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Monthly Archives: October 2014

The Action Points Podcast! Episode 62: Couching Trigger, Hidden Drag-and-Drop

October 29, 2014by aaronlime Leave a comment

In this episode: We haven’t had an episode without a guest for while, so we get rambly as we talk about some couch multiplayer games that we’ve been playing. Evan […]

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GEEKY SHIT: Gurren Lagann – Ultimate Edition Blu-Ray

October 28, 2014by MostStrange 1 Comment

Welcome to the first GEEKY SHIT post, where we’ll be taking a look at rare/interesting/geeky items! Our adventure through the endlessly inane items available for pop culture consumers like yourselves […]

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Anime!, Geeky Shit!, Movies!, Musings, Opinions

Mother 3 Chapter 1: Night of the Funeral

October 26, 2014by MostStrange 9 Comments

“What is Mother 3, you ask? It’s strange, beautiful and heart-breaking. It was never released in English (and probably never will be), so fans created an unofficial English translation. It […]

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Art, First Impression, Mini-Review, Musings, Opinions, Video Games!

The Action Points Podcast! Episode 61: Screencheating Samurai Punks with Nick and Justin

October 22, 2014by aaronlime 1 Comment

In this episode: We chat with indie developers Nicholas McDonnell and Justin Whitfort of Samurai Punk about their freshly-released multiplayer shooter sportsmanship simulator, Screencheat. We talk about the game, level […]

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The Action Points Podcast! Episode 60: Picking Vowels with Sam Gallon

October 20, 2014by aaronlime Leave a comment

In this episode: This week we talk to another board game designer who has a project on Kickstarter: Sam Gallon of Gallon Games with his word game, Pick A Vowel. […]

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Let’s Kill Trees: Paperback

October 16, 2014by aaronlime Leave a comment

“The lazeroids crashed against the cliff as we hastily made our ascent with on graviboot-shod feet. As we were almost halfway up the vertical expanse, I heard a faint beeping […]

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Board Games!, Full Review

Video Review: Alien: Isolation

October 15, 2014by MostStrange 4 Comments

Evan explores the space station Sevastopol, or its lockers and ventilation systems at least. We look at a small section of gameplay as Evan lets us know what he thought […]

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The Action Points Podcast! Episode 59: Sushi Heroes and 90s Comics with Phil Walker-Harding

October 14, 2014by aaronlime 4 Comments

In this episode: We talk to Phil Walker-Harding, designer of Sushi Go!, Pack of Heroes and many more games from Adventureland Games. We chat about his process for designing Sushi […]

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Embassy Cast: Episode 05 – Rules

October 13, 2014by aaronlime Leave a comment

This is actually three weeks old, originally recorded on September 14th, however Tim’s PC just happened to die at that point plus his ma was in hospital and if that […]

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The Action Points Podcast! Episode 58: A Rush of Rabbits to the Head with Kevin Chen

October 10, 2014by aaronlime 3 Comments

In this episode: Go play Rabbit Rush. Just go. Once you’re done, come back and listen to us chat with the designer, Kevin Chen. We talk about the game, the […]

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Action Points Podcast, Anime!, Podcast, Video Games!

Session Report: Games Laboratory Incubator Meetup 0.1

October 9, 2014by aaronlime 3 Comments

I’ve been interested in board game design from a young age, starting with statistic sheets for robots I drew in my notebooks and on to trying to design my own […]

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Video: The Action Points Podcast looks at Walking Simulators

October 7, 2014by MostStrange 4 Comments

Evan takes  a look at “Walking Simulators” You know those “games” where there’s hardly any gameplay, and you just walk through an environment? Evan presents a collection of some of his […]

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Mini-Review, Musings, Opinions, Video Games!, Videos

The Action Points Podcast! Episode 57: Phantasmal Fears with Joe Chang

October 6, 2014by aaronlime 3 Comments

In this episode: We chat with New Zealand based developer Joe Chang of Eyemobi and currently Kickstarting a procedurally generated horror game, Phantasmal. We also talk about horror games in […]

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Action Points Podcast, Podcast, Video Games!

The Action Points Podcast! Episode 56: Smashing Hedrons with Jason Kotzur-Yang

October 2, 2014by aaronlime 10 Comments

In this episode: We speak with Brisbane-based board game designer and host of the Tablepop podcast, Jason Kotzur-Yang. We talk about his design process and setting goals for Hedron (successfully […]

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