Episode Description

This episode is dedicated to good video game craftsmanship. In particular, we explore questions like:

How do you make your puzzle games challenging, yet intuitive?

How much should players be expected to “speak” video game language?

How can games add barriers for the player, while maintaining immersion?

Is speedrunning games the ultimate way to enjoy them?!

That last one probably doesn’t have a clean answer.

Games discussed include Portal, Outer Wilds, Baba is You, Noita. The gaming for non-gamers playlist of videos can be found here

P.S. I wish we had known about the game Wildermyth at around the 51 minute mark.