Can a Game Be the Work of One Genius?

The Killscreen Podcast · Oct 8, 2026 · 57m · transcript

I open with a fan who has rebuilt P.T. from its own PS4 code, which raises the question under the whole hour: when a game can disappear, who is responsible for keeping it? Danny Snelson calls in from New York with a ZipDeck in tow, and we take a detour through Zach Cregger's Resident Evil, which Danny calls a faithful betrayal.

The A story is my interview with Murlo, the Manchester producer Chris Pell, who left a decade of DJing to build Something Beautiful alone, a point-and-click rhythm game with an album inside it and jukeboxes made of flesh. I play three clips from our conversation: why…