A podcast about the life of games and the game of life. Swimfan, a reformed marketing director at various large game companies, and Regal, a software engineer, give multitudinous lukewarm takes on game design and development, the industry as a whole, and ideas about how to improve...everything. Occasionally, we also play games.
Music games are all the rage these days!
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Outro music by I Am Jemboy (https://soundcloud.com/iamjemboy/big-parappa)
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18 Oct 2023
v1.021: One RNG to rule them all with Paul Sottosanti
Paul Sottosanti, game design veteran and certified cool guy joins Regal and Swimfan to talk about the role that randomness, variance, and luck affect games, mostly from a designer's perspective, in both general and case-specific terms.
0:00:00 Who is Paul Sottosanti?
0:29:18 Basic concepts and a tangent about the popularity of games
0:43:00 Drawing cards
1:20:00 Build complexity
1:42:27 Play-by-mail games
2:22:29 Horizontal progression and strategic diversity
2:39:45 Damage range
2:54:14 Rapidfire topics
Outro music by Cyranek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46LF80G6nB4
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19 Sept 2023
v1.020: The Most Dangerous Gamer
1337 G@m3rz UNITE!!
We broadly discuss the difference between people who consider themselves "gamers" and people who simply play games, the effect this has on the industry discourse, and the icky associations the label carries.
0:00:00 Intro and patch notes
0:17:19 The influence of the online discourse about games
0:40:45 Identity and gamerism
1:18:55 The use of games
1:47:25 Finding your voice
2:02:10 The use of gamers
Outro music by DatManOvaDer: https://soundcloud.com/datmanovader/throwback-funk
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