This week begins our sort-of-book-club on the ongoing episodic adventure game Life is Strange. Told in what can only be described as the “Telltale” style, this series of 5 episodes f...
This week our podcast literally can not stop running/falling/snowboarding as we discuss the Endless Runner genre. This sometimes celebrated, sometimes maligned mobile focused offshoo...
This week’s topic is Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition. (That’s a long title for such a short game!) Guacamelee is a “Metroidvania” with combo-based, beat-’em-up combat, a...
“I have entered into the service of a new gentleman. It would seem he is a gambling man.” 80 Days by Inkle Studios is a video game adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic novel of wor...
This week we’re taking another short break from regular format to talk about our favorite video game music! Did we miss your favorite soundtrack? (We probably did!) Let us know! We’l...
The Swapper is a surprisingly awesome 2D puzzle platformer from small Finnish indie developers Facepalm Games. Released for PC/Mac/Linux in May 2013, it’s now also available for curr...
Machinarium, a point and click adventure game by Czech game developers Amanita Design, is our topic this week. Released in 2009, it was their first full-length adventure game after n...
To The Moon by Freebird Games is our topic this week. When it came out in 2011 this game was hailed as a triumph of video game storytelling. Using the visual language of 90s RPGs, To...
Gunpoint by Tom Francis aka Suspicious Developments is our topic this week. Tom Francis began his game industry career with 9 years as a writer for PC Gamer, and this game is his res...
The Short Game attempts to discuss an entire genre-defying medium of game design: text-based interactive fiction. That’s right, we’re talking about old-school text adventures, but al...
The fourth game in the Call of Juarez series is its first download-only title. Gunslinger follows Silas Greaves, an over-the-top bounty hunter, whose narration carries the show and w...
In the final show for 2014, we are counting down our picks for The Short Game game of the year: 3 – Shovel Knight Shovel Knight is an incredible throwback to the NES, but with a mod...
A Dark Room is an incredibly simple and yet incredibly deep and even moving game, unexpected qualities in the “idle games” genre. From the App Store page, you begin with this simple ...
In this special Thanksgiving holiday edition of The Short Game, we talk bout some of our favorite long games. We named this show the wrong thing! Shortisodes are a break from our reg...
Update: It took some time after playing this game to get to know the developer, Adrian Chmielarz, on Twitter and through his other writing. While we feel this game is an interesting ...
The shocking conclusion to last week’s episode! Gary Butterfield of Watch Out For Fireballs joins us for an extra-long episode on the groundbreaking adventure game The Walking Dea...
This week, we talk about zombies. Gary Butterfield of Watch Out For Fireballs joins us for an extra-long episode on the groundbreaking adventure game The Walking Dead by Telltale ...
The Short Game is experimenting with our format this week, and you’re the guinea pig! We’re calling these shortisodes; half-length (or less) episodes in which we break from our regul...
This week, Laura joins us again to discuss Little Inferno, a game so unique that it defies description. Here, we’ll give it a go: Little Inferno is a game in which you order items f...
This week, we talk to the hosts of the incredible retro gaming and game design analysis podcast, Watch Out For Fireballs! Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross chat with us about how they r...