Christian from Imaginary Game Studios joins Ben for a conversation involving a very important aspect of video game promoting, advertising, and audience connections. To start it all off with a proverbial BANG, Ben talks about a couple of games that he has been playing recently, Monday Syndrome and RACCOIN, and Christian professes his undying love for Japanese coin-pusher machines. Next, the fellows discuss the recently announced DLSS 5 technology, how the “message” was received by gamers and developers, and the resulting spin from Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang. FINALLY… they explore the topic word as it relates to pop culture, Christian’s chosen line of work, censorship, various forms of art, advertising in a global economy, inducing laughter, and the unique games of SUDA51 and Grasshopper Manufacture.
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00:00:20 - Various Gabbos, Schrödinger’s coming soon, early access, and NOT Constantinople
00:03:33 - Palpable excitement, props for an AI disclosure, and Ben didn’t enjoy his Mondays
00:06:41 - Perk and power tradeoff, Clippy’s replacement, game design love, and coin-pushing
00:11:39 - Better arcades in Japan, games for parents, falling pennies, and pushing marbles
00:17:02 - Cold hard cash, towers of coins, DLSS 5 technology, and the stuff of nightmares
00:22:23 - Addressing the wrong audience, an ill-advised CEO response, and a pair of TLDRs
00:30:37 - Excellent timing, Christian invents a definition, unknown origin, and spot reduction
00:35:02 - ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US, churning SIMS, and localization services
00:39:56 - The unspoken cost, censorship, dubs and subs, and anime and manga parallels
00:45:51 - Pixar localizations, Wuxia genre fails, missing tutorials, vigor, energy, spirits, and chi
00:50:59 - The biggest Dynasty Warriors fan, 1 vs.1000 soaps, and the California pizza chicken
00:54:05 - Eating your digits, a resurrection elixir, no movement, touching birds, and sucking
00:56:41 - Pondering purpose, art as a product, Ben’s job and the Street Fighter name swap
01:00:51 - Everyone’s favorite Darkstalkers character, Ben’s Dreamcast tip, and Scott Pilgrim
01:05:00 - The games of Goichi Suda, playing a patchwork quilt, and Shadows of the Damned
01:10:10 - Romeo is a Dead Man, growing bastards, and can game mechanics be localized?
01:14:22 - Ben always knew, the result of heating up water, and localizing in semaphore
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References, Links, and Tags
For more information about Monday Syndrome, developed by hyesmo and published by Brightika, Inc, and Blackburne Games Studio FZ LLC...
https://www.blackburnegames.com/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3305970/Monday_Syndrome/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfPOcZ0okdU
For more information about RACCOIN: Coin Pusher Roguelike, developed by Doraccoon and published by Playstack
https://www.playstack.com/games/raccoin/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3eRZVM6o6k
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