This week your Nice Hosts break open Power Fantasies and Indie Game Trailers and analyze what makes them work! Can boredom be a game mechanic? Is the age old storytelling rule "show don't tell" actually bad advice for indie game trailers? Can a power fantasy game really ever have too many explosions??

Picture credit Gearbox Software

• If you have a trailer for your game and want to get some feedback on it send us a link on Twitter to see if it gets the "Stephen Would Actually Watch This" Seal of Approval!

• Game Devs of Color Expo Talks

• Friends of the show gave talks! Aubrey Scott talks at 49:57 and Evva Kraikul is on a panel at 4:07:54.

• Swimsanity (If your team includes two brothers it has to be sea themed)
• Worker Bee is publishing Widget Satchel in Japan!
• The Ooblets team is amazing and you should plan on buying the game on the Epic …
• (Ooblets was going to be published by Double Fine until Double Fine was bought …

0:18:08Power Fantasies

Monster Den was a game store/event space in Minneapolis where Martha first played Halo- there is a different game store there now called Dreamers Vault Games

0:43:27Game TrailersWidget Satchel Trailer