Episodes

  • This Nightmare Will Never End! Hell Yeag! with Lilith Walther

    This Nightmare Will Never End! Hell Yeag! with Lilith Walther
    Apr 16 2024
    ETAO PODCAST, EPISODE 181. Lilith Walther aetherboosts her way on over to talk about Nightmare Kart, its previously life as Bloodborne KART, its demake predecessor Bloodborne PSX, and the relationship between retro aesthetics, open development practices, and a general attitude of… YOLO? Nightmare Kart will be out for free on May 31.You can see more … Continue reading "This Nightmare Will Never End! Hell Yeag! with Lilith Walther"
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  • Dragon’s Dogma II, Chaos, and Dogs

    Dragon’s Dogma II, Chaos, and Dogs
    Apr 2 2024
    ETAO PODCAST, EPISODE 180. Dragon’s Dogma II is full of inventive, quirky flourishes, meaningful frictions, and… shameless micro-transactions that capitalize on those exact quirks and frictions. We can, of course, get meaning and joy out of art that comes to us compromised. Which is good news, since most art, if not all art, comes to … Continue reading "Dragon’s Dogma II, Chaos, and Dogs"
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  • Helldivers II and Making Art about Fascism without Making Fascist Art

    Helldivers II and Making Art about Fascism without Making Fascist Art
    Mar 19 2024
    ETAO PODCAST, EPISODE 179. Helldivers II is a wildly popular co-op shooter. It’s also extremely funny. It’s also very much about fascism, both in the sense that its satirical lens is aimed at fascist tendencies in moribund democracies, and in the sense that its core pleasures are… sort of fascist? The music makes you feel … Continue reading "Helldivers II and Making Art about Fascism without Making Fascist Art"
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  • Palworld: A Ludic Reading and a Luddite Reading

    Palworld: A Ludic Reading and a Luddite Reading
    Mar 5 2024
    ETAO PODCAST, EPISODE 178. While the show was taking a break, Drew started putting together some essays on the growing list of recent recent surprise hits—games that, for whatever reason, have been doing vastly better than their developers or publishers had expected. 2024 does, so far, seem to have a sort of serial monogamy to … Continue reading "Palworld: A Ludic Reading and a Luddite Reading"
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  • Some of What We Played in 2023

    Some of What We Played in 2023
    Dec 26 2023
    ETAO PODCAST, EPISODE 177. Lucio and Drew talk about some of the games they’ve enjoyed gaming at this year, from KarmaZoo, Pizza Tower, Wobbly Life, and The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog, to Remnant II, Spider-Man 2, Street Fighter 6, Jedi: Survivor, Wo Long, and Tears of the Kingdom. Speaking of, spoilers for Remnant II … Continue reading "Some of What We Played in 2023"
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  • You Should Be Free, with Glen Henry and Chase Bethea

    You Should Be Free, with Glen Henry and Chase Bethea
    Dec 12 2023
    ETAO PODCAST, EPISODE 176. Glen Henry and Chase Bethea drop achor awhile and talk about Sunken Stones, why pirates mean freedom, and why the Golden Age of Piracy was a lot more Caribbean than Pirates of the Caribbean would have you believe. Also, inevitably, One Piece. You can play the Sunken Stones demo on Itch.io, … Continue reading "You Should Be Free, with Glen Henry and Chase Bethea"
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  • Setting the Stakes, with Ezra Szanton

    Setting the Stakes, with Ezra Szanton
    Nov 28 2023
    ETAO PODCAST, EPISODE 175. Ezra Szanton painstakingly platforms his way over to talk about To The Flame, the first in his new studio’s forthcoming kinda-trilogy of horror games. He also talks about how to effective horror, what makes a game interesting to watch as well as play, and some of the potentially-actually-pretty-intereting applications for so-called … Continue reading "Setting the Stakes, with Ezra Szanton"
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  • Devs, Uh, Find a Way, with Eric Peterson (a.k.a. Baja the Frog)

    Devs, Uh, Find a Way, with Eric Peterson (a.k.a. Baja the Frog)
    Nov 14 2023
    ETAO PODCAST, EPISODE 174. Eric Peterson hops on over to talk about the joys of hobbyist game development, the things that need to change in professional game development (even when compared to other parts of tech), and the cultural importance of drawing little guys. You can play JOUNCER PX (as it’s called now) on itch.io.You … Continue reading "Devs, Uh, Find a Way, with Eric Peterson (a.k.a. Baja the Frog)"
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