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Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we start a new game in our series on independent games with 2004's Cave Story. We briefly set the game in its time, talk a little about its developer, and then talk about the game proper. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: A couple of hours Issues covered: freeware vs democratized indie dev and publishing, Japanese independent development, an indie darling, likely antecedents, 2004 in review, the end of a cycle, standing out in a stacked year, sticking it out, breaking through onto Nintendo platforms, early independent success on the Switch platform, influences and what's in the mix, weapon leveling, more story than expected, characters and dialog, more adventure, having a mess of villagers, setting up mysteries, merging lots of elements into their story and interactions, a spike at the end, adding puzzle-y elements, keys and keys that are not keys, threads of characters and relationships, something that is more than a MetroidVania, a skill-based game, "you're a really good person," forgetting a console came out, having the opportunity to play off-the-beaten path games, not needing a map, the dangers of categorization, how the platforming feels, fear of skill-based need, becoming one with the controller, an emotional response, empathetic response, catharsis, building the dam and breaking it, graceful building, manipulation in art, can a movie version work vs the interactivity, shock in literary fiction. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Nintendo Switch, Fez, Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya, Cara Ellison, Downwell, Wii, Crystal Dynamics, Super Meatboy, Metroid, Nifflas, Knytt, n/n+/n++, Pixeljunk (series), Q-Games, Dylan Cuthbert, World of Warcraft, Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines, Halo 2, Half-Life 2, The Sims 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, Doom 3, Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal, Silent Hill 4: The Room, GTA: San Andreas, Far Cry, Metroid: Zero Mission, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, Knights of the Old Republic 2, Star Wars: Battlefront, Pikmin 2, Sly 2: Band of Thieves, Jak 3, Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Katamari Damacy, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Republic Commando, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, WiiWare/DSi, PS Vita, Net Yaroze, Nicalis, Castlevania, MegaMan, CapCom, Bionic Commando, Sega, Sonic (series), Square Enix, Zelda (series), Final Fantasy IX, Dark Souls (series), The Seven Samurai, Firewatch, Animal Well, Spelunky (series), Hollow Knight, Gone Home, Ashton Herrmann, Last of Us, Shadow of the Colossus, Shakespeare, Outer Wilds, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia.  Next time: Finish Cave Story Twitch Discord DevGameClub@gmail.com

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we continue our series on walking simulators with 2012's Dear Esther, played here in a 2017 "Landmark Edition" but based on a 2007 Source mod for Half-Life 2. We of course set the game in its time, spend a fair amount of time on randomness and meaning, and open the cellar door. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: The whole shebang Issues covered: walking simulators, 2012 in games, a little history of The Chinese Room (the company), a little digression on The Chinese Room (the thought experiment), influences, developing in the mod community, the role of randomness, discovering the randomness, justifying the randomness, mod communities replaying games, not discussing games as you play them, writers having the same space to play, 30 seconds of depressing poetry, "cellar door," a quality of lovely phonemes, the facts we know and the things we might interpret, a dreamy narrative space, Tim reveals his baseball knowledge, a metaphor for grief and an otherworldly space, rebirth, a car accident setting vs a gurney setting, things you can miss, not a thing video games would do, appreciating a new design space, directors' commentaries, crematory urns, one of the props, the impact of the ultrasound, needing to relate to the characters, the potential for missing things. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Fez, The Stanley Parable, The Chinese Room, Dishonored, Halo 4, Diablo III, Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, Forza Horizon, New Super Mario Bros U, Far Cry 3, XCOM Enemy Unknown, Alan Wake's American Nightware, Hitman Absolution, Assassin's Creed 3, Max Payne 3, Mass Effect 3, Borderlands 2, Darksiders 2, Spec Ops: The Line, Dragon's Dogma, Fez, Journey, The Walking Dead, Hotline Miami, Spelunky, Papo y Yo, Bastion, Super Hexagon, Sumo Digital, Dan Pinchbeck, Jessica Curry, Rob Briscoe, Independent Games Festival, Korsakovia, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Everyone's Gone to the Rapture, Unity, CryEngine, Little Orpheus, Still Wakes the Deep, Vampire: Bloodlines (series), Hardsuit Labs, Brian Mitsoda, John Searle, Alan Turing, William S. Burroughs, Nigel Carrington, Proteus, Halo, Drew Barrymore, Donnie Darko, Rogue Legacy 2, David Lynch, Lost Highway, Inland Empire, Laura Dern, Waiting for Godot, True West, Sam Shepard, Firewatch, LucasArts, 343 Games, Kevin Schmitt, Metal Gear, Death Stranding, Trespasser, Tacoma, Jedi Starfighter, Daron Stinnett, Outer Wilds, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia. Next time: The Stanley Parable Twitch: timlongojr  Discord  DevGameClub@gmail.com 

Secret Level, podcast | Puntata a cura di Untimoteo. Uscita con un ampio battage a fine 2024 su Prime Video, Secret Level è un serie antologica di 15 cortometraggi in computer grafica. Pensata dal coautore di Love, Death & Robots Tim Miller, consiste in una spettacolare carrellata di storie “extra” legate ad alcuni franchise del mondo dei videogiochi. Dungeons And Dragons, Mega Man, Warhammer, Spelunky, Unreal Tournament, Pac Man sono protagonisti di un'operazione che risulta spettacolare nell'esecuzione ma che non riesce ad avere lo stesso impatto della serie prodotta sempre da Miller per Netflix.Love, Death & Robots è un caleidoscopio immaginifico che setta le regole dell'animazione a un livello superiore. Secret Level invece sembra più una prova muscolare di qualità grafica…“Animazione” è il format del podcast di Mondoserie dedicato alle diverse scuole ed espressioni del genere, dall'Oriente alla scena europea e americana. Leggi l'articolo su Love Death and Robots: http://mondoserie.it/love-death-robots-3  Parte del progetto: https://www.mondoserie.it/  Iscriviti al podcast sulla tua piattaforma preferita o su: https://www.spreaker.com/show/mondoserie-podcast  Collegati a MONDOSERIE sui social:https://www.facebook.com/mondoserie https://www.instagram.com/mondoserie.it/   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwXpMjWOcPbFwdit0QJNnXQ  https://www.linkedin.com/in/mondoserie/ 

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we begin a new series of series on the independent games of the last couple of decades, starting with 2012's Fez. We set the game in its time, talk a bit about its precedents and the landscape of independent games in the middle of that console generation. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: Single-digit cubes Issues covered: our real plan or lack thereof, early games, the indie revolution, the influences back and forth, the pressure of the space we're in, a highly visible indie, games from that year, sequels vs the different stuff in the indies, democratization of the market, the console cycle, always online fiasco, getting on the Steam store, opening console store fronts to independents, limitations, the broadband market and bandwidth costs, the publicity on the store, low cost of goods, continuing power of retail, a two dimensional puzzle game in a three dimensional world, charm, great music and MIDI with an unsettling feel, rotating the world, rebooting the game, achieving the effect without perspective, the Trixel engine, having a hard time getting it, trusting the game, having a new lens on a game, taking the time to infuse the whole experience, team sizes, telling a different story with an existing language, having fewer people to get on board, independent publishers and producers, influences, glitch aesthetics, map language, climbing on the sides of things, stopping time while the world rotates, how the editor might work, games from the past, CONFIG.SYS (dang it, could not remember), skipping over generations. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Will Wright, Indie Game: The Movie, Polytron, Phil Fish, Dishonored, Halo 4, AW American Nightmare, X-COM, Firaxis, Mass Effect 3, Forza Horizon, Far Cry (series), Counterstrike: Go, Assassin's Creed 3, Borderlands 2, Diablo III, Dragon's Dogma, Journey, The Walking Dead, Telltale Games, FTL, Spelunky, Papo y Yo, Bastion, Super Hexagon, Terry Cavanaugh, Supergiant, Hades, Transistor, UFO 50, Derek Yu, That Game Company, Sky, Sony, PlayStation, Microsoft, Steam, XBLA, Braid, Super Meat Boy, Nintendo, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Zelda (series), Super Mario (series), Metroid (series), Outer Wilds, The Sixth Sense (obliquely), Renaud Bedard, Trapdoor, Penny Arcade, blitworks, Tetris, Axiom Verge, Tron, Out of this World, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Super Mario 3D Land, Minecraft, Sam, Interstate '76, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia. Next time: More Fez! Twitch: timlongojr Discord DevGameClub@gmail.com

The Kurds encounter Tainarren base's leader, and are offered a deal to purchase the freedom of the Vratix.

This week the SuperPod Boiz are joined by Kate and Emily of No Small Games to discuss some influential indie games that played a big part in how they look at indie games today and how they helped to shape their gaming tastes. We also abolish horiscopes in favor of Ooblets. All hail Ooblets. CREDITS Aaron

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The gang's back at it again talking about Secret level. We talk about the Mega Man, Exodus, and Spelunky episodes. We talk about weird docking preferences, our favorite place to go "spelunking", and more! Take a listen then tell us your favorite place to spelunk! https://linktr.ee/chaoticallynerdy Intro and outro music is made by Alex Grohl, can find their music on spotify here https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Mi50rMNTnDl8PVUi1YbpO?si=mVQPtZMeQzOFU3Wcg9g7vw We can be reached at chaoticallynerdy@gmail.com

In this episode, we're tossin' a couple of lit torches deep into the dark, cavernous mouth of Spelunky. Turns out that two superfans who consider these two games among the best ever made can come up with a lot to say. Also: Seth finally gets a platform to briefly tell you the good news about Aquaria... because where else was he gonna talk about it?(00:00) Intro(16:26) Housekeeping(30:23) State of the Nintendo Music Address(59:57) Spelunky(1:55:52) Spelunky 2(3:07:21) YouTube Comment Oversharing Corner(3:15:57) Voicemails(3:35:42) Haikus & outro✉️ Send email to bitharmonypod@gmail.com

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we begin a new series on 1999's Outcast, from Appeal and Infogrames. We first talk about this past weekend's charity event, before setting the game in its time and discussing its early presentation. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: Through tutorial Issues covered: Defeating Games for Charity, variety of streamers, offerings to the foundation, the speedrun seed, commenting on our own game, more memories of Jedi Starfighter, how a developer sees a game vs a player, a big doodyhead, the crossover of European games, setting the game in its time, not fitting in with others of its time, a weird company in gaming history, not being sure what's in the game, a parody of 1980s action heroes, pop culture origins, proper noun soup and a lexicon, waking up in another place, doling out too much worldbuilding at once, othering non-Western cultures, building on golden era science fiction, exploring the starting area, lots of verbs, discovering by exploring, technically first person, lack of quest markers, manipulating voxel density, using voxels differently, using voxels as rendering and simulation vs rendering only, ray-tracing, advances in hardware and looking back on old research, constructive solid geometry and tessellation, finding limitations, popularity in other regions, big in Japan. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: CalamityNolan, LostLake86, Robotspacer, N01sses, Sierra On-Line, Mystery House, Enchanted Scepters, Video Game History Foundation, Trespasser, Tower Song, Omega Intertainment, RPG Maker, Kerbal Space Program, Sol10, Kaeon, KyleAndError, Might and Magic, AgelessRPG, Minecraft, NES, Spelunky, mysterydip, Belmont, Andrew Kirmse, Chris Corry, SW: Starfighter (series), Daron Stinnett, June, Valheim, Dark Souls, Delta Force, Shenmue, System Shock2, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Planescape: Torment, Homeworld, Johnny "Pockets", Civilization, Populous, Tomb Raider, Nintendo, Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Anachronox, Metal Gear Solid, Atari, GT Interactive, Microprose, Hasbro Interactive, Unreal, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Asteroids, Franck Sauer, Yann Robert, Yves Grolet, Lennie Moore, Beyond Good and Evil, Armageddon, Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Sylvester Stallone, The A-Team, Flash Gordon, John Carter of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs, David Lynch, Dune, Mass Effect, Stephen Donaldson, Octavia Butler, Star Wars, DOOM (1993), Morrowind, Stargate, Pat Sirk, Spore, The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria, Red Faction, TRON, Enshrouded, Unity, Claudiu, Heroes of Might and Magic, LucasArts, Insomniac, Metroid (series), StarCraft, Uncharted 2, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia.  Note: The term I was looking for and remembered at 2 in the morning was "metaballs" Next time: More Outcast Twitch: timlongojr Discord DevGameClub@gmail.com

Matt's big news will make you gasp, our Games of the Year picks and YOURS, plus a new mini pc, Wukong & Warhammer 40k Space Marine II giveaways in Discord from CDkeys, Caves of Qud, Grim Dawn ARPG is 2 bucks, Path of Exile II, Age of Fear 5: The Day of the Rat vs Unicorn Overlord, Xbox sign, more on Indiana Jones, Crow Country, Spelunky, COD on controller vs keyboard, and we are doing a talent search? Win in games in our Discord giveaways from our sponsor CDkeys.com on https://discord.gg/Ab6pxpT You can also support us in Discord and get an extra weekly podcast. For even more weekly bonus podcasts and the entire back catalog of VGO, support us for only 1.99 a month on Libsyn and listen on the free VGO mobile apps for iOS/Android or on the web, more info on VideoGameOutsiders.com. We also have a Patreon.com/videogameoutsiders to be listed as a supporter, sponsor an episode, buy us a game, or more! You can also also check out Twitch.tv/johnANDmichelle and sub free with Amazon Prime each month or stop by live Tuesdays from 9-11 pm est 

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we continue our series on Minecraft, with this special Christmas edition. We talk a little about seeds and sharing them, carpeting your friend's base, stories of ongoing Minecrafting, and other topics. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: A few more hours of Minecraft Issues covered: wall-to-wall carpeting, Defeating Games for Charity, Minecraft gear, motion capture, finding Tim's base, stairs being my hallmark, the importance of community, a potato generator, farming spaces and pens, not being deep on the tech tree, building being an important part, learning about sheep and their needs, grass propagation, sudden appearance of grass, emergent properties and experimentation, getting quickly to the nether, leaning on villagers, building up the spawn point, monster generation, XP as currency, upgrading villagers, a system to get quickly to villages, a very deep hole, climbing out of a big hole, getting connected to the world, blockiness contributing to readability, replayable/pseudo-randomness, selecting a seed, determinism, a multiverse of deterministic universes, a shareable number that you can replicate, difficulty progression in other games, getting same-y, going to the end, investing yourself, asking why?, making and letting go, spreading out to other games, Deathgaze and other end-game FF6 discussion. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Phil Salvador, BioStats, Mega 64, Mark Garcia, LostLake86, MysteryDip and progeny, Lord of the Rings (obliquely), Valheim, Dark Souls, Breath of the Wild, Indiana Jones (obliquely), Minesweeper, Bridge, Starfighter, Spelunky, Skyrim, Soren Johnson, Civilization, No Man's Sky, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Corbin Bernsen, Pacific Drive, Final Fantasy VI, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers. Next time: End of year review! Links: Defeating Games for Charity Twitch: timlongojr Discord https://t.co/h7jnG9J9lz DevGameClub@gmail.com

This is our interview with Secret Level creator, executive producer Tim Miller and executive producer and supervising director Dave Wilson. We discuss Tim's emotional introduction of this anthology series at Gamescom, how they maintained the series' cohesive feel, and whether there's anything they had to cut from the first season. We also share our hopes for what they might explore in a potential second season. Secret Level features original stories set in the worlds of some of the most beloved video games. It will be available exclusively on Prime Video in over 240 countries and territories starting December 10, with additional episodic drops until December 17. Check out Geekcentric onYouTube | Instagram | Twitter | TikTokJoin the Geekcentric Discord HEREJoin Nate on Twitch at - twitch.tv/nateplaysgames

This is our spoiler-free review of Secret Level on Prime Video. We explore this epic love letter to gamers, brought to life by the legendary minds at Blur Studio. Join us as we delve into its anthological structure, stunningly crafted visuals, and the standout episodes that left a lasting impression.Secret Level features original stories set in the worlds of some of the most beloved video games. It will be available exclusively on Prime Video in over 240 countries and territories starting December 10, with additional episodic drops until December 17. Check out Geekcentric onYouTube | Instagram | Twitter | TikTokJoin the Geekcentric Discord HEREJoin Nate on Twitch at - twitch.tv/nateplaysgames

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we begin a new series on 2009's Minecraft. We talk about the early access history of the title, the impact on the industry, and then dive into some initial thoughts on our first few hours. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: A few hours Issues covered: Brett kills Tim, an announcement about opening world, an announcement about Defeating Games for Charity, the Minecraft Timeline, the beginning of Early Access, starting with creative mode, adding core concepts later, viral success, cellular automata, emergence in a user-created space, free-to-play vs early access, hunger, huge success, a smart purchase, a rough start, undirected and unexplained, the key to the experience, building a game with a community, the crafting table and drawing little items, sanding edges off, crafting blocks with blocks, connecting to your humanity, how long you can go without stuff, building up a city, the survival test and launching a genre, holding everything in your hand, the sense of exploration, player types, sanding away friction, space for sequels, dealing with the Internet, the rise of the day one patch, boundaries and generations, a dangerous model, triaging bugs for day one, right-sizing the game. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: BioStats, Calamity Nolan, Phil Salvador, Video Game History Foundation, Arkham Asylum, Uncharted 2, Borderlands, Demons's Souls, Brutal Legend, League of Legends, Infamous, Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2, New Super Mario Bros Wii, Bayonetta, Plants vs Zombies, Red Faction: Guerilla, Artimage, Steam, Dwarf Fortress, MUD, Everquest, Far Cry 2, Clint Hocking, Valheim, Microsoft, Mojang, Bethesda Game Studios/Zenimax, id Software, Machine Games, Tango Gameworks, Discord, Phil Spencer, Halo, The Three Stooges, Picross, Black Hawk Down, Delta Force, Dragon Quest Builders, Spelunky, WoW Classic, Blizzard, mysterydip, Ubisoft, Sony, Horizon (series), Nintendo, Final Fantasy VI, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia.  Next time: More Minecraft! Twitch: timlongojr Discord DevGameClub@gmail.com

Download for Mobile | Podcast Preview | Full Timestamps Go to http://uncommongoods.com/superbeast to get 15% off your next gift. Mouthwashing Spoilercast: Weyland-Yutani-Scope Just Call Me Knife Ears You Do Not Own The Games You Bought The TGA Game Awards “I am a Ragequitter.” Watch live: twitch.tv/castlesuperbeast The Game Awards nominated Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree DLC for GOTY, and the internet is furious Ubisoft sued over controversial The Crew shutdown. Publisher removed "ability to play the game that you bought and thought you owned". Amazon's latest Secret Level trailer includes Sifu, Mega Man, Spelunky, and a nightmarish Pac-Man. Plus, Arnie and Keanu confirmed. Rogue Prince of Persia overhauls art style and doubles game size in its biggest update yet Sony in Talks to Buy FromSoftware Parent Company Kadokawa VED - Hand-painted turn-based RPG that promises "non-linear" story progression, 12 years in development  

In this episode, Jordan Magnuson, Fulbright scholar at the Center for Digital Narrative, joins us for an interesting discussion about indie games. Jordan has a background in making video games from a very young age. Together with Scott, they discuss the crossover between games and poetry.     Electronic Literature Organisation. n. d. “Electronic Literature Organisation”. https://eliterature.org/.    Magnuson, Jordan. 2023. Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice. Amherst College Press.  Magnuson, Jordan. 2018. “Poetic Videogames”. https://www.poeticvideogames.com/about.  Mojang Studios. 2011. Minecraft.  Mossmouth. 2013. Spelunky. https://spelunkyworld.com/index.html. Pope, Lucas. 2013. Papers, Please. 3909. https://store.steampowered.com/app/239030/Papers_Please/. 

Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  We're shorthanded again this week, but John & Kevin have been doing plenty of video gaming lately, so let's get right into the action! Kevin kicks things off with his first impressions of UFO 50 — a massive collection of "retro" games made for a fictional console from the 1980s — from the developer of Spelunky and friends! From there, John & Kevin take a little time to shine a spotlight on 20 Minutes Till Dawn, after both getting pretty sucked into this one.  Is 20 minutes the perfect length for a roguelike/roguelite run?! Kevin's also been absolutely hooked on another roguelike in Shogun Showdown, which has an incredible blend of puzzle solving, turn-based strategy, and deckbuilding RPG elements. Finally, John wraps things up with his thoughts on EVERSPACE, as he continues his quest to find a modern day on-rails shooter that lives up to Star Fox 64.   Timestamps: UFO 50  -  00:01:51 20 Minutes Till Dawn  -  00:17:07 Shogun Showdown  -  00:23:21 EVERSPACE  -  00:30:02   Thanks for taking the time to listen!  If you'd like to find us elsewhere on the Internet, you can find us at:   

Fra Bushido Ball til Party House til Overbold, UFO 50 er spillpakken fra skaperne av Spelunky som leverer det umulige: 50 spill som alle er verdt å sjekke ut. Det er Action 52 på NES, bare bra! Dette pluss mye mer i ukas Rad Crew!

Fra Bushido Ball til Party House til Overbold, UFO 50 er spillpakken fra skaperne av Spelunky som leverer det umulige: 50 spill som alle er verdt å sjekke ut. Det er Action 52 på NES, bare bra! Dette pluss mye mer i ukas Rad Crew! Støtt oss: patreon.com/radcrewpodcast RSS: feed.radcrew.net/radcrew Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4EzDcGCwVTlZZZEYqP3k6H Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/rad-…ast/id415698006 Facebook: facebook.com/radcrewshow Discord: radcrew.net/discord Rad Community: facebook.com/groups/radcommunity/ TAKK TIL EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS epixHaven, Hattemakeren, Rune Gjerde, Yuen Hui, Lars-Eirik Hansen, Andreas Knudsen Sund, Olav Andrè Ulriksen, Glenn Abrahamsen, CurlingPetter, Aleksander Grizzler Gjelstenli, Raymond […]

OK, zugegeben: Der Titel dieser Folge ist ein bisschen getrixt. Denn, Plot-Twist, Der Kühne Knappe und Plucky Squire – das ist ein und dasselbe Spiel über einen kleinen Helden, der aus den Seiten eines Bilderbuchs in die echte Welt hüpft. Oder vielleicht auch nicht. Denn in dieser Folge wartet möglicherweise das Schisma des Jahres auf euch. Einer von uns hatte nämlich so gar keine Freude am Kühnen Knappen, einem der meisterwarteten Indie-Games des Jahres. Außerdem haben wir für euch ganze 50 neue Spiele dabei: Wir reden nämlich nach einem Auftritt im Newsletter noch mal etwas ausführlicher über UFO 50, die 8-Bit-Spielesammlung vom Design-Genie hinter Spelunky, Derek Yu und was das alles mit Jazz zu tun hat.

-We're all surprised it took this long: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/18/24248602/nintendo-pokemon-palworld-pocketpair-patent-infringement-lawsuit -New Sony gaming monitors, yowza… https://www.engadget.com/computing/accessories/sonys-latest-inzone-monitors-are-made-for-fps-and-ps5-gamers-160045831.html -PS State of Play announcements: https://www.ign.com/articles/playstation-state-of-play-september-2024-announcements -Sorry Assassins Creed fans… Ubisoft flaked on the Tokyo Games Show… and also the press previews. https://insider-gaming.com/assassins-creed-shadows-previews-delayed/ -New game from the creator of Spelunky, UFO50 https://50games.fun/

Show Notes On this week's podcast, Dan and Kris got to sit down and talk with Andréas and Niklas from Bitwave about Gimmick 2! It was a fascinating interview, and they were very grateful to have them on. They answered all manner of questions regarding how the game came to be, how it differs from the NES classic original, how they scored David Wise for the soundtrack and a whole lot more. At the top of the show, Dan got to play UFO50, the fascinating new game from some of the minds behind Spelunky, while Kris got to pull food bits out of his kid's mouth because braces are fun! He also got to try out Ufouria 2,which is just as charming and weird as its predecessor. Sunsoft is BACK! Finally, in Week Old News, Sony continued to be the source of all manner of bad news, while also outselling the Xbox almost 3 to 1, Nintendo Switch 2 rumors continue to swirl like mad, Mega Man joins Brawlhalla for some reason, and more. Enjoy! What's New at Stone Age Gamer xSation back in stock CollectorVision Games are here! The OSSC Pro is available now! Useful Links Bitwave Support us on Patreon StoneAgeGamer.com The Gratuitous Rainbow Spectrum Safe at Home Rescue Shoot the Moon Stitches Art of Angela SAG's theme Song “Squared Roots” by Banjo Guy Ollie Social Stuff Join us on Discord! Stone Age Gamer YouTube Twitch Geekade Facebook Stone Age Gamer Facebook Geekade Twitter Stone Age Gamer Twitter Geekade Instagram Stone Age Gamer Instagram YouTube Geekade Contact Us Break Music Marvel Vs Capcom 2 Music - Opening Title theme Horizon Zero Dawn OST - Motherless Gimmick! 2: Happy Birthday! Overworld 1/Home (Hebe's Adventure) - Ufouria: The Saga 2

MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kelsey Lewin, Leo Vader, Jeff Marchiafava, and Haley MacLean unpack all of their favorite reveals and trailers from Sony's State of Play, especially Sucker Punch's fantastic reveal of the sequel to Ghost of Tsushima called Ghost of Yotei. We debate whether the world could use a PlayStation 5 remaster of Horizon Zero Dawn before we rave about our time playing UFO 50 from the creator of Spelunky. Then video game IP lawyer unloads her full thoughts on Nintendo and The Pokémon Company suing Palworld's creators and her larger thoughts on the perilous problem of patents in the game industry. After that we have a ton of wonderful questions from the community. Directly support independent games media by unlocking a benefit on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax Watch and share the video version here - https://youtu.be/BG1xMGImmfU Help support MinnMax's supporters! https://www.iam8bit.com - 10% off with Promo Code: DOYOUREMEMBER To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...  00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:40 - The Deepest Dive on The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom 00:04:53 - Sony's State Of Play Highlights 00:06:23 - PSVR2's signs of life 00:09:08 - Monster Hunter Wilds 00:13:58 - Ghost of Yotei 00:19:42 - Horizon Zero Dawn remaster 00:22:41 - LEGO Horizon Adventures 00:24:12 - Alan Wake 2 DLC 00:25:15 - Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 1-2 Remastered 00:26:53 - Towers of Aghasba 00:27:44 - Hell Is Us 00:29:04 - Astro Bot DLC 00:29:59 - UFO 50 00:58:59 - Palworld, Nintendo, and the problem with patents 01:22:04 - Thanking MinnMax's biggest supporters 01:24:59 - Community questions 02:02:11 - Get A Load Of This Leo's GALOT - https://x.com/cartoonnetwork/status/1837884715979755669 Kelsey's GALOT - https://sports.yahoo.com/chicago-white-sox-lose-120th-game-of-the-season-tying-modern-mlb-record-223639983.html Hanson's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZelvsUQ9HQ JeffM's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNGH8o3LDBo Community GALOT - https://youtu.be/HS7Uqvi3nkY?si=0C8x7-NUVRT9FjkW Disclosure - Games discussed on MinnMax content are most often provided for free by the publisher or developer. Follow us on Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/minnmaxshow Subscribe to our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/minnmax Subscribe to our solo stream channel - https://www.youtube.com/@minnmaxstreamarchives Support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/minnmax Buy MinnMax merch here - https://minnmax.com/merch Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/minnmaxshow Go behind the scenes on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/minnmaxshow This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Show Notes On this week's podcast, Dan, and Kris intended to talk about the Dreamcast celebrating its 25th anniversary, but got completely derailed by the announcement of the PS5 Pro and the general state of gaming. How on earth did we get to the point of selling a completely unnecessary mid-generation upgrade for $700? Who is this for? At the top of the show, Dan finally puts some time in with his Steam Deck, and details how that all works. Both of the guys got to dive into Gimmick 2 as well, which seems to be a worthy followup, at least so far. Finally, in Week Old News, Sony raises their prices and removes Concord from everyone's systems, Spelunky gets an official Commodore 64 port, Microsoft indulges in even more layoffs, and Annapurna gets ditched. Enjoy! What's New at Stone Age Gamer Huge Humble Bazooka restock with NEW ITEMS! Quarter Arcade Useful Links Support us on Patreon StoneAgeGamer.com The Gratuitous Rainbow Spectrum Safe at Home Rescue Shoot the Moon Stitches Art of Angela SAG's theme Song “Squared Roots” by Banjo Guy Ollie Social Stuff Join us on Discord! Stone Age Gamer YouTube Twitch Geekade Facebook Stone Age Gamer Facebook Geekade Twitter Stone Age Gamer Twitter Geekade Instagram Stone Age Gamer Instagram YouTube Geekade Contact Us Break Music Gimmick 2 - Intro Astro Bot - I Am Astro Bot

My guest today is the American video game artist and designer, Derek Yu. Born in Pasadena, California in the early eighties, he started mapping out games on graph paper when he was still a child. After graduating college with a degree in computer science, he moved to San Francisco to work as a freelance illustrator. In 2007 he developed a satirical run-and-gun freeware game titled “I'm O.K – A Murder Simulator”, a response to a challenge set down by the notorious critic of video games, (and previous guest of the show) Jack Thompson. He then formed a studio with one of his ‘I'm OK' collaborators and together they released Aquaria, a critically lauded side-scroller. That game's success enabled my guest to make Spelunky, one of the most popular and influential roguelike platformers yet made. Spelunky sold more than a million copies, won numerous awards, and begat an equally well-regarded sequel. Now, four years on, my guest is about to release UFO 50, a collection of games that combine an 8-bit aesthetic with pioneering design.  Be attitude for gains. https://plus.acast.com/s/my-perfect-console. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week! Greg and Phil are back and we're going through some of the news from the past few weeks. Plus Thank Goodness You're Here, Concord, Minishoot' Adventures, and much, much more. Join us, won't you? Links of interest: Krafton buys, revives Tango Gameworks/Hi-Fi Rush Nintendo Museum Direct Amazon reveals series based on Mega Man, Spelunky, Unreal Tournament, and more Indiana Jones and The Great Circle is coming to PS5 Macross Shooting Insight getting western release Bakeru coming to the west Evil Dead / Halloween games from WayForward Thank Goodness You're Here! Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth Minishoot' Adventures Concord Greg Sewart's Extra Life Page Player One Podcast Discord Greg Streams on Twitch Racing Evolution - The Rise and Fall of Ridge Racer Add us in Apple Podcasts Check out Greg's web series Generation 16 - click here. And take a trip over to Phil's YouTube Channel to see some awesome retro game vids. Follow us on twitter at twitter.com/p1podcast. Thanks for listening! Don't forget to visit our new web site at www.playeronepodcast.com. Running time: 1:27:03

This week, Brendon, Federico, and John cover newly announced handhelds, a gaming pillow, and other news before covering how Federico is dual booting Windows and SteamOS on his ASUS ROG Ally X and an update on retro handhelds from Brendon and John. Links and Show Notes The Latest Portable Gaming News Zotac Zone Also: Hands-on with the ZOTAC ZONE at Gamescom Retroid Pocket Mini teaser trailer Also: Adin Walls, The Future of Retro Gaming ANBERNIC Secretly Reveals New RG40XX V With “Ultra-Narrow Bezel” Also: Anbernic RG40XXV In-Depth Review, Retro Game Corps Valve confirms it'll support the ROG Ally with its Steam Deck operating system Also: Notepad newsletter by Tom Warren of The Verge Compact Mode is now in Game Bar for Xbox Insiders Let this tiny bean bag chair for your lap hold your heavy handhelds Gaming Pillow Also: Viture Pro Mobile Dock Playdate Pizza Cover Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp to close as Nintendo's slow retreat from mobile continues Also: Miitomo Dual Booting Windows and SteamOS on the ASUS Ally X SteamOS on Handheld PCs! Bazzite Setup Guide Bazzite SteamOS on Handheld PCs! Bazzite Setup Guide Playnite A Retro Handheld Check-In Ayan Odin2 Mini Powkiddy V10 Anbernic RG28XXH Miyoo Mini A30 Games Mentioned Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door Emberward Animal Crossing Pocket Camp Super Mario Run Dragalia Lost Dragon Quest XI Starfield Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth The Binding of Isaac Spelunky Nuclear Throne Rogue Legacy Lufftrausers Rogue Legacy 2 Spelunky 2 Credits Show Art: Brendon Bigley Music: Will LaPorte Follow Us Online On the Web MacStories.net Wavelengths.online Follow us on Mastodon NPC Federico John Brendon Follow us on Threads MacStories Federico John Brendon Follow us on Instagram MacStories Federico John Brendon

Jeff Grubb and Jan Ochoa chat about Dragon Age: The Veilguard's upcoming release date, Plucky the Squire getting a release date, more Xbox games heading to PlayStation, and more!

Tjeerd mag misschien wel in de Spaanse zon liggen: The show must go on! Zo zijn Cody en Samuel bij Florian aangeschoven en wordt er (zoals de titel al zegt) genoeg gesproken over Elden Ring en andere soulslikes! Zo is na Shadow of the Erdtree de bonfire nog hardere gaan branden dan ooit en duiken we ook nog even de wereld in van guilty pleasures! 00:00:00 Intro 00:06:25 Tjeerd video 00:08:50 Comments van de week intro 00:10:10 CVDW 1: Wouter en zijn vakantie appratuur 00:12:35 CVDW 2: Final Fantasy 14 DLC 00:16:20 Samuel aankondiging 00:20:15 CVDW 3: Soulslikes difficulty discussie 00:30:00 Guilty pleasure games 00:35:45 Gamen met vriendin 00:37:15 Vampire Survivors-likes 00:42:00 Games die je met één hand kan spelen 00:43:50 Zelda beïnvloede games 00:45:45 Florian en Strategie games 00:47:10 Samuel speelt: Elden Ring 00:57:15 Dragon Ball zijspoor 01:00:30 Florian wilt spelen: Manor Lords en Hellblade 2 01:03:10 Cody speelt: Spelunky 2 01:08:45 Outro en Samuels tweede aankondiging

Spelunky is a masterful blend of challenging gameplay, charming art style, and innovative design that sets it apart from other platforming games. Its procedurally generated levels, tight controls, and emphasis on emergent gameplay make it a standout title that is sure to keep players coming back for more. Whether you are a seasoned gamer looking for a new challenge or a casual player looking for a fun and engaging experience, Spelunky has something to offer everyone. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ongamecast/support

In the first installment of our Slice & Dice deep-dive miniseries, the crew head Into the Depths with the “yahtzee roguelike” that's shown up on our GOTY list for two years running. We're joined by interactive artist/developer Darius Kazemi to help introduce the game and share beginner tips from our (significant) playtime, and get into its unique combination of maximalist design and systems-driven humor. Next episode, we'll get into some of our favorite game modes: Classic Unfair, Cursed, and Cursed-Hyper. Don't forget to join our Discord and send in your questions for the game's designer tann, to be answered over email later in the series. Show Notes: Slice & Dice on Steam, itch, iOS, and Google Play Eggplant's 2022 GOTY Episode (S&D Rob's #2) Eggplant's 2023 GOTY Episode (S&D Doug's #2) Darius Kazemi's Spelunky level-gen browser tool Slice & Dice development history essay, by tann Allison Parrish's talk on designing to explore possibility spaces Slice & Dice beginner tips powerpoint Sid Meier's 2010 GDC keynote Tharsis on Steam The stream where Rob and Doug “puppeteered” Andy to a Classic Unfair victory in Slice & Dice v2.0 

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we continue our series on Final Fantasy Tactics. We talk about the grind, job and abilities stuff, some tactics and end with a listener mail about balance. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played:  To end of Ch 2 (Brett), somewhere in Ch 1 (Tim) Issues covered: character representation in the sprites, enjoying the discovery of the macro, finding out how things interact, the Zodiac, why they ask for your birthday, information about turn order, things being unwieldy, a reactive strategy, how the brilliance starts coming in, the learning and grinding curves, an anecdote of the clockwork, achieving a Spelunky turkey and further digressions thereto, early grind, visiting cities and differentiating the shops, side missions for team members, having back-benchers, random encounters over time, the random table that each map draws from, how and whether the maps change, the importance of starting position, which environments we particularly enjoy, how the death mechanics work, preventing the enemies from getting the crystals, the min/max-ability, the revelation of the job matrix, the various roles and ways to augment your characters, auto-potioning, the story overwhelm, "Are we the baddies?", the progression to a more fantastic setting, how the story at the beginning of the game fits in, balance being overrated, the problem of pacing. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: The Matrix, Mario + Rabbids, Clint Hocking, Splinter Cell, Spelunky, Mossmouth, Metal Gear (series), Assassin's Creed (series), X-COM, Pokemon (series), Mitchell and Webb (obliquely), Game of Thrones (obliquely), Taylor Swift, Drew, Nobuo Uematsu, Chrono Trigger, Magic: The  Gathering, Dominion, Marvel Snap, Fallout (series), Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia. Next time: More FFT! Links: "Are we the baddies?" Twitch: brettdouville or timlongojr, instagram:timlongojr, Twitter: @devgameclub Discord DevGameClub@gmail.com

https://www.valadria.com/game-trailers-with-derek-lieu/ Does anybody read the text that I type into this box? I have no idea. Anyway here's a timecode dump from my notes, maybe this is helpful: 0:16: getting into game trailers 4:40: overflow work 5:15: charging not enough, less agency / more indie 5:15: undercharging 8:00: make fan trailers 11:00: where to post trailers / content 13:08: give advice about what you're doing 16:00: trailer categories 17:50 types of game trailers 20:42: trailer lengths 21:40: What gameplay to show? 24:56: Movie trailers 28:28: The magic of good editing 29:50: Kuleshov effect 31:03: Advanced game trailer problems 32:35: End slates 33:01: Logo Soup 33:33: Logos and branding 37:29: Spelunky 2 45:35: Game trailer courses 48:32: Anything identifiable from your game 49:56: Ice Cream Analogy 50:59: Outro Thanks for listening! Support this show by sharing, rating/writing review(s), and buying my book. I appreciate it. -Matt --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/make-the-game/message

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Mark and Veronica talk with the creator of the amazing game Baldi's Basics.Meeting Halfway is a weekly podcast featuring LSMark and Veronica as they interview creators and artists that have been both life-long and contemporary inspirations for their collective creative worlds. LS Markhttps://www.youtube.com/c/LSMarkhttps://twitter.com/LSMark_Veronicahttps://www.twitch.tv/veronicaandjellyhttps://twitter.com/veronicandjellyIntro music by: Nick OlmozProduced by Screenwave Mediahttps://screenwavemedia.comBruce McMurtrie Jr, Editorhttps://BruceMcMurtrie.comThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5677777/advertisement

WAY WAY WAY too much talk about Spelunky, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

On today's episode of the mini podcast Dan talks to about what it took to beat 7-99 in Spelunky 2 and what his wife's reaction was when he told her. Thank you for dialing in, I hope you enjoy.   https://www.Twitch.tv/DanGheesling https://www.Discord.gg/DanGheesling https://www.YouTube.com/DanGheesling https://www.Twitter.com/DanGheesling https://www.Instagram.com/DanGheesling https://www.Linktr.ee/DanGheesling

This week on The Free Cheese, welcome to Berlin! We roll the clocks back to 1980 and play Rogue, adding it to our list in the process. Naturally, we discuss the game's influence and try to break down our understanding of the many different definitions of what it is to be a roguelike.

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we complete our series on Dwarf Fortress. We tell a couple more stories, get into how this would or would not eat up our lives, and turn to takeaways. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: Another 10 hours (Brett) or two hours (Tim) Issues covered: withdrawing from society to create an heirloom, failing your ghosts, feeling the wet walls, watching the water spread around, creating a well by flooding your lower level, getting stuck in the morass vs learning, the continuing sadness of the Very Pouty Bard, the looming tension in other games, the complexity of some of the systems, diving into other menus, finding the mission system, sanding down difficulty edges, running into the system friction, losing is fun, the pleasures of recovery, so many ways of failure and the time to failure, every happy family, the real boss: the happiness scale, getting further away from the paint can, layer of abstraction, play intensity and life mismatching, the strength of the theme, the amount of iteration and being able to see them, driving design and iteration, the profit motive vs archiving, it's okay to be unforgiving, the presentation allowing for opacity, procedural generation, generating a lore bible or tome, becoming the go-to example for a mechanic, zeitgeists, dead drunken cats, seeing the chain of events that leads to a bug. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Populous, Civ, SimCity, World of Warcraft, Spelunky, Dark Souls, Leo Tolstoy, Ratchet & Clank, BattleCruiser 3K, Firewatch, Colin "The Shots" James Tiberius Tsougas, Kingdom Hearts (series), Super Mario 64, Jumping Flash, Halo, GoldenEye, Kill.Switch, Gears of War, Cliffy B, PlayStation, Daron Stinnett, PacMan, DOOM (1993), Gothic Chocobo, Far Cry 2, Dead Space, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia.  Links: Tarn Adams NoClip Next time: Maybe the mailbag? Twitch: brettdouville or timlongojr, instagram:timlongojr, Twitter: @timlongojr and @devgameclub DevGameClub@gmail.com

On today's episode of the mini podcast We play a clip from Check The Wire where Derek Yu talks about what playing games with his daughter taught him about the importance of representation in gaming. Thank you for dialing in, I hope you enjoy.   https://www.Twitter.com/mossmouth https://www.Twitch.tv/DanGheesling https://www.Discord.gg/DanGheesling https://www.YouTube.com/DanGheesling https://www.Twitter.com/DanGheesling https://www.Instagram.com/DanGheesling https://www.Linktr.ee/DanGheesling

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we continue our series on 2006's Dwarf Fortress. We explore our failures by telling some stories about our experiences, and describing what that tells us about what this game is and what its systems might be. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: Our first Fortresses Issues covered: needing a Trade Depot, changing state of a building, feedback on buildings, iconography challenges in a game of this scale, the emotional state of your dwarves, seeing a melancholy dwarf, a dwarf wading into a pond, state vacillation, being aware of the passage of time, building a really good fortress that fails anyway, the underground river, a drowning cat and a shaking room, enjoying the failure, maybe having to plan ahead for the failures, storytelling as a vessel to understand the game, being unable to attach to dwarves as individuals due to cognitive load, gaining attachment to particular dwarves, developing your game in public vs private and the dev story attached, what language its in, moving to Simple Direct Layer, the feral cat and its bad seed kitten, the jaguar battle and post-traumatic stress, going in and out of a bedroom, the confluence of so many systems and story generation, messing up my first trade, the arrival of additional dwarves, wanting some kind of save states, "Happiness is a thing," wanting a chair, early strategy tips from Brett, not knowing how to farm, hunting vermin, intent in design choices, the actual interaction vs the way we talk about it, movie recording and wanting to share, wanting a bit more information about why things aren't happening, wanting a game to be the entire presentation, short runs and roguelikes, judging for the IGF, accidentally summoning a bunch of zombies, layering in more stuff with text and leaning into subverting your story. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Sophie's Choice, Sim City, Civilization, Virginia Woolf, Rogue, X-COM, Battlecruiser 3K, Tarn and Zach Adams, pfs:Write, DOS, Dark Souls, Sam, Spelunky, Nethack, A Dark Room, Frog Fractions, Zachary Crownover, Plundered Hearts, Thief II: The Metal Age, Dishonored, Prey, Dead Space, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia.  Next time: The most recent Windows version Twitch: brettdouville or timlongojr, instagram:timlongojr, Twitter: @timlongojr and @devgameclub DevGameClub@gmail.com

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we elaborate our series on Rogue by looking at one that continues its legacy, that is, Rogue Legacy 2. It's right there in the name! Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: A few hours (well, about a dozen for Brett) Issues covered: Rogue-likes and Rogue-lites, comparing it a bit with Spelunky, the journal in Spelunky, games like it Tim has played, getting something out of runs, unlocking character types, bespoke levels vs tiled spaces and level generation, kitchen sink design, the clarity of the legacy, the punishment of starting over from scratch, not feeling like I got any further, quality of life improvements, the many ways you can make choices, terrific music, seeing your life flash before your eyes, humorous traits, saying yes to everything, sequel polish, the verb mix, grinding here vs JRPGs, improving skills, wrapping Rogue elements, multiple currencies, maintaining the Rogue with taking the gold, psychology of gold, removing a pillar and losing some enjoyment, knowing someone who beat Rogue, beating Darth Vader, an emergent property of Rogue, making a game you could play yourself, the cleverness and wondering how deep it can go, the punishment of Dark Souls and the progression layer, preferring an endpoint, long-term commitment, other Rogues to check out, a discussion of kit-bashing, kit-bashing and the art department, model kits and the origin of the term, kit-bashing in film, learning to parry. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Spelunky, Clue (obliquely), Colin Northway (obliquely), Dead Cells, Castlevania, Darius Kazemi, Oliver Uv, Cellar Door, PlayStation Vita, Dark Souls, Hades, Humphrey Bogart, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Darren Johnson, TIE Fighter, Derek Yu, Boss Fight Books, Sebastian Deken, Final Fantasy VI, Civilization, Paul Pierce, Haden Blackman, Diablo, njallain, Roguelike Celebration, International Roguelike Convention, Brogue, Caves of Qud, Gamma World, Cogmind, Michael Brough, 868-HACK, mysterydip, Maas Neotek Prototype, Ian Milham, Dead Space, Bethesda Game Studios, Fallout (series), Skyrim, Republic Commando, Star Wars, Industrial Light & Magic, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Bloodborne, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia. Next time: TBA! Links: Darius Kazemi on Generating Spelunky Caves of Qud and Wave Function Collapse Brogue's Mechanisms Michael Brough on Roguelikes Twitch: brettdouville or timlongojr, instagram:timlongojr, Twitter: @timlongojr and @devgameclub Discord: https://t.co/YVZOe7ZygI DevGameClub@gmail.com

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we complete our brief series on Rogue, though admittedly if you want the full experience, cut up the two episodes into one minute pieces and randomly select fifty to eighty of those pieces and play them in random order. This week we talk about strategies, life lessons from Rogue, and of course give our takeaways. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: A few more hours (Tim) and way too many (Brett) Issues covered: a visit by June, meeting a griffin, lack of physical damage in creatures, desirable item assessment, changing how you play by what you find, combinatorics, not knowing how many good wands there are, Brett's many strategies, traps and their impact later, the importance and pressure of food, inventory management, having to level up as you go, invisible creatures, regeneration, information is power, constraints dictating the design, treasure rooms and teleportation, the anecdote factory, whether items are weighted, iterating the design, monsters carrying items, fearing the kryptonite ring, the loot factory naming scheme, your first cursed item, life lessons learned from Rogue, resting too long, throwing potions, confusion, multiple dice games and scalability, the profound impact of constraints, someone oughta make a genre out of this, efficient for development, finding my exit strategy, simple objects creating depth, making the most of mechanics, yes and, the power of iteration, grinding as a failed strategy, always having a chance you might win, signing up for the experience, the supreme flexibility of text, comedy and the roguelike, retention and the roguelike, incorporating RPG elements, resetting a space. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Valheim, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dark Souls, Colossal Cave Adventure, Infocom, Space Quest, King's Quest, MYST, Spelunky, Diablo, Dungeons & Dragons, Star Trek, Storyteller, Call of Cthulhu, GURPS, Shadowrun, Solitaire, Hunt the Wumpus, mysterydip, Ron Gilbert, Goat Simulator, Zach Gage, Deus Ex, Prey, Dishonored (series), Deathloop, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia. Next time: Bonus game! Twitch: brettdouville or timlongojr, instagram:timlongojr, Twitter: @timlongojr and @devgameclub DevGameClub@gmail.com

Fun with bodies. Games we played this week include: Pick, Pack, Pup (15:30) Lost Your Marbles (18:00) Tamagotchi Pix Party (22:30) Satisfactory (31:55) Super Lesbian Animal RPG (37:15) Lil' Gator Game (41:25) Spelunky 2 (50:45) Dragon's Dogma (52:30) --- News things talked about in this episode: Zenimax QA union formally recognized by Microsoft (53:45) https://www.eurogamer.net/microsoft-recognises-300-person-zenimax-testers-union Microsoft's responds to FTC suit attempting to block ABK acquisition (59:30) https://www.eurogamer.net/microsoft-claims-ftcs-lawsuit-against-activision-blizzard-buyout-is-unconstitutional Square Enix dropping Bravely Default live service game, reiterates all-in position on blockchain (1:13:20) https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/news/2023/html/a_new_years_letter_from_the_president_3.html Yuji Naka formally indicted on charges of insider trading (1:17:40) https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/yuji-naka-indicted-in-square-enix-insider-trading-case/ --- Buy official Jimquisition merchandise from the Jimporium at thejimporium.com Find Laura at LauraKBuzz on Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, and Patreon. All her content goes on LauraKBuzz.com, and you can catch Access-Ability on YouTube every Friday. Follow Conrad at ConradZimmerman on Twitter and check out his Patreon (patreon.com/fistshark). You can also peruse his anti-capitalist propaganda at pinfultruth.com.

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we begin a new series on 1980's seminal and genre-naming title, Rogue. We set the game in time and talk about what constitutes the genre before diving into some particulars. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: A few runs Issues covered: buying the game in a box, being disappointed in the ASCII, being turned off by procedural games, the differences in later games, the lore of the game, playing on a mainframe, the roots of so many games in text format, a top 50 achievement in games, the elements of the Rogue-like, procedural generation, inventory, randomized items, permadeath, getting over the hurdles in types of games, a chain reaction of bad things, clicking with a specific experience, simulating the rogue-like, a long shadow, playing to get a feel, being terrified of letters, trying things at random, a voyage of discovery, knowledge, renaming everything, consistent descriptions, thinking about strategy, the cumbersome bow mechanics, more depth than expected, the possibilities of emergence, anecdote factory, "wait, there are bear traps?" Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Adventure, Atari 2600, Colossal Cave Adventure, Dungeons & Dragons, Egghead Software, Moria, Nethack, Jamie Fristrom, ADOM, Angband, Zork, Infocom, Mystery House, On-Line Systems, Sierra Online, Ken and Roberta Williams, Hunt the Wumpus, Star Trek, Pac-Man, Battlezone, Missile Command, Space Invaders, Activision, Taito, LucasArts, Space Quest/King's Quest, Michael Toy, Glenn Wichman, Ken Arnold, DARPANET, World of Warcraft, Mario (series), Dark Souls, Rogue Legacy, Epyx, Spelunky, Oblivion, Morrowind, PSP/Vita, Andy Nealen, Diablo, Calamity Nolan, Dead Cells, Eggplant (podcast), mysterydip, Clint Hocking, Patrick Redding, Mark Garcia, Artimage, LostLevels, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers.  Next time: Get that Amulet of Yendor! Twitch: brettdouville or timlongojr, instagram:timlongojr, Twitter: @timlongojr and @devgameclub Discord: https://t.co/YVZOe7ZygI DevGameClub@gmail.com

As autumn draws to a close and the chill creeps in, follow Jess and Philippa into the cold and dark as they look at the misadventures of Floyd Collins.Support the show

Check the notes below for a list of most things we discuss --> BOOKS: The JRPG Book ($50) HardcoreGaming101 Books (~$25) Game Engine Black Blook series ($35) The Making of Prince of Persia ($23) Video Game History in 64 Objects ($25) Sierra Collectors Quest I ($100) Family Bits Vol. 1 ($35-65) NES Oddities ($40) The History of Sunsoft Vol. 1 ($35) HOMEBREW: Various Game Boy (Check dmgpage.com, ~$50) Micro Mages (45€) Lizard (45€) Garbage Pail Kids ($80) MODERN GAMES: Cuphead ($200) Atari 50 ($40) Sigil signed by John Romero (€66) Dangerous Dave signed by John Romero (€50) Spelunky, Stardew Valley, Hollow Knight, Undertale CEs ($50-80) ACCESSORIES RetroTINK 2X/5X Pro ($130-300) Backlit IPS Screen for Game Boy/GBA ($50-70) NESMaker Development Kit ($130) Xbox Controller for Windows ($80) VINYL iam8bit, FanGamer, Mondo GIFTY STUFF Sega Genesis Mini 2 ($105) Playdate preorder ($220) Analogue Pocket preorder ($220) Mario/Zelda Game and Watch ($40) Steam Deck ($650) Lego The Mighty Bowser ($270) Lego NES ($270) Lego Atari ($240) Lego Sonic Green Hill Zone ($80)

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we start a new series on MegaMan 2/X, looking at them as different platformers from the time. We set it in context a bit. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: Three enemies Issues covered: Dog Game Club, playing a couple games instead of one, fighting mens for their weapons, playing second iterations, bringing in past favorites, setting the game in its time, mascot games, structure and wanting to choose your order of attack, using the boss for its weapons, technical limitations and difficulty, learning a level, generosity with powerups, run-based play, grinding for drops, some things that feel unfair the first time you fight them, getting the gist, having wall stages, annual release schedule, Mega Man 10 or X, tic-tac-toe enemy board, dabbling in some enemies, not knowing what order to progress, using passwords, possible orders of enemies, damage types and using the right tools for the job, Tim shades Billy Mitchell, deriving stuff from Mega Man, wanting to run, spawning enemies rhythmically rather than placement, how the platforming feels, being more methodical, character design for collision in this and Mario, good characterization with fewer states, swapping, not designing for you controller, having to be able to go to any level first, where you can get to powerups, homework: watch out for cool level design moments, books about the inside, keeping the good stuff, keeping current through peer recommendations, finding a friend group, listening to podcasts, not feeling like you have to keep up, finding threads through games, following journalists, first person football, losing perspective, the ways games are impacted by other media, butt explosion T-shirt, reactions in games, why games hit when, a return to Anor Londo. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Bark Souls, Soul Rover, Mark Garcia, Shibaenmue, Resident Beagle, Castlevania, SNES, PlayStation, Pokemon, GameBoy, Metroid (series), Zelda (series), Capcom, System Shock 2, Wasteland, Electronic Arts, Fallout, Dragon Quest 3, Enix, RC Pro/Am, Rare, Bionic Commando, Ultima V, Nintendo, Tecmo, Ninja Gaiden, Final Fantasy II, Pool of Radiance, Baldur's Gate, Chrono Trigger, Populous, Super Mario Land, Prince of Persia, Broderbund, SimCity, Castlevania III, Konami, Contra 2, Sierra, King's Quest, Space Quest, Manhunter, Colonel's Bequest, Keiji Inafune, Resident Evil (series), Monster Hunter, Dark Souls, Tetris, Guacamelee, Sonic (series), The Brady Bunch, Johnny Grattan, Crash Bandicoot, Ultima Underworld, Donkey Kong, King of Kong, Ratchet & Clank, Shonen Jump, Astro Boy, Sega Genesis, Tomb Raider, Spelunky, Super Meat Boy, Blood Sweat Pixels, mysterydip, Junction Point, Jason Schreier, Press Reset, Ray Chase, Bioshock Infinite, John Webb, Prey, Bioshock, Triple Click, Waypoint Radio, DLC, Kirk Hamilton, Maddie Myers, Hollow Knight, Kingdom Hearts, Dishonored, Austin Walker, Ben "from Iowa" Zaugg, ESPN NFL 2k5, Trespasser, Coleco, Mattel, Morrowind, The Honorable T. H. Isismyre Alname, Robin Hobb, David Eddings, Velvet Underground, Bloodborne, Demons's Souls, Drew Scanlon, Jeremiah Johnson, Giant Bombcast, Aaron Evers. Next time: Finish MegaMan 2! Notes: The King of Kong person Brett was thinking of was Billy Mitchell Twitch: brettdouville or timlongojr, instagram:timlongojr, Twitter: @timlongojr and @devgameclub DevGameClub@gmail.com