Wide Flank: Happy Gaming

It’s another New Cool, the Wide Flank show where Alon and Sean bring each other a New and/or Cool gaming-adjacent topic to talk about! In this episode, Sean takes us on a musical journey through Soyo Oka’s work, focused mostly on her contributions to SimCity, and Alon encourages everyone to spend more time hanging out IRL. Coming soon we’ll have the Game Club for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and a Dev Talk too, stay tuned :). Support us, get extra content, and help us pay for games and stuff at: https://www.patreon.com/wideflank Join the Wide Flank discord!!! https://discord.gg/ACbDjNhMpJ All Wide Flank links: https://linktr.ee/wideflank

This month’s Game Club is Indiana Jones and the Great Circle therefore we’re GLHFing about it! It's bonus content, join the Patreon for the full episodes of GLHF: https://www.patreon.com/wideflank

Water churning, time turning, sun burning, wave crash, head bash, ride, glide, collide, high flying, fish frying, eye crossing, cookie tossing, snaking, quaking, booty shaking, scrolling, controlling, rock ‘n’ rolling. Wave Race 64, the first Jet ‘n’ sweatin’ in your face race for Nintendo 64. Strap on the seahorse and ride. Support us and help us pay for games and stuff at: https://www.patreon.com/wideflank [https://www.patreon.com/wideflank] Join the Wide Flank discord!!! https://discord.gg/ACbDjNhMpJ [https://discord.gg/ACbDjNhMpJ] All Wide Flank links: https://linktr.ee/wideflank [https://linktr.ee/wideflank] Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:32 - Game background 00:01:26 - Wave Race announcer 00:10:10 - Announcers vs. narrators 00:15:10 - Is Jet Ski racing a sport? Is racing the first sport? 00:16:39 - What’s Wave Race all about 00:25:29 - Racing games 00:26:33 - Wave Race without racing? 00:28:13 - Speedruns 00:33:03 - Not a Nintendo vibe 00:34:40 - The point system 00:36:26 - Buoys and their role 00:42:47 - Graphics, motion capture, & Shinya Takahashi 00:54:42 - Personal watercraft racing videogames 00:56:18 - The feel of the vehicle 00:58:06 - Alon vs. racing games 01:05:06 - Drake Lake 01:07:40 - Wave Race aesthetics & tone 01:13:33 - Rider’s Republic and similar games 01:21:39 - The racing is good 01:30:34 - Different size waves 01:35:44 - Why don’t more games sound like this now?

Sean and Alon are joined by writer, editor and game designer merritt k to discuss her vampire reality show visual novel Fledgling Manor. Alon surprises Sean and merritt with a different vampire-based game, Sean celebrates merritt's game a little bit, and merritt dives deep on her writing process and the collaborative process at In Secret Places. Why vampires? Why visual novels? How vampires? How visual novels? All this and more shall be answered within. ~ Wishlist Fledgling Manor: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3238510/Fledgling_Manor/ Follow merritt on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/merrittk.com In Secret Places: https://www.insecretplaces.com ~ Support Wide Flank: https://www.patreon.com/c/wideflank Join the Wide Flank Discord: https://discord.gg/ACbDjNhMpJ All Wide Flank links: https://linktr.ee/wideflank ~ Show notes: Jake Paul / Mike Tyson fight [https://www.netflix.com/title/81764952] Jiangshi [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiangshi] Blade [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_(1998_film)] Vampire: The Masquerade (tabletop game) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire:_The_Masquerade] Anne Rice [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Rice] Vampire: The Masquerade (video games) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_of_Darkness_video_games#Vampire:_The_Masquerade] Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire:_The_Masquerade_–_Bloodlines_2] The Chinese Room [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chinese_Room] James Bond Jr. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_Jr.] Jem and The Holograms [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jem_(TV_series)] Wishbone [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wishbone_(TV_series)] Danielle Riendeau [https://www.gamedeveloper.com/author/danielle-riendeau] Game Developer [https://www.gamedeveloper.com] Fanbyte [https://www.fanbyte.com] A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street] Terrifier [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrifier] John Carpenter [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carpenter] Near Dark [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Dark] Kathryn Bigelow [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Bigelow] Bill Paxton [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Paxton] The Lost Boys [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Boys] Fright Night (1985) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fright_Night] Buffy The Vampire Slayer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer] Twilight [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_(novel_series)] V Rising [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_Rising] Vampire Survivors [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_Survivors] Slay The Spire [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slay_the_Spire] Nosferatu (1922) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu] Simon Pegg on "fast zombies" [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/nov/04/television-simon-pegg-dead-set] 28 Days Later [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_Days_Later] Vampires 2.0 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vampires-2-0-a-bloody-fun-revisit-380/id1156724104?i=1000662482342] "List of vampire traits in folklore and fiction" [https://vampire-encyclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_vampire_traits_in_folklore_and_fiction] Count Chocula [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_cereals] Brandon Sanderson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson] Phoenix Wright [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Wright:_Ace_Attorney] LB Hunktears [https://bsky.app/profile/hunktears.online] Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Daddy:_A_Dad_Dating_Simulator] I Love You, Colonel Sanders! (KFC Visual Novel) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_You,_Colonel_Sanders!] Resident Evil (1996) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhG4BX9u7s8] Foley [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_(filmmaking)] Freesound [https://freesound.org] shaydh [https://bsky.app/profile/shaydh.bsky.social] The War Follows Me Wherever I Go [https://merrittk.itch.io/the-war-follows-me-wherever-i-go] "That's Chappie" [https://www.bblloobb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/vineyille-chappie-tweet.png] Citizen Sleeper [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Sleeper] Ren'Py [https://www.renpy.org] Baldur's Gate 3 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur%27s_Gate_3] SCUF controller [https://scufgaming.com/] Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sekiro:_Shadows_Die_Twice] New Cool – Tongues / Survivor [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnYvDwy6b-Y] Survivor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_(American_TV_series)] The Mole [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mole_(American_TV_series)] Among Us [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Among_Us] LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com] Saw [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_(film)] 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/999:_Nine_Hours,_Nine_Persons,_Nine_Doors] Squid Game [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squid_Game] Tabula rasa [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_rasa] Disco Elysium [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Elysium] Game Of Roses (The Bachelor podcast) [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/game-of-roses/id1469113217] Rick Owens [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Owens] What We Do In The Shadows [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_We_Do_in_the_Shadows_(TV_series)] Big Brother [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(franchise)]

It’s another New Cool, the Wide Flank show where Alon and Sean bring each other a New and/or Cool gaming-adjacent topic to talk about! In this episode, Alon gets physiological and talks about sticking his tongue out while playing games and then Sean talks about the ultimate TV series; Survivor. Next week will be a Dev Talk with Merritt K about her upcoming game Fledgling Manor! -- Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro and Admin 02:57 - Alon’s topic: Tongue (weird) 16:39 - Sean’s topic: Survivor (TV series) 38:49 - Outro Show notes: Peanuts tongue comic: https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1963/02/03 [https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1963/02/03] -- Support us, get extra content, and help us pay for games and stuff at: https://www.patreon.com/wideflank [https://www.patreon.com/wideflank] Join the Wide Flank discord!!! https://discord.gg/ACbDjNhMpJ [https://discord.gg/ACbDjNhMpJ] All Wide Flank links: https://linktr.ee/wideflank [https://linktr.ee/wideflank]