Vernacular Games

Vernacular Games

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Vernacular Games episodes

  • Yggdrasil's Roots
    Another Piece of the Grey Matter puzzle. The mindscape of a miner with a love of Norse Mythology and a fear of trees. Manifesting as an underground temple encroached upon by the roots of Yggdrasil, the innards and sap of the tree imitate the beings told of in Norse lore . Were it not for his Dendrophobia, this would be a dream come true. As it stands it is a nightmare he'll be hard pressed to leave.
    7 min
  • Vernacademia 02 -- Dissonances
    An examination of the dissonance that can occur when the Mechanical and Narvisaudal Identity of a game are at odds with each other
    You can find the rest of the playlist at:
    https://soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac/sets/vernacademia-podcast-season-2
    Our Website: https://www.vernaculargames.com/
    Our Minds: https://www.minds.com/vernaculargames/
    Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VernacularGames/
    Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/VernacularGames?lang=en
    Our Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac
    Our Audius: https://audius.co/vernaculargames
    Cliff Notes:
    00:08 Introduction
    00:24 What are Mechanics
    00:33 Developer Intention
    00:51 Dissonanace Overview
    01:27 Non-Harmonious Alignment Overview
    01:45 Mechanical Dissonance in Pokemon
    04:44 How could we solve this?
    05:31 Narvisaudal Dissonance
    05:57 Cut-Scene Guns
    07:38 Accepted Narvisaudal Dissonance
    09:04 Non-Harmonious Alignment
    10:11 Sonic R and Non-Harmonious Alignment
    12:23 Cast Summary
    14 min
  • Starfall Station
    The theme of the mindscape of an Astrologer with a crippling fear of falling. Their world manifests as a starbound research center built around a black hole. Here one could very well fall forever, and were it not for the Astrologer's fascination with celestial bodies she would have naught to fear...
    8 min
  • Vernacademia 01 -- Introduction
    The First podcast of Season 2. Here we do a brief recap of the things we went over in Season 1
    You can find the rest of the playlist at:
    https://soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac/sets/vernacademia-podcast-season-2
    Our Website: https://www.vernaculargames.com/
    Our Minds: https://www.minds.com/vernaculargames/
    Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VernacularGames/
    Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/VernacularGames?lang=en
    Our Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac
    Our Audius: https://audius.co/vernaculargames
    Cliff Notes
    00:06 Changes for this Season
    00:27 Recap Start
    00:44 The Composite Experience
    01:11 Narvisaud
    02:17 Mechanical Layers
    03:07 Game Balance
    05:09 Terminology
    05:36 Game Object
    05:41 Player Object
    05:53 Non-Player Object
    06:11 Objectives
    06:26 Obstacles
    06:35 Tense Obstacles
    06:51 Relaxed Obstacles
    07:08 Traps
    07:23 Agency
    07:39 Agents
    08:01 Foes
    08:23 Assets
    08:42 Resource
    08:50 Currency
    09:11 Consumables
    09:21 Tools
    09:36 Collectibles
    09:55 Collectible Parts
    10:12 Wrap Up
    10:58 Sign Off
    12 min
  • Mathmatica Cast 2 -- Softy! Interview
    In this cast we take a moment to talk to our soundtech on staff for the game Legends of Mathmatica, Under the Shadow of Certainty.
    You can find Softy! at:
    Link Tree
    https://linktr.ee/softy_music
    Soundcloud
    https://soundcloud.com/softestboi
    Twitter
    https://twitter.com/Softy_Music
    Instagram
    https://www.instagram.com/softy_music/
    Patreon
    https://www.patreon.com/softymusic
    Youtube
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG_kB2Yp-aCxYj6q4DgtWKQ
    Discord https://discord.com/channels/715915873315192844/715915873969242165
    Spotify
    https://open.spotify.com/artist/6lVyJs7tl1zEoZ56t1WzHD?si=usduDOp8QIaNxzbmeWwfmg
    58 min
  • Solar Grave
    The final track of The Ballad of the Sun Crusher. Zako 900 has finally reached its destination and begins the arduous task of extinguishing the sun. It dives through the outer layers of heat and flame, through the molten mantle, past man made factories that were somehow placed within, to reach the core. There it enacts the chain reaction, that destabilizes that core, causing it all to implode into a powerful black hole. And though it tries to escape, Zako and, soon, much of its home solar system are sucked into the black maw that remains. The task is done and so too is the machine that embarked upon it. But at what cost?
    9 min
  • Through Verdant Grandeur
    Track 4 in the five part Album Ballad of the Sun Crusher. Zako 900's journey continues as it makes one last stop at an unsettled Earth like planet that teems with life and verdure. We follow the wayward robot as it blasts through forests, oceans, caves and volcanoes before launching back into space for the final sojourn
    7 min
  • Rise To The Command
    Track 3 of the Ballad of the Sun Crusher. We continue to follow Zako 900 as he encounters an abandoned space colony and charges through it's inner workings to reach, dislodge and absorb energy from its core, destroying the colony in the process. A trial run for its imminent encounter with the Sun.
    5 min
  • Frigid Fields Of Stone
    Track 2 of the Sun Crusher's Ballad, we follow along as Zako 900 travels through the emptiness of space into a densely populated asteroid field, zipping up, over, around, and through the many asteroids and meteors that comprise the field.
    5 min

About Vernacular Games

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An indie game development group with a focus on making unique content that pushes the medium forward creatively and makes opportunities for others to create content within said medium.