Something That Sticks With You, with Matthew Seiji Burns 01:10:18 - Process is Matthew Seiji Burns' first novel, in some ways following directly from his work on Eliza (and the under-appreciated rest of his narrative…

The episode is out now in podcatchers near you.

You can get Process in a disorientingly handsome physical edition, an audiobook, and/or a digital edition that includes both a typographically ambitious PDF and a more sedate epub. Or just the epub. The world is your oyster, and what an oyster it is.

New episode! @matthewseiji.com talks about his debut novel Process, as well as:

• The abyssal nature of ambition
• The weird relationship between big tech companies and the cities they inhabit-without-inhabiting
• The fractal cults that emanate from the Cult of Steve Jobs

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We're moving shop tonight, so there might be a bit of downtime.

The archives will be back shortly.

Who Could Want Gameplay? with Alexander Clair Tseu Martin (a.k.a. droqen) ETAO PODCAST, EPISODE 184. The one and only droqen puzzle-platforms on over to discuss his latest game The End of Gameplay, and how it responds to the stubbornly present, all-too-alive gameplay in …

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@drewmm.com and I had a lovely conversation and it's out now and you can listen to it :) I RT'd (RB'd?) it earlier, but it deserves its own bleet.

He drags some *really* good stuff out of me re: kill gameplay

For example, omnipotent babies!
And on being a dumb artist! <3

New episode!

@droqen.bsky.social on (in short) killing gameplay.

Of course, there's more to it than that.

The Utility of Contrarianism, with Barney Oram ETAO PODCAST, EPISODE 183. Barney Oram gets into different patterns of sound design, in all sorts of different roles and at all sorts of different scales—plus his love of film in general and Billy …

New ETAO Podcast! Barney Oram talks about the ethos that "if it sounds good, it is good," as well as his love of Billy Wilder, his extensive experience recording loud things that go bang, and the ins and outs of making parry and riposte sounds for a sunny soulslike.

Introducing: You Are Error, Our Podcast About Gaming’s Greatest Misconceptions - Aftermath Learning from video games' mistakes

And speaking of inaugural episodes, it should be noted that @nathangrayson.bsky.social at @aftermath.site covered the game *before* this trend started, in his great interview with @ramiismail.com.

And we're immensely excited to check out @doougle.net and @chadtoprak.bsky.social's new show!

Since then, @theguardian.com and @pcgamer.com (among others!) have covered the game, too!

Dreams on a Pillow, a game about the 1948 Nakba, is the latest from a daring dev The stealth adventure game is about people displaced by Zionist occupation

The same day our episode went live, @polygon.com ran a piece that seems to have gotten the ball rolling.

It's been amazing to see more coverage, and *good* coverage besides, for Dreams on a Pillow!

Mazel tov, @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social!!

If We Can’t Do This, Then What Are We Doing? with Rasheed Abueideh and Rami Ismail ETAO PODCAST, EPISODE 182. Rasheed Abueideh and Rami Ismail talk about Dreams on a Pillow. We talk about how the game combines layered, poetic audiovisuals and gameplay with history and folklore in…

New ETAO Podcast today! @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social and @ramiismail.com discuss Dreams on a Pillow, a story about Palestine before and during the Nakba "that is so true to what happened that it is borderline-illegal to say it.”

About a week of crowdfunding to go: www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba, based on a true story | LaunchGood A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land

The show is back next week! We'll be talking to @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social and @ramiismail.com about Dreams on a Pillow, which is crowdfunding now.

This Nightmare Will Never End! Hell Yeag! with Lilith Walther ETAO PODCAST, EPISODE 181. Lilith Walther aetherboosts her way on over to talk about Nightmare Kart, its previously life as Bloodborne KART, its demake predecessor Bloodborne PSX, and the relationship...

New @etaopod.com podcast!

@drewmm.com talks to Lilith Walther about Nightmare Kart, Bloodborne PSX, Arcus, demakes, open development, what we can all learn from racing games, and why yeag is for everyone.

Find the show wherever pods are casting: pod.link/699052673

Add Astra on Steam Add Astra is a math game about racing, and a racing game about math, developed by Coincidence. You’re the best arithmetech racer on Earth. But what about everywhere else?

I did the sound design and writing for this, and
@ejboat.bsky.social and I made the soundtrack.

Very excited that people can check out this math-based racer built for elementary schools—and that really is what it is; we're not doing a bit here—because it's a pretty rad little game!

And if you want some bonus essays on Lies of P nd the Super Mario RPG remake, as well as some cut interview material with Bryant Cannon talking about Disco Elysium, then you'll find those very things on our Patreon. www.patreon.com/etao

Everybody's Talking At Once A long-form interview podcast where we talk about everything, by talking about games. We gather insights and stories from game developers, designers, composers, writers, artists, directors, producers, and everyone else who makes games what they are.

You can find the show wherever pods are casting.

Dragon’s Dogma II, Chaos, and Dogs ETAO PODCAST, EPISODE 180. Dragon's Dogma II is full of inventive, quirky flourishes, meaningful frictions, and... shameless micro-transactions that capitalize on those exact quirks and frictions. We ...

And then there was our most WNYC-ass episode so far. It's about Dragon's Dogma II and the moral hazard of meaningfully uncomfortable games that sell comfort-based microtransactions.

But also about how the game is like a DnD campaign where the other players are dogs.

Also opera.

Also, um, death.

Helldivers II and Making Art about Fascism without Making Fascist Art ETAO PODCAST, EPISODE 179. Helldivers II is a wildly popular co-op shooter. It's also extremely funny. It's also very much about fascism, both in the sense that its satirical lens is aimed at fascist ...

Next up was Helldivers II, and the question of how to make art about fascism without making art that's useful to fascists. (The game is somewhere between Starship Troopers and The Producers in its approach to that goal, as the QAA podcast recently, synchronistically pointed out).

Palworld: A Ludic Reading and a Luddite Reading ETAO PODCAST, EPISODE 178. While the show was taking a break, Drew started putting together some essays on the growing list of recent recent surprise hits—games that, for whatever reason, have been do...

First, he talked about Palworld, giving the game a ludic reading (as in, what's it actually like to play it?) and a Luddite reading (as in, what's potentially fucked up about it, production-wise?)

We're back! (We've been back for a while, actually, but now we're back to posting here!)

@drewmm.com has a trilogy (or a triptych, if you prefer) of essays about the problematic faves of 2024 so far.

We're on a short break. But we'll be back, likely in March.

Thanks for listening, and for understanding that humans make this thing.

You Should Be Free, with Glen Henry and Chase Bethea ETAO PODCAST, EPISODE 176. Glen Henry and Chase Bethea drop achor awhile and talk about Sunken Stones, why pirates mean freedom, and why the Golden Age of Piracy was a lot more Caribbean than Pirates ...

New @etaopod.com podcast!

@spritewrench.com and @chasebethea.bsky.social talk Sunken Stones, the Caribbean center of the Golden Age of Piracy, and the inevitability of One Piece.

Full episode: etao.blog/podcast-176/
Find us everywhere: pod.link/699052673

ULTRA DELUXE EPISODE 004 - There Are No Other Records Like Super Mario RPG | Everybody's Talking At ... Get more from Everybody's Talking At Once on Patreon

This month's bonus episode is @drewmm.com talking about what makes Super Mario RPG special, and what it means for remakes to replace originals. www.patreon.com/posts/94160306

Setting the Stakes, with Ezra Szanton ETAO PODCAST, EPISODE 175. Ezra Szanton painstakingly platforms his way over to talk about To The Flame, the first in his new studio's forthcoming kinda-trilogy of horror games. He also talks about ho...

New @etaopod.com podcast!

@ezraszanton.bsky.social talks horror, rage, and other counter-intuitive forms of fun.

Full episode: etao.blog/2023/11/28/p...
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Devs, Uh, Find a Way, with Eric Peterson (a.k.a. Baja the Frog) ETAO PODCAST, EPISODE 174. Eric Peterson hops on over to talk about the joys of hobbyist game development, the things that need to change in professional game development (even when compared to other ...

New @etaopod.com podcast!

@bajathefrog.bsky.social talks about little games, little guys, and the often-not-little differences between professional and hobbyist development processes.

Full episode: etao.blog/podcast-174/
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Reality, Augmented and Otherwise, with Ryan Canuel ETAO PODCAST, EPISODE 173. Ryan Canuel of Petricore stops by for a mostly-not-especially-spooky conversation about augmented reality, what bootstrapping actually means, and—alright, some stuff about...

New @etaopod.com podcast!

Ryan Canuel talks about Mythic Realms, AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! Remastered, and a few of his favorite recent horror movies and TV shows.

Full episode: etao.blog/2023/10/31/p...
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That’s the Point of the Thing, with Jerry Belich ETAO PODCAST, EPISODE 172. Jerry Belich talks about his wild work in the Alt.ctrl milieu, his boundary-redefining escape rooms (for lack of a better term), and his digital game work, from Recommendati...

New @etaopod.com podcast!

@jerrytron.bsky.social talks alt.crtl generally, The Choosatron specifically, escape rooms, Squanch Games, and why we can all safely ignore so-called life hacks.

Full episode: etao.blog/podcast-172/
Find us everywhere: pod.link/699052673