Infinite Cities

In what might be our most surreal entry into the entire podcast feed, we're here to talk about ENA, an animation project only familiar to half of the team and perhaps only enjoyed by half the team as well. Stay tuned!

in this episode: angry and grindset, a lot of areas, a peruvian avant-garde animated comedy series, bless you for your business, fanstuck, everyday ena, the purge event, feather went digging, it's the video game, dance party, froggering, the "good" ending, unforgiven frank, extra virgin girl, the rocks 

~shoutout zone~

LSD Dream Emulator 

ENA 

Game Grumps Zelda CDI 

There's something special about an open-world game developed by a small team with grand ambitions. You shouldn't expect AAA graphics or full voice acting, or even comprehensive menus, but there's innovation to be found. 

If you search long enough.

Sorry, that's a bit mean. Outward is a good game with some annoying design decisions that makes the game difficult to get into. We'll tell you about it.

In this episode: turmmip, Gep, continously somber, lotion candles, training away your thirst, mushroom halberd, fuck everyone in this town.

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Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp!

Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord!

You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/!

We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

If the forces of industry ruin art, and this goes double for the games industry, then by the inverse failures are allowed the greatest artistic license. I'm not sure how Marathon came to exist like it does - someone somewhere made a series of bewildering, bizarre decisions - and then a whole team of people went about fucking cooking. Hopefully they'll be able to get to dessert, but if not, I can't say I'm not full already.

In this episode: old macintoshes, bungo plz, extraction shooters, learning cliffs, gun feel good, freekits, the highest highs, PLAYER COUNT DISCOURSE, computer vision markers, the six AIs in your head, what if you are bad at shooters?

~shoutouts zone~

Tau Ceti e

Marathon Art Style Breakdown

OpenCV: Detection of ArUco Markers

The "Weird Orb Guys" mentioned

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN MARATHON BUT ARE NOT THE SWEATIEST GAMERLORD OF ALL TIME PARTAKE OF THESE VIDEOS:

Official Announcement Trailer

Faction Intros + Initial Dialogue (cw: insect close ups) (the insects are very nice though)

Reveal Cinematic

In Death We've Just Begun (short episode style music video)

Cryo Archive Intro Cinematic

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Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp!

Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord!

You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/!

We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

In 2002, Ecuador qualified for the world cup for the first time. This moment was so affecting, (future) game designer Julián Cordero became consious.

This is a semi-autobiographical telling of those six wild months, and it works near flawlessly, transporting us back in time and across place. It's a wonder - but we've all kicked a ball around, and in this all humans are more alike than different.

In this episode: liking sports, being eight, nationalistic pride, drone scans, google maps, very specific parks, baseball, California is the best country on earth.

2001 ALCS Game Four: Bernie's homer in eighth ties game

Pinstripe Alley: Ranking All Time John Sterling Home Run Calls

Sight-In Games Review – Despelote

There are several parks in Despelote; the main one appears to be fictional but resembles Plaza Republica de Nicaragua, and the major park we discuss is La Carolina Park. The latter gets a shoutout in the ep.

Somehow, GOD Factory: Wingmen

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Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp!

Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord!

You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/!

We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

Karp gets to indulge himself in his favourite type of game: exploring weird-ass spaces. Join us in turning over every rock and checking behind every mushroom in this immersive sim-like retro-throwback.

In this episode: don't pick Charmander, neuron stars, setting the setting, money sink, lockpicking minigames, first-world problems, drawing a map.

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Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp!

Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord!

You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/!

We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER:

Feather: loud and flighty. Special move: a take so bad all enemies on screen have to engage. Karp: stable and strong. Special move: has already beaten the game, so he can skip ahead to when he already won the fight. Will: fast and has bonus reach. Special move: crashes a bike into enemies for massive damage, hurting them as well as himself (but not the bike!) Gary: fun and supportive. Special move: cooks bomb-ass pasta, healing everyone on screen. Enemies get healed, but also stunned as they try to schedule a new podcast (the more enemies, the longer the stun!)

In this episode: fresh game, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (The Movie), Ready Player One, sprites, favorite combos, beat-em-up genre conventions, empty stories, not so evil exes, the spirit of whimsy compels you, better than being stung by scorpions for an hour.

~shoutouts zone~

Dueling Genre patreon presents Scott Pilgrim Minute

Paul Robertson (I can't find a good portfolio or anything so have a twenty minute animated pixel short)

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Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp!

Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord!

You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/!

We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

For a game that is credited with popularizing the roguelike deckbuilder genre, Slay the Spire is surprisingly stripped down compared to everything that came after it. You build your deck, you fight monsters, you keep pushing onward. After our time with Inscryption and and Wildfrost, it almost feels strange going backwards to a game most of us have played, and half of us have beaten, before. This ep is a little all over the place, thanks daylight savings, because we're all sleepy and doing our best. Stick around for the post pod where Feather tells us about Marathon for nearly half an hour!

in this episode: roguelike deckbuilders, sway the spire,  sweaty games, the first work, art, adventure quest, orb shit, this game is chess, get sweaty with it 

~shoutout zone~

Dream Quest

Adventure Quest

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Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp!

Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord!

You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/!

We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

Gary's on the move so we take the chance to play something they absolutely loathe (/j): racing games. This is like an oasis in a WipEout-less world.

In this episode: why did WipEout die, podracers, racing line, braking game, "one-and-a-half good games", ancient fox girl, "nightcar dubstep".

~Shoutout zone~

Redout OST - Pipe Down

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Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp!

Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord!

You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/!

We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

This is the best worst game we have played so far. What a glorious mess.

In this episode: jank jank jank, ska, categorizing rhythm games, legibility issues, mapping left and right to up and down, peak, the sewer level, poco and apoco are here! posters, petty band drama, incoherence, conspiracies, homestuck.

~shoutouts zone~

The best trailer of all time

Two Tone Army

2 Mello - Twist Sound

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Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp!

Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord!

You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/!

We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

It's a mark of praise that KRZ so frequently ends up compared with our favorite narrative games -it it's in the same space as Disco Elysium, Citizen Sleeper, Night in the Woods. Just because it frequently comes off worse in those comparisons doesn't mean it's not secretly great. It's just tired, and all out of answers - and maybe that's the only way this story could be honest.

In this episode: no bits, aging games, literally figuratively literally robots, midpoints and looking back, Xanadu is butts, getting to the point, getting off the boat, being irrational about animals, giant fucking bird, addiction, garbage ghosts, museums, something is taken from you in the night.

~shoutouts zone~

PDP-1 Computer

White Nose Syndrome

WEVP-TV

Laver (Ghost Town)

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

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Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp!

Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord!

You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/!

We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆