In this episode, Alex and Lara attempt to be anti-colonialist while playing alien colonizers. We did our very best. A game about alien invaders has the potential to be devastatingly serious or ludicrously silly, and we picked the option which has the word “Earthling” in the title, in this game about celebrities saving the world.
Important Discoveries
- Fun Fact: Alien is a good movie.
-Skeksis are creepy little bird monsters.
-Tumbling block towers cannot be used over Zoom. YET.
In this episode, Alex and Lara are joined by the dulcet tones of voice actor and fantasy child parent Aaron Catano-Saez. Together the trio tackles the most important question of them all: what if racing had cool mechs? Wouldn’t that be awesome?
-The most important part of racing… is love.
-There is no sport that can’t be improved with the addition of giant robots.
-Anybody can be a giant robot pilot. Anybody.
In this episode, Alex and Lara are joined by Sasha Reneau (of Spindlewheel fame), and given the task of making a game about pirates. On kaiju. And for some reason there’s singing, which is going to be a real challenge for the stream. And for some reason there’s ghosts and skeletons, which is just awesome.
In this episode, Alex and Lara are once again on our lonesome, and we leaned the heck into it with this solo journaling game you play by drawing on your own physical human body. Visit the city you long ago abandoned and discover weird stuff. This one’s gonna be big and broad and, you guessed it, really hard for us to do a live-play of (but that’s a problem for future-Alex and Lara to deal with).
In this episode, Alex and Lara are joined by Jasmine, and together the three go face-to-face with time itself, with a game challenge that proves that, while you don’t need to respect the linear flow of time while designing a game, it sure as heck makes things confusing when you don’t.
In this episode, Alex and Lara are joined my Monica and tasked with approaching the complex topic of gay wizard drama, emphasis on the DRAMA. Together we shall learn everything to know about the wizard opera, where wizards go to see, be seen, and furtively engage in fashion duels to impress Very Important Mages.
In this episode, Lara and Alex are joined by Kira, and talk about the video games we’re playing right now, and then smash them together like children playing with action figures, except the action figures combine into an RPG about fighting the physical manifestations of your own sadness in a corporate cloud city whilst observed by interchangeable god-narrators. As you do!
The Prompt: Everyone say the last video game you played. Combine them all into an RPG.
Special Guest: Kira Magrann