Ep. 201 - Lovely Ball Kicking, with Kris Graft
Added 2021-09-06 11:37:48 +0000 UTCGamedeveloper.com Publisher Kris Graft joins the panel to cover NEWS regarding BANANAS, light fishing and archaeology, and Hades Kart. Original music by Kurt Feldman.
Questions this week:
- Let’s talk about the rebranding of Gamasutra to Game Developer. (03:43)
- What are the best video game postmortems? (10:41)
- What are the most common mistakes when someone first gets into video games? (15:24)
- Which video game characters have the most complicated morning routines? (20:46)
- What video game or game adjacent companies should be renamed? (25:54)
- Dirtbag MoxBagel asks: Is it possible to have fans take games less seriously as an identity and more seriously as creative endeavors? (31:42)
- Why don’t you design a new item for Mario Kart? (38:26)
- Violence Island: forums.insertcredit.com Submissions (43:25)
- Frank Cifaldi asks: Here’s whats up with that video about game price collusion (52:45)
- Who is the Mike Richards of video games? (59:08)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Name Design: JAV Titles (01:01:34)
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Clay Fighter series
- Gamastura is becoming Game Developer
- El Shaddai
- Postmortem: Resident Evil 4
- Postmortem: Deadly Premonition
- Postmortem: Final Fantasy XIII
- Postmortem: Golden Axe
- Postmortems from Game Developer
- GDC Vault
- Monsters from the Id: The Making of Doom
- Crusader Kings
- Jim Lee
- Beneath a Steel Sky
- Jerry Lewis
- Francis York Morgan
- Ryo Hazuki
- Morgan Yu
- The World Ends With You
- Ivy
- Voldo
- The Green Ribbon
- GamersGate
- Young Guns Starring Emilio Estevez
- Young Guns II
- Guns 3
- Gun
- Toys for Bob
- Ponzi Scheme
- Fonzie Scheme
- Bonk
- Plok
- Shadow the Hedgehog
- Wario
- Blake Stone
- Jazz Jackrabbit
- Takayuki Yagami
- Phoenix Wright
- YouTuber Accuses Million Dollar Retro Game Sales Of Being Scams
- Mike Richards
- Metal Wolf Chaos
- JAVdottxt (NSFW)
- Shi'ar (I read Marvel)
Recommendations:
Brandon: Check out the new GameDeveloper.com, Melissa's self titled album, Ask Hershers Pizza for the Insert Credit, Enjoy with a D'Aquino Chianti Flask
Kris: Go to gamedeveloper.com, learn something new, Dishonored
Frank: Psychonauts 2
Jaffe: Superman Smashes the Klan
DIRTBAGS: You can submit your questions to the show using this form. And, thanks!
Comments
I'll give it a try! I particularly like wine that has a sour finish so I've tried a bunch of chianti and garnacha and this is the one I like the most - but I'll take a look! (~brandon)
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2021-09-09 00:57:41 +0000 UTCI can't believe I'm talking about natural wine on an insert credit post, but Brandon might enjoy the Litrozzo Rosso from Le Coste for an occasion with friends; it is not a Sangiovese blend like the chianti mentioned in this episode but it is pretty heccin good and low intervention wine rules. Thank you for bringing Jazz Jackrabbit to my attention - in the cover art for the second game he looks like he might have had too much chianti.
Ketan Jha
2021-09-07 01:49:08 +0000 UTCold games ARE too expensive and it would be nice if people could own them, and also this person doesn't really know what they're talking about, even if game grading is indeed a small part of The Collector Problem. (~brandon)
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2021-09-06 22:08:19 +0000 UTCOne day early?!
frankie coleman
2021-09-06 17:24:23 +0000 UTCInteresting bit about that videogame grading/auction "scam" video, which I only just watched today at the behest of the youtube algorithm. Trying to keep this brief: (1) if I was publishing a bunch of accusations about people with a lot more money than me I'd want to rely a lot less on rumours and hearsay than he does (2) if the current surge in speculation is driving True Game Lovers out of the market then the sensible conclusion (to me) is that now is the time to stop fetishising games as physical objects and make do with some combination of flash carts/fpga/software emulation. Talking about video game collecting like it's a god given right is... I want to say unsettling? Anyway, this is not meant as a criticism of collectors generally, just saying that if the problem is old games are too expensive, well, there's a simple solution if what you really care about is playing them.
goonbag
2021-09-06 14:45:12 +0000 UTC
