Big Game Hunger

Voice actor and game dev Jacob Burgess joins the pod to crack the exceptionally difficult line up of:

• musical,
• game within a game,
• twin stick shooter

This off-off-off Broadway production company has suffered from more internal drama than is in the script for Les Rizz! And to make matters worse, a swarm of rats has descended on the premises. But as it turns out, a mass of agile, invested rodents might be just the thing this community theater needs to pull off the big show.

Enjoy Jacob Burgess on Mastodon.social/@JacobburgessVO, at MakeWordsHappen.com and on Loading Ready Run.

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Jacob Andrews, one of the talented artists of Drawfee, find the route through the prompts:

• obtuse
• parasite
• FPS

with the help of Jenna Stoeber, a fellow soup and Dark Souls lover. Inspired by the Loathsome Dung Eater and some relatable soup catastrophes, Dark Soups sees the brew-bearer attempt to defeat monstrous gorge-vessels. But will you free them of their gorgers, or deepen their injestion infestation?

See Jacob's work on Drawfee here, catch a livestream of Secret Sleepover Society, or watch SSS VOD here.

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Giovanni Colantonio, journalist at Digital Trends, is the first participant in the Grant Howitt Dagger Dartboard, where a flip of the coin determines if a prompt is replaced by a newer, weirder prompt from a separate list. They ended up with:

• wholesome
• all grapple hooks all the time
• cooking

While making several accidental grapple-based puns, Giovanni and Jenna craft a foraging and cooking game with madcap traversal mechanics, naturally in VR and requiring an intricate and expensive grapple-hook-based peripheral. 

Follow Giovanni Colantonio on Twitter @MarioPrime, listen to Left Trigger, Right Trigger here, and read just a really good article on The Last of Us Part 2 here.

Learn more about Tab for a Cause at TabForACause.org/bgh.

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Grant Howitt, indie TTRPG creator of games like Honey Heist, joins the show and makes a surreal, pro-drug game using the prompts:

• ocean exploration
• last day at camp
• Lucas-Arts point-n-click.

You wake up in a derelict oil rig and have to choose your intoxicant of choice. Where will you fall on the zooted scale, and how will that change your conversation options? And more importantly, how much FUN will you have on the way?

Follow Grant's work on Twitter @RowanRookDecard or on his website RowanRookandDecard.com, and especially check out Hollows, a soulslike tactical combat TTRPG.

And check out Insert Coin at InsertCoinClothing.com, and use code: BGHIC for 10% of your order (not including charity items, bundles, some selected products at launch, gift cards and postage, one use per person, valid until June 30th, 2024). Seriously check out the Yakuza drip.

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mom game

o steal your neighbor's horse, and compete tooth-and-nail for the ultimate prize: the HORSE TIARA.

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Kelsey Lewin, writer, podcaster, and co-owner of Pink Gorilla Games, joins the show to finally make a game that your aunt is going to love! She and Jenna turn the prompts:

• aunt games
• frogs
• myst-like

into a game about kissing frogs to turn them into other animals, and then using those animals to solve PUZZLES. Kyst indulges all the things we liked about Myst: cool photo graphics, loneliness, and puzzles that we were too young to figure out.

Pre-order Kelsey Lewin's Animal Crossing book here! Next time you're in Seattle, be sure to visit one of the three Pink Gorilla Games stores.

Listen to Labyrinth of Cinema here, and check out The Details of Our Escape on kickstarter!

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Allegra Frank, renowned journalist, critic, and oreo connoisseur, joins Jenna to craft an adorable, hard-hitting game with the prompts:

• squishy
• werewolves
• visual novel

Eschewing the normal player-romance offerings of visual novels, they craft a game where you matchmake NPCs and solve a dark mystery of your own past, come back to haunt you. Also there are some non-branded Squishmallow integrations that give the game a bit of a texture. A squish texture.

Turns out, love was the greatest mystery of all.

Check out Allegra Frank on Twitter @legsfrank and read her work on The Daily Beast. Find Space Dunk Oreos in your local grocer.

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Big Game Hunger is part of the Multitude Collective of podcasts. Edited and mixed by the talented Mischa Stanton, and created and hosted by Jenna Stoeber.

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Screenwriter, bookwriter, and criticwriter Karen Han has brought her Marvel's-Midnight-Sun and Pokemon-Cafe-Remix related complaints to the prompts: 

• musical
• cafe sim
• character creator

They brew a heady mix of adorable Pokemon bakers and super crunchy sim aspects like book-balancing and inventory sim. Every year, the Alcremie Awards pass out stars to the best cafes in the world - and you've set your sight on getting one! Require Pokemon employees, and serve up the best light cafe salads to discerning gym leaders to win them over in Pokemon Cafe Life! They did nothing at all with "musical" so it has been added back to the prompt list, don't worry.

Follow Karen on Instagram, on Bluesky, and be sure to check out her incredible book Bong Joon Ho - Dissident Cinema!

Today's episode was sponsored by Possible Worlds Games, and you should check out their kickstarter for The Details of Our Escape, a new tabletop worldbuilding game played with dominos!

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Brent Naylor lucked out with some primo prompts:

• parasite
• DnD
• mystery

Then he immediately destroyed the format of this show by perfectly nailing a pitch for a hidden role game where you have to identify the social parasite in a DnD group! Thankfully these fools are pros at bullshitting, and they develop a game where you train yourself to detect AI but figuring out who on a video call isn't a real human.

Learn the REAL TRUTH about Andalites at AndaliteTruth.org, listen to Fandalites, a fully complete Animorphs fancast, and watch Corprorate on Comedy Central here.

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Big Game Hunger is part of the Multitude Collective of podcasts. Edited and mixed by the talented Mischa Stanton, and created and hosted by Jenna Stoeber.

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Illustrator Faith Schaffer brings her Lifetime movie expertise to Big Game Hunger, a Jenny Nicholson fancast! With the prompts:

• voyeurism
• holiday
• dungeon crawler

...she and Jenna make a Lifetime/Hallmark-inspired Christmas game about a big-city video game creator who discovers the true meaning of Christmas Romance back in her hometown, with either the local super-bachelor or her cousin. Play choices don't matter in this cult classic hit, but you'll love its earnest, FMV styling and point-and-click elements anyway. How else will you get your Christmas fix in July??

Pre-order Faith's upcoming comic The Worst Ronin now! Find her incredible art on Instagram at Faith_Schaffer or on Twitter @faith_schaffer.

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