This Valentine's week's theme is Heart! Isaac possibly unintentionally plagiarizes a game he played years ago (Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt, go play it!) and Claire does quite possibly the first Pac-man-like we've ever heard of?? For discussion, we talk about Split Screen Co-op, specifically because of Baldur's Gate 3!

This is Make That Game, the podcast where we talk about the latest and greatest new video games... that aren't ever going to get made. We pitch 'em, you make 'em (if you want, nobody's forcing you I guess). Then we break down games we've played by game design elements we liked or didn't like so much. To close out the show we have the rapid fire round, where we generate 3 random words and come up with a game idea and design incorporating them! Needless to say, it's a riot!

If you're looking for a video game design focused podcast, we might have just the one for you!

3:00 Isaac Pitches his part-friendship part-terrifying game

12:56 Claire pitches a pac-man like called "Heartbreaker"

23:59 Discussion - Split Screens!

36:51 Rapid Fire Round!

This week's theme is Mars! Claire pitches a space race RTS and Isaac pitches a wave survival FPS. Then we discuss active vs passive gaming and the apparent trend of the industry from one end to the other.

This is Make That Game, the podcast where we talk about the latest and greatest new video games... that aren't ever going to get made. We pitch 'em, you make 'em (if you want, nobody's forcing you I guess). Then we break down games we've played by game design elements we liked or didn't like so much. To close out the show we have the rapid fire round, where we generate 3 random words and come up with a game idea and design incorporating them! Needless to say, it's a riot!

If you're looking for a video game design focused podcast, we might have just the one for you!

03:07 Claire pitches an RTS about bad planning

13:49 Isaac pitches a game with space spiders

20:06 Discussion - Are games too easy?

38:29 Rapid Fire Round!

This week's theme is "snow"! Claire pitches a souls-like about a snowman and Isaac goes deep with snow simulation! Then Claire honks and bonks Life Is Strange: Double Exposure!

This is Make That Game, the podcast where we talk about the latest and greatest new video games... that aren't ever going to get made. We pitch 'em, you make 'em (if you want, nobody's forcing you I guess). Then we break down games we've played by game design elements we liked or didn't like so much. If you're looking for a video game design focused podcast, we might have just the one for you!

And of course, as always, we have the rapid fire round, where we generate 3 random words and come up with a game idea and design incorporating them! Needless to say, it's a riot!

04:00 Claire Pitches Dark Snow - The snowman souls-like

09:50 Isaac pitches the realistic snow survival Minecraft game

17:50 Honks and Bonks - Life is Strange, Double Exposure

40:25 Rapid Fire Round!

Welcome back to a new year of Make That Game! Our first theme of the year is "new", which Isaac... both came up with and completely forgot about? Ugh! Anyways, his game idea is like Oregon Trail but also he's watched some movies recently. Claire's idea makes use of some of the new features of the PS5! And we discuss our previous year's gaming resolutions, and make new ones!

This is Make That Game, the podcast where we talk about the latest and greatest new video games... that aren't ever going to get made. We pitch 'em, you make 'em (if you want, nobody's forcing you I guess). Then we break down games we've played by game design elements we liked or didn't like so much. If you're looking for a video game design focused podcast, we might have just the one for you!

And of course, as always, we have the rapid fire round, where we generate 3 random words and come up with a game idea and design incorporating them! Needless to say, it's a riot!

00:00 We're Back!

02:46 Isaac Pitches his Oregon Trail/LOTR mashup

13:01 Claire pitches a hide-and-seek PS5 demo game

17:43 2025 Gaming Goals!

38:24 Rapid Fire Round!

This week's ~USER SUBMITTED~ game theme is Armor! Isaac's game is about roaming a post-apocalyptic equipping a rusting tank with state of the art... cardboard armor!? And Clair pitches an idea about shedding your hard protective exterior and exposing your vulnerable self for the sake of love! Then we talk a whole lot about The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom!

This is Make That Game, the podcast where we talk about the latest and greatest new video games... that aren't ever going to get made. We pitch 'em, you make 'em (if you want, nobody's forcing you I guess). Then we break down games we've played by game design elements we liked or didn't like so much. If you're looking for a video game design focused podcast, we might have just the one for you!

And of course, as always, we have the rapid fire round, where we generate 3 random words and come up with a game idea and design incorporating them! Needless to say, it's a riot!

04:45 Isaac Pitches Tank World

13:49 Claire pitches "Armour" (it's a pun)

24:15 Isaac and Claire discuss Echos of Wisdom

53:41 The rapid fire round!

This week's game idea theme is cookies and in that spirit Isaac brings us the aptly named Cookie Shooter! It's a first person shooter... with a cookie theme. Yup. Claire's game is a Battletech-inspired Gingerbread man game! Then we discuss savescumming and building it into games.

This is Make That Game, the podcast where we talk about the latest and greatest new video games... that aren't ever going to get made. We pitch 'em, you make 'em (if you want, nobody's forcing you I guess). Then we break down games we've played by game design elements we liked or didn't like so much. If you're looking for a video game design focused podcast, we might have just the one for you!

And of course, as always, we have the rapid fire round, where we generate 3 random words and come up with a game idea and design incorporating them! Needless to say, it's a riot!

00:00 Make that game!

02:40 Isaac Pitches a cookie FPS

9:23 Claire pitches a half-baked gingerbread person game

16:45 Discussion: Save Scumming built into your game?

30:27 The Rapid Fire Round!

What's old is new again with our first "New Game+" episode! It's technically a re-run, sure, but! You probably haven't listened to it! We have stats that say so!

Isaac pitches "Duck Ponder" a location defense game, presumably about ducks and ponds. Claire's idea is "Cat Cafe Princess Warrior", a She-Ra meets Link's Awakening, meets a cat cafe game!

This is Make That Game, the podcast where we talk about the latest and greatest new video games... that aren't ever going to get made. We pitch 'em, you make 'em (if you want, nobody's forcing you I guess). Then we break down games we've played by game design elements we liked or didn't like so much. If you're looking for a video game design focused podcast, we might have just the one for you!

And of course, as always, we have the rapid fire round, where we generate 3 random words and come up with a game idea and design incorporating them! Needless to say, it's a riot!

This week the theme is: princess! Claire's idea has you managing princess parties and Isaac gives us the gift of cursing princesses with eternal slumber! For our discussion, Claire gives us her Honks and Bonks (it's like a review, if you haven't heard one of these before!) of Golden Glitch's time-looping adventure game, Elsinore!

This is Make That Game, the podcast where we talk about the latest and greatest new video games... that aren't ever going to get made. We pitch 'em, you make 'em (if you want, nobody's forcing you I guess). Then we break down games we've played by game design elements we liked or didn't like so much. If you're looking for a video game design focused podcast, we might have just the one for you!

And of course, as always, we have the rapid fire round, where we generate 3 random words and come up with a game idea and design incorporating them! Needless to say, it's a riot!

We start off by reading a listener's screwy game idea, and then we've decided we're going to try out doing game idea themes! This week the theme is: leaves! Claire's game is about scattering leaves on lawns and Isaac's is a competitive Leaf 'Em Up! Then Isaac talks entirely too long about Dwarf Fortress, and we learn what a skink is.

This is Make That Game, the podcast where we talk about the latest and greatest new video games... that aren't ever going to get made. We pitch 'em, you make 'em (if you want, nobody's forcing you I guess). Then we break down games we've played by game design elements we liked or didn't like so much. If you're looking for a video game design focused podcast, we might have just the one for you!

And of course, as always, we have the rapid fire round, where we generate 3 random words and come up with a game idea and design incorporating them! Needless to say, it's a riot!

It's a spooky ooky episode of Make That Game! Isaac pitches a game about a ghostly pumpkin army and Claire pitches a 5-in-1 multi-game ghost extravaganza! We also talk about Life is Strange's strange lack of accessibility, and what can make a horror game SCARY!

This is Make That Game, the shocking podcast where we talk about the latest and greatest new video games... that aren't ever going to get made. We pitch 'em, you make 'em (if you want, nobody's forcing you I guess). Then we break down games we've played by game design elements we liked or didn't like so much. If you're looking for a video game design focused podcast, we might have just the one for you!

And of course, as always, we have the rapid fire round, where we generate 3 random scary words and come up with a horrific game idea and gruesome design incorporating them! Needless to say, it's spooky!