Indie studios and AAA studios...what makes their game different at their core? What game development philosophies do each of them have. WARNING: THIS EPISODE IS COMPRESSED TO HELL (we had a microphone issue). Oh and sorry for being a week late! Our bad.

Gaming with D and Taylor

Indie vs AAA

Modifications in gaming has been a pretty giant part of the PC gaming community. Taylor and D explore what they've done with mods as well as talk about emulation and full-conversion games.

Mods

VR is quite a wavering subject in gaming. Sometimes it's the future, sometimes it's a fad. We discuss what we think VR is and how it'll affect gaming in a permanent way.

Virtual Reality

Player choice is a huge subject in game design and a can become a very frustrating things for players if not done correctly. We talk about Fallout 4, Bandersnatch, The Stanley Parable, and lots of other games that use player choice as a center-point.

Player Choice/Storytelling pt. 2

Story isn't always communicated well enough in the medium of video games...lets talk about why. Our youtube channel "Karman Line Studios": https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6nt72R4GV41fObp6v_TeTw

Storytelling In Games

Kojima is without a doubt one of the most creative game directors in existence. We talk about how Metal Gear Solid 2 seems to be the point that Kojima went all in on his insane ideas. To see our in-depth analytical video essay of this game, keep an eye out for our new YouTube show called "Von Karman Art Musuem" on the channel "Karman Line Studios."

Metal Gear Solid 2 and Kojima

What exactly is Casual Gaming? D and Taylor try to define the frowed upon term and relate to how their gaming habits may be a lot closer to casual than they thought.

Casual Gaming

D and Taylor take on the massive topic of where the purpose of "fun" lays in games. Do games have to be fun to be enjoyable? What constitutes having fun in a game?

Do Games Have To Be Fun?

D and Taylor talk about Gamers and how they represent themselves from Doritos and Mountain Dew to Indie smugness.Our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6nt72R4GV41fObp6v_TeTw

The Gamer Identity

D and Taylor discuss how games and the interactive medium as a whole is shifiting toward a respected form of art. 

Games as Art

Hotline Miami is a game right up D's alley...Taylor not so much. We talk about why our brains seem to sync with or without this kind of "think on your feet" gameplay.

Hotline Miami (SPOILERS)

In our first episode, D and Taylor talk about their opposing views of Dark Souls.D hates it, Taylor loves it, let's talk about why.

Differing opinions of Dark Souls

Listen to D and Taylor, two video game enthusiasts, talk about their opinions on games, gaming culture, and the gaming industry, From PC master race to console plebs, we cover it all.

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