180: Heaven’s Vault

The developer of Short Game favorite 80 Days returns with an ambitious new game, and we are joined by a new guest! Laura Garofalo is a Roman cultural historian and Latinist with experience on archeological digs, who joined us to discuss Heaven’s Vault, an archaeological science fiction adventure game.

At around 15 hours, this is a longer game than we typically cover, and it lead to a longer and extremely interesting discussion. The game is available on PS4 and Windows for $24.99. Stick around after the spoiler break at [1:26:30] for a discussion of some of the game’s secrets and branching paths.

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Your hosts this week were:

• Raygan Kelly – @raygank
• Laura Nash – @laurajnash
• Shane Kelly – @8bitShane
• With special guest Laura Garofalo

• (00:00) - Heaven’s Vault from Inkle
• (04:48) - Archeology In Games
• (07:29) - A Quick Summary
• (11:06) - Learning Ancient
• (35:42) - The Timeline And Interface
• (38:07) - Visuals
• (47:39) - Sailing
• (56:23) - Actually Meaningful Dialogue Choices
• (01:05:06) - The Ink System
• (01:13:06) - New Game Plus
• (01:16:29) - What’s Making You Happy This Week?
• (01:16:57) - Laura G - Plants!
• (01:17:30) - Shane - The Tick on Amazon Prime Video
• (01:20:11) - Raygan - Nausicaä Manga Box Set
• (01:22:30) - Laura - Finishing Your Projects
• (01:25:01) - Admin And Outro
• (01:26:48) - Spoiler Break