Go back to hell! Insert Credit celebrates the release of Demonschool by analyzing trends in indie releases, the best grids in games, and of course, woke. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

1: What’s the difference between setting a video game in high school and setting a video game in college? (03:33)

2: Do indie developers find success by making what they want to play, or by following the market? (09:18)

3: What are the best grids in video games? (14:49)

4: When making a video game, how woke should it be? (20:39)

5: Tom Arrow asks, how did the rise and fall of Blockbuster video impact videogames? (27:39)

6: How much does the average video game player want to be challenged? (34:13)

7: What movie is Demonschool of video games? (40:02)

8: What’s the Empire Records (1995) of video games? (42:01)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Trashtalkal RPG (43:21)

Recommendations and Outro (48:20):

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