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Latest Episodes

17: Almost Interviewed - Damian Sommer
May 20, 2015

Damian Sommer is an experimental game maker most known for "The Yawhg", a multiplayer storytelling game. Damian talks to us about life as an indie developer, his current projects, and he tells some great stories about the game jam community. -

15: Cast of the Decromancer
May 12, 2015

The guys have been playing way too many games since they started talking about indie games. This week we sit down and just ramble about the games we played. Matt can never say Crypt of the Necrodancer so instead we talk about using the dark arts for in...

14: Pen and Paper RPGs
May 06, 2015

We're talking about real nerdy stuff but more than usual this time cause it's pen and paper rpgs. Maybe not so secretly, pen and paper role playing is our favorite form of gaming. So much so, that Nathaniel has a regular game with his cats.

13: Steam Paid Mods
April 28, 2015

Nathaniel and Matt throw down on the highly controversial Steam Paid Mods feature. It's so controversial that Steam pulled the feature about 10 minutes before we started recording, but we argue anyway! Nathaniel represents the neckbeards who hate every...

12: Almost Interviewed: Denver Edition
April 21, 2015

Join us for our first Almost Interviewed episode, where we get a bit tipsy and talk to someone in the game industry about the game industry. This week we're joined again by composer Emma Rios and operations lead/blacksmith Quentin Hartman as we discus

11: Indie Game Spotlight: Denver Edition
April 15, 2015

This is our very first Indie Game Spotlight where we find some upcoming indie projects to talk about! This week we're joined by our two guest hosts from Denver, Colorado: Quentin Hartman and the composer of our theme song Emma Rios. - Matt:

10: Preorders: What are they good for?
April 08, 2015

This week we're talking about preorders and how shitty they are. Even given all of that, we still preorder games. What's up with that? - Also this week, we have a new theme song composed by Emma Rios (http://emmavrios.com/).

9: Bloodborne and Pillars of Eternity
March 31, 2015

This week we get Bloodborne and Pillars of Eternity and we chat about why both of them are SO AMAZING. - You may notice that this cast is shorter and that's because we are experimenting with the format.

8: Tactics Games
March 18, 2015

Disgaea, Final Fantasy Tactics, Xcom, that game with the blue hair and the swords! We talk about our favorite tactics games in this episode, but first we get hella hyped for Monster Hunter. Now you can follow us on social media! Want Facebooks? We got th

7: The Elder Scrolls
March 04, 2015

We talk about the Elder Scrolls and how it's basically the best game series ever. Nathaniel was shut in all weekend playing Skyrim and took some breaks to install some mods. Matt played several games inspired by speedruns and was disappointed in his lack