Investment and Risk'We quit our jobs, remortgaged our houses' - Alex Gilyadov, Games Radar Types of Support Systems -Emotional Support -Financial Support -Someplace to live

* 'Developers' - Michael Rogers, Minnesota Fringe Festival Broken games 0:24:00 Mark LaCroixGame DesignNo More Jokeys Channel on YouTube - No More Jockeys, YouTubeMonopoly Hotels - Daisy Barringer, Trillist'Is Connect Four a Solved Game? and what does that even mean' - Gamesver Mark mentioned a previous episode topic about Curling 'No referees?!' Support Systems 53:57 Stephen McGregorIRL Stephen and Ellen went to see a show at the Minnesota Fringe Festival - and Ellen LOVED it! * Noble Robot now offers coworking at thier Minneapolis office. Stephen reports that the paperwork has been submitted and he is officially a co-owner of Future Club!Įllen now co-owns a still difficult to obtain Steam Deck.

This episode features the origin story of Stephen Business, and if you are still reading, spoiler alert: Mark's topic is a stealth sequel to his topic about Curling. They discuss who's job it is to make a game fun, and how you can always make a game not fun. Ellen realizes that even if it is broken, doesn't mean you need to fix it. In this episode the your nice hosts discuss broken games, solved games, and purposely broken games. When a DM makes the simple complicated there’s a danger of the world becoming too complex and breaking verisimilitude from the other side.” Thrive - Adam's Apple GamesBrobdingnagian Definition - Thomas Was Alone - Bithell Games, Steam Indie Game Credits Mark LaCroixProductionMobyGames - MobyGamesFilm Credits: Everything You Need To Know - Nashville Film Institute Lots of things in real life are simple and it’s the combination of items interacting that it becomes complicated. * Noble Robot Office Verisimilitude 0:05:23 Ellen Burns-JohnsonArtGame DesignVerisimilitude Definition - Veracity Definition - The Quest For Verisimilitude: Realism, Illusion, and Consistency In Video Games - Erik Kain, ForbesHow to build verisimilitude in your games? - Thunderdices, Reddit One comment of note in the thread: “Your point about making things simple is extremely important.

Your nice hosts' pronunciation is on point this week as they say a really hard word a large number of times! In this episode, Mark and Ellen BOTH introduce even more complicated words to the other hosts, and Stephen admits to losing an argument (which he'd done on the show before but still don't tell his brother).

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