Podcasts about counterfeit monkey

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we continue our series on Plundered Hearts, the pirate romance text adventure, and also turning to a short bonus discussion about Twine games. We mostly discuss our takeaways before turning to the bonus discussion. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Podcast breakdown: 0:18 Takeaways 51:02 Break 51:12 Bonus Discussion Issues covered: text adventure length, an introductory adventure and the audience it sought, being unable to market, a diversion to Rogue Legacy 2, finding a parser bug, game pack-ins, losing a thing to the parser, a garter on a crocodile, waiting and responding to player choice, playtesting internally, not knowing to wait, inventory combination vs revisiting every location you've missed, failure-driven games, piecing clues together through trial and error, choosing your verbs carefully, whether there are multiple solutions, the hostility of a trial-and-error design, subverting your genre through mechanics, Tim's life as a series of flow charts, a structure still used today, flow charts for puzzle steps, working back from a problem to the solution, responding to your players, using good writing to provide a rich experience, interesting work coming from diverse sources, being playful with text, Twine as an environment, what you can do with good writing and simple tools, text effects, the approachability of the tools, personal games, an experimental game and interpretation, the structure of "howling dogs," simulation aspects, commentary on games, the default response and the "that's interesting," poetic/evocative/allusive tone, being in a browser and the affordances, a commentary on the games industry, the anxiety-provoking games, feeling seen, being exactly spot-on, a learning tool, the value of constraints. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Dark Souls, Zork, Infocom, Byte, Nibble, EGM, Nintendo Power, Rogue Legacy 2, Halo, LucasArts, Day of the Tentacle, Emily Short, Counterfeit Monkey, Tim Schafer, Dave Grossman, Dungeons & Dragons, MYST, Space Quest, King's Quest, Reed Knight, Ron Gilbert, Peter Pan, Errol Flynn, Geena Davis, Cutthroat Island, Matthew Modine, Activision, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Chris Klimas, Hypercard, howling dogs, Porpentine, The Writer Will Do Something, Matthew Seiji Burns, Tom Bissell, Game Developer magazine, Magical Wasteland, IF Comp, Andrew Plotkin, Meg Jayanth, Richard Hofmeier, Papers Please, Hot Pockets, Mountain Dew, Warhammer, Frog Fractions, Universal Paperclips, Frank Lantz, HP Lovecraft, Melville, Shakespeare, Mark Laidlaw, Eliza, Zachtronics, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia.  Errors! It was not Papers, Please (which is also excellent and by Lucas Pope), but Cart Life that was by Richard Hofmeier Links: When You Say One Thing and Mean Your Motherboard Next time: ...?! Twitch: brettdouville or timlongojr, instagram:timlongojr, Twitter: @timlongojr and @devgameclub DevGameClub@gmail.com

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Jenni * @horsewizrd * Chris Topics: * The coming schism between Wordle purists & Wordle metagamers * Amazon kindle fantasy best-sellers is ruled by niches that nobody outside of kindle or Royal Road users have heard of * https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football * In high school I knew a guy who, one time, managed to use up all the ink in a ball-point pen. The ink tube in there was just totally empty, it was astonishing. Nowadays whenever we run out of olive oil I get the same thrill. I did it! I used all the oil! * The Tiger, by Nael, Age 6 * https://twitter.com/826DC/status/966009025090473985 * Why can't Wizards or any of the clones figure out how to make D&D fun to play at high levels? Why is this an unsolved design? * Zardoz & Barbarella have similar energy except Zardoz comes across as sincere & Barbarella comes across as falsely ironic to hide the sincerity Microtopics: * Jim's sip of tea. * Making your husband Sleepytime tea so he goes to sleep while recording the podcast. * Making a video of yourself arguing with your cooking teacher to post to social media. * What is a Wordle? * The Wordle sheriff joke. * Muting the green block emoji so you stop seeing all the Wordle bragging. * How to improve Wordle's psychic damage output. * Wordle except instead of five letters it's five abstract concepts. * Paranormal reverse-harem. * Pricing your paranormal reverse-harem book at $250 and discounting it 99% so users are like "paranormal reverse-harem for $2.50? I can't afford not to!" * All the topics you can't sell books about on Amazon and all the coded tags you use to sell them anyway. * Whether Amazon will ban your book as containing bestiality if the genitalia is on the human side of the minotaur. * A horse with human intelligence with a penis growing out of its back, and whether anyone has sex with the penis. * The liminal space between bestiality and reverse-bestiality. * Arguing in traffic court that your car is just a collection of atoms and the distinction between those atoms and those of the world it's traveling with respect to exists entirely in our minds. * Doing a crime just to go to Horse Court and see that horse judge you. * Admitting that you are That Guy. * Sending your pens to the pen dimension. * Graduating from high school and discovering that the weird lump on the knuckle of your middle finger isn't just you having a weird skeleton. * Writing good handwriting. * Refilling the salt pig from the salt cylinder. * When the sauce is burning and the only solution is to salt it right now. * Going to Horse Court to decide which of you bought the pepper grinder. * Popular with the robots. * Whether the poem works on a third level. * Writing the best poem. * Viral Poetry Sensation "The Tiger." * An "invisibility cloak" which is just an empty hanger. * A magic supply store where half the items are just jokes on the purchaser. * The adult poetry workshop where you drink a glass of wine and transcribe "The Tiger" by Nael, age 6, then take it home and show it to your parents. * Trying to look at the thumb tips your friends are going on about. * Braving Omicron to buy a thumb tip. * Hypnotizing a napkin. * A magic trick where you make a rubber band disappear, but only for yourself. * Aging two years while dead. * Whether Nethack's difficulty curve is better than D&D's. * A weird combination of spells that is broken in a non-numerical way. * What the wizard did when the spaghetti-os were on too high a shelf to reach. * Letting the players fight Thor even though you know they'll figure out a way to kill Thor. * Thor swinging his hammer and killing you without having to roll any dice because Thor doesn't have stats. * The Dying Earth series by Jack Vance. * Godlike wizards feuding over who took the leftovers out of the office fridge because they ran out of real problems to solve. * The Dying Earth series by Jack Vance, except with football. * That Insidious Beast by Zack Parsons. * Instructions for a fruit. * There is no Antimemetics Division, by qntm. * Counterfeit Monkey by Emily Short. * Sean Connery in a red diaperkini. * The big head that floats around and vomits guns and explains how guns are better than penes. * When they invented the concept of copies of movies. * Your deal with the devil where if you fail to make Lord of the Rings you have to make Zardoz, but you succeed you get to make King Kong. * Scantily clad rocket people. * Barbarella lying in a thumb harp being yelled at by a dude wearing a Dalek and reading from a piano roll. * Learning how to draw by looking at promotional shots from Barbarella. * Mario fanfiction through the lens of Cyberpunk. * Whether they have sarcasm in Japan. * Tom Nook slapping his own nipples for ten hours.

Counterfeit Monkey is a 2012 interactive fiction adventure puzzle game by Emily Short. What's special about this game is its brilliant central puzzle mechanic, in which you'll be removing letters from the names of objects...

In this (long) episode, Detective Fiction! Join us as we discuss our (least) favorite detectives, inspectors, and PIs in fiction. Also: the problem of pronouncing author names without ever having heard them out loud before, to read in series order or not, all the formats and mediums we can “read” in (Yay!), detective TV versus detective novels, and how much like a P.I are you? In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi Recommended Goldie Vance Vol. 1 by Hope Larson, art by Brittney Williams, colors by Sarah Stern The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime edited by Michael Sims Death in the Vines by M. L. Longworth The City & The City by China Miéville The Thousand Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham City of Glass: The Graphic Novel adapted by Paul Karasik from a novella by Paul Auster, art by David Mazzucchelli Read Still Life by Louise Penny She Devil in the Mirror by Horacio Castellanos Moya, translated by Katherine Silver Seduction of the Innocent by Max Allan Collins Kop by Warren Hammond DNF Written in Blood by Caroline Graham The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry, (audiobook) read by Pete Larkin The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Ala Bradley An Improbable Truth: The Paranormal Adventures of Sherlock Holmes edited by A.C. Thompson L.A. Noire (video game) An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson Links and Stuff Temperance Brennan series from Kathy Reichs Tattoo artist cozy mystery Seduction of the Innocent by Fredric Wertham (Wikipedia) Ghost in the Snow by Tamara Siler Jones Welcome to Night Vale Review of The Manual of Detection from the New Yorker that describes it as “the kind of mannered fantasy that might result if Wes Anderson were to adapt Kafka.” Midsomer Murders (TV show inspired by the DCI Barnaby mysteries from Caroline Graham) Bubblegumshoe - roleplaying game about being a teenage detective Counterfeit Monkey - that odd little text game about breaking our language to get around chat with me (long distance relationship game) Spring Breakers (Wikipedia) The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster Innocent Blood by P.D. James Scream in Silence by Eleanor Taylor Bland Bangkok 8 by John Burdett Mind’s Eye by Håkan Nesser, translated by Laurie Thompson Harvest by Tess Gerritsen The City Watch books by Terry Pratchett The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett Questions: Can you deal with a protagonist you don’t identify with or like very much? What are your favourite detective series or one-offs? Are there any detective stories set in prisons? Are there some detective fiction genres (other than straight out thrillers) that are more focused on large systemic evils and/or the impacts of history rather than interpersonal conflicts? Do you prefer your detectives via TV or in writing? Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts for all the Detective Fiction books people in the club read (or tried to read), follow us on Twitter,  and join our Facebook Group! Join us again on Tuesday, April 4th for a discussion of print versus digital reading and library borrowing versus owning. Then come back on Tuesday, April 18th, when we will inflict upon you the “genre” of Non-Fiction Audiobooks!

NPCs! VR! AR! Rob (game writer, narrative designer, voice director, and writer on Wonderbook, Fallen London, Sunless Sea, and The Assembly) and Emily (game designer specializing in interactive narrative, dialogue, and social interaction modeling, and writer of Galatea, First Draft of the Revolution, Alabaster, Counterfeit Monkey, and more) are here to talk about the importance of streamlining the implementation of your script, looting silos of information and the problem of them not being widely accessible, the value of knowing programming, the storytelling possibilities of VR and who you “are,” disempowered experiences in VR, interactive theater’s influence on games, different solutions for offering branching narratives to players, writing for augmented reality, and the lack of games about maintaining relationships. Our Guests on the Internet Rob's Twitter and Website. Emily's Twitter and Website. Stuff We Talked About Punchdrunk Sleep No More Beyond Branching: Quality-Based, Salience-Based, and Waypoint Narrative Structures by Emily Short Firewatch Wonderbook: Book of Spells Love Stories for High-XP Characters by Emily Short The Novelist In Your Arms Tonight VideoBrains Youtube Channel Our theme music was composed by 2Mello, and our logo was created by Lily Nishita.

We play Counterfeit Monkey yet again!

Episode fifty one sees Pip still in recovery from The International, so Tom is instead joined by Laura Dale, Lucy Morris and Hannah Bunce. Lucy tells us about playing DayZ wiuth broken legs while Hannah tells us why Wolf Among Us is grittier than The Walking Dead. Laura has been exploring Itch.io and finding a bunch of strange, small indie games and Tom has been gaming like it’s 1999 with King of Dragon Pass. Also included: our favourite tutorials, rampant speculation about the new Bioware game and interactive fiction wordplay puzzler Counterfeit Monkey. The show notes, as ever, are inside....(Read more...)

Welcome to show 172. This week the Daddy played DmC, Counterfeit Monkey, Dead Space 3, Max Payne 2 and last weeks play my game Halo Wars, Duke also played Halo Wars along with Defence Grid The Awakening-You Monster and Chinny rounded it out with more Gears Of War, God Mode and Poker Night 2. Duke gives us his choice for this weeks Play My Game and in the news we cover Respawns new game being a possible MS exclusive, Nintendo ditching it's E3 conference and David Cage showing Beyond Two Souls at a film festival. We round out the show with the usual emails, Facebook and Twitter stuff. Enjoy! Follow us on twitter @veterangamersuk and if you have any opinions or questions, send Emails to: podcast@veterangamers.co.uk Gamertags Chinny – 360 ChinChinny, PS3 Chinny1985 The Daddy – 360 Big Daddy Blast, PS3 xXBig-DaddyXx Duke – 360 Dukeskath, PS3 Dukeskath