Description

Mike and Ting talk about Joy-Con drift and the new Nintendo Switch, loot boxes and meeting Jonathan Blow.

The "book club" game is: 中国式家长 / Chinese Parents.

Contact us: @lostlevelsclub or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club

Pre-Chat

• Study reveals the most popular emoji in honor of 'World Emoji Day'
• 😂 Face With Tears of Joy
• 😘 Face Blowing a Kiss
• Mike's favourite emoji: 🤷‍♂️😅🤦‍♂️😆🤣
• Ting's favourite emoji: 😘😬😔
• Fortnite: UK player finishes second in e-sports World Cup
• Fortnite World Cup 2019/Finals
• Fortnite Cheaters Booed by World Cup Crowd As They're Eliminated From Tournament
• Video: Hong Kong police fire tear gas during chaotic protest clearance across Western district
• Chaos and bloodshed in Hong Kong district as hundreds of masked men assault protesters, journalists, residents
• Out of control police violently shoved woman to the ground
• One of the most professional police in the world.
• [7.28] Hong Kong Police at its finest 2 (journalists perspective)
• How Hong Kong protestors deal with tear gas

Nintendo News

• Joy-Con Drift Is Becoming A Real Problem On The Switch
• Report: Nintendo Will Fix Broken Joy-Cons For Free, Refund Prior Repairs
• Nintendo to fix Joy-Con drift problem for free – but not in the UK
• First Look at Nintendo Switch Lite: A New Addition to the Nintendo Switch Family (YouTube)
• You'll Be Able To Transfer Save Files Between Switch And Switch Lite, Eventually
• What Makes the New Nintendo Switch Model Different: Battery Life, Model Number, and What to Look Out For
• The "unpatchable" exploit that makes every current Nintendo Switch hackable [Updated]
• Nintendo DS family
• Haribo Bärchen-Pärchen
• Kinder Cards

Loot Boxes

• 'My son spent £3,160 in one game'
• Fifa packs and loot boxes 'not gambling' in UK
• STUCK ON YOU The history of the iconic Panini stickers as the Italian brand releases new 2018 World Cup collection
• FIFA Ultimate Team Features
• Video game crash of 1983
• GTA Online's new casino update is inaccessible to more than 50 countries
• Let's go whaling: Tricks for monetising mobile game players with free-to-play (YouTube)
• Lawful Evil
• Cow Clicker
• IKEA effect
• Bartle's Player Types for Gamification
• Fortnite Save the World X-Ray Llamas let you see what's inside before purchasing

Dinner with Jonathan Blow

• @GameDevHH - Hello Hong Kong developers! We're excited to say that we'll be meeting @Jonathan_Blow for dinner tomorrow (Friday, July 19th!)
• @Jonathan_Blow - Here's the talk I did in Singapore a couple of days ago. They posted it very quickly!
• Industry Day 2019 Live Stream #1 (YouTube)
• Jonathan Blow
• Braid
• The Witness
• Slay the Spire
• How Slay the Spire's devs use data to balance their roguelike deck-builder
• A Programming Language for Games (YouTube)
• Jai Programming: Sizzle Reel
• Jai Courtney
• Garbage collection (computer science)
• Opus Magnum
• Spelunky
• 'Braid' creator sacrifices his fortune to build his next game
• J. Blow on Prototyping f. Braid Gameplay Footage!
• Feynman diagram
• Boehm garbage collector

Post-Chat

• 8 things to know about Neon Genesis Evangelion, the legendary anime now streaming on Netflix
• Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
• Komm, süsser Tod [Lyrics] (YouTube)
• Why are the last two episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion drawn instead of animated?
• Rebuild of Evangelion
• Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0 First 10 minutes preview High Quality Sub ENG (YouTube)