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- 0:16It's Nick and John, OH. Yeah.
- 0:19On the WASD and Beyond podcast. Trying to get along with
- 0:21everybody. I'd say you do.
- 0:25I think so, yeah. I think, I think sometimes you,
- 0:31I think sometimes you, you come off with a fuck you attitude
- 0:38towards a lot of people though, You know what I mean?
- 0:40Like it's one of those things where like you'll just be
- 0:42chilling, someone will say something and you're like, no,
- 0:47and, and, and everybody goes Askew you and you're like I said
- 0:55no. And then it just moves on.
- 0:59It's magic. It's truly magical how you
- 1:01disarm people. I'm I'm glad I thank you.
- 1:08No, it's good. We like disarming people because
- 1:12then once you disarm them, you can intro the show.
- 1:15Hey everybody, welcome back. My name is Nick and this is
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- 3:02that's the rule. Anyways, let's hop right in,
- 3:07actually, before we hop into our main topic, John.
- 3:13Yeah. What have you been playing this
- 3:15week, buddy? What have I been playing this
- 3:17week? I've been playing a lot of rat
- 3:20coin. I hate you for that.
- 3:24No, you don't. Oh.
- 3:26My God, it's so much rat coin. It's.
- 3:28Been a load of fun. It's crazy, just like all of the
- 3:37IT tickles that part of my brain that likes to gamble.
- 3:41Yeah, and it's even better because it cost me no money
- 3:45except to buy the game. You're not losing anything,
- 3:49Raqua. It's fun though, because.
- 3:51You're losing hours and hours of your life.
- 3:54Yeah, but like think about it like all like the it's
- 3:58essentially bolatro if a coin pusher.
- 4:01Yeah, it's very Bolatro ask. It's cool.
- 4:03And I think we need more games like that.
- 4:05But I mean, you could. Oh my God a claw machine version
- 4:10of this would be sick. I always hate the call machines.
- 4:15I did. I did too.
- 4:15But think about it, you just with your mouth just.
- 4:18Given I also always hated coin pushers and rat coin makes it
- 4:21fun. We used to kick the coin pushers
- 4:26until the coins. Yeah, we cheated.
- 4:28Yeah, yeah. But you know, that was fun.
- 4:32The gas station clerk didn't think so.
- 4:34Oh. Well.
- 4:35Yeah, Have you, have you been playing anything else other than
- 4:38rat Coin? Just my usual games, you know, I
- 4:44always play a little bit of Baldur's Gate.
- 4:46Yep, a little bit of Risk of Rain.
- 4:48Yep, a little bit of Isaac. Yep, the huge.
- 4:53Yeah. I think for me it's been a lot
- 4:57of rat coin. Obviously you've seen me load up
- 5:00Isaac a few times and play Isaac because I watch you play Isaac
- 5:04and I go, I'm going to play Isaac and I'm going to do what
- 5:06he's doing in Isaac, and I never do what John's doing in Isaac
- 5:09because I can't do that. You got to rig it very.
- 5:12Good at the game. You got to rig it.
- 5:14It always has been. I love that game.
- 5:18I love that fucking game. I did play Super B Boy 3.
- 5:23DI discussed it with Brody. It's really the camera, man.
- 5:30It's the camera. If you're going to make a 3D
- 5:32game like that, I need to be able to control the camera.
- 5:35Yeah, and that's that's a fair criticism.
- 5:38Like, I need to do a whole 360 on it.
- 5:41I need to be able to make sure that Meat Boy is just jumping
- 5:44where I need him to jump. It's a difficult game by design,
- 5:47I understand that. Camera angles get janky that
- 5:49that's not added difficulty, it's frustration.
- 5:52Exact and difficulty and frustration for me in gaming is
- 5:55too. Like obviously they're two
- 5:56different things entirely. I don't mind being frustrated
- 6:00here and there if it's my fault. Yeah.
- 6:03If I'm ignoring key mechanics and trying to brute force
- 6:06through something, that's my fault.
- 6:08This is just, hey man, I overshot that because I can't
- 6:13gauge how high something is and it's just like it's taking me
- 6:18out a bit. But I want to keep playing
- 6:20because I love that franchise. I love Super Meat Boys so fuck
- 6:24much. I love that little fucked up
- 6:25hamburger. I love it.
- 6:29I've always I. Never had.
- 6:30I never gave it much love. The rage baiting platform games
- 6:34have never been my thing because I used to get real angry as a
- 6:38kid. Yep.
- 6:40And super, really, super really boy wouldn't have been good for
- 6:43me. I played it on the New Ground
- 6:46days, not the 360 days. I did play on 360, but I played
- 6:49like, for me, like Alien Hominid.
- 6:53Oh yeah. Back on 360, was it still like
- 6:55under Edmond? I don't know, I don't know,
- 6:59'cause I back then I, I wasn't really like super deep in the,
- 7:03the weeds as I am now with like understanding, like who's
- 7:06involved in what and really understanding how IPS work when
- 7:10it comes to intellectual property rights and how people
- 7:14can just lose those things, which sucks.
- 7:18And I always thought we deserved a Super Meat Boy cartoon, but an
- 7:21Adult Swim, but we never got that.
- 7:23I also thought we also deserved a Isaac cartoon.
- 7:28Ed McMillan was a designer on Super Meat Boy for the 360.
- 7:32OK. I know he was not on this new 3D
- 7:35Super Meat Boy. He was very vocal about that.
- 7:40He was like, I don't have anything to do with that.
- 7:42He goes, it's cool. He gave it there.
- 7:43He gave it his blessing. I'm sure he I'm sure he talked
- 7:48to them like, hey, don't you know, don't lose the the heart
- 7:51of the game, which is XY and Z. But yeah, it needs to be worked
- 7:55on. But that's Super Meat Boy.
- 7:58What else? I'm playing, man.
- 7:59I haven't really been playing Marathon a lot.
- 8:02Not out of like disliking the game.
- 8:06I just think it needs to add some more for me to really come
- 8:08back. And it is.
- 8:09But whatever, John. Yeah.
- 8:15You ready to hop into our main topic?
- 8:17I think I'm ready to hop into our main topic.
- 8:19Let's do it. It's that time of year, folks,
- 8:21where John and I hop on the show together and we talk about the
- 8:24triple I initiative. John actually is the one who got
- 8:29me hip to this a couple years back.
- 8:32And now starting what last year we started actually recording
- 8:35our episodes. So starting last year we started
- 8:38doing this, which this will be a yearly thing for him and I.
- 8:41This showcase is special for a few reasons.
- 8:44One, it really shines a light on all the indie games out there
- 8:48that are being created by very talented and passionate teams 2
- 8:53it's all games no breaks. This does not have the typical
- 8:56fucking buy our energy drink or thank you to like Universal
- 9:01Studios type shit or whatever else.
- 9:04This is just a no way exactly just.
- 9:07Trailers. These are the games we're going
- 9:10to give you gameplay where we can.
- 9:12I love that about them, too. We're seeing a lot of gameplay
- 9:14here and it's just, it's again, it's all games, no breaks.
- 9:18I love it and I love this presentation.
- 9:23Let's hop into the first game. Prove you're human.
- 9:28So prove you're human. This is going to be this is
- 9:33going to be a heartbreak of a game, I think in a good way.
- 9:36I think there's going to be a lot of philosophical, spiritual
- 9:40kind of questions posed within this game.
- 9:45And. It's cool.
- 9:47An Android that is convinced that they're human and is also
- 9:51trying to, well, you know, prove that they're human.
- 9:57The captcha idea I liked a lot. Oh, it was so cool, I thought.
- 10:02That was neat. I thought all the different
- 10:04scenarios that you're seeing throughout the game was pretty
- 10:08neat as well. A lot of the only issue I took
- 10:12for a moment I was like, that's just Glados.
- 10:16No, it's not. It's not Glados.
- 10:19You can tell because she wasn't evil to you once the entire
- 10:22time. She wasn't, we don't know that,
- 10:24but like the design, like other than the human face, I was like,
- 10:28it just looks like her for a minute there, but it doesn't.
- 10:32It does. Design a big machine though.
- 10:36Yeah, I get what you're saying. It is.
- 10:42It is surreal because of how creepy it is.
- 10:44It is very. What's it?
- 10:46What's it called? Uncanny Valley.
- 10:50Uncanny. Yeah.
- 10:50The uncanny valley, Yeah, looks human, but something's wrong.
- 10:58It's like half the people who shop at Walmart man.
- 11:02It's just you anyways. I find myself in Walmart often.
- 11:07It's actually a little bit more than half.
- 11:10Last time we went, there was and I told Perry, she knows I don't
- 11:15go. She talked me into it once and
- 11:17there was a little person who came up to me and I thought they
- 11:22needed help and I was like, oh hey, what's going on?
- 11:24They go little, little. This is not the terms they used.
- 11:27They said little person wrestling.
- 11:29And I went, I looked at Perry and went Walmart.
- 11:33She was. Cute her.
- 11:35Only response was God fucking damn it she was.
- 11:39Of course they would go up to you anyways.
- 11:43Do you think maybe they were inviting you?
- 11:46They were. They gave me a flyer to go to
- 11:48the Little People restaurant. Too.
- 11:50Oh, I thought you meant to participate.
- 11:55Under X game Alcahest this. Do you want to intro it?
- 12:03Yeah, Alka has. So I believe this is inspired by
- 12:09Might and Magic. I think it's an old Arcade
- 12:12Studios title. Yes.
- 12:15And I was very like, I was so puzzled by it because I didn't
- 12:20catch the name of it in the first time through, but it was
- 12:25giving me Dishonored vibes throughout the entire trailer
- 12:28that we saw. You know, it doesn't play like
- 12:30Dishonored exactly, but something about it felt
- 12:32familiar, which makes it knowing what I know now.
- 12:35That is the old Arcade Studios title that's inspired by it.
- 12:42It looks so cool. I this is on this is this is
- 12:46high on my radar. I am looking forward to this.
- 12:49It's one of the things that I actually put on my wish list.
- 12:53This game looked visceral, it looked angry.
- 13:01It the animations were stellar. From what we've seen.
- 13:05The bodies of the Imps or the goblins, whatever you want to
- 13:09call those in this instance, they had heft and weights to
- 13:13them when you hit them. There's magic, there's potions.
- 13:17It reminded me a lot of of Might and Magic for sure, and I'm here
- 13:24for it. That game will be purchased by
- 13:26me. I I think like an old, like an
- 13:29Arcane Studios dev that worked on my imagine, like called them
- 13:32out on Twitter and said, hey, this looks like a little
- 13:35familiar or something. And the people responded back
- 13:39like, yeah, might and Magic like actually inspired this project.
- 13:43Good. Pretty cool for that, Yeah.
- 13:45Absolutely. Yeah.
- 13:46I mean, good. I mean, we got this coming out
- 13:50or you know what? Yeah, Dark Messiah of My Magic
- 13:53is what this reminds exactly that, Yes, but it also reminded
- 13:57me of that new game, Fate Keeper, that is coming out and
- 14:02I'm extremely excited for Fate Keeper.
- 14:04That's another game that's high on my radar right now.
- 14:06Fate Keeper, The Blood of Dawn Walker is also a game where it's
- 14:09like I need. That's the day one purchase.
- 14:12I'm looking forward to that one as well.
- 14:14Yeah, So fuck yeah, dude. I mean, we're off to such a good
- 14:18start here. There's going to be a couple
- 14:19things. We kind of just breeze through
- 14:22I'm sure on this. List, you know, there were a lot
- 14:25of games showing off like I said, or like we said, it's it's
- 14:29two or three minute trailers of the most jammed within a 45
- 14:33minute show there was a. Lot it's a lot.
- 14:37I will intro this next one. We had lost Railway roguelike
- 14:41cooperative 2D survival horror game with platforming elements.
- 14:47This looked fun play with your friends type game.
- 14:49I I I like this I like the style of this game.
- 14:51I thought it was neat and again with the like the art style I
- 14:56really dug it. I I it looks like this will be a
- 14:59fun game to frustrate your friends during.
- 15:04It looks kind of tactical. It looks kind of tactical.
- 15:08Yes, it did. It did.
- 15:11It absolutely did. But like I'm saying, like I know
- 15:13I'm going to frustrate the fuck out of all you've played in this
- 15:16game. Not going to be good.
- 15:19You'll have to forgive me the way I structured my notes, they
- 15:23aren't actually in order of what was shown.
- 15:28You're so chaotic. Well, you know, 'cause I
- 15:33figured, well I figured you weren't going to have time to
- 15:35watch them while you're at work today.
- 15:36So I I have 3 categories as games I'm interested in.
- 15:40Games I think you are interested in 'cause I was going to send
- 15:43you a short list and then general games that look cool but
- 15:47maybe aren't super high on my radar.
- 15:49OK, got it. We can work through this.
- 15:53We can work through this. I'm just going to go through
- 15:56some of these, right? Like some of these we're going
- 15:58to definitely talk about. But like you know, Karen had has
- 16:01free DLC this summer. That's cool.
- 16:04Evan already plays it one of one of another hosts of the show.
- 16:09He loves. It great time with it, yeah.
- 16:10Noah Noah, host of the IT Came From Screen Box podcast.
- 16:14He loves this game a lot too I believe.
- 16:19For Steam Deck, I thought he no. Maybe I I don't think I've ever
- 16:23heard no one talk about it. I thought he did.
- 16:25It may just be Evan. I know Evan does.
- 16:29Yes, spacecraft. What do you think of that, bud?
- 16:34Spacecraft looks super cool. I know it's they showed off a
- 16:37lot of mining today. I'm wondering if like there's
- 16:41also like automations for processing it into different
- 16:46forms, maybe that's going to that's going to scratch an itch
- 16:49for me, a satisfactory itch. It will not for me.
- 16:55It looks good though. But that's the thing, it looks
- 16:58good. It looks like it's be a fun time
- 16:59for a lot of people, but it's just not up my alley.
- 17:02Neither was this Rift of the Rift of the Necromancy.
- 17:08Of the record Necro Dancer. Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, OK, yeah,
- 17:13yeah. Riff, The riff of the Necro
- 17:14Dancer. I never liked the Guitar Hero
- 17:17game. Neither did I.
- 17:20I fucked. I fucked my nose up there.
- 17:21That's why I wrote. These I mean this is like this
- 17:25like OK hold on riff of the necro dancer is like already a
- 17:29thing. This is just an undertale like
- 17:31DLC. Oh, is it?
- 17:34Yeah, yeah. OK, yeah, it's still not my
- 17:37thing. I don't care for either games
- 17:40personally. The rhythm games, they're cool
- 17:43and the people that are into them are really going to be into
- 17:46this. Like I know Morgan.
- 17:49Morgan. Loves rhythm games and also
- 17:52Undertale. Yeah, so it's perfect for him.
- 17:56Yeah. So there's that.
- 17:58We had thickest thieves. Thickest thieves?
- 18:02Sorry, no, no, go on, go on. Thickest thieves I saw, I don't
- 18:07think it was the last triple I initiative but I think it was
- 18:12the the the game awards before last.
- 18:15I think this when I first saw it and it immediately sparked my
- 18:19interest because for years now I have been itching for a self a
- 18:23Co-op stealth game. Because really the only Co-op
- 18:29self games in my memories are besides Payday.
- 18:33If you choose to play it stealthily is like an old
- 18:41there's. It's a Tom Clancy game.
- 18:43I'm blanking on the name. Splinter Cell.
- 18:45Yeah, there's there's an old like Co-op Splinter Cell game.
- 18:49I think I could be making that up entirely.
- 19:00What game was that? I mean no, you could do Co-op
- 19:04and Splinter Cell, chaos theory, conviction and blacklist.
- 19:09Yeah, you can. Yep.
- 19:11I I might have been making memories out of all three of
- 19:14them, convincing myself it was the same game.
- 19:17I miss splinter cells so fucking.
- 19:19I also miss Splinter Cell. Fucking miss Sam Fisher.
- 19:24This this was like Payday, but stealth.
- 19:28Full stealth, Yeah. And I think that we need more of
- 19:32these heist type games. Yeah.
- 19:35So this is something I'm going to check out with friends for
- 19:38sure. I'm going to wait and see how
- 19:39you guys all play it. And then I'll be like, OK, I'll
- 19:42hop in eventually here when people are done playing it.
- 19:45And I'll be like have to beg everybody to play with me,
- 19:47though. I'll probably walk away from my
- 19:48computer and not play it after I accept it.
- 19:51But but it does look cool. I like the mechanics that that
- 19:55shows off. I like the style.
- 19:57I like the time period it's showing.
- 19:59I like I like how it looks to be played.
- 20:02So it looks cool. Romestad.
- 20:07Romestad is there's a few of them on this list is like a a
- 20:12not so cozy cozy game. It's like a new genre showing
- 20:16up. I'm, I'm kind of fucking with it
- 20:18a little bit. Welcome to depression, but also
- 20:25you can do this. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
- 20:29I think I preferred the other not so cozy cozy game on this
- 20:33list. I can't.
- 20:38We'll get to that one. I have that.
- 20:40Yeah, we'll get to it. But it doesn't look bad by any
- 20:44means. In fact, it looks really cool.
- 20:50It looks fun, it's just not a game for me.
- 20:55Yeah, I agree. I want to try it but at the same
- 20:59time I'm sitting there going. It's not really a me thing.
- 21:03This next game though is a me thing.
- 21:05I think frost rail looks awesome.
- 21:08Frost Rail, We spoke about this, I believe on the last AAA
- 21:11initiative. We did and we were all like,
- 21:14hey, this looks really sweet. It it looks pretty cool.
- 21:19I'm I'm into the the building based on the train thing.
- 21:23It's really. Cool.
- 21:24It has that bit of spice because you're not just like, OK, let's
- 21:29just go over here and build up this base to then hopefully, you
- 21:36know, go back out in the wilderness and get XY and Z
- 21:39amount of material. We are instead like going out
- 21:43into the world, running back to our train, chug A chugging
- 21:47across the map to hopefully get better resources to then make
- 21:50our train better, get weapons, build the train up, keep
- 21:54upgrading that I like. I think that is super
- 21:57interesting and I think that's enough to bring people into this
- 22:00game to at least try with their friends.
- 22:03I do wish I at least numbered these, I'll know for next time,
- 22:08sorry. So good, dude.
- 22:13Crap looked tool like this weird post apocalyptic farming SIM
- 22:22game thing. Yeah, this is it's probably the
- 22:31same makers of frost punk, right?
- 22:34I believe it may be. I'm unsure though.
- 22:40I think it is I'm. Unsure.
- 22:43It's cool. I think this was the other not
- 22:46so cozy cozy game I was talking about.
- 22:49There's, I think, one more on this list, I believe.
- 22:51Yeah, I believe yeah. It's like anti Stardew Valley
- 22:58OK. Yeah, I'm yeah.
- 23:01So that is sweet. We also had Machine Party from
- 23:06the creator of Buckshot Roulette.
- 23:08Oh my gosh. It looked so much.
- 23:11Fun. It's like Mario Party mini games
- 23:15but I know no it. It is.
- 23:18It is. Yeah, it's because Mario Party's
- 23:20like all mini games, but fucked up, and it looks like a lot of
- 23:24fun fun. Yes, I am going to be getting
- 23:27that. I believe it's on his H dot IOI
- 23:33believe you can. I think it may be there.
- 23:35I could be wrong, but I think it's there.
- 23:38So if you guys want to go to, let's see what what was that
- 23:43that was. I do not think it is.
- 23:48It's not OK So Machine Party that is created by Mike Klubnika
- 23:57and he does have an itch dot IO. You guess where we got bug shop
- 24:03for left at first, yeah. I could have.
- 24:07So Split is another game he's doing that might be there.
- 24:13He's got a lot. Go check Mike's stuff out.
- 24:15He is crazy with the stuff he does.
- 24:20Starseeker, John. Starseeker that is a Astra near
- 24:26expansion. Yes.
- 24:29I don't have Astra near unfortunately, but as it gets
- 24:35new updates I might be interested in and popping into
- 24:40it. Yeah, I'll probably try that
- 24:43out. Yeah, it looks, it looks cool.
- 24:45It looks like there's just a ton to do.
- 24:47It looks like super fun with your friends.
- 24:49It's I'm the the trend for this, which we'll talk about at the
- 24:53end, is I'm noticing a lot of friend games.
- 24:55Yeah, I I have friend slob titled in my notes several times
- 25:03and it's for me. I know people use it in a
- 25:05negative connotation, but I love playing games with my friends.
- 25:09I I love, I love the term French slop.
- 25:12It's like it's funny to me. I think the people that use it
- 25:17in a hateful sense are weird, hateful people.
- 25:22Yeah, the weird. It's like, dude, there's in the
- 25:29age of Discord now, that's what people do.
- 25:31They look for these new games, they buy them these, these young
- 25:35developers, these indie developers get to get their shit
- 25:38out and they move on to bigger projects because they've been
- 25:42successful with some of these games that they've created.
- 25:44Nothing wrong with that. The market's a bit over
- 25:47saturated, but I think some of these games work.
- 25:50Which leads me to talk about Shift at Midnight.
- 25:53Oh my God, shift at midnight. We as soon as we record and I
- 25:58edit and I upload where I want to play this because the demo is
- 26:02out on Steam and this comes out May 28th.
- 26:06Well, that's soon. I didn't catch that.
- 26:07I have like a couple release dates in here but.
- 26:11Survival store building human check game.
- 26:14It yeah, I I was saying to someone over here, it's like
- 26:18papers please and supermarket simulator.
- 26:21Yeah, yeah. It's, it's it's a perfect
- 26:23marriage. It it, it's so cool.
- 26:25'Cause I love papers, please. Papers, please is I I love.
- 26:29Papers please, I love it. Like invented this genre that's
- 26:33been refined over the years. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
- 26:37Absolutely. Next on our list we have Dead as
- 26:41Disco. That I don't like rhythm games.
- 26:47Yeah, it it kind of goes back to the rhythm games.
- 26:49It looks cool. It the the trailer kind of
- 26:52alluded that you could put your own music into it.
- 26:55I don't know, that's entirely like, maybe that might be cool
- 27:00if I can like attack someone up to like to like the Doom
- 27:05playlist or something. Get really pissed off and just
- 27:10kill everything. Yeah, yeah, that'd be fucking.
- 27:12That'd be cool. I might pick it up on a sale,
- 27:16but like you said, it's another rhythm game.
- 27:18Not really my thing. May 8th, so that is early
- 27:22access, May 8th, so get ready for that.
- 27:25Borrow Trauma Home in Harbor DLC is coming out this autumn, so
- 27:30that's it's got new mechanics and death to Borrow Trauma, odd
- 27:34new factions, new weapons, tons of good stuff.
- 27:38So if you like Borrow Trauma, get ready for that.
- 27:41Funny that it has new depth. There's, yeah, there's or.
- 27:45I I. I am terrified to hop.
- 27:47Into that game. It does have layers and I'm
- 27:50terrified to hop into that game. Warhammer Survivors.
- 27:55Warhammer survivors another another input in like the
- 27:59survivor, as I call them bullet heavens because they're like
- 28:04opposite. They're inverse bullet Hells
- 28:08where you become the bullet. And I'm not super huge in the
- 28:13Warhammer, but I know it's it's a thing people love.
- 28:17Yeah, I probably won't pick it up personally, but hell, more
- 28:23more fun games is more foreign games.
- 28:26The mix and marriage between Warhammer and Vampire Survivors
- 28:30is perfect. Didn't think you needed it.
- 28:34You didn't think you needed it exactly you bought it and you're
- 28:38like all right, maybe I did want these cheese sticks that I
- 28:41bought from the store instead of going to Arby's, getting the
- 28:42best cheese sticks and fast food they.
- 28:44Do have pretty good cheese sticks?
- 28:46Thank you. I I I'm going to be getting
- 28:51this. This is also on my fantasy
- 28:52critic. Need it do good.
- 28:56Need it do good it. Probably will.
- 28:58I'm it will. It's got Warhammer behind it.
- 29:00It's a Vampire Survivor's clone. But Warhammer it's yeah, it's
- 29:05just fine. It is just fine.
- 29:07So we have Mallor Mortis. This looked awesome.
- 29:14This could use some Polish. It it could, but what it has
- 29:19going for it is the time period. Yeah, go on.
- 29:23Sorry I do not want to discredit what is there it looks so good.
- 29:27I I labeled this I I saw valor mortis and like 14 seconds of
- 29:31gameplay and put this under the games you will like section.
- 29:35Loved it. Loved it, yeah.
- 29:37This looks so good. Like I said, it needs a little
- 29:40bit more Polish. I'd, I'd like some more gritty
- 29:43gore to just lean into the obvious grossness of the entire
- 29:49game. Yeah, but it looks like a really
- 29:54good time. I'm a big fan of a of the
- 29:58combat. It looks really good.
- 30:00Dude I keep fat fingering things like I put an M for mallor
- 30:04mortis. It's Valor.
- 30:05Yeah, it's Valor. Mortis and I knew that I was
- 30:08typing on my phone for a lot of this guys watching it upstairs,
- 30:12but Valor Mortis to me looked awesome because of the gore we
- 30:17did see. I agree that we need some more
- 30:21chunky meaty gore though. I also like the time period and
- 30:26I like the weapons we're seeing here and I like the animations.
- 30:29I felt like everything was very smooth looking and I felt like
- 30:33this game should be very expressive with the kills and
- 30:35the animations of the character. And we need more single player
- 30:39games like this to release 'cause then we can get more
- 30:41single players like that single player games like that in
- 30:43general. And it's, you know, yes.
- 30:48I've, I've said it so many times, I love the triple I
- 30:52initiative because I love indie devs and I love indie devs.
- 30:56One, because they don't have to answer stock orders, stock
- 30:59orders or shareholders or whatever you want to say. 2
- 31:02because they're not afraid to try things, which kind of goes
- 31:05in turn with the other thing. Yes, yes.
- 31:09So I'm extremely excited. This game.
- 31:11This is going to go on my wish list right now and I'll be
- 31:14playing that and you'll hear so much of these games on the show
- 31:17over the past couple of months all the way to next year.
- 31:21Long gone. That is the pixel art survival
- 31:28game, post apocalyptic game where it's pixel art kind of
- 31:332D3D mix of sorts. Looked really cool resource
- 31:38gathering the bit I I dug it I I dug the art style there's a lot
- 31:46of there's you know what I'm noticing a lot of games are
- 31:49doing like this pixely pixelarts or PlayStation one graphic yeah
- 31:59because it's they they can get these games made like that and
- 32:03actually. Release some pixel art is right.
- 32:08I missed this one. I I had a phone call, but I
- 32:12remembered seeing. I just couldn't write anything
- 32:15about it. It reminds me of Last of Us, but
- 32:19what if zombies and pixel art and no Ellie?
- 32:23I like the cat. The guy has a has a cat, his
- 32:27backpack. In my notes I said Ken pet cat.
- 32:32So that is be ready for 2027 for long gone.
- 32:35Can I please intro this and I'll let you fucking talk about it
- 32:38more? You can.
- 32:39You can. Like I said, my notes are out of
- 32:42order. You can intro.
- 32:44My notes for this. I'm not even going to say the
- 32:46game's title yet. All I wrote was lol.
- 32:48Everyone's taking the piss out of the Pokémon Company.
- 32:51Pokémon Game of Thrones are killing me in a funny way.
- 32:53They all seem to be a crafting survival type.
- 32:56Got to catch them all. Like this is 1010 Pioneers.
- 33:00Yeah. Listen man, you know what this
- 33:03is? Yeah.
- 33:05Absolutely. So temptum is actually already a
- 33:08game. OK, Temptum is a a a a big scary
- 33:15P company and inspired game where you just actually go out
- 33:21and and catch monsters much like you do in Pokémon.
- 33:26And yeah, like it's been out for a few years.
- 33:30I'm really surprised. And I think power world got all
- 33:33the all the got all the negative press because it was more hyped
- 33:38up. People saw the big creatures
- 33:42carrying guns and stuff. Which like, wasn't even like a
- 33:47huge part of that game from what I was ever playing.
- 33:50Power World was very much a a more like gather resources and
- 33:54automate things type game. Yeah.
- 33:58And it it's OK. Yeah, I liked it.
- 34:01It's cool. This though again, these Pokémon
- 34:06likes are just cracking me up because the Pokémon Company
- 34:08can't do shit I I. Love it, I love it.
- 34:11Please get more mad Nintendo, get more mad.
- 34:18Maybe, maybe start giving a fuck about your goddamn product and
- 34:24it just, it makes me so upset. Scarlett and Violet cost them
- 34:27$7.00 to make it looks like. Pokopia was good.
- 34:32I won't lie, that's that, that's what I'm talking about is
- 34:36Pokémon could be such a great thing when they do something
- 34:39else with it. Yeah, I'm marrying Pokémon with
- 34:43Animal Crossing is a perfect idea.
- 34:45Why was that not a thing that we've done already?
- 34:47And now it's here. And the first and the first
- 34:51Legends game, Pokémon Legends. Archaeus loved it.
- 34:54Yeah, loved him to death. And introduced a new battle
- 34:56mechanic. It was so cool.
- 34:58Yeah, you know, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
- 35:02Pokémon Company, get it together, Nintendo.
- 35:04Stop being assholes, dude. Yeah, Mario movie very good,
- 35:07though that's. All I'm gonna say.
- 35:09It was fun, it's a good time Bro tato primal dread DLCI literally
- 35:14texted John. All I said was Tato 2026 very
- 35:18pumped on that. That's it's an awesome series.
- 35:21If you haven't played the Bro tato games, you should, they're
- 35:24fun. They're on your phone.
- 35:25Play them. They're Yeah, it's good fun.
- 35:28It's just zone out and play. Yeah, absolutely.
- 35:31It's just a good ass time, you know, just go play them far, far
- 35:35West. I got another trailer, so that
- 35:37goes into early access in very soon.
- 35:41April 28th. Yeah, coming right around the
- 35:43corner. I've not played it.
- 35:45What do you think of it? So.
- 35:46Far, so far, far West and and the trailer looks like it solved
- 35:49a lot of these things. OK You know when when we played
- 35:53the demo all those months back, Please don't bother me right
- 35:57now. When we played the demo all
- 35:59those months back, it got to feel very samey very quickly.
- 36:04But it was a very early access demo type situation.
- 36:09It's very cool. It's yeah, I like it.
- 36:13I think it captures a similar vibe to Deep Rock Galactic,
- 36:17which is a a favorite game of mine.
- 36:20Which is a good thing. Yeah, absolutely.
- 36:23I was. I was already all about far, far
- 36:25West, and I'm still really all about far, far West.
- 36:28Yeah, no, that's sweet. I, I, I'll be playing it once it
- 36:31actually releases, I think, or goes into that early access in
- 36:34April. That's when I'll be getting my
- 36:37hands on this. We had Gravekeeper 2.
- 36:42Graveyard keeper 2 yeah. Yeah, Graveyard keeper 2.
- 36:47Yeah, I I never played the first one much.
- 36:50I know it was a cult classic. I think it's free on Steam right
- 36:53now. I think Brody posted that, yeah.
- 36:59Yes, I think Brody let us all know that Graveyard Keeper 1 is
- 37:04on Steam for free. Let's do a little Steam.
- 37:07Guide. Yeah, look at that.
- 37:08It is 100% off. Put that in your guys's
- 37:12inventory, right? Now yeah, add that you can keep
- 37:14it so. Yeah, it just registers right to
- 37:17your account. Get that?
- 37:18That's fucking awesome. Listen, we were here tomorrow.
- 37:27Oh gosh, we were here tomorrow. I already have the demo for
- 37:30that. I'm ready to put it's more
- 37:35friend. I'm calling it friend Reliant
- 37:39Games by the way. OK, we don't want to use the the
- 37:42slop term. No, they're friend reliant
- 37:46because you need you need to play these games with friends.
- 37:49This is cool because like all the shenanigans with like
- 37:52upkeeping the ship and the rifts and all that.
- 37:57Like I like, I like all the pretty colors.
- 38:01I I I'm a sucker for that neon vibe.
- 38:03Yeah, so. I I saw this game and it looked
- 38:06like it made me think of portal 2 Co-op shenanigans.
- 38:10You know, obviously there's no portals, but the the the amount
- 38:15of banter you could have with your friend and just fuck with
- 38:18them while they're trying to work.
- 38:21You know, mad, I'm going to make you guys during this.
- 38:26Yellow doesn't go on blue, yellow goes on yellow.
- 38:28What? Boom.
- 38:30Look, that's it. You guys are like what?
- 38:34Yeah, yeah, what happened? No, this looks fun.
- 38:37And again, all of these you can go look at on Steam or anywhere
- 38:42you play games and add these to your wish list.
- 38:44Try these demos out. Steam has a triple I initiative
- 38:48banner right now. You can see all the games and
- 38:51all the DLCS that were advertised during this show.
- 38:55So good. Speaking of DLC, Clover Pit got
- 38:58its Unholy Fusion DLC which is out now.
- 39:01Added so much to the game. Go try that.
- 39:04Let's go gambling. We have the lift again.
- 39:08We are in the post apoc. I'm shortening up the word
- 39:12apocalypse because I wrote that in my notes.
- 39:15Got to fix shit game. You're just doing jobs.
- 39:18There's a lot of job games coming.
- 39:20There's just the yeah, there's the lift looked amazing.
- 39:24I I've got so wishlist. It looks like so much fucking
- 39:27fun. I love the busy work.
- 39:29I I don't know why. I didn't think that me having a
- 39:35job would equate to. OK, so now you used to play
- 39:38Gears of War in Halo, right? Yeah.
- 39:39Cool. Half Life too Cool.
- 39:41Now you play jobs. Yeah, you get off your job and
- 39:45play job. Yeah, that sucks, but I'm having
- 39:49fun doing it. Really, go It's really a
- 39:53testament to the brilliant game design of it all.
- 39:56I just think as a species, we're just so tired.
- 40:02We're pushing wage cut to the next level.
- 40:06I hated that this next one is all John's.
- 40:11I'm going to let him fucking just go on this one.
- 40:15I assume risk of rain too. Hallowed Concepts.
- 40:18So I'm a big Risk of Rain fan. I've got almost 2000 hours in
- 40:24the game. I've tried to put nearly
- 40:26everyone on the discord on to Risk of Rain.
- 40:29Let me stop you, everyone in the discord who has played Risk of
- 40:32rain has single handedly also said yes.
- 40:37This is an amazing game. We all love Risk of rain.
- 40:39John is the Risk of Rain guy, but because of John, I learned
- 40:43about Risk of Rain too and then one and I have loved this series
- 40:48since. And I love that the Risk of Rain
- 40:51team Hopu is at Valve doing cool stuff.
- 40:54I love that for them. Yeah, most of them went to
- 40:58Valve. I believe two people stayed back
- 41:01at Gearbox. And still.
- 41:03Work on risk of rain. Gearbox.
- 41:07I've got my own thoughts, however what Gearbox did do is
- 41:11Aloed Collective came out last year I think.
- 41:15I hope. You played it.
- 41:19Yeah, I did and I loved it. And I'm really shocked that
- 41:24Hallowed, hallowed, hallowed, oh God, Concepts, Hallowed concept
- 41:31is being released so quickly because I feel like Aloed
- 41:35Collective just came. I haven't even beaten at all.
- 41:38It's a really hard boss. It's a really hard boss.
- 41:43I do love that they're diving back into the lore instead of
- 41:46making new things. They're going deeper into things
- 41:50that are already there. I love the the like new Kahana
- 41:56Colt vibe they've got going on. It's it's so it's so fantastic.
- 42:03I don't, however, love a enemy I saw from the first Risk of Rain
- 42:08game returning into this DLC. Was it a tough ad?
- 42:13It was a it's, it's like a total thing that spawns flying flying
- 42:18cunts. Oh, oh, I see.
- 42:22Yeah, like they're all the the flying ones themselves are
- 42:25already in the game, but now there will be a spawner for them
- 42:29adding into the game, which is just fucking fantastic.
- 42:33And this is a risk of rain fan guys.
- 42:35Yeah, no. Well, I mean in the first game
- 42:37it was 2D, so like it was quite a bit harder to deal with the
- 42:42totem then because everything would like overlap onto it.
- 42:46It'll. Probably.
- 42:46Be easier in a 3D environment, but it doesn't bring back good
- 42:50memories. Johnson I'm still hurt really
- 42:53quick. This right here in my camera.
- 42:56Does that look like mankind's mask a little bit?
- 42:58Or Kane's mask. No.
- 43:02I see it maybe. I kind of looks like black suit
- 43:05spider man. What?
- 43:11I think it looks like black suit spider man.
- 43:13I'm freaking out. Did you have anything else you
- 43:16want to talk about? Risk of rain.
- 43:19Just surprised that I'm not unhappy, I'm just surprised that
- 43:23it's coming out so soon after Allied Collective.
- 43:27Yeah, I'm excited. I'm, I'm excited to hop back
- 43:29into this game. I love, I loved my time with
- 43:34Risk of Rain. It was especially during COVID,
- 43:37we played a lot of Risk of Rain and just really, really tuned in
- 43:43and played the shit out of it and had a blast.
- 43:46And then John got more and more and more and more people
- 43:49involved and everyone said, oh, this is really fun.
- 43:52And that's the beauty of Risk rain.
- 43:53It's like, hey, you don't have to be great at this game to play
- 43:56it. Just play.
- 43:56You'll have fun and you'll learn along the way, as is most games.
- 44:00But this game looks intimidating.
- 44:02It is intimidating until you actually go, oh, I got.
- 44:04This it's, yeah, it's not an easy game, but just it's, it's a
- 44:10rogue light, you know, it's dying is part of the process.
- 44:13Yes, and I love it. Another game I think I love is
- 44:19too deep to quit. Oh gosh, yes.
- 44:22OK, there are so many puppet dudes on.
- 44:25The show. I love the little puppet dudes.
- 44:28It's another friend Reliant. Game.
- 44:34But this does look fun. This is one of those games that
- 44:37will last on the Discord probably for a month, maybe a
- 44:40week. But when we do, hopefully
- 44:42longer. But when we do play it, it's
- 44:45going to create those funny moments where we can look back
- 44:48after we stopped playing and go, yeah, but that was funny.
- 44:51Yeah, it was. So it's peak it it's it's not
- 44:54made by landfall or agro crap. But I mean I saw several like
- 44:59borrowed mechanics like the health bar.
- 45:03Yes. Not that the not that that's a
- 45:06bad thing. It's a good thing.
- 45:11It looks, Yeah it it it's peak, but ruins and temples instead of
- 45:16mountains and I'm all for it. Yeah, up at Indiana Jones.
- 45:21Well, Evan's not going to like that.
- 45:23He'll he'll. He'll, he'll survive.
- 45:26We had never way. This was a mix between horror,
- 45:32life SIM, action RPG and it looks like it's made in RPG
- 45:36Maker and I love that. Yeah.
- 45:38I honestly love that. I think this looks super cool.
- 45:42The art style was awesome, It's gritty, it's dark, it's got like
- 45:47it. It's got like a lot of Tumblr
- 45:48vibes honestly for me, which is either good or bad.
- 45:52The the the music I believe is from the same producer that
- 45:56handled Celeste, which has fantastic music.
- 45:59That is going to be very good. Yeah.
- 46:03So I liked this. I thought this was sweet
- 46:06looking. Never Always.
- 46:08I've really enjoyed seeing Never Way Turn into what it is, yeah,
- 46:12and I'm looking forward to its release.
- 46:14I'm excited, I'm excited. This looks neat.
- 46:17I could see a lot of stories and like, Oh my God, what's it
- 46:21called? Fanfic of this coming out and
- 46:25people like really like diving deep into this so that's going
- 46:28to be interesting to see in the coming months.
- 46:31Final sentence. I am getting this game as we do
- 46:37this episode. Go ahead and tell them what this
- 46:39is, John. This is a typing game battle
- 46:42Royale, which is a hilarious concept.
- 46:46I'm not going to be getting this game.
- 46:48I can't type for shit, but I cannot deny whatsoever that is
- 46:55hilarious concept and I look forward to watching people play
- 46:59it. I love again, it's it looks it
- 47:03it goes back to what I said earlier about the like PS1 style
- 47:09looking low Poly game. I'm glad it's this is able to be
- 47:13made because this looks super funny and it looks so fucked up
- 47:18and just gritty and I am here for that and I am a decent
- 47:24typist hyper what what the fuck ever.
- 47:27And it's $8. It's literally $8.09.
- 47:32I I love the entire time you're sitting here typing, you're just
- 47:37watching the silhouette stand in front of you with a gun pointed
- 47:39with your head. God to your head, this is
- 47:42fucked. It's awesome, dude.
- 47:45Like, this looks so fucking cool.
- 47:47This is. This is absolutely up my alley,
- 47:49dude. Yeah, Like, so this is a game I
- 47:51will be playing. That and obviously Machine Party
- 47:54are. Yeah, we're here for that.
- 47:59Absolutely. The last game on the list was
- 48:02Don't Starve Elsewhere. If you're a fan of the Don't
- 48:04Starve series, I think this is right up your alley.
- 48:07I am. Not more but we didn't get any
- 48:12release dates unfortunately. But I don't I I'm not in the
- 48:16fandom. Personally.
- 48:17I don't know if people were expecting another game, but to
- 48:21me it just came out of left field.
- 48:23I thought honestly this was a Don't Starve Together expansion
- 48:27until I thought until I saw it was just a new game as a whole.
- 48:31Yeah. So it's, it's cool.
- 48:35It's not my thing, but it's cool.
- 48:38Also, you can request access to the lost railway by the way.
- 48:41OK, cool. So do that, do that.
- 48:47It's cool. Don't starve as cool.
- 48:48There's a there's a huge fandom, huge fandom for this game, and I
- 48:53think that's good. I I, you know, again, it's not
- 48:58really my thing, but I think for the people who love it, I think
- 49:04this is another fucking, you know, a bit of meat.
- 49:07For them to. Chew on.
- 49:09Yeah. So that's great.
- 49:10That's awesome. And that was the Triple I
- 49:12initiative. Well, there was Castlevania
- 49:14Belmont's curse, but I didn't want to talk about it because I
- 49:16need that game not to release this year because I have Steve
- 49:20locked in on that and fantasy critics.
- 49:21I was trying not to even speak it into existence like a tulpa,
- 49:26but I've just done. That he was talking to me a
- 49:28little bit about that earlier and said you're fucked buddy.
- 49:32Listen, listen, I think, I think my list is going to be
- 49:35surprising. I think Belmont's curse is going
- 49:38to do really well. Yeah, no shit, no shit.
- 49:44I wasn't banking on it doing bad.
- 49:46I was banking on it hopefully being delayed.
- 49:48Right, right. And I just, I don't know if it's
- 49:51fingers crossed for my sake, not I don't want the.
- 49:56It's not good. You're kind of caught between a
- 49:57rock and a hard place here. I'd need it not to release this
- 50:01year. OK, I need it does.
- 50:04That make me a bad guy. This is for me.
- 50:08Steve's always a Dick. I have to beat him.
- 50:13He's always an asshole. But we love Steve.
- 50:17Tons of the friend reliant games, tons of the work related
- 50:21games, tons of the like you're going to fix shit and clean shit
- 50:26games. But I loved it.
- 50:29I thought all of this was very fun.
- 50:31And again, with Triple I, I, it's just so special to me
- 50:34because it is game after game, after game after game after
- 50:40game. And they're not forcing shit
- 50:41down your throat. They're not trying to sell you
- 50:43products. I mean, at the end of the day,
- 50:45yeah. They're trying to sell you
- 50:46products. Yeah, buy the buy these games,
- 50:49but none of it feels none of it feels forced.
- 50:55It doesn't feel like it it's it's too egregious.
- 50:59It just, it feels right the way they do it and they're from what
- 51:04I see, it's honest as well. And that's what I like about
- 51:07this a lot, so. AAA is special to me because
- 51:12indie development is special to me.
- 51:14Yes, I know I've I've always loved indie games.
- 51:21I've always preferred indie games with a big AAA $50 million
- 51:25titles. Don't get me wrong, I like some
- 51:28of those too, but I feel like I can appreciate the work that
- 51:37goes into an indie game a lot more clearly than with a big
- 51:43studio behind. Like, I don't care for DICE
- 51:46games for example. I've never particularly cared
- 51:49for Battlefield. I don't hate them, I think
- 51:51they're cool. I don't think the people that
- 51:53enjoy them are lesser. Yeah.
- 51:56I just like games that I feel like I can.
- 52:01I can know the person that made them.
- 52:03Yeah, well, there's a deep connection almost, right.
- 52:06It's like, you know, they're, they're, they're with their
- 52:09community, they're in the, the forums, the message boards,
- 52:12they're in their own discords, they're talking, they're going,
- 52:14hey, what can I do here to make this better for all of you and
- 52:19to make just make my game the best it can be.
- 52:21And I, and I respect that. And I love that about shit like
- 52:23this dude. I love this.
- 52:26I'm so glad you got me on to this.
- 52:30And I'm glad you you heeded my my my advice.
- 52:35I try my best. Give you and you do great.
- 52:39Thank you my friend. To cap off I will say if you are
- 52:43on Steam and possibly other platforms, these are the games
- 52:46you can play right now. Demo eyes, prologues and play
- 52:50tests so you can play. You can.
- 52:52There's Solar Punk, there is Rift of the Necro Dancer, the
- 52:57Undertale Music Pack, there is Windrows.
- 53:00We didn't even talk about that pirate game.
- 53:02It's like. We Yeah, yeah.
- 53:04That's not base building. My entire opinion on Windrows
- 53:08will be if it's multiplayer or not.
- 53:11It looks multiplayer. It looked multiplayer.
- 53:14It looks very multiplayer. I I think it's probably in the
- 53:18description if I had to guess. Maybe.
- 53:21Hold on, Co-op multiplayer online?
- 53:24Yeah, so I don't know. I'm not a big pirate guy though,
- 53:29so whatever you can. Let's see Romestad is on this
- 53:34list. You can.
- 53:35Well, it says you can, but I don't see a might be.
- 53:39Coming soon. Yeah, that that demo might be
- 53:41coming soon. You can request early access or
- 53:43you can download the demo for Dead as Disco, Let's Shift at
- 53:49midnight. You can request.
- 53:50No, you can just download the demo for that.
- 53:53So do that. After the show.
- 53:55Yeah, Clover Pit, obviously you can play that now.
- 54:00Spacecraft, you can install the demo.
- 54:03You can. I think I just did that.
- 54:06Request access. I did request access to the Lyft
- 54:09play test. The sledding game is a demo.
- 54:12We were here tomorrow. You can get that demo right now.
- 54:15Lost Castle 2 I think request access to Alabaster Dawn.
- 54:20You can get the demo and never way you can get the demo.
- 54:23So there's tons of stuff, stuff to play early on.
- 54:26I love the demo to come back. Love demos.
- 54:29I wish. I wish we had disk drive so I
- 54:32can go get a magazine and pop it in my computer.
- 54:35Love that. Is there anything else you
- 54:38wanted to talk about about the Triple I, John?
- 54:40Are you going to put a bow on this?
- 54:42You know, I was kind of curious because we did the triple I last
- 54:47year, so I looked it up. Triple I has been going since
- 54:492024, which makes this the second, the 2nd, 2nd, 2nd.
- 54:53Yeah. This makes this the second
- 54:55triple I initiative. No, the third it makes it the
- 55:03third. Yeah, I can count 3 + 3 is
- 55:06obviously 4. We got them.
- 55:12And I'm glad that we got on pretty early on this.
- 55:15I look forward to it every year and I look forward to it next
- 55:19year. This is a staple in WAC and
- 55:21beyond. We will be doing the Triple I
- 55:23initiative coverage every year because this is important.
- 55:27These are important games. This is an important conference,
- 55:30so to speak. It shines a light on the best
- 55:35parts of the industry right now when the industry is really
- 55:40being the light is really shining on the negatives, which
- 55:43it has to. We can't not have a light
- 55:45shining on all the layoffs and the bullshit harassment
- 55:49happening at the bigger studios and just the the bad shit that
- 55:53goes on the cancels, canceled games and the setbacks and all
- 55:57that that has to be talked about.
- 55:59But we also need some light at the end of the tunnel shit.
- 56:01And this is the light at the end of the tunnel.
- 56:04This is a great, great, great conference and if if you love
- 56:11games, you should love this so. That's I agree.
- 56:16Yeah, it's important. It this is important stuff can't
- 56:21always be pissed off on WASD and beyond.
- 56:24We have to be happy. Sometimes, yeah, yeah.
- 56:26And with that. There's 20 to be happy about,
- 56:28There's 20 to be pissed about. There's 20 to be happy about.
- 56:31There's a lot. There's a lot of you just got
- 56:32to. You just got to be you guys.
- 56:34You got to look for it. You got a balance the stuff.
- 56:37The stuff that you get mad about is shoved in your face.
- 56:39You got to look for the happy. You deserve it.
- 56:43God damn best. And you do great.
- 56:47Brother, thank you. All right, that's enough of
- 56:51this. Thank you all for listening,
- 56:53John, thank you for hopping on again.
- 56:55I look forward to this next year with you.
- 56:56Maybe we can get more people on this with us too next year.
- 57:00That'd. Be cool, that'd be cool.
- 57:01That'd. Be fun or we just keep it Nick
- 57:03and John's thing I. Don't know so many people don't
- 57:06have an appreciation for indie games like I do.
- 57:10That's true, most most of our friends are turds.
- 57:12Anyways, before I get myself in trouble, please go check out all
- 57:15the links down below. Check out final law, stock long
- 57:17E screen box, check out WASD and beyond.
- 57:20It came from screen box and Rule for deception coming soon.
- 57:24Coming soon. More episodes from that.
- 57:27Yeah, man. If you like what you hear here,
- 57:29please follow, subscribe, share, show all your friends.
- 57:32Again, the Uber driver conversation joke.
- 57:35Not rehashing because I don't need to go back to the drawing
- 57:37board. That was funny.
- 57:38That was funny. Thank you and until next week
- 57:41guys, take it easy and be safe. Have a great week, bye bye.