Oh dang it’s a holiday weekend and we don’t have time to prep for an episode… Let me see what everybody else on the internet is doing right now…
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So here’s the Short Game Holiday Gift Guide!
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You’re here to slay the princess. Don’t believe her lies.
This horror adventure (visual novel?) sets you a simple if trope-reversing task right in the title, then blows the doors off with an extraordinarily wide branching structure. There’s a lot to talk about with this one!
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Orb! Orb orb orb orb orb. Orb Orb? Orb Orb Orb!…
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We continue our coverage of IFComp 2023 with a few more games AND THEN WE GET KICKED IN THE NUTS!!!!
- [00:02:39] LAKE Adventure Follow-up by B.J. Best
- [00:08:27] Assembly by Ben Kirwin
- [00:19:05] The Whisperers by Milo van Mesdag
- [00:26:38] Fix Your Mother’s Printer by Geoffrey Golden
- [00:35:32] CODENAME OBSCURA by Mika Kujala
- [00:43:01] Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head by The Hungry Reader
- [00:48:54] DICK MCBUTTS GETS KICKED IN THE NUTS by Hubert Janus
- [00:57:54] All the Troubles Come My Way by Sam Dunnachie
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Gordy and the Monster Moon is a bite-sized exploration-driven game about a pumpkin astronaut going on spooky adventures. It’s also a tiny part of the Frog Fractions extended universe, brought to us by Jim Stormdancer. It’s made entirely in Pico-8, and is available on Steam and itch.io for $4.
It’s a great short game that made for a quick conversation, so Shane also brings us a seasonally appropriate game from IFComp 2023: Dr Ludwig and the Devil by SV Linwood. It’s a mad scientist puzzle parser game that’s full of character and humor, and also Satan.
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This week we’re talking about Gunbrella, a game that gets in its own way more than anything we’ve played in a while.
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This week we are kicking off our coverage of IFComp with coverage of a handful of games, including some new names and returning Short Game favorites. Looking forward to playing more over the coming month!
- [00:00:00] Intro
- [00:06:28] Xanthippe’s Last Night with Socrates by Victor Gijsbers
- [00:16:05] 20 Exchange Place by Sol FC
- [00:20:10] LAKE Adventure by B.J. Best
- [00:28:01] The Vambrace of Destiny by Arthur DiBianca
- [00:37:24] Dysfluent by Allyson Gray
- [00:43:44] Help! I Can’t Find My Glasses! by Lacey Gren
- [00:48:14] One King to Loot them All by Onno Brouwer
- [00:50:59] Outro
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This week Shane and Raygan betray the premise of the podcast and have a nice long chat about Baldur’s Gate 3, an immense game we’re both enjoying immensely, with some digressions into D&D and (ding) Magic the Gathering.
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As a follow up to our episode on our favorite mechanics, a listener suggested we talk about which ones we hate! So we did!
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This week we’re celebrating PICO-8 games! PICO-8 is a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games that runs on PC/Mac/Linux. Raygan, Nate, and Shane talk a little about the “console” itself, then review a ton of games, including:
- Celeste
- Mimic
- What is a Cart?
- Pico Driller
- The Shadow King
- Combo Pool
- To A Starling
- Super Crane Bug
- Dusk Child
- Shelled Shinobi
- Mai-Chan’s Sweet Buns