Pursuing Pixels

Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  We've got a whole bunch of video game goodness to gab about this week—and we're even semi-timely for a change, haha—so let's get right into it...

We kick things off with Goodboy Galaxy, a *brand new* metroidvania coming to the Game Boy Advance, cartridge and all!  We hang around on the classic Nintendo handheld for a little while longer, as Randall recently polished off Metroid Fusion, now he's finding more & more time to play games again, post-graduation!! :D

From there, Kevin & John get to take yet another stab at virtual reality, this time finally getting to see what Half-Life: Alyx is all about over at our buddy Mikee's place...

Finally, John closes things out with a duo of photography games, first sharing some more thoughts on New Pokémon Snap after it has received a free update or two, followed by a glowing endorsement for Umurangi Generation—a 'current-apocalyptic' first-person adventure off the beaten path!

Timestamps:

Goodboy Galaxy  -  00:01:26

Metroid Fusion  -  00:09:56

Half-Life: Alyx + VR  -  00:28:34

New Pokémon Snap  -  00:38:12

Umurangi Generation  -  00:44:12

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Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  This week, we are once again joined by the one-and-only Matt Glanville!  We've raved about pretty much all of Matt's games on the podcast in the past, and it is truly an honor to have him on the show again, this time for a more in-depth discussion about his own work!

We chat about everything from the quick & punchy arcade action of Matt's first three indie games, to his upcoming turn-based tactical sports game, Dungeon Deathball...

And we certainly don't stop there!  Half-Life 2, virtual reality, marketing your own games, financial uncertainty, and so on...

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Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  This week, we are fortunate enough to be joined by yet another indie game developer, Matt Glanville!  We've raved about pretty much all of Matt's games on the podcast in the past, and it is truly an honor to have him on the show to talk about some video games—and he'll be on again next week for a more in-depth discussion about his work!

In the meantime, Matt & Kevin have both been playing some SNKRX and admiring its deep, but simple design—and have a strikingly similar experience with the game.  And while we're on the topic of shmups, Matt also fired up Alien Death Mob after we mentioned it a few weeks ago on the podcast...he's getting his butt kicked too!

From there, we talk about a couple of incredibly charming, and deceptively tricky, retro-inspired platformers—Miles & Kilo, which we've raved about on the podcast before, and Mekabolt, which is the first game Kevin has actually 'beat' in quite some time!

Speaking of things we've discussed on the podcast before, Matt is sinking his teeth into the Picross S Series that John has sang the praises of many times before.  He's also been getting some casual gaming in with a little one of his own, and getting some mileage out of some cute & playful Nintendo Switch demos with his son!

Finally, we wrap things up with Snakebird Primer after bringing up the game's far more difficult successor a few weeks back on the podcast, as Kevin & Matt seemingly had the same experience with the original game.

Timestamps:

SNKRX -  00:04:38

Alien Death Mob  -  00:10:57

Miles & Kilo  -  00:16:14

Mekabolt  -  00:22:05

Picross S Series  -  00:25:29

Yoshi's Crafted World & Captain Toad  -  00:34:25

Snakebird Primer  -  00:37:48

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Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels, and welcome back to another edition of 'Save it for the 'cast!'

After a bit of a hiatus, Randall was back on the podcast last week for the first time in a few months—he's done with school for good now, so it's nothing but video games from here on out... :)

All kidding aside, it was great catching up with Randall last week—so much so that we ended up chatting for 2+ hours before we started rolling, including a whole bunch of video game goodies that we're bringing to you this week!

Before we get to that, Kevin gives a quick shoutout to our pal HIS, who is not only responsible for our incredible new artwork, but also spent some time getting his ass whooped in Samurai Gunn 2 this past weekend—which is shaping up to be one of the most promising fighting games in recent memory!

Kevin is also absolutely HOOKED on Kingdom: Two Crowns again, after finally digging into the Dead Lands DLC, a seemingly *random* crossover with the Bloodstained series?  Whatever the reason for its existence, we'll take any excuse to play some more Kingdom! :D

Timestamps:

Samurai Gunn 2 -  00:01:06

Kingdom: Two Crowns  -  00:04:08

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Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  Randall is back on the podcast this week after knocking out the remainder of his chaotic school schedule—he and Kevin don’t miss a beat, so let’s talk about some video games!

Kevin kicks things off with a couple of games that he was playing with his little cousins while back home in Michigan for his Brother’s wedding recently—along with the obligatory Mario Golf: Super Rush rant.

After that, Randall & Kevin dig into Toodee and Topdee, which has been one of our most anticipated upcoming indie games for quite some time now—and now that it’s here, we can safely say there was VERY good reason for us to be so excited!  An expertly balanced blend of precision and puzzle, with the added polish and charm that truly sets this one apart as a future indie ‘classic.’  Speaking of games that take a genre and apply a small wrinkle or twist, Kevin and Randall also check out some Voidrun from Benjamin Soulé (the other half of PUNKCAKE Délicieux with Rémy Devaux, who we recently chatted with on the podcast).

Finally, Randall wraps things up by kickstarting the process on his resolution game from this past year’s Holiday Episode and finally polishing off Ori and the Blind Forest, in preparation for the game’s sequel, Will of the Wisps.  Ori tends to come up every now and again when we get on the topic of metroidvanias, and Randall reminds us why this gorgeous adventure is so memorable!

Timestamps:

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games: Tokyo 2020 -  00:05:55

Mario Golf: Super Rush  -  00:08:20

Disney TSUM TSUM Festival  -  00:13:54

Toodee and Topdee  -  00:25:05

Voidrun  -  00:34:16

Ori and the Blind Forest  -  00:42:25

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Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  This week, we’re joined again by game developer extraordinaire, dev_dwarf, to chat with him about his work—which we’ve raved about many times before on the podcast...even when he wasn’t here! :D

We’ve been huge fans of everything that Dwarf has been doing ever since we first got our hands on Lianthus, a mysterious action adventure released alongside his Noisy Bug partner, Lewmoth—who was actually our first ever guest interview on the podcast!  We chat about everything from dev_dwarf’s current & future projects, collaborating with others, coding mechanical ‘playgrounds’ for other people’s games, game jams…….

Needless to say, we could chat with Dwarf for days, and we’re super grateful to him for spending a couple of weeks chatting indie games with us, both behind-the-scenes and otherwise!

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Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  This week, Kevin is the only ‘Pixel’ in the building—but our pal (and incredibly talented game developer) dev_dwarf was gracious enough to spend some time chatting indie games with us before we dug into a deeper discussion/interview with him about his games & process, which will be out next week!

We’re obviously big fans of what the folks over at PUNKCAKE Délicieux are doing, after being in love with their first game, Antecrypt, and having a lovely chat with Rémy Devaux on the podcast a few weeks back—and their second monthly game, Metavaxx, is continuing the trend of awesomeness, blending the strategy of Minesweeper with the frantic action of an arcade shmup!  It even led to a few ‘Morkalb teaches Minesweeper’ sessions over in our Discord lately, which was a ton of fun! :D

dev_dwarf had the opportunity to check out the demo for PRODUCER (2021) from indie dev prodigy, Stuffed Wombat, which is shaping up to be quite the ‘one-of-a-kind’ experience—we also gave Gutwhale, and a couple of Wombat’s other games some love, as well!  After that, Dwarf tells Kevin (and the rest of us) why we absolutely need to check out the Hylics games, a delightfully bizarre series of RPGs that flaunts an impressive & unique claymation art style.

Before we wrap things up, Kevin rants a little bit more about his disappointment in Mario Golf: Super Rush, before cleansing the palette with Part Time UFO, a lesser-known first-party game on Nintendo Switch (and mobile) from HAL Laboratory. 

Timestamps:

Antecrypt  -  00:02:52

Metavaxx  -  00:04:07

↳  Minesweeper  -  00:05:05

PRODUCER (2021)  -  00:12:52

↳  Gutwhale  -  00:15:52

↳  qomp  -  00:21:54

Hylics 1 & 2  -  00:23:45

Mario Golf: Super Rush  -  00:34:44

Part Time UFO  -  00:37:54

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Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels, and welcome back to another edition of 'Save it for the 'cast!'

Before we get the video game chit chat going this week, Kevin gives some quick updates on a few new things we've got going on...

First things first, it's been an absolute pleasure having the guests we've had on the show recently, and we're looking forward to bringing you more conversations with some of our favorite developers—not only for interviews, but to geek out about indie & retro games with them, as well!  The next two on deck: our pals dev_dwarf & Matt Glanville.

We also officially announce The PP Potpourri Club—a 'book club' consisting of five hand-selected 'name your price' (aka: free) indie games each week—which we will be releasing as a series of collections on our itchio page!

Lastly, we're going to be foregoing the previously mentioned Patreon from a few weeks back in favor of keeping everything all in one place over on our Ko-fi page—and now that they have announced membership tiers for all members, we will be rolling out a few *cool* perks really, really soon! :D

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Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  We’re back at it again this week, kicking things off with one of Kevin’s most anticipated releases on Nintendo Switch this year, Mario Golf: Super Rush.  Unfortunately, it’s a pretty big time bust in his opinion...but there is always hope for things getting smoothed out in future updates—at the very least, it’ll definitely be nice to see some new courses!

Kevin’s also been playing some Snakebird lately, which has left him scratching his head after clearing only a handful of levels.  After that, John finally takes a deeper dive into some games from one of our favorite indie developers out there, Kultisti, and we chat about a couple of their more recent releases!  We also touch upon Lonely People Potion Shop once again, which was their offering to the Care Package Bundle, put together by our pal, JUSTCAMH.

Timestamps:

Mario Golf: Super Rush  -  00:01:35

Snakebird  -  00:16:20

More awesome games from Kultisti  -  00:22:37

↳  Cats n Wires  -  00:23:36

↳  Cog Owl  -  00:28:04

↳  Lonely People Potion Shop  -  00:30:44

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Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  This week, our friend (and also a game designer & composer) Megan Carnes joins us once again, this time to chat a little more about her work!

We dig into all sorts of different topics with Megan this time around, including a dive into her first game, inter-view, her musical background and influences, the logistics of balancing life and work as a freelancing artist & independent game designer, and much more…

We’re looking forward to having some more guests on the show in the future and already have a couple more of our favorite game designers lined up for future episodes—can’t wait to start bringing y’all some more ‘behind-the-scenes’ discussions on the week’s when we aren’t releasing one of our core, numbered episodes.

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