Yussef comes onto the show tot talk about the origin of critical writing online and how it evolved through forum then later blogging, the culture behind games crit, liminal literary spaces, how games crit has evolved, the weird cold war politics of Call of Duty: Black Ops, and what it's like to be an editor.

Joining us this week is Nicholas O'Brien, creator of environmental conscious visual novel "The Last Survey", entirely hand drawn / animated in charcoal. Nicholas talks to us about how he came to create the project and the sustained impact of our economy on the globe.

We sit down for a speculative discussion on the future of theatre & the performance arts in the quarantine era. Is HLVR:AI and other live Twitch events a sign of things to come? How can we build infrastructure and software that caters to this purpose instead of simply improvising solutions via gaming?

Jack Hart, our guest this week, discusses the struggles of games academia, public funding institutions, and what it's like to go from academic studies of games to making them.

James Johnston of Rude Ghost comes on the show to talk about the art of a good, wacky trailer, how producing live action media works, Pixel Puzzle Makeout League, and the evolution of visual novels.

Master game memester Kino Fabino joins us to talk about the anatomy of internet humor, what goes into a good joke, YouTube Poop culture, and the impact of copyright on preserving the history of internet humor.

We're joined by some of the crew at Toge Productions to talk about the indie scene in Indonesia, what it was like developing Coffee Talk, working with Mojiken, and running an independent publisher.

Everyone from the team at D-Cell games comes on to talk about their new project, Unbeatable, a story-driven rhythm game with visual novel elements inspired by the works of anime production houses like Studio Trigger (Special Episode Cover to celebrate!)

They talk about how the team came together, what the project originally looked like, and the exciting future that lays ahead for this visually stunning indie game.

Tim Sutton (@flamingbuttwind) joins us to talk about the production of the cult classic youtube series, Marble Hornets. We talk about what it was like to make the show and star in it.

Spoiler Warning: General talk about Marble Hornets across the entire show, specific spoiler talk starts at the 18 minute mark and ends at the 1h42 mark

Content Warning: Discussing depictions of mental health

Ewan joins us to discuss the influence of war on American architecture, the birth of brutalism & post-modernist styles, CONTROL, and the politics of buildings.

War's influence on american architecture

Brutalism

Post Modern architecture

Control

Architecture trends on games

Ewan's architecture criticism

How Ewan got into games criticism

Freelance writing

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Ewan's twitter - https://twitter.com/ewanwilson4