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These developers had a game on Steam Greenlight, until Adult Swim contacted them saying "Sign with us, and we'll get you on Steam". So they tied the knot with em, and then Valve's response was "No, there is no secret password, get back on Greenlight". Oops. The front couple minutes of this video explain it, and the back 15 minutes is a blind fit of white hot rage.

That crafting system must be outta this world.

I was on a games dev course of about 40 people in college, and only a couple of us actually pursued it as a career. It was a 1:1 ratio, the people who made stuff for laffs when they were at home made a career of it, and the people who wouldn't didn't. I kept trying to get people to make stuff by themselves, but they're defense was always "I don't know how". Which is daft to me, because you can find out how to start basically anything right now by typing it into Youtube. I tried a couple regular jobs when I was out of college, but I hated the regular-ass 9-5 adults and didn't fit in at all. Go to university and slob around for a while, more for the sake of growing comfortable with yourself and everyone else than to actually learn anything.

Recently I had a big argument about whether or not I should do a second Kickstarter. I did one in February 2011 for 7,000, and it was a big scary thing. It basically came up that we should do one now for a MUCH HIGHER NUMBER. I was totally against it and argued it down for ages, and had to really hypothetically think over what the reaction would be, whether or not we need this, figure out why I felt so bad about the idea and whether or not it was just a me-problem and I was being an idiot.* So I totally doubled down on how a second Kickstarter is not the guy I wanna be, wrestled the idea out the door and charted a new plan my own way, then confided in the shrine of DoubleFine, Vlambeer, Capy and other indie game good guys that I'd done the right thing. So I couldn't be any more cartoonishly POWNED when I woke up n read this headline. I'll throw some money at this cos I love the DFA videos so much, but I think I'll spend about 25 days having an identity crisis first. *This is trusting that we could get it funded, which was a totally seperate conversation with a lot more arguing. WHAT! Robert Khoo gave a whole PAX panel about how Kickstarter isn't a store! god damn it I was totally with him on that.

I changed my mind, I ended up finding way more stupidly dissonant lyrics to Mmmbop.

You have so many relationships in this life Only one or two will last You go through all the pain and strife Then you turn your back and they're gone so fast And they're gone so fast Oh so hold on the ones who really care In the end they'll be the only ones there When you get old and start losing your hair Can you tell me who will still care? Can you tell me who will still care? Oh, okay yeah, Mmm bop- Bip-patop wop Doooowop- a shimmy-bop doowop! Mmm bop- Bip-patop wop Doooo- yeah yeah!

Yeah this whole thing's pretty alright. First time around I was kinda underwhelmed that it's more a catalogue of a hundred examples than it is any interesting analysis, but alright I've had time to spot that. There is at least some mention of why these things are and what effects they have. I agree that having all ladies be weeping suicide-bags is a weird, sad trope, but also I agree with Twig that the connection to domestic violence feels like a stretch. Do people hit their wives as a form of helping them in real life? I figured it'd just be people who don't know how to deal with frustration and have a moral code all out o' whack. But for me to mis-interperet domestic violence is a pretty fair possibility aswel. I DO agree that the woman is an item in the protagonist's possession, in all those examples though. boooooo awkward forced laughter! boo obscure Green Lantern fridge thing, that wasn't a very intuitive touchstone at all! My favourite screencap.

Pepper Ann's crew is so the drug crowd.

She's like one in a million, and much too cool for seventh grade.

My favourite part was when that faux fem-nerd got quizzed on her nerd-cred geek knowledge about Doctor Who, to see who won the title of nerdiest Star Wars glasses-geek. I dunno, that high-five was so weak that it HAS to be sad on purpose, right

Yea I'd rank Zombo.com as pretty life-changing. I'm surprised he spoke in a way that's so self-refferential to the way he's portrayed on Kotaku and IGN and Video game forums. I thought they'd at least pretend Curiosity reached an audience beyond that.

DERRICK TIME, MORE LIKE GROSS O'CLOCK! high five! Yep, this is cringe-worthy from beginning to end. but hey I can't bang on about it, I would've never watched this without the sweet reccomendation. #DerrickTime #grossoclock

Just as the prophecies foretold... WHAT NEXT, DAN??

You dare to doubt his holiness!??

I'm happily underwhelmed. The fact that the green-screen background and the echo effect is a bit crap is just as good as it being amazing. Also: Godus! I'm imagining they'll be able to make it rain, or storm or snow for everyone else in the game, or take all of one person's resources and give them to someone else. Hopefully you'll actually have to pray and offer gifts to Bryan Henderson to gain his favour. Zooming the god game out one layer so that everyone plays as a minion to one dude, while also fooling around with their own minions, is a super interesting and fun twist. And the fact that the king of all creation is a lad named Bryan Henderson in Edinburgh is a perfectly English stunt.

That was a cute prize, I agree! The video could've been a bit more amazing. Maybe if they wrote him a dramatic script and put him in space or something. I just couldn't believe for the first minute that Peter Molyneux was standing at the middle of the cube. That thumbnail is perfect.

I am being serious, I went back and listened to other episodes. I listen to a lot of people posting their podcast on the internet, and they're usually a bunch of boring unfunny jerks with dumb voices over a bad skype connection. The ones coming out this year are much better than the ones from 2011.

Exciting!!!! I would be so excited if I got to the middle of the cube. I think I would publicly confirm that my life had changed forever, that Peter Molyneux was right, and then not share it. Also if this was a scam to get Peter Molyneux 75,000 twitter followers then it worked! EDIT- GETTING RESTLESS!!!

THIS WAS A GREAT CAST!! Everybody's super interesting, I DIDN'T KNOW SINGAPOREAN WAS A WORD, nevermind fucking anthropogonogal, but I was engaged the whole time because you guys all were. It was fun and unique and everyone was switched on, I could listen to this all the damn time. List of boilerplate questions at the end: don't need em! EDIT- Alright the fact that it launched into talking about Coupling and blues and everyone's favourite comedian has actually won me over on that. If "Uncovering the hidden treasures of the gaming industry" is the dumb tagline objective of this project, then thumbs up, cos that's exactly what that was; and ontop of that it was human and natural and fun to listen to.

"Jump 3 cars" means "Jump, AND LAND ONTOP OF 3 cars". I was stuck on that one. Oh and a vehicle with a high MASS means that it doesn't lose speed when it drives through zombies.

It took a while to figure out what I'm doing, and there's some boring dips between stretched-out upgrades (boooooo!) but this game is cool and neat! For anyone about to play it: Don't just go fast the whole time. That's what I did, and it was just a sad, confusing experience. You're supposed to shoot all the guys behind you and rev the acceleration while you're reloading, just enough to keep out of reach. Also do the objectives, the things that have stars on. That's where you get money from. Also note that the levels get more interesting as you get further distance into them. Where's this guy's girlfriend sidekick? I can't find her anywhere. Also lol the concepts for this game literally label them "WITCH", "BOOMER", and "TANK".

I agree that they should've made a competitor to the Apple TV or the Roku box, and had that be their much more affordable, mainstream push. These features are good, and I'm sure my friends and family who don't like games would love this stuff, but I'm the only person with any brand affinity to "X Box", and this does nothing for me! On a seperate note, I'm slowly figuring out that Headlines of Gaming is funnier if you chisel the body text all the way down, and focus the weight onto the headline. "Mirror's Edge To Make Light Return?" and "EA Rolls Dice, Gets A 2, Loses Faith?" is funny enough, and to string you along with mini-jokes after that is just polishing that smile down and down into a straight line- if there ever was one. So I'm gonna transition it from a couple paragraphs to a couple sentences. I feel like I've learned this lesson somewhere before, so maybe that's what was bugging me in the back of my mind.

I did find it hilarious, the idea of seeing a murderer in your Kinect-reflection, turning around to see no one, then turning back to see the illumi-room has scrawled blood across your living room.

If Sony react by setting up a more worthwhile relationship with retail shops, they're gonna be all PlayStation all day. Also this stuff's all unconfirmed, but assuming Microsoft are, in some significant way, discouraging trade-ins.

God, wish we didn't live on this FUCKING BORING PLANET!!! boring-ass sky, not even any rings