227. Maximal Overlap With The Dork

Lords:

• Erica
• Kory
  • https://kbones.itch.io/

Topics:

• Mystery Hunt 2024
• Developing my first video game
• Wearing glasses prevents COVID
• English Ending Song, by Ryoji Yoshitomi
  • https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/AxA-XP8E.png
• How to make satisfying non-violent gameplay
  • @DJTentMode@mstdn.party

Microtopics:

• Letting go of concepts of yourself that you believe.
• Losing a concept of yourself as a person and just becoming free-floating thoughts.
• 47 year old house painters.
• Growing up to be a pluripotent human being.
• Finding cool and positive Internet spaces to hang out in.
• Excavating old Bubsy memorabilia.
• Checking the maps on your telephone.
• Defining yourself as someone who doesn't eat free cheese samples.
• Scientists researching how to be cool and cringe at the same time.
• 2023 Game of the Year Gordy and the Monster Moon.
• Protocols and processes that presume that if you are good at solving puzzles then you must also be good at designing puzzles.
• The humble beginnings of the MIT Mystery Hunt.
• Puzzle Inflation.
• Instant stooging.
• People who are obligated to prevent their children from dying.
• Server migration problems.
• Accidentally writing the same puzzle as someone else.
• Premium content for listeners who want to subscribe.
• Putting sprites on the screen and accepting controller input.
• Game design by proxy.
• Your local Barcade with a Pico-8 cabinet.
• Buttoning up a game to make it a shippable product.
• Whether the knife is detecting a dork.
• Butter golems.
• Bugs that make games more fun.
• Building a high end gaming PC and only running Pico-8 on it
• I can't believe they buttered Jorts!
• Meeting the guy who runs the Indie Arcade at Magfest.
• Waiting 40 years for opportunities to fall in your lap.
• Think Buick.
• A cat that is not on the show.
• Of all the exposed mucus membranes on your face, the eyes are two of them.
• Projectile transmission.
• Did this COVID infection rate study control for popularity?
• Hitting 40 and embracing the cringe.
• Wearing chemistry goggles in public.
• Myopic basketball players.
• Things you can put on your face to look like a superhero in disguise.
• The Wario Land 4 soundtrack.
• Making ogg vorbis rips of the Wario Land 4 soundtrack to put on Napster.
• A gem of a poem to be hidden in a Wario game.
• Playing back vocals with single-syllable samples.
• Our collective dream diary.
• Your dreams melting into your pillow with all the dust mites.
• Everything is impermanent, especially video games.
• A shocking removal of an important human from your life.
• Making your peace with the time you have forgotten.
• The natural high you get from blowing things up.
• Throwing apples at a Snorlax until it wakes up.
• Cooking games.
• Matching happy looking fruits of different sizes.
• Watching carefully as two peaches slide together.
• Designing video games for 5-year olds on T.
• Dropping things that merge in a two dimensional space with gravity.
• The boy has two dads.
• What can I do that is nonviolent and crunchy and interesting and solvable?
• Looking for inspiration outside of video games.