Regla & Fwimsan have an award-winning conversation about Nintendo PR & Pokémon, devs talking about games early in development, and live service games. As if that weren't exciting enough, the 2nd half of this episode discussing randomizers and procedurally-generated content is included FREE for all listeners! 

0:04:40 Speedrunning revisited

0:10:54 Nintendo & Pokémon Scarlet & Violet update

0:13:50 Uhh...long-term product revenue curve? Marketing?

0:20:18 Back to Pokémon, Nintendo PR

0:34:25 Smash tournaments, Nintendo's Competitive team

0:49:40 Talking about games early in development

1:02:20 Live service games, balance, & content release schedules

1:09:12 Randomizers

1:24:49 Nintendo & randomizers

1:28:12 Procedurally-generated content

1:34:43 Problems with randomizers, replayability

1:42:37 Meow

1:46:14 Should pro game devs release randomizers?

1:52:10 Game sales data

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