Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

In the fifth installment of our Kentucky Route Zero miniseries, we broadcast our thoughts on the Un Pueblo De Nada interlude, before prowling our way through Act V and our closing thoughts on the game. Show notes: Kentucky Route Zero [http://kentuckyroutezero.tv/] Stephanie Boluk [https://twitter.com/chouxsalad] Patrick LeMieux [https://twitter.com/alt254] Sarah Elmaleh [https://sarahelmaleh.com/] Alice Munro - Dear Life [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13530981-dear-life] Clara Rockmore - The Art of the Theramin [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-TKLD_ocnY] Clara Rockmore - The Swan [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdFSU8sn3mo] Brian Rotman: Signifying Nothing - The Semiotics of Zero [https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780333455517] Bob Moog [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ik0v0xSRx4] WEVP-TV transmedia videos [http://wevp.tv/vdb/] Sandin Analog Image Processor [https://www.evl.uic.edu/dan/IP.html] Our Town [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Town] Jenny Odell - How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy [https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/how-do-nothing] How to unlock the bonus interlude [https://www.polygon.com/guides/2020/1/28/21087151/kentucky-route-zero-how-to-unlock-intermission-act-5-death-of-a-hired-man] Noah Caldwell-Gervais - Notes From Along Kentucky Route Zero [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW3qZfF6JfI] Robert Frost - The Death of a Hired Man [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North_of_Boston/The_Death_of_the_Hired_Man] Orthographic projection [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthographic_projection] Projective Geometry [https://cs.nyu.edu/davise/presentations/Projective.pdf] Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle [https://www.harukimurakami.com/book/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle] Can't Tell Me Nothing with Zach Galifianakis HQ [https://youtu.be/0AnncAgnCWI] Walt Whitman - Song of Myself, Verse 52 [http://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=856] Nabokov and spirals [https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/369437-the-spiral-is-a-spiritualized-circle-in-the-spiral-form#:~:text=In%20the%20spiral%20form%2C%20the,it%20has%20been%20set%20free.%E2%80%9D] Jon Cates [http://www.systemsapproach.net/] Metal Gear Solid 3, I Love You With All My Heart [https://www.vice.com/en/article/yvqeej/a-decade-of-snake-eating-a-celebration-of-metal-gear-solid-3-273] Jordan Youngblood “Is Metal Gear’s Rectum a Digital Grave?: Queer Trauma and Failure in the Metal Gear Solid Series.” Panel on Queer Failure. Queerness and Games Conference. University of Berkeley. 24-26 October 2013

Echodog Games' Dyala Kattan-Wright joins us to discuss their wildly unique and wonderful narrative card game Signs of the Sojourner. We chat about the process of developing the game's innovative dialogue system, its surprising effects on player experience, and why sometimes you just can't go home again. Show notes: Eggplant Patreon [http://patreon.com/eggplantshow] Dyala Kattan-Wright [https://www.dyalakattanwright.com] Echodog Games [https://www.echodoggames.com] Signs of the Sojourner [https://youtu.be/JR-yGRKr-J8] Slay the Spire [https://www.megacrit.com] Ascension: A Case Study in Deckbuilding Games [http://www.nealen.net/ascension] Friday [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/43570/friday] Consentacle [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/166976/consentacle] Fog of Love [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/175324/fog-love] Hanabi [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/98778/hanabi] Hearthstone [https://playhearthstone.com/en-us] Dream Quest [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dream-quest/id870227884] 80 Days [https://www.inklestudios.com/80days/] Arkham Horror: The Card Game [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/205637/arkham-horror-card-game] Signs of the Sojourner Original Soundtrack [https://skewsound.bandcamp.com/album/signs-of-the-sojourner-original-soundtrack]

In the fourth installment of our Kentucky Route Zero miniseries, we dial in our thoughts on the Here and There Along the Echo interlude, before bringing our insight to bear on the brittle facts of Act IV. With guest co-hosts Stephanie Boluk, Patrick LeMieux, and Sarah Elmaleh! Show notes: Kentucky Route Zero [http://kentuckyroutezero.tv/] Stephanie Boluk [https://twitter.com/chouxsalad] Patrick LeMieux [https://twitter.com/alt254] Sarah Elmaleh [https://sarahelmaleh.com/] Limits and Demonstrations Little Berlin installation [https://consolidatedpower.co/~donald/zero/Limits_%26_Demonstrations] Sarah's Part 3 Twitter thread [https://twitter.com/selmaleh/status/1373412541070602240?s=20] Karl Marx, Capital Vol. III [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Capital-Volume-III.pdf] Karl Marx, The Fragment on Machines [https://thenewobjectivity.com/pdf/marx.pdf] Museum of Jurassic Technology [https://www.mjt.org/] Lee Tusman [https://leetusman.com/] Richard Lemarchand, Attention Not Immersion [https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1015464/Attention-Not-Immersion-Making-Your] Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (Will Oldham), I See a Darkness [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78E0Gu3U1DI&list=OLAK5uy_m_OqnkSt68qy9R7vx7BkUnZPI4Z1zp3XI] Kelly Reichardt, Old Joy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Joy] Martin Deny, Exotica [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mc_Rw5onQBymBXjgh0t4d9279MZDJW76o] Audiogames.net [https://audiogames.net/] Kenji Eno, Real Sound: Kaze No Regret [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Sound:_Kaze_no_Regret] Sound of Metal [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_of_Metal] Nomadland [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomadland_(film)] Gabriel A. Radvansky et al., Walking Through Doorways Causes Forgetting [http://www.communicationcache.com/uploads/1/0/8/8/10887248/walking_through_doorways_causes_forgetting-further_explorations.pdf] Andre Bazin, Ontology of the Photographic Image [https://www2.southeastern.edu/Academics/Faculty/jbell/ontologyphoto.pdf] Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny [https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/freud1.pdf]

A special episode originally created in partnership with AMC Games for the in-flight entertainment of Airplane Mode, a very literal flight simulator. We chat with its creator Hosni Auji about the challenges and benefits of simulating the mundane, our strangely poignant experiences with the game, and our personal flight etiquette. Show notes: Airplane Mode [https://www.playairplanemode.com] Hosni Auji [http://www.hosoji.com] AMC Games [https://twitter.com/AMC_Play] F.E.E.D. [http://www.hosoji.com/case/feed] Zero Age [http://www.hosoji.com/case/zeroage] NYU Game Center Incubator [https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/about/incubator/] Gone Home [https://gonehome.com] The Twilight Zone - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet [https://youtu.be/OD-ZNiK9RS4] BLAH airlines [https://youtu.be/JloruklG_0o] Captain Bennet Foddy [http://www.foddy.net]

In the third installment of our Kentucky Route Zero miniseries, we take a seat for The Entertainment interlude, before exploring the physical manifestation of debt in Act III. With recurring guest co-hosts Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux, and bonus guest Sarah Elmaleh! Show notes: Kentucky Route Zero [http://kentuckyroutezero.tv] Stephanie Boluk [https://twitter.com/chouxsalad] Patrick LeMieux [https://twitter.com/alt254] Sarah Elmaleh [https://sarahelmaleh.com] Giving Games a Voice with Sarah Elmaleh [https://eggplant.show/64-giving-games-a-voice-with-sarah-elmaleh] Resonance game [https://store.steampowered.com/app/212050/Resonance/] The Consolidated Power Company [https://consolidatedpower.co] The Entertainment paperback [https://www.lulu.com/shop/lem-doolittle/the-entertainment/paperback/product-21311589.html?page=1&pageSize=4] Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths [https://archive.org/details/lowerdepthsplayi00gorkiala/page/11/mode/2up] Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43991/kubla-khan] Eugene O’Neill, The Iceman Cometh [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.149062] The Last of Us [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_Us] Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot [https://archive.org/details/waitingforgodot0000beck/page/n1/mode/2up] Julee Cruise, Rockin’ Back Inside My Heart on Twin Peaks [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXS46EtKlbE] Colossal Cave Adventure [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure] Junebug, Too Late to Love You [https://junebug.bandcamp.com/album/too-late-to-love-you] Vannevar Bush, As We May Think [https://mnielsen.github.io/notes/kay/assets/bush_1945.pdf] Steve Russell et al., Space War! [https://archive.org/details/pdp1_spacewar] Joseph Weizenbaum, Eliza/Doctor [https://www.masswerk.at/elizabot/] Eliza [https://store.steampowered.com/app/716500/Eliza/] Douglas Engelbart, The Mother All Demos [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY] Ted Nelson, Computer Lib/Dream Machines [http://worrydream.com/refs/Nelson-ComputerLibDreamMachines1975.pdf] Roberta and Ken Williams, Mystery House [https://archive.org/details/Hi-Res_Adventure_1_Mystery_House_1980_On-Line_Systems] David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years [https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fulllist/special/statesofdamage/syllabus201516/graeber-debt_the_first_5000_years.pdf] IF titles: the next generation of generation [http://blog.zarfhome.com/2018/06/if-titles-next-generation-of-generation.html]