Jimi and Nick are back from springtime excursions to hop on the Nostalgia Train as they re-visit Runescape on mobile and Capcom’s Dragon’s Dogma on Switch. They also get into the exponentially over the top and ridiculously fun Risk of Rain 2.

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Playwright Fiona Gorry-Hines joins us this week to talk about making plays! The tables have turned.

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Jimi and Nick get back in the proverbial horse-seat to talk about plants, Mad gods, and gods of war.

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Music: XY by Nctrnm, and Chanterelle by yy

Our first ever inter-state interview welcomes Melissa Weisner to the show! Melissa is an old friend of ours, so naturally we talk about purple people eaters eating the “people”(?) of Animal crossing, games as services, and how to remain zen when getting yelled at over the phone.

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Games discussed: Animal crossing, Resident Evil 2 remastered, Titanfall 2, Apex legends, Dragalia Lost, and Caves of Qud.

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Music: Bjork by Podington Bear

The one and only Michael Dellapi joins a lone Jimi this week to talk about the future of pizza, hot demons, and a house that kills people for centuries. It’s a good one.

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Music: Nick with those smooth bass tunes, closed out by Siesta by Jahzzar

This week we welcome the wonderful Emily Koonce to the show! Emily’s a BFA candidate in NYU’s game design program whose work meditates (she thinks, for the most part, at least right now) on autonomy and the lack thereof in everyday life. Emily, Jimi, and Nick talk about being bored in the suburbs, burning rice in Overcooked 2, and the amazing gift of a Wii with dozens of old games.

Intro music this week is by Nick, sponsor and closing music by the Greatest Artist of Our Generation, George Michael.

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Jimi and Nick talk about the merging of bass guitar and philosophy this week (it’s even funkier than it sounds), in addition to discussing the twists and turns of freelance gigs. They’ve also been playing a lot of that hot new Apex Legends game so naturally they talk a lot about being really really really bad at it (and why that’s OK).

Music this week is by Nick! Great job Nick!

Michael Fegreus and Corinne Stein join us this week in our first ever 4 person show!

We discuss a host of topics, focusing on our guests’ crafts: art and illustration. Mike and Corinne’s upcoming game, Vivarium, is about home, growing up, and escaping from a giant terrarium with the help of woodland creatures. Check it out at vivariumgame.tumblr.com and follow them on twitter @Vivarium_Game.

Games discussed include Apex Legends, Dark Souls, Smash Brother Ultimate, Persona 5, Dungeons and Dragons, and Yo! Noid II.

Music by J1 and Guifrog via the Free Music Archive Sponsored by Blue Undies

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More importantly, this week our good friend Steven Goehrig joins the show. Steve’s an animator and game designer living here in Brooklyn; we discuss his trials and tribulations in bringing VR to NYU’s film department, the desire to make more digital friends in games, Steve's feelings about colors and Gris, and a bunch of other stuff. This is our longest show to date, and also the most well-attended. We plan to do more of these interview-style shows in the coming weeks, so look out for that!

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Music: music_session.flac courtesy of ondrosik on Freesound.org, and sick bass jams by Nick Ragusa.

As you might've guessed, this episode was recorded about a month ago (12/16/18). That was last year! But it's here now and it's not like we ever talk about "relevant" games anyway so...

It’s been a long week which means we have a shorter episode this week. But that just means we packed our content into an even more succulent package!

Jimi finally published a museum. To be specific, The Hall of Available Samples, a downloadable exhibition of free 3D models from around the Internet.

On the games side things, lots of Smash Brothers has been happening, and with Nick’s recent purchase of a Switch, we go over some of the best games on the platform including Breath of the Wild and Celest. 

Intro music by Astrometrics

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People change, people make game, so are games changing? Or are we? These and other convoluted questions are asked and sometimes also answered on this weeks episode.  

More to the point, Jimi and Nick talk about the Museum of the Moving Image’s exhibition on sports games, which was cool, but weird, but mostly cool. Jimi has a bit of an existential crisis about his taste in games (see above). Games discussed include Mario Party (which will literally tear you and your loved ones into raging monsters) and whats Remains of Edith Finch.