In this episode:
There’s going to be some Overwatch in this episode. No escaping it. We talk about ethical game design, particularly in relation to representation and monetisation. We also catch up on what we’ve been up to since we last recorded more than a month ago: Jackson was at AMAZE, Evan’s been playing Dark Souls 3 and reading up on it in You Died, Dan’s been playing Pokemon GO and T.I.M.E Stories, and I’ve been playing Alpaca Pakapaka and reading Something New and Relish by Lucy Knisley.
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Episode 123 – Watching Over You
Music: Theme for Harold (var. 2) by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a CC Attribution 3.0.
Links for the things we talked about:
I was on the Hyper Pixelcast talking about Overwatch as well
A MAZE Independent Games Festival
Jim Sterling’s video on Overwatch and Microtransactions
Magic: The Gathering’s Reserved List
Casey Muratori and Shawn McGrath on the “Free to Play” business model
Action Points! 