all during the Apollo program's J-missions. He died from a stroke in Sugar Land, Texas at the age of 8818 March 2020 –The discovery of Asteriornis maastrichtensis, the oldest definitive species of modern bird, which lived at the end of the Mesozoic era.- https://www.newsweek.com/wonderchicken-oldest-known-modern-bird-dinosaur-1493000- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2096-0Researchers have discovered the remains of an extinct animal that may represent the oldest "modern" bird known to science. An international team of palaeontologists identified the near-complete fossil skull of the bird, which they have dated to between 66.8 and 66.7 million years ago. Dubbed Asteriornis maastrichtensis, the extinct bird—affectionately nicknamed the "wonderchicken"—shares some features that can be seen in modern-day ducks and chickens, according to a study published in the journal Nature. The palaeontologists say the find sheds new light on the evolution of modern birds and could help explain why these animals survived the mass-extinction event, while large dinosaurs did not. "We have discovered the oldest modern bird fossil yet identified," Daniel Field, an author of the study from the University of Cambridge in the U.K., told Newsweek. "Asteriornis maastrichtensis is an early fossil bird close to the origin of the group that today includes chicken-like birds and duck-like birds. Asteriornis lived 66.7 million years ago, at the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, and provides new insights into what modern birds were like early in their evolutionary history."20 March 2020 – Kenny Rogers passes away - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/21/kenny-rogers-country-music-star-dies-aged-81Kenny Rogers, the American country music star with hits popular across the world, has died. His husky voice and down-home narrative style won him three Grammy awards and put him at the top of the American music business for more than four decades. He sold over 100 million records worldwide during his lifetime, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. His fame and career spanned multiple genres: jazz, folk, pop, rock, and country. He remade his career and was one of the most successful cross-over artists of all time. His signature song, 1978's "The Gambler", was a cross-over hit that won him a Grammy Award in 1980 and was selected in 2018 for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. The singer, who has been mourned by fans this weekend on social media, once summed up his success with mainstream audiences by explaining that the traditional lyrics to his songs “say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear”. He died from natural causes in Sandy Springs, Georgia at the age of 81.24 March 2020 – Albert Uderzo passes away - https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52016721Albert Uderzo, one of the two creators of the beloved comic book character Asterix, who captured the spirit of the Gauls of yore and grew a reputation worldwide, has died. He created the famous stories - about the adventures of Gaulish warriors fighting the Roman Empire - with his friend René Goscinny in 1959. As well as illustrating the series, Urderzo took over the writing following Goscinny's death in 1977. The books have sold 370 million copies worldwide, in dozens of languages, and several stories have been turned into cartoons and feature films. The series continues to this day under new ownership, with the most recent book, Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter, released last October. French Culture Minister Franck Riester said that Uderzo "found the magic potion", referring to his spirit, craftsmanship and long hours of work. He died from a heart attack in Neuilly-sur-Seine at the age of 92.Remembrances23 March 1981 - Beatrice Tinsley - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_TinsleyBeatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley, British-born New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist and professor of astronomy at Yale University, whose research made fundamental contributions to the astronomical understanding of how galaxies evolve, grow and die. Tinsley completed pioneering theoretical studies of how populations of stars age and affect the observable qualities of galaxies. She also collaborated on basic research into models investigating whether the universe is closed or open. Her galaxy models led to the first approximation of what protogalaxies should look like. In 1978, she became the first female professor of astronomy at Yale University. Her last scientific paper, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal ten days before her death, was published posthumously that November, without revision. She died from cancer at the age of 40 in New Haven, Connecticut.23 March 2001 - Margaret Ursula Jones - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Ursula_JonesEnglish archaeologist, best known for directing major excavations at Mucking, Essex. She worked at a number of sites, but is best known for her excavations at Mucking, a major Anglo-Saxon settlement and associated cemetery, with finds ranging from the Stone Age to the Medieval period. The Mucking excavation, which Jones directed from 1965 to 1978, became Britain's largest ever archaeological excavation. It produced an unprecedented volume of material, although some academic archaeologists have criticised the fact that the results did not appear in print until decades after the excavation had ended. Jones' work at Mucking, as well as her role in founding the campaign group Rescue, was influential in the establishment of modern commercial archaeology in Britain. Jones herself also gained a reputation as an eccentric and intimidating figure: "indomitable, formidable, disinclined to suffer fools but very kind to those she considered worth helping, dedicated and inventive". She died at the age of 84.23 March 2007 – Paul Cohen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_CohenAmerican mathematician. He is best known for his proofs that the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice are independent from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, for which he was awarded a Fields Medal. Cohen is noted for developing a mathematical technique called forcing, which he used to prove that neither the continuum hypothesis (CH) nor the axiom of choice can be proved from the standard Zermelo–Fraenkel axioms (ZF) of set theory. In conjunction with the earlier work of Gödel, this showed that both of these statements are logically independent of the ZF axioms: these statements can be neither proved nor disproved from these axioms. In this sense, the continuum hypothesis is undecidable, and it is the most widely known example of a natural statement that is independent from the standard ZF axioms of set theory. While studying the continuum hypothesis, Cohen is quoted as saying in 1985 that he had "had the feeling that people thought the problem was hopeless, since there was no new way of constructing models of set theory. Indeed, they thought you had to be slightly crazy even to think about the problem." He died from lung disease at the age of 72 in Stanford, California, near Palo Alto.Famous Birthdays23 March 1890 – Cedric Gibbons - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric_GibbonsIrish-American art director and production designer for the film industry. He also made a significant contribution to motion picture theater architecture from the 1930s to 1950s. Gibbons designed the Oscar statuette in 1928, but tasked the sculpting to George Stanley, a Los Angeles artist. Gibbons was one of the original 36 founding members of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and designed the Academy Awards statuette in 1928. A trophy for which he himself would be nominated 39 times, winning 11. The last time for Best Art Direction for Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956). Gibbons' set designs, particularly those in such films as Born to Dance (1936) and Rosalie (1937), heavily inspired motion picture theater architecture in the late 1930s through 1950s. In February 2005 Gibbons was inducted into the Art Directors Hall of Fame. He was born in New York City.23 March 1907 - Daniel Bovet - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_BovetSwiss-born Italian pharmacologist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of drugs that block the actions of specific neurotransmitters. He is best known for his discovery in 1937 of antihistamines, which block the neurotransmitter histamine and are used in allergy medication. His other research included work on chemotherapy,sulfa drugs, the sympathetic nervous system, the pharmacology of curare, and other neuropharmacological interests. In 1965, Bovet led a study team which concluded that smoking of tobacco cigarettes increased users' intelligence. He told The New York Times that the object was not to "create geniuses, but only [to] put the less-endowed individual in a position to reach a satisfactory mental and intellectual development". He was born in Fleurier.23 March 1924 - Bette Nesmith Graham - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Nesmith_GrahamAmerican typist, commercial artist, and the inventor of the correction fluid Liquid Paper (not to be confused with competitor White-Out). She was the mother of musician and producer Michael Nesmith of The Monkees. To make extra money, she used her talent painting holiday windows at the bank. She realized as she said, "with lettering, an artist never corrects by erasing, but always paints over the error. So I decided to use what artists use. I put some tempera water-based paint in a bottle and took my watercolor brush to the office. I used to correct my mistakes." She eventually began marketing her typewriter correction fluid as "Mistake Out" in 1956. The name was later changed to Liquid Paper when she began her own company. She was born in Dallas, Texas.25 March 1920 - Patrick George Troughton - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_TroughtonEnglish actor. He was classically trained for the stage but became most widely known for his roles in television and film. His work included appearances in several fantasy, science fiction and horror films, but he became best known for his role as the second incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, which he played from 1966 to 1969; he reprised the role in 1973, 1983 and 1985. he was born in Mill Hill, Middlesex.Events of Interest23 March 1801 – Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death inside his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_I_of_Russia#AssassinationOn the night of 23 March 1801, a band of dismissed officers murdered Paul in his bedroom in the newly-built St. Michael's Castle. The assassins included General Bennigsen, a Hanoverian in the Russian service, and General Yashvil, a Georgian. They charged into his bedroom, flushed with drink after dining together, and found Paul hiding behind some drapes in the corner. he conspirators pulled him out, forced him to the table, and tried to compel him to sign his abdication. Paul offered some resistance, and Nikolay Zubov struck him with a sword, after which the assassins strangled and trampled him to death. Paul's successor on the Russian throne, his son, the 23-year-old Alexander, was actually in the palace at the time of the killing. General Nikolay Zubov announced his accession to the heir, accompanied by the admonition, "Time to grow up! Go and rule!" Alexander I did not punish the assassins, and the court physician, James Wylie, declared apoplexy the official cause of death.23 March 1888 – In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Football_LeagueThe first meeting was held at Anderton's Hotel in London on 23 March 1888 on the eve of the FA Cup Final. The Football League was formally created and named in Manchester at a further meeting on 17 April at the Royal Hotel. The name "Association Football Union" was proposed by McGregor but this was felt too close to "Rugby Football Union". Instead, "The Football League" was proposed by Major William Sudell, representing Preston, and quickly agreed upon. Each club played the others twice, once at home and once away, and two points were awarded for a win and one for a draw. This points system was not agreed upon until after the season had started; the alternative proposal was one point for a win only. Preston won the first league title without losing a game, and completed the first league–cup double by also taking the FA Cup.23 March 1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young). - https://www.nasa.gov/content/march-23-1965-launch-of-first-crewed-gemini-flightNASA's two-man Gemini spaceflights demonstrated that astronauts could change their capsule's orbit, remain in space for at least two weeks and work outside their spacecraft. They also pioneered rendezvous and docking with other spacecraft. All were essential skills to land on the moon and return safely to Earth. Veteran Mercury astronaut Grissom was selected as command pilot of Gemini III, making him the first person traveling into space twice. Joining Grissom was Young, the first member of the second group of NASA pilots to fly in space. Young would go on to become the first person to make six spaceflights, including commanding Apollo 16 during which he walked on the moon. He also commanded STS-1, the first shuttle mission. Gemini III's primary goal was to test the new, maneuverable spacecraft. In space, the crew members fired thrusters to change the shape of their orbit, shift their orbital plane slightly, and drop to a lower altitude. The revolutionary orbital maneuvering technology paved the way for rendezvous missions later in the Gemini Program and proved it was possible for a lunar module to lift off the moon and dock with the lunar orbiting command module for the trip home to Earth. It also meant spacecraft could be launched to rendezvous and dock with an orbiting space station.Follow us onFacebook- Page - https://www.facebook.com/NerdsAmalgamated/- Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/440485136816406/Twitter - https://twitter.com/NAmalgamatedSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6Nux69rftdBeeEXwD8GXrSiTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/top-shelf-nerds/id1347661094RSS - http://www.thatsnotcanonproductions.com/topshelfnerdspodcast?format=rssInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/nerds_amalgamated/General EnquiriesEmail - Nerds.Amalgamated@gmail.comRate & Review us on Podchaser - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/nerds-amalgamated-623195

With the help of our friend Bennett Foddy (QWOP, Getting Over It) we consider Spelunky as the Game of the Decade - we discuss what influence it's had (or hasn't had) in and beyond its genre, its distinct connection to Dark Souls, and experiencing the external narrative of modern gaming. Things we discussed: Bennett Foddy's games Ape Out TIGSource Tim Rogers Presents The Games of the Decade Finishing a Game by Derek Yu Vagante Characteristics of Games Assassination of Lord British Reasons and Persons book Put Your Name on Your Game GDC talk Song of Bloom

‘If the reader wishes to see shortly whether [it is true that the pleasure in this world outweighs the pain], let him compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is engaged in eating the other.’ — Arthur Schopenhauer We’re in the content production grind and flow now bb. We talk Bennett Foddy’s Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy in the light of Arthur Schopenhauer’s Studies in Pessimism, and explore various instances of game maker snobbery. QWOP: http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html Studies in Pessimism by Arthiur Schopenhauer: On the Sufferings of the World: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_Sufferings_of_the_World On Noise: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Noise The Schopenhauer Cure: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19508.The_Schopenhauer_Cure Speedrun w/ uninstall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=12&v=jGa9822kdrw Faster speedrun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-v5GHxn94o Art and Labour podcast, On (Surplus) Value in Art: http://www.artandlaborpodcast.com/podcast/reading-on-surplus-value-in-art/ Bennett Foddy plays through Getting Over it: https://youtu.be/DYjbCJXxWLg Bennett Foddy on making games matter as much as sports: https://youtu.be/5uUPPtBJqR0 Bennett Foddy’s course where students produce a prototype game a week:https://youtu.be/9O9Q8OVWrFA Game Cat liked at Amaze Berlin made by a student of Foddy’s in his protype-a-week course: https://q_dork.itch.io/consume-me To rent at the Brandscape you can contact us here: http://brandscape.club/contact.html Find us elsewhere: http://spek.work/ https://www.instagram.com/spekwork/ http://twitter.com/spekwork http://twitch.com/beigecathy

In this episode we subject guest host Dallas to the other Hamms before we talk about Hungry Shark World, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, and Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. Willie recommends a food pod while the other two recommenders turn away from the digital for something different. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/grandrapidians/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/grandrapidians/support

My guest today is Bennett Foddy, the creator of QWOP, GIRP and Multibowl and a professor at the NYU Game Center. We talk about Bennett's extraordinary journey to game design via philosophy, ring tone advertisements and a brief stint as the bassist for the band Cut Copy. We talk about a whole heap of different games, and get into why Australia is a country of pirates, why philosophers don't play videogames, why he values breadth over depth and why the remix should be a new form of game design. 'To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.' PATREON! - patreon.com/checkpoints iTunes HERE - SUBSCRIBE / RATE / REVIEW Games discussed: QWOP, Multibowl, Demons Souls, Dark Souls, Joust, Stephen Sausage Roll, 720, Off the Wall, Rampage, Gauntlet 2, Rastan Saga, Elite, Legend of Zelda - Skyward Sword, ROM CHECK FAIL, Commander Keen, Command and Conquer, Way of the Exploding Fist, Ikari Warriors, Alien 8 RSS HERE Twitter - twitter.com/CheckpointsShow Cover design: Craig Stevenson - http://onedinosaurandhisballoon.blogspot.co.uk Music: Samuel Baker - http://soundcloud.com/furoshiki

No Greg Advisory, Google Stadia, Sega Channel, Anthem, Origin, Battlefield 1, mounted officers, anachronisms, EA layoffs, the LucasArts mystery, Dwarf Fortress on Steam, video games community outreach, Shadow of the Colossus, Sammy Hagar, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Bop It!, Simon Says, Demon's Souls, Tenchu plus Dark Souls, Whiplash, From Software, Armored Core, Tin Foil Hat Corner, Prince of Persia 3D, Punch Out!!, Zelda II, Nidhogg, hail satan, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy.

In our premiere episode, it's Scotland against England, Catholics against Protestants, queen against queen in Mary Queen of Scots. Is sex better in a barn? Is simulated bread sentient? These questions are perhaps better left unanswered, but we’ll ask them anyway. This week's Last Bites include The Best American Short Stories 2018, edited by Roxane Gay, and 2018 Game of the Year God of War. Also sampled: Goat Simulator, Austin Powers in Goldmember, naked Chloe Sevigny, the Grey's Anatomy icicle disaster, eBaum's World, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, bumpits, Katy Perry's "Witness" live stream, Trisha Paytas, Sad Jennifer Aniston.

Stay awhile and listen to the Greetings From podcast. Listen to Rebecca Fay, Olivia Quinn and Tyler Smith talk about what they are playing, what is new in the world of video games, and how they are getting through every week. Summary It’s 2017, right? Here is a podcast from the vaults about our 2017 games of the year! Spoilers abound, so if you haven’t played these 2017 games, be on the lookout. Games Of The Year Cuphead by Studio MDHR Prey (2017) by Arkane Studios Splatoon 2 by Nintendo EPD Gorogoa by Jason Roberts Super Mario Odyssey by Nintendo EPD Hearthstone: Kobolds & Catacombs and Knights of the Frozen Throne by Blizzard Entertainment Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice by Ninja Theory What Remains of Edith Finch by Giant Sparrow PlayerUnknown’s Battleground by PUBG Corporation and Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene Night in the Woods by Scott Benson, Bethany Hockenberry, and Alec Holowka Resident Evil 7: Biohazard by Capcom Destiny 2 by Bungie Nier: Automata by PlatinumGames The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild by Nintendo EPD Horizon Zero Dawn by Guerrilla Games Honorable Mentions Tacoma by Fullbright Heat Signature by Suspicious Developments Hollow Knight by Team Cherry West of Loathing by Asymmetric Doki Doki Literature Club by Team Salvato Pyre by Supergiant Games Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus by MachineGames Divinity: Original Sin 2 by Larian Studios Dishonored: Death of the Outsider by Arkane Studios Uncharted: Lost Legacy by Naughty Dog Observer by Bloober Team Ruiner by Reikon Games Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy by Bennett Foddy Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle by Ubisoft Fire Emblem: Heroes by Intelligent Systems and Nintendo EPD Questions? Comments? Email us at GreetingsFromCast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/greetingsfrompc Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/greetingsfromcast/ Tumblr at https://blog.greetingsfrom.zone/ Or individually at: Olivia: https://twitter.com/Livjq Rebecca: https://twitter.com/Rebeccafay Tyler: https://twitter.com/Worldjumpin Visit us at http://www.greetingsfrom.zone/ for more episodes or to subscribe Our intro and outro music is an edited version of “Deep Fried Space Food” by SubstituteSandwiches under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode) Download the song at: https://soundcloud.com/substitute_sandwiches/deep-fried-space-food

In this episode, Madelyn and Emma discuss Fallout and Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy and ponder the possibility that they may take place within the same universe. Also featuring Madelyn's worrying compulsions, real cities in games, and a plan to end the world.

Bennett Foddy has been a musician and philosopher but now lectures in game design at NYU. Bennett also develops his own games which are specifically designed to be annoying and despite this, millions of gamers have attempted to played them.

Bennett Foddy has been a musician and philosopher but now lectures in game design at NYU. Bennett also develops his own games which are specifically designed to be annoying and despite this, millions of gamers have attempted to played them.

On this week's tired episode of The Backlog Monologue Podcast, Samuel doesn't want to poop the bed, rides in a hot metal tube, and gets an early package while talking about Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy. Follow me on Twitter! Watch me on Twitch! Follow the amazing artist who created the show's artwork! Check out Matinee Manatees, a new podcast I helped create, on iTunes and Stitcher Radio! Check out the game developer's website

In this episode, the guys return to form with a discussion about the unique characteristics of Bioshock’s Big Daddy and designing “passively aggressive” enemies.  They discuss how to drive  motives for many games. Then they get over Bennett Foddy’s masterful bit of trolling, with another bite at discussing difficulty in games.

Joining Liam this week is a guest used to giving players of his own games challenging tests to overcome, so it’s fitting that he would be next to take on the deserted island challenge. The mind behind QWOP, Multibowl, GRIP, CLOP and the recent, “Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy”, Mr. Bennett Foddy tells us his island 8. This leads to Bennett and Liam building a small arcade bar somewhere on Delfino Plaza and of course, lots of discussion about 8 wonderful games! Enjoy! PLAY LIAM'S NEW GAME - SALARYMAN SUZUKI SAN! https://liamedwards.itch.io/salaryman-suzuki-san Don't forget to follow on Soundcloud and leave a comment about what you thought of Bennett's choices! We'd love to hear what you the listeners think of the guest's choices and let's have a lovely discussion :) You can also download this show on iTunes as well, just search for "Final Games". Please rate and review the show! apple.co/1QP0ciS Bennett Foddy: @bfod Please go check out Craig's excellent music on Soundcloud! Thank you to him for his excellent intro! @windmills-at-dawn @craigedycraig If you'd like to contact the show or Liam, or if you have any feedback please check out: @LiamBME @FinalGamesShow finalgamespodcast@gmail.com Final Games is hosted on Soundcloud at: @finalgamespodcast But is also available on iTunes, aCast and Stitcher!

Our fourth GDC episode sees us missing Kris for the first set of Super-Special Guests, but we manage to get him back partway through the show. Speaking of which, the Super-Special Guests on the show were: Robin-Yann Storm (@rystorm) Joel Nyström (@reallyjoel) Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) Bennett Foddy (@bfod) Robin Baumgarten (@robin_b) Frank Cifaldi (@frankcifaldi) Vincent Diamante (@vincentdiamante) Hosted by: Alex Wawro (@awawro) Kris Graft (@krisgraft) Ann Scantlebury (@scanters) Ste Curran (@steishere) Cheerio! Team OLL (and Team Gamasutra) x

Game designer and philosopher Bennett Foddy joins merritt to talk culture morphing, game clones, and the afterlife of the author.

Some games love you. Some games are indifferent to you. Some games fucking hate you. Some game DEVELOPERS fucking hate you. Bennett Foddy, by god, fucking loves you. He believes in you. He knows you can do it. And also he'll be there, laughing, every time you fail. Get to know one of modern game design's uncompromising masters of the absurd and the sublime in this installment of Tone Control. And also try to figure out what the fuck cricket even is.

Happy 20th episode everybody! If we were a REAL Real Human Bing, we still couldn't drink in the USA! But we'd still have a kick ass birthday party. And you would be invited! Come along with us for this special episode all about a matter close to my stomach, food. We talk about our favorite places to eat in China as well as trends we've noticed during our time here. It's so easy to eat out here all the time guys! This episode also features a new segment we're very excited about! "Game Over" will be released as a regular bonus feature, but we wanted to share our first episode with you here! And to top it all off, we have our beautiful picks of the week! What more could you ask for? End Notes: Food in Dalian (Seriously never heard of any of these restaurants. It's like these people have never even been here!) - https://www.travelchinaguide.com/cityguides/liaoning/dalian/dining.htm Getting Over it with Bennett Foddy - www.foddy.net/2017/09/getting-over-it/ Ready Player One 1 (Jenny Nicholson review) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07w3u8iLa-s Ready Player One 2 (Vox.com) - https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/3/26/17148350/ready-player-one-book-backlash-controversy-gamergate-explained Virtual Light - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Light Kimmie66 - http://heartshapedskull.bigcartel.com/product/kimmie66-signed-paperback Aulden Yelling - https://youtube.com/channel/UCHpicXJpLbZWEYFlaRw8VWA

Every week we invite a special guest to talk with us about life, games, and belief. This week developer, philosopher, and professor Bennett Foddy joins Drew and Chris to talk about the de-humanization of indie games, the consideration of authorial intent, and the philosophical reason to make art.

In this episode, Liam speaks with game designer, professor, and philosopher Bennett Foddy about  using frustration as a design pattern, positioning games at the intersection of art and software, and who he had in mind when creating Getting Over It. Show notes

Ben and Lucy have some beers on this cold and frigid night and discuss what they’ve been playing. Ben’s played two games which are almost the opposite of each other in ‘Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy’ and ‘Rime’. Lucy got back into her episodic sleuth persona and played Orwell: Ignorance is Strength. Lucy drinks starts with Gun Dog Ales ‘Scrum Dog’ and finishes with the coffee porter ‘Uppa Hela Natten’ from Marble. Ben’s gone Irish for the episode with a ‘Bran & Sceolan’ Irish IPA from The White Hag and the ‘Plain Porter’ from Porterhouse brewing.

Ben and Lucy have some beers on this cold and frigid night and discuss what they've been playing. Ben's played two games which are almost the opposite of each other in 'Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy' and 'Rime'. Lucy got back into her episodic sleuth persona and played Orwell: Ignorance is Strength. Lucy drinks starts with Gun Dog Ales 'Scrum Dog' and finishes with the coffee porter 'Uppa Hela Natten' from Marble. Ben's gone Irish for the episode with a 'Bran & Sceolan' Irish IPA from The White Hag and the 'Plain Porter' from Porterhouse brewing.

Tom F, Chris and John R discuss… ‘computer games’. Including but not limited to Iconoclasts, Celeste, Subnautica and Slay The Spire. Plus: wrench size considerations, creating modes for Bennett Foddy (to hurt him), and that thing where Chris says ‘I’m not going to go deep on this’ and then does that. Paragon is no more. [...]

Steam Link, PS Triple, Crawl, HELLDIVERS, PUBG, Overwatch, The Surge, Red Dead Redemption, 7 Days to Die, GTAV, Near Death, Ubermosh Vol. 5, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, Haydee, AM2R, Midtro:

This Week on The Casual Hour... We break down all the announcements from Nintendo's stealth Direct Mini (and Chase laments the lack of Fire Emblem information). Despite the “mini” nature, there was a lot to unpack here, along with a few fun surprises. Meanwhile on the game-playing front, Chase has finished Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, which has made room on his plate for….Fire Emblem: Awakening. Guess he really likes that franchise or something. Bobby's testing the strategy game waters as well with his foray into the iPad version of XCOM: Enemy Within, which seems like a dream compared to the other game he's playing: Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy. All that plus Packing Up the Rest of Your Stuff on the Last Day at Your Old Apartment on this edition of The Casual Hour! Let's Talk! We love fan mail, send us some! thecasualhour@gmail.com You can follow our show on Twitter at: @thecasualhour Enjoy what we have to say? Please leave us a review! The Casual Hour is: Bobby Pease - Host - Twitter: @bobbypease | Website: www.Lumberjacksmack.com Chase Koeneke - Co-host - Twitter: @chase_koeneke | Website: www.gamersonthego.com Johnny Amizich - Co-host - Twitter @jamizich Love our theme music? It was created by Patric Brown. You can follow his antics on twitter @insaneanalog or check out more of his music and download our theme at www.insaneanalog.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thecasualhour/support

Evan gets over the things while the guys go over the week's news in the gaming industry. MAN, GPUs are expensive! Cryptocurrency sucks! Ya'll are suckers. -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/tyfofficial

Dark Souls. Is it news? Chris and Pip ponder this and other subjects, including Subnautica’s imminent release, Paladins’ imminent Battlegrounds mode, and Bennett Foddy’s imminent Getting Over It. Here’s info about Dark Souls Remastered. Also, Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, which is a thing. As is Total War: Three Kingdoms. And Subnautica. Pip reports [...]

We scavenged what was left of the Zumiez as quickly and as quietly as we could. I don't know how the Infected never managed to find it. It's been a reliable well of resources for the past few months now. We've tried to only take what we need; leave the rest for other skaters. But all wells eventually run dry. The decks themselves went quickly, but there were still a few trucks and bearings laying around. Bill got lucky and found a stash of grip tape behind the counter. We used to say that skateboarding was all we had, but we never expected that one day it would *literally* be all we had. Skateboarding is our weapon. It is our movement. It is our tool. It is our survival. Ride... or die. Discussed: "Is that shit?". Gang Beasts. Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Rainbow Six Siege and sweaty competitive gaming. Todd's old Call of Duty YouTube channel and his Jigsaw impression. Designing incredible video games based on a video game title mashup generator.

From its title to its premise, Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy reads as a dark joke. Whether that a joke includes you or not, though, is impossible to say. It's true that the PC game is uproariously, darkly funny. It has a simple aim: climb this mountain. The only problem is that your character is a man stuck inside a pot, his only climbing implement a hammer he can swing.

The first episode of 2018 has to be a shitshow right? Noyan is away moving coasts (like, literally moving several coasts, not changing apartments), so we have Simon instead. Eden’s power cuts out several times during recording, both of them have terrible opinions and hilarity ensues. They did get around to talking about stuff like new music from Justin Timberlake, Mammoth Grinder, Judas Priest, Vessel of Iniquity and Nightmarer. They then speak about Soundcloud kinda maybe going to 64kbps and Spotify getting hit with a huge lawsuit, which leads to an in depth discussion on the tools we use to listen to music. Then, they turn to the sucky treatment by the community of the rape and kidnapping charges against Decapitated being dropped, our newsletter (sign up below!), Simon’s 2017 and personal AOTY list and albums they’re looking forward to in 2018. Cool people time includes Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy and Master of None! Looking for more content from Eden and Heavy Blog in general? Why not sign up for The Heavy Word, our twice a month newsletter? It includes metal recommendations, article spotlights and general discussion on science fiction, art, culture and more! Sign up here!

Discutimos o simples Cat Quest; o familiar Finding Paradise; o misterioso Oxenfree; o nostálgico Emily is Away Too; o intrigante Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, o criativo Gorogoa e a história do caça níquel mais bonito da atualidade, Star Wars Battlefront 2.E o que você tem a dizer?Deixe seu feedback acessando o post deste podcast, ou mande um e-mail para contato@jogabilida.deLinks Comentados: Participe: Jogabilijam Contribua com nosso Patreon ou Padrim Siga-nos no Twitter: Jogabilidade Assista: Entrevista com o Kan Gao Leia: 11 sabores da frustração Blocos do Podcast: Cat Quest: 00:12:47 Fiding Paradise: 00:16:40 Oxenfree: 00:31:33 Emely is Away Too: Original Sin 2: 00:40:54 Getting Over It whith Bennett Foddy : 00:54:28 Gorogoa: 01:07:28 Star Wars Battlefront 2 (campanha): 01:24:04 Trilha do Podcast: “Late Nite Funk Squad”, por David Tobin, Jeff Meegan e Malcolm Edmonstone “Whole Lotta Love”, por Led Zeppelin

Обсуждение новых «Звездных войн» с глобальными спойлерами, впечатления от сериала Erased и основы сетевой безопасности с Константином Гимпелем.   В этом выпуске 00:00:00 — BeardySeries вернулась на YouTube! 00:03:08 — «Звездные войны: Последние джедаи». Обсуждение со спойлерами! 00:46:17 — Отмена сетевой нейтральности. 00:57:31 — Предзаказ игр в App Store. Выход INSIDE, Life is Strange, Gorogoa, FEZ, Bridge Constructor Portal. 01:02:52 — Модуль: основы сетевой безопасности. Гость Константин Гимпель. 01:43:40 — Впечатления от игры Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy. 01:49:51 — Сериал «Город, в котором меня нет» (Erased). 01:55:19 — Заключение и прощание.   → Слушайте другие наши подкасты The Big Beard Theory | BeardyBuilding → Подпишитесь в социальных сетях @BeardyShow | @BeardyTheory | Telegram → Поддержите проект на Patreon Patreon

Dear friends,    We are gathered here to pay our respects as we banish 2017 back to the land of wind and ghosts. In this retrospective episode we examine the year in detail and each of your hosts brings forward a game that symbolizes their experience of 2017. Giovanni looks for the one positive outcome of this trash year. Colin vows to keep moving forward. Dave takes a moment to find calm. Greg works through some things.    For real though: we get into some heavy stuff. Here's your content warning for grief, depression, and mentions of cancer and lost loved ones.    Also: Thank you to all our listeners, families, and friends for supporting us in making this project. We appreciate all of you. We hope we can help make the next year a great one for everyone.  As always, please review us on Apple Podcasts, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and watch us on YouTube. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year.  Games discussed include Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, Super Mario Odyssey, and The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Show Notes:  There is One Good Thing About 2017: Lots of Queer Women in Games Danielle Riendeau, Waypoint   We Made The Developer Of Getting Over It Play His Own Infuriating Game Tim Rogers, Kotaku   Yoko Taro's letter to the press for game of the year coverage   Charles Marinet, the voice of Mario, has the worst website ever literally don't click anything unless you want to download a dozen copies of his video resumes

Since they waited so ding dang long to record their November and because December is a crummy month for releases, The Besties have combined both months into one big (OK, so it’s regular-length) episode. Enjoy! Games discussed: Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild DLC, Solitairica, Call of Duty: WW2, Star Wars: Battlefront 2, Hearthstone: Kobolds and Catacombs, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, Universal Paperclips, Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris, Battle Chef Brigade, Endless Space 2.

Special thanks to Bennett Foddy for joining us this week! Buy Getting Over it on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/240720/Getting_Over_It_with_Bennett_Foddy/

Tom F is joined by Zack and Kevin from Asymmetric for a Crate & Crowbar/Videogames Hotdog crossover episode recorded at Fantastic Arcade in Austin, Texas. Discussed: the explosive appeal of Untitled Goose Game, Wilmot’s Warehouse, Bennett Foddy’s Getting Over It, Minute, Into The Breach, and loads more. It’s all in the shownotes below. Patreon backers [...]

4:57 - Getting Over Getting Over It (http://store.steampowered.com/app/240720/Getting_Over_It_with_Bennett_Foddy/) 9:30 - IGN Acquires Humble Bundle (https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/307546/Humble_Bundle_has_been_acquired_by_media_giant_IGN.php) 16:25 - Oculus Go Announced (https://www.oculus.com/blog/pioneering-the-frontier-of-vr-introducing-oculus-go-plus-santa-cruz-updates/) 33:23 - Oculus Permanently Reduces Rift Price to $399 with Controllers (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/10/oculus-rift-sees-permanent-price-drop-399-with-touch-controllers/) 35:53 - SteamVR 2.0 (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/10/valve-announces-the-first-big-steamvr-2-0-feature-waaay-more-space/) 38:00 - Pimax 8K VR Headset Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pimax8kvr/pimax-the-worlds-first-8k-vr-headset) 41:48 - Are Loot Boxes Gambling? (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-10-11-are-loot-boxes-gambling) 52:34 - Carried Away (http://store.steampowered.com/app/638000/Carried_Away/) 57:08 - Scorn Alpha (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1777595379/scorn-part-1-of-2-dasein) 1:05:50 - Think of the Children (http://store.steampowered.com/app/573600/Think_of_the_Children/) 1:09:12 - Space Engineers (http://store.steampowered.com/app/244850/Space_Engineers/) 1:16:40 - The Evil Within 2 (http://store.steampowered.com/app/601430/The_Evil_Within_2/) 1:29:00 - Middle-earth: Shadow of War (http://store.steampowered.com/app/356190/Middleearth_Shadow_of_War/)

It's like he can see you, the little face in the corner of your screen. Your cursor hovers over a unit you think looks cool - a little plastic orb car you bet you'd have fun riding around in if this wasn't a game - and he frowns. Correction: He looks you in the eye, and frowns. He sighs. "You're going to pick that? Really that one?" You roll your cursor over a few others and he holds his breath, clearly not wanting to say whatever he's thinking about your choices, because they're clearly not nice. Finally, you scroll a few pages back in the build list and come across a fancy visitor's center, some brightly colored automated safari vehicles, and accompanying tour track. You watch him for any reaction, and it happens so quickly, so subtly, you barely notice it, but it was there: a quick bob of the head, an affirmative. You drag the units onto the map, arrange them in a pleasant way, and are immediately killed by a dinosaur then swept away by an unprecedented tropical storm. Discussed: Heat Signature, nightmarish self-imposed social media torture channel, StarCraft II, nightmarish multiplayer voice chat, ninth anniversary of the Idle Thumbs Podcast, Heat Signature launch trailer, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy announcement trailer, infomercial-like Rockstar Games trailers, Red Dead Redemption 2, Thimbleweed Park, Jurassic World Evolution, hypothetical Jurassic Park Tycoon game, one B.D. Wong unit, the duty of a game to communicate its full systemic depth

6:05 - Shadow of War Loot Boxes are Bad (https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/8x8bpv/shadow-of-war-and-forza-7-are-poisoning-the-concept-of-loot-boxes?utm_source=wptwitterus) 27:13 - Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (http://store.steampowered.com/app/240720/Getting_Over_It_with_Bennett_Foddy/) 42:24 - Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide (http://store.steampowered.com/app/235540/Warhammer_End_Times__Vermintide/) 52:32 - Fortnite Battle Royale (https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/buy-now/battle-royale) 1:20:14 - Battle Chasers: Nightwar (http://store.steampowered.com/app/451020/Battle_Chasers_Nightwar/) 1:29:06 - Stick Fight: The Game (http://store.steampowered.com/app/674940/Stick_Fight_The_Game/) 1:35:00 - A Hat In Time (http://store.steampowered.com/app/253230/A_Hat_in_Time/) 1:45:03 - Arrow Heads (http://store.steampowered.com/app/580890/Arrow_Heads/) 1:51:22 - Golf Story (https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/golf-story-switch) 2:01:15 - September GOTM

With Professor Paul Klenerman Principal Investigator, Institute for Emerging Infections. Paul Klenerman demonstrates the way our immune systems work and discusses the best way to boost our natural defences in an effort to fight infection from Hep C and HIV. Dr Bennett Foddy, Deputy Director, Institute for Science and Ethics, addresses the ethical dilemmas which can arise from the process of clinical trials.

With Professor Paul Klenerman Principal Investigator, Institute for Emerging Infections. Paul Klenerman demonstrates the way our immune systems work and discusses the best way to boost our natural defences in an effort to fight infection from Hep C and HIV. Dr Bennett Foddy, Deputy Director, Institute for Science and Ethics, addresses the ethical dilemmas which can arise from the process of clinical trials.

Just finished watching the PS4 press conference? We can tell you what to think of it!Questions this week:Which Sony executives were the coolest, and which were the creepiest?What does one wear to a video game press conference?How many polygons are in a soul?Why would anyone ever use any of these PS4 social features?Do people still care about controller rumble?Is the PS4 truly "by game creators, for game creators"?Can Watch Dogs do big good game tape?How do you get someone excited about an FPS?Was it a mistake to call it the PlayStation 4? Edited by Andrew Toups.

I am not the sister of your brother.

QWOP creator Bennett Foddy joins us to talk about stuff. Stuff like Alan Moore, air dropping video games, and an actual Nintendo theme park.Questions this week:How do we get people back into arcades? (02:32)We know what a AAA video game is, but what's an A, AA, or AAAA video game? (08:53)When is DLC worth buying? (15:17)What are the best underwater segments in video games? (21:49)Who is the Alan Moore of video games? (28:07)If you could send 3 portable games on one device to everybody in the world, what would they be? (35:55)What would be the attractions of a real Nintendoland? (42:28)What company should Capcom fight next? (48:51)How would you explain QWOP/Noby Noby Boy to your mom? (55:17)My sister asks: Which video game character would have the most trolls on Twitter? (01:02:20)Edited by Andrew Toups.

Sometimes we kind of answer questions.

QWOP creator Bennett Foddy joins us to talk about stuff. Stuff like Alan Moore, air dropping video games, and an actual Nintendo theme park.

Bennett Foddy on Pyro 2 (& Crusader Kings 2 & others): “…what I love about it is that everything in the game is completely literal….” (mp3) (audio player in full post) AudioPlayer.embed("bennett_foddy_player", {soundFile: "http://nottheinternet.com/bestgamedesign/audio/bennett_foddy.mp3"});Full rousing manifesto version (with praise for ZiGGURAT)

Picture a podcast which is itself made up of a series of smaller podcasts. Now, stop picturing, and start listening to our GDC wrap-up episode, featuring a series of quick interviews with Christina Norman (Riot Games), Tom Francis (PC Gamer/Suspicious Developments), Derek Yu (independent), and Bennett Foddy (independent), as well as our closing thoughts on GDC 2012. Support our Kickstarter campaign: http://idlethumbs.net/kickstarter

No Continues is One Life Left’s off-season weekly book / game club. Each week the team discuss three different games that incorporate a single theme. Last week’s theme was ‘Platforms’. You can listen to Episode 4 here.   Next week’s theme is ‘Physics’. The three games chosen for dissection by NC this week are: 1. Thrust (Jeremy Smith, 1986) Play it here. http://joncom.be/experiments/thrust/play/   2. Peggle (Sukhbir Sidhu / Brian Rothstein, 2007) You can find this on most formats now -- the PC version is here (http://www.popcap.com/games/peggle/pc) but the iPod version comes recommended too.    3. GIRP (and QWOP) (Dr. Bennett Foddy, 2011) Play it here: http://www.foddy.net/   Play, listen and contribute to the show live on Resonance 104.4FM at 7pm on Monday evening, or we’ll see you back here for the podcast. Team NC xx