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Lords:
* Erica
* Kory
* https://kbones.itch.io/
Topics:
* Mystery Hunt 2024
* Developing my first video game
* Wearing glasses prevents COVID
* English Ending Song, by Ryoji Yoshitomi
* https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/AxA-XP8E.png
* How to make satisfying non-violent gameplay
* @DJTentMode@mstdn.party
Microtopics:
* Letting go of concepts of yourself that you believe.
* Losing a concept of yourself as a person and just becoming free-floating thoughts.
* 47 year old house painters.
* Growing up to be a pluripotent human being.
* Finding cool and positive Internet spaces to hang out in.
* Excavating old Bubsy memorabilia.
* Checking the maps on your telephone.
* Defining yourself as someone who doesn't eat free cheese samples.
* Scientists researching how to be cool and cringe at the same time.
* 2023 Game of the Year Gordy and the Monster Moon.
* Protocols and processes that presume that if you are good at solving puzzles then you must also be good at designing puzzles.
* The humble beginnings of the MIT Mystery Hunt.
* Puzzle Inflation.
* Instant stooging.
* People who are obligated to prevent their children from dying.
* Server migration problems.
* Accidentally writing the same puzzle as someone else.
* Premium content for listeners who want to subscribe.
* Putting sprites on the screen and accepting controller input.
* Game design by proxy.
* Your local Barcade with a Pico-8 cabinet.
* Buttoning up a game to make it a shippable product.
* Whether the knife is detecting a dork.
* Butter golems.
* Bugs that make games more fun.
* Building a high end gaming PC and only running Pico-8 on it
* I can't believe they buttered Jorts!
* Meeting the guy who runs the Indie Arcade at Magfest.
* Waiting 40 years for opportunities to fall in your lap.
* Think Buick.
* A cat that is not on the show.
* Of all the exposed mucus membranes on your face, the eyes are two of them.
* Projectile transmission.
* Did this COVID infection rate study control for popularity?
* Hitting 40 and embracing the cringe.
* Wearing chemistry goggles in public.
* Myopic basketball players.
* Things you can put on your face to look like a superhero in disguise.
* The Wario Land 4 soundtrack.
* Making ogg vorbis rips of the Wario Land 4 soundtrack to put on Napster.
* A gem of a poem to be hidden in a Wario game.
* Playing back vocals with single-syllable samples.
* Our collective dream diary.
* Your dreams melting into your pillow with all the dust mites.
* Everything is impermanent, especially video games.
* A shocking removal of an important human from your life.
* Making your peace with the time you have forgotten.
* The natural high you get from blowing things up.
* Throwing apples at a Snorlax until it wakes up.
* Cooking games.
* Matching happy looking fruits of different sizes.
* Watching carefully as two peaches slide together.
* Designing video games for 5-year olds on T.
* Dropping things that merge in a two dimensional space with gravity.
* The boy has two dads.
* What can I do that is nonviolent and crunchy and interesting and solvable?
* Looking for inspiration outside of video games.