Someone Should Make This

We talk Graphics Cards, Star Renegades, and listener ideas! Matt resurrects the Car Combat genre with a thumping new take, and Daanish has a germ of an idea that morphs into... something.

We talk Squadrons troubles, Daanish wants to recreate his awful Mass Effect 2 ending and Jeff makes up for rules for Immortality.

Matt and Jeff are stressed from pre-order season, while Daanish is sleepy from a marathon session of Hot Shot Racing. Jeff pitches Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes ... in SPACE! And Daanish wants to play all his games at the same time.

Jeff is back from a vacation / drug run, Matt and Daanish are regular Bob Villas, the introduction of SSMT Traffic!, and the return of the much acclaimed SSMT AfterParty! Also a couple pretty darn good pitches.

After a week off, the gang is back with their biggest* show yet! We got Mario Kart Live talk, Avengers talk, and an awesome mailbag!! Not to mention the great pitches, and out first ever SSMT:After Party - the show AFTER the show! Stuned tuned after the credits to hear about how Daanish prepared himself from head to toe in protection to go see Tenet, audio talk, more thoughts on Avengers and the worst bug Matt had ever seen. It's burst at the seams with quality** content!!

* ""biggest" refers to the bloated runtime of 1 hr and 46 min

** quality is debatable

Veteran board game designer Jordan Goddard from Jordan & Mandy Games (Lotus, Death Note, Gates of Delirium ) joins us for a deep-dive into the world of board games and the recent documentary Game Master. And in an unprecedented move, Jordan pitches a game that was far into active development before being put aside. YOU can pick up the baton for this amazing pitch and carry it to the finish line!

No guest this week mean the return of self-indulgent rambling! We talk Avengers, Mortal Shell, clear ice, and an EPIC Adkins Report. Also Jeff pitches an action game with a really interesting hook, and Matt

The superstar guests keep rolling, this week we welcome from Riot Games: our favorite Animation Ace, Charcoal Champion, and Delightful Developer, Lana Bachynski. We spend 20 minutes talking about how to freeze water and there's some killer game pitches too. Stay tuned after the credits for a spoiler discussion of The Outer Wilds, one of our favorite games of all time.

Acclaimed game designer and creator of Thomas Was Alone and John Wick Hex, Mike Bithell joins the podcast! Join us for an intelligent and nuanced discussion on the best way for a shape-shifting creature to sow discord and mistrust among a group of humans resulting in mass carnage and death.

Writer, director, and Mortal Kombat lore-aficionado Ben Mekler joins the podcast this week to talk about Mortal Podkast, Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts, and his vision for a LucasArts-style, Dystopic, Musical, Eco-Noir Heist Adventure game. Another one of those!