Happy New Year one and all! To celebrate yet another new beginning, we've brought back old guests Greg (Creative Director of Supergiant Games, and writer of Bastion, Transistor, Pyre, and Hades) and Kate (Narrative designer on Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire, all of its DLC, the Outer Worlds, and was a narrative co-lead on The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon) to chat with us about working from home during COVID, work/life balance, Early Access, the keys to writing memorable shopkeepers, the beauty of em dashes, themes that they gravitate towards, working with ensemble casts, what kept them up at night the most on the last game they worked on, murder hobos, games being adapted into film/TV, collaborating with other disciplines more closely, and more, more, more!

Our Guests on the Internet

Greg's Twitter

Kate's Twitter and Instagram

Stuff We Talked About

Hades

The Outer Worlds (and its DLC: Peril on Gorgon)

Pyre

Transistor

Bastion

Resident Evil 4 (specifically this guy)

Ultima

Netflix's Castlevania show

Annihilation (book and movie)

Inside

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Elric of Melnibone

Big Dead Place by Nicholas Johnson

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (specifically the story: The Tower of Babylon)

Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang (specifically the story: The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate)

Our theme music was created by Isabella Ness, and our logo was created by Lily Nishita.