55. What Makes "Bad" Game Design?

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Alanah Pearce

Troybaker, Videogames, Video Games, Leisure, Mikebithell, Games, Austinwintory, Alanahpearce

4.8 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

This week, we talk about the importance of conductors (for orchestras, though I'm sure both scientific conductors and train conductors are super important too), visiting the sets of Blockbuster films, game design, and how video games are in their 'teenage' years. Also, WE HAVE NEW MERCH!

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0:00.0	Hello, Playwatch listeners. Before we get into this week's episode, I just wanted to apologize
0:04.2	slash explain a technical issue that happened with last week's episode. Basically because 51.3, which
0:10.7	is a bonus up and 54, both the episodes had the same file name on the hosting service,
0:16.1	it confused a lot of the podcast platforms. They didn't know what they were publishing because the file
0:21.2	names were identical. So if you weren't able to listen to episode 54, try essentially deleting it
0:27.3	and then re-downloading it, and it should redownload the new version. We have sadly,
0:32.4	it looks like, lost the bonus episode in the process of this happening. I might see if there's a way that I can
0:39.0	republish it, but it's going to annoy the hell out of me that 53.1 will be like after episode
0:44.2	55, if that makes any sense. So for now, if you've missed that episode, you can watch it on
0:48.7	YouTube, but otherwise, 54 should be back to normal. If that doesn't work, and I'm not sure
0:53.4	exactly how it works on different platforms to redownload an episode. It is definitely on YouTube, but apologies for that. Sorry, it caused a lot of confusion. I would have thought that hosting services were a little bit smarter than, you know, just having two things labeled 54 breaking everything. So sorry about that. But here is
1:11.2	episode 55. We were recording an album with my old band that we had and we decided we were going to be
1:17.4	rock stars and sleep in the studio, which is a terrible idea. And the engineer laughed at us. He was like,
1:22.3	cool, bye, and left. What the hell studio lets you do that?
1:26.8	ASC Summit Studios is no longer there, but it was this badass studio in Dallas off of Greenville
1:33.0	Avenue. And it was... And they just casually let you sleep there?
1:38.0	Well, our buddy was... Imagine trying to do that at like Warner Brothers. You're like,
1:41.1	no. Hey, guys, I want to try to bring a sleeping bag.
1:44.8	The, our buddy was the house engineer and we were doing our record there. And so we were
1:49.6	kind of like recording when they would let us. But we should have been paying like, you
1:53.4	know, 500 to 800 bucks a day. It's an amazing rate. Well, this was like also 2000, 2001 or whatever.
2:02.5	How big a room are we talking?
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