In the first installment of our Kentucky Route Zero miniseries, we meet our guest co-hosts, with whom we put Act I's opening scene under a microscope, discuss the game's novel dialogue system, and dive deep into the first batch of its many intertextual references.

Show notes:

Stephanie Boluk

Patrick Lemieux

Kentucky Route Zero

Cardboard Computer

A House in California

Metagaming book

Mutazione

Designing for Mystery in KRZ GDC talk

Dear Esther

Fluxus

Grapefruit

Successful Reflective Choices in Interactive Narrative

Colossal Cave Adventure

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine

Recoding Gender: Women’s Changing Participation in Computing

Playing with Feelings: Video Games and Affect

Game of Life

Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave

One Hundred Years of Solitude

A Pedestal, A Table, A Love Letter: Archaeologies of Gender in Videogame History

Hundred Thousand Billion Poems

1976: Adventure

Mathematical Theory of Communication

New Media Reader