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Taking a Smoke Break in RUIN: Chapter 0

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Today we're talking about RUIN: Chapter 0 by Official Electric! A game about the 35th anniversary of the hit game RUIN and taking a smoke break.


Get RUIN: Chapter 0 on itch.io!!! Follow Official Electric's work on itch.io OR their VERY GOOD website!


Discussed in the episode:

  • RUIN Ch.O Suite by 8M on Bandcamp
  • A Year with Swollen Appendices: The Diary of Brian Eno by Brian Eno (the book that the quote Robin reads is from)

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Art by Tara Crawford

Theme music by _amaranthine

Additional sounds by Boqeh

Produced and edited by AJ Fillari

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Timecodes:

  • (00:00) - Lettuce is evil
  • (00:50) - THE GANG IS BACK TOGETHER AGAIN
  • (01:28) - Kim has a totally different type of freaky taste
  • (02:19) - What is RUIN: Chapter 0
  • (04:03) - The game is an art piece
  • (05:17) - It is so hard to talk about this game without spoilers
  • (06:23) - Look we tried to talk about it without spoilers
  • (06:43) - Spoiler time
  • (06:53) - I think I liked it
  • (08:26) - Robin says something coherent about the aesthetics of incoherence
  • (10:16) - Capturing childhood uncertainty and memory
  • (17:09) - The game might hate you?
  • (19:57) - The genre shifts
  • (24:47) - The design is just so good
  • (26:04) - Big Takeaways
  • (26:19) - Kim's Big Takeaway
  • (28:37) - Chase's Big Takeaway
  • (30:48) - AJ's Big Takeaway
  • (33:55) - Goblin's Big Takeaway
  • (34:03) - Robin's Big Takeaway
  • (37:06) - Hell yeah gang
  • (37:35) - Tell us what you think about the game!
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