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#23 Dear me, I was…

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#22 Donkey Kong Bananza

And oh, Be Brave Barb, which he released a few months ago! Isometric auto-walker with a gravity mechanic. Surprisingly tricky, still fun.

Thanks! Recommend Dadish 3 for a concentrated blast of this sort of thing, but also Dadish 3D, which is a really effective iteration of this formula.

A still life revisited. Episode 016 of Dialogue Tree, on a short, profound experience I didn't see coming, is available now wherever you get podcasts.

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4 minutes dunking on a sacred cow followed by 31 minutes of excruciating punning. You can’t afford *not* to listen.

I’m on holiday, but the Virtual Boy never got a break, so neither do we.

Episode 014 of Dialogue Tree, celebrating the 30th birthday of a landmark disaster, is available now wherever you get podcasts. Features unexpectedly good music, expectedly bad games, and an honest to goodness book.

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In which I dramatise my suffering, read an essay, and play some great music, including one personal all timer.

Ha, only just saw this! If you listened, hope you liked it!

Hey! Long time listener to the pod. You mentioned the Game Builder Garage Direct on the last show. If that interested you, you might like the latest episode of my podcast:

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where I interviewed the guy behind the Direct and the GBG community. I think it's a good listen :-)

I think this turned out pretty ok so it'd be cool if you gave it a listen 🎧

A band whose passive toxicity has infected multiple generations of musicians and journalists who should know better. There is nothing, *nothing*, quite like this band to bring out the laziest journalism going.

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#21 Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo

Happy to have been invited to contribute to @underplayedpod.bsky.social's season opener, and even happier to have not tanked it completely. I'm not saying how I contributed. You'll have to listen.

(which you should be doing anyway, as it's a great show that excels at constructive commentary)

New games, and a brief appearance from one very old one.

I wrote and recorded a podcast looking back on 10 years of @mrsambarlow.bsky.social's Her Story. It was fun to make, and I think it's an ok listen.

Here's a trailer if you're curious.

In which I get carried away with the patch notes for @squidshock.bsky.social’s wonderful debut game.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Play wherever you get your eye poppingly hard Metroidvanias.

Bananza looks ridiculous, overstuffed and brilliant.

And oh that Tears of the Kingdom reference.

a man in a trench coat is walking on a soccer field in front of a stadium . ALT: a man in a trench coat is walking on a soccer field in front of a stadium .

The news that they're finally back is a peak Bender moment

Not to be too dramatic, but "Finally We Are No One" genuinely changed how I listened to music. When I heard that album, it made me listen to what is there, rather than what is not. It led me to appreciating and enjoying so much *more* music, whether it sounded like múm or not.

It's fucking amazing.

OHGOD OHGOD OHGOD OHGOD

White knuckles, clenched teeth, absolute joy.

Episode 009 of Dialogue Tree, on the best* game of 2024, is out now on all podcast platforms.

*my favourite

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And nothing will make your heart sing quite like getting the thumbs up from this guy.

I want this as a tattoo.

As joyful and wholesome an experience as you could hope for from a game featuring a crying block of tofu, a porn obsessed cat, and all manner of psychically unbalanced body horrors. Welled up pretty much every time Tofu spoke.

This game. This wonderful, deranged, disgusting and beautiful game.

@kaizengameworks.com absolutely killed it.

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#20 Promise Mascot Agency

And yet, I’ve just listened to a podcast run by professional journalists who claimed there was little to no excitement for the launch.

Read the room guys.

The real battle here is our government vs. dignity, which has been pretty one sided so far

I like making stupid trailers for my podcast as much I like making the actual podcast

Keyboard shopping is a whole different language. Can *anyone* tell me what mechanical keyboard I should buy?