Remap Radio

Remap might be on vacation this week, but our podcasts aren’t, and recently, Patrick’s been busy talking to some video game developers. In this episode, Patrick catches up with Hi-Fi Rush game director John Johanas, who’s been on either a Waypoint or Remap podcast three times this year?! That’s a record. This time, John and Patrick discuss what it means to leave a project behind. Elsewhere, Patrick chats with two creatives—producer David Erosa and creative director Enrique Cabeza—who helped make one of Remap’s 2023 favorites, Blasphemous 2.

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Now that the SAG-Aftra strike is finally over, we're finally releasing the final, exremely apt episode of My Turn: Armageddon. The end of the world is fast approaching and humanity's last line of defense depends on a group of Rowdy Oil Drilers. Come with us and cringe at the late 90's slurs, laugh at the ridiculous premises, and revel in a dramatic reading of Roger Ebert's absolute extinction-level-event of a review.

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Rob and Patrick are delighted to welcome Aftermath co-founder Luke Plunkett on Sports! to discuss what it means to “retire” from playing sports recreationally, the chaotic and frustrating rise of overly nuanced replay reviews in every sport, and preview the NBA season. By preview, of course, we mean talk about how nobody actually watches the first months of basketball.

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With the holidays nearly upon us, Janet Garcia rejoins the Remap crew—yes, including Rob!—to chat about Patrick’s time with the new Steam Deck OLED, what to make of the video game industry’s response (or lack thereof) to the ongoing crisis in Gaza, and more. We’re playing plenty of video games, too, including Thirsty Suitors, The Talos Principle 2, WarioWare: Move It!, and…The Knights of the Old Republic? Finally, The Question Bucket has us weigh in on recent layoffs from a different angle: how to handle the sudden disruption that is losing your job.

Discussed: Steam Deck OLED 1:27, Meg Jayanth Dropped from Golden Joysticks 37:30, Thirsty Suitors 1:02:22, Talos Principle 2 1:21:22, WarioWare Move It 1:35:13, KOTOR 1 1:43:05, The Question Bucket 1:53:33, Outro and Announcements 2:15:32

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Rob couldn’t join us for Remap Radio this week, but he’ll be back next week! Thankfully, Janet Garcia is back with the rest of the crew to talk through the endless parade of video game news, like more layoffs, a live-action Zelda movie, GTA 6 on the horizon, serious questions over live service games, surprising new game media adventures, and more. There’s an equally endless parade of games, as well, including Jusant, Fashion Dreamer, World of Horror, and others.

Discussed: Layoffs at Ubisoft Montreal 16:18, Aftermath Launches 20:11, Live Service Games at WB and Sony 46:18, The Legend of Zelda Move Announced 1:08:03, Fashion Dreamer 1:20:37, World of Horror 1:39:47, Steam Deck OLED 1:51:29, Jusant 1:59:53, The Question Bucket 2:14:16

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We’re thrilled to welcome back Janet Garcia, in which we spend a depressingly long time unpacking the shocking and wide-ranging layoffs at Bungie, and what it says about a year of incredible games clashing with a year of incredible labor turmoil. In-between discussions of 90s Chicago sports, we talk about the highs and lows of Super Mario Bros. Wonder multiplayer, trying to crack long RPGs, and more exploits in buying unnecessary arcade machines.

Discussed: Rolling Layoffs at Sony hit Bungie 21:49, Baldur's Gate 3 51:34, Super Mario Bros. Wonder 1:07:58, The Question Bucket 1:23:13, Outro and Announcements 1:41:10

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Patrick kicks off Remap’s game developer interview series with Cocoon, a game of the year caliber puzzle game about guiding a little insect friend through a dangerous journey. Lead audio director Jakob Schmid and lead art director Erwin Kho join Patrick in a wide-ranging conversation about everything from being traumatized by movies like Alien and Fire in the Sky at young ages, to realizing you basically grew up next to your creative partner and didn’t even know it. They also talk a whole lot about what it was like building one of this year’s best games.

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We’re excited to welcome Janet Garcia (Pen to Pixels, Kinda Funny, MinnMax) to Remap Radio this week, because there’s just a gauntlet of gaming bangers to talk about, between the arrival of a brand-new Remedy game, Alan Wake 2, and spending lots of time with Spider-Man 2. Patrick has issues with how Super Mario Bros. Wonder plays when kids are involved, and the group discovers that the purchase of a Ms. Pac-Man machine will not solve all of life’s problems.

Discussed: Alan Wake 2 13:46, Spider Man 2 1:16:46, Super Mario Wonder 1:47:13, The Question Bucket 1:52:45

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Patrick and Rob are joined by YouTube creator and DIY enthusiast Chris Decker to discuss what it’s like to propose building your own heated driveway and have your wife believe it’s not possible. But Chris pulled it off, and by the end, convinces Rob and Patrick they should dream big, too.

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We’re once again joined by Carli Velocci, this time to reveal why we started working with Carli in the first place: Remap has a new website! We’re publishing words again! There are changes coming to the tiers! But it’s all good and exciting news, and to celebrate, we’re doing something exciting: opening up The Question Bucket again! But we still have plenty of games to talk about, including Patrick cheating to beat Blasphemous 2, and Carli working through mixed feelings about Devolver’s Wizard With a Gun. But hey, at least Spider-Man 2 seems real good!

Discussed: The New Remap Radio Dot Com 5:14, Analogue Pocket 34:43, The Question Bucket 36:24, Forza Motorsport 7 1:15:35, Total War Pharaoh 1:19:48, Blasphemous 2 1:30:14, Wizard with a Gun 1:44:01, Spider Man 2 1:55:38, Steam Next Fest Demos 2:02:30, Outro and Announcements 2:08:38

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