Games: Crying Suns, Skald: Against the Black Priory, Going Medieval, Becasteled!, Doki Doki Literature Club Plus, The House in Fata Morgana.
Amanda, Rich, and Glendon are joined by special guest Axel Hassan Taiari (axeltaiari.com), contributing writer and narrative designer for the futuristic murder mystery game Neurocracy. (Out now!)
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Production by:
Jonathan Downin
Amanda Knowlton
Crying Suns
Skald: Against the Black Priory
Going Medieval
Becastled
Doki Doki Literature Club Plus
The House in Fata Morgana
Neurocracy Game
Website Neurocracy.site
Twitter @Neurocracy2049
Discord Neurocracy Discord Server
Thread of the Week:
The GWJ Adventure Game Club - Game 33: Heaven’s Vault - Posted by Eleima
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00:02:53 Crying Suns
00:06:40 Skald: Against the Black Priory
00:11:28 Going Medieval
00:15:06 Becasteled
00:18:34 Doki Doki Literature Club Plus
00:23:25 The House in Fata Morgana
00:28:29 Neurocracy
00:55:41 Your Emails
Neurocracy development where it preceded the pandemic sounds an awful lot like how The Illuminatus! Trilogy contains the most far-fetched, wild-eyed conspiracy theories they could come up with and then a bunch of them effectively came true.
Be careful of the fiction you create, folks, as it might manifest in the real world.
How did I live before digital distribution of old, cheap games?
MilkmanDanimal wrote:You did live before digital distribution of old, cheap games. Now you just play games.
And then there's the example of the original Deus Ex.
I wish you guys would stop encouraging him.
EvilHomer3k wrote:You are an evil, evil person.
Baron Of Hell wrote:YOU VILLAIN!
As an avid visual novel fan, I dove into Doki Doki Literature Club back in the day, and.... immensely disliked it. I've gone on and on about why in the dedicated thread (fire and foremost the dev's flippant attitude in regards to trigger warnings), so I won't wax on about it. I can't say I heard anything that would lead me to believe I'd change my mind.
Maybe I'm the odd duck though. After all, I'm one of those people who would still enjoy VNs if you'd "stripped away everything but the text."
I also enjoyed the discussion on Neurocracy, though my thoughts kinda focused on "ooh, a fellow Frenchie!"
Loved the question about representation. My earliest memory of "feeling seen" in a videogame is that of King's Quest 4 which featured Princess Rosella as the protagonist. I give it a bit of thought, and I can't think of a single game that featured a good portrayal of an autistic character, let alone an autistic woman. The only example I can think of is the Arrival DLC for Mass Effect 2 and that was atrocious.
Neurocracy got some coverage on PC Gamer today.
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