Podcast appearances and mentions of damian sommer

Today Kim and AJ are talking about The Yawhg by Damian Sommer and Emily (E.M.) Carroll!  A game about impending doom and how we can all help each other recover in the aftermath. This game was suggested by Lou! Thanks Lou!Get The Yawhg on Steam! Check out Damian Sommers' other work on their website! Check out E.M. Carrol's other work on their website! ---Discussed in the episodeThe Yawhg EP by Ryan Roth, Halina Heron on bandcamp---Visit our website!Support the show on Kofi!Follow us on Twitch!Follow the show on Bluesky!Check out The Worst Garbage Online!---Art by Tara CrawfordMusic by _amaranthineAdditional sounds by BoqehProduced and edited by AJ Fillari---Timecodes:(00:00) - More like Godzilla Plus Ass amirite? (01:02) - Shoutout to Lou for this rec! (01:56) - What is The Yawhg? (04:40) - Techincally you can play this game together (06:34) - We played separately (08:59) - The stats and events (13:47) - 'The Yawgh' by Emily Carroll (16:32) - The "best" ending | Spoilers (18:59) - The random events | Spoilers (23:45) - CW: Mention of suicide | Spoilers (25:05) - The writing can be DARK | Spoilers (28:03) - That's it tbh! (29:29) - Big Takeaways (29:41) - Kim's Big Takeaway (33:40) - AJ's Big Takeaway (36:48) - You cannot do all the good the world needs, but the world needs all the good that you can do!!!!!!!!!!! (37:30) - Wrapping up

We've got a very special episode today! Gary and Becca are joined by the magnificent Mallory O'Meara for a chat about women and LGBTQIA+ representation in the horror genre! The discussion ranges from books and movies to podcasts and video games. Check out the description below for everything that came up in this episode! Content Warning: Some strong language.  First and foremost:  The Lady From the Black Lagoon by Mallory O'Meara Girly Drinks: A Women's History of Drinking Through the Ages by Malory O'Meara (pre-order now!)   Books: The Lottery by Shirley Jackson The Birds (and others) by Daphne du Maurier  The Red Tree by Caitlin Kiernan  The Very Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll   Movies: The Wind by Emma Tammi Culture Shock by Gigi Saul Guerrero Tigers are Not Afraid by Issa Lopez The Love Witch by Anna Biller Raw by Julia Ducournau Jennifer's Body and The Invitation by Karyn Kusama  Riot Girls by Jovanka Vuckovic American Psycho Mary Harron The Babadook by Jennifer Kent Satanic Panic and All That We Destroy by Chelsea Stardust Rift by Erlingur Thoroddsen Cam written by Isa Mazzei and directed by Daniel Goldhaber   Podcasts: Attack of the Queerwolf - Michael Kennedy, Nay Bever, and Brennan Klein Dead for Filth - Michael Varrati Oh the Horror of it All - Chelsea Stardus The Horrorble People's Podcast - Alix Webster and Anthony Fuentes   Video Games: The Yawgh by Damian Sommer and Emily Carroll   What We're Reading: The Awesome by Eva Darrows (Currently unavailable, get the ebook here!) The Howling Dark by Christopher Ruocchio Repo Virtual by Corey J. White Blood Hound by Kaori Yuki (Also currently unavailable from our distributor. Sorry folks, I tried)   You can now find us on YouTube! Enjoy some of our recent virtual events here! Special thanks to Austin Farmer for letting us use the track "Kill the Farm Boy", from his album Bookshelf Symphony Orchestra!  Send us your questions to podcast@mystgalaxy.com Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook!  And support the store by ordering books at mystgalaxy.com! 

Uh oh… they’re back… it’s EVIL GAMES CLUB! +!+!+!+!+ NICE TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED +!+!+!+!+ Evil Games Club is back! Dale, Adia and Dylan are here to correct the score and give their take on past Nice Games Club topics including Writing For Games, Re-ravel and Video Game Nostalgia. They’re at it again, being evil, that is! Felix Drags Dale Through The Marvel Universe podcast Dylan thwarted Dale's attempts at taking publicity photos   Writing For Games 00:10:0 Adia Alderson Category Game Design Narrative The Interactive Fiction Competition NaNoRenO on Itch "The Outer Worlds has some unusual (and awesome) character-building options" - Patricia Hernandez , Polygon "The Outer Worlds Will Rattle Your Idea Of A Perfect Planet" - Gita Jackson , Kotaku "Breaking Bongo" Radiolab episode "MGSV- Quiet/Ocelot model swap - Rain scene" - Tactical Modding Operations "Heaven's Vault" game - Inkle Studios Re-ravel Dale LaCroix Category IRL Tabletop Nice Games Jam: "Re-ravel: A Backwards Storytelling Game" Nice Games Club episode Re-ravel: A Backwards Storytelling Game "The Yawhg" game - Emily Carrol and Damian Sommer "Microscope" game - Lame Mage Productions Tracery generative tool by Galaxy Kate Video Game Nostalgia 01:01:1 Dylan Skerbitz Category Gaming SimCity Wikipedia page Cap'n Crunch's Crunching Adventure Giant Bomb page Spot: The Video Game (featuring the then 7Up mascot Spot) - Wikipedia Glider (video game originally for classic Apple computers) - Wikipedia SkiFree - Giant Bomb RuneScape - Giant Bomb Commander Keen - Giant Bomb "Aldo's Adventures gameplay (PC Game, 1987)" - Squakenet Jill of the Jungle - Wikipedia Jazz Jackrabbit 2016/12/bananas-from-here-to-eternity-bugs-game-jams-developer-art/ - Giant Bomb "Halo: Reach Launches On PC, Becomes Third Most Played Game On Steam" - EThan Gach , Kotaku Golden Sun - Giant Bomb Red Vs. Blue - Rooster Teeth

On this episode, we talk about The Yawhg. It's an adventure game by Damian Sommer, Emily Carroll and Halina Heron. With multiple endings and an intriguing event system, you may want to hunker down for this one! After the winds have settled, Dan challenges Mark and Dave to a round of Twenty (Probably More) Questions! Who will guess the game?? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dinosaur-machines/message

Ep 25 is all about GDC 2016. I got to interview 3 different guests. First you'll hear Damian Sommer talk about his upcoming project(s), then I talk to rapper / musician / creative Doseone about all kinds of stuff. Then finally we have an interview with the Butterscotch Shenanigans bros about post-Crashlands launch.

As we enter a new theme month, we're talking about translation. That's translating languages and translating mediums.  Colin Williamson joined us from Seattle to discuss the process of localization. Colin used to work for Square Enix as a localization expert back in the mid-2000s, and helped retranslate some of the oldest Final Fantasy games, even going back and correcting the work of industry legend, Ted Woolsey. Download Here. Subscribe on iTunes. Subscribe on Stitcher. Woolsey's work was flawed, though not for a lack of style. He did the translations largely on his own, couldn't communicate often with the design team, and had crazy deadlines to finish them. Colin meanwhile worked in a team, not too far from where the actual designers worked, and he started the translations while the game was still under development. Those circumstances also helped him codify all the language currently used in Final Fantasy games, like "Phoenix Down" over "Phoenix Feather." A lot has changed since Woolsey worked for Square, and Colin tells us all about it, starting 21:30. **Want to learn more about the history of Final Fantasy? Check out our 1, 2, 3 part history specials. ** Colin also gave us a couple games that are particularly great examples of localizations. For our own list, take a look at our primer.  On May 8 and 10 we visited the Bento Miso for Comics vs Games and the Bit Bazaar to talk 3D, VR, books and board games. Comics vs Games is a yearly event in Toronto where comic artists team up with game designers to create a video game. This year, the theme was 3D, leading to the virtual reality games Altar and Libraria. Altar, created by designer Daniele Hopkins and artist Gillian Blekkenhorst, allows you to briefly walk around the ruins of an alien civilization. While designer Kyle Dwyer and artist Adam Hines teamed up for the pop-up book adventure game, Libraria.  (All photos from Attract Mode's 3D gallery. Clay models were all done by Ventla are long forgotten Nintendo characters that we can't name. The two prints are meant to be 3D with red/blue glasses. If you have 'em, try 'em.) Each round of Comics vs Games is accompanied by a gallery curated by the fellows at Attract Mode, a video game art collective. This year they held a 3D gallery containing a selection of three dimensional 2D art, presented with old school red and blue glasses. We talked to Matt Hawkins, a long time member of Attract Mode about why they collect video game fanart, and some of beautiful renditions of Dark Souls and Year Walk, amongst numerous other games. You can hear from him, Gillian and Kyle starting 35:00. Then at the Bit Bazaar we checked in with Conor McCreery and Elizabeth Simins on the other ways one can turn a book into a game, or vice versa. Welcome to the Bit Bazaar at the Bento Miso on May 10. Mare Shepard shows off N++ right next to the entrance. Emily Carroll and Damian Sommer talk about their development process on the Yawhg, one of the first Comics vs Games projects. Vagabond Dog's Jake Reardon shows off Always Sometimes Monsters at his booth at the Bit Bazaar Some wares, images, zines, and postcards for sale at the Bit Bazaar. A volunteer from Snakes and Lattes shows off a version of the Machine of Death card game, based on Ryan North's anthology book of the same name.  There's not just games for sale at the Bit Bazaar. You can get rare chocolates, cider, and sometimes pies on the top floor of the Bento Miso. Conor McCreery was at the Bit Bazaar, a sort-of independent video game flee market, to show off the new prototype of the upcoming Kill Shakespeare board game. Conor is one of the creators of Kill Shakespeare, a comic where all of Shakespeare's works exist in the same universe. Imagine the Marvel comic book universe, but for Hamlet and Othello. With those sorts of mashups already on the table, their publisher,IDW, invited them to turn the three-volume comic into a board game. Conor tells us about how the game works, how they got involved, and why a Kickstarter does more than raise thousands of dollars. You can hear all about it, starting 51:30. The prototype version of the Kill Shakespeare board game at the Bit Bazaar.  Meanwhile, Elizabeth Simins talked about the power of video game zines at one of the panels at the Bit Bazaar. Elizabeth, an artist who occasionally does a comic for Kotaku with journalist Cara Ellison, told us about zine's appeal and their utility. For those who don't know, a zine is like a small handcrafted magazine made by only a few people. Elizabeth loves their physicality and so do the people who buy them from her, although she admits she probably won't get rich off a zine. Still, they enable her to discuss things like misogyny in games, like in "Ain't No Such Thing as Misogyny." If you'd like to hear more about video games zines, and a few of Simins projects, take a listen at 51:30. Elizabeth Simins's video game zine that collects her artwork and comics regarding misogyny in games. Courtesy Elizabeth Simins. We used music from the Free Music Archive and Soundcloud*. From the Free Music Archive, "japanese prog" by Rushus, "Sun Bum" by Monster Rally and "Touching" by Souvenir Driver. From Soundcloud, we found "Trance Transistor Radio" by Arai Akino on rachelroh's profile. We changed up our theme this week to "Daniel Kruis" by RoccoW.  Built to Play was made by producer Arman Aghbali and feature editor Daniel Rosen. If you liked what you heard be sure to leave us a comment or a review on iTunes or Stitcher. It helps more people find the show.  *This music was all taken under a creative commons license. If you feel your music was used inappropriately, be sure to send us an email. 

We're taking a break from video games as we talk card games, documentaries and tabletop RPGs. We have Damian Sommer on Without Question and David Dufrense on Fort McMoney. Plus, as always, we kick off with the news this week and the shocking revelation that all use of the word Candy is now illegal. Except that one.

This week we chat with Damian Sommer. If you've been to a Game Jam in Toronto in the past little while you have probably heard of Mr. Sommer. He has currently finished working on his latest co creation with Emily Carroll titled, The Yawhg! Have you ever wondered how someone gets in to the gaming community?  What's the process one takes to get to know the people who make really cool games?  Have a listen as we chat with Damian's personal journey as he went from political science student to indie gamer guru.Follow Damian on his TWITTER 

Holmes is joined by indie developer Damian Sommer, designer of The Clown Who Wanted Everything. http://damiansgames.com

Hosts: Arthur Marris, Max Brown Date Recorded: 02/08/2012 In episode 23, Arthur & Max bring Damian Sommer, Alexander Martin, & Chris De Carteret on the show to talk about the 2012 independent games festival finalists. We discuss nominations, predictions & the competition overall. For this episode, we have a short & a long version. The […]

Have you heard of (and bought) Flew the Coop yet, a new iOS game? Well, you should if you haven’t! We have the developers behind the barn, Jason Kaplan, and Damian Sommer. Jason is the founder of Game Prototype Challenge, and Damian is an indie extraordinaire. Releasing their first collaborated iOS game together, we go in-depth on […]