Oh, a Podcast!

In this month's episode!

• Michael's new book, One Minute Mysteries 2, is out now!!
• Cat President roleplay
• Artichokes
• Used car salesmen in fiction
• The Baby-Sitters Club graphic novels' art style
• Oh, a Rock!'s adopted highway
• Are Pokémon games for kids?
• The terrible, horrible, no good very bad camera in Super Mario Bros. Wonder
• Collectathons

All this, plus the rules for capitalizing book titl...

In this month's episode!

• Socrates Jones: Pro Philosopher
• Torture rooms
• "We need to arrest The Phantom of the Opera, Winnie the Pooh and the Hardy Boys."
• Proofreading bad words
• My beautiful slimy boy
• Best practices for crediting licensed assets
• Lighting and composition in character photos
• DJ Nibbles' turkey scandal
• Paul thinks he could beat up a cat.
• Multiplayer Mario games

All this, p...

In this month's episode!

• George Wickham
• Decrypting bug reports
• Whatever the opposite of product placement is
• Localized cereal
• Conasaur, the scam-artist dinosaur
• The Pizza Delivery Boy Who Saved the World: The Official Novelization of the Hit Computer Game
• Bad tips for recording sound effects
• Paul's mom's Halloween costume collection
• Hiding meows from your spouse
• Award-winning hay

If you have...

In this month's episode!

• Mike the Gripper
• YouTube copyright triggers
• Uranium drinkware
• Co-Author Crush and Cat President: Third-Rate Candidate updates!
• How ChatGPT is helping us code
• How ChatGPT is NOT helping us with other things
• Book pillows
• Redoing Cat President assets in high-res
• The red highlighted text in Cat President games
• The fall of Unity

All this, plus Michael's writing a new book! Yo...

In this month's episode!

• The Cat President 3 script is finished!! (Finally!)
• Which high school clubs we want our Presidents to attend
• Avoiding copyright dings on YouTube
• Cats licking themselves
• Paul's going to be at the Rochester Game Festival on Sept. 9!
• Buying cat masks in bulk
• Dr. Arglefumph
• Paul's freelance videogame work
• Gamer, commentator, journalist, or developer?
• The Oh, a Rock! shared mul...

In this month's episode!

• Music and sound in our games
• The Setback
• Necks
• Taking photos of strangers
• Josie & the Pussycats
• Local upstate New York castles
• Michael's cowboy costume
• The Cat President timeline
• Real-life politics
• Board games where you kill and eat your friends

All this, plus a frank discussion on optimal Audacity settings! You won't want to miss it!! If you have questions abou...

In this month's episode!

• The battle for Head Boy
• How to draw lines in PhotoShop CS5
• Keeping up with AI tech
• Cool skulls
• Arting and re-arting
• WE NEED YOUR CAT PHOTOS!!!
• Paul loses it a little
• Gamer snacks
• The Nancy Drew podcasts Michael has appeared on: River Height's Buzz and Unlocked (I think)
• How much research do we do for the Cat President games?

All this, plus how The Rock screwed us over. Y...

In this month's episode!

• Drawing hotspots!!!
• Eyeballs and arm meat
• WHY ARE THERE STILL TYPOS IN CAT PRESIDENT?????
• Oh, a Rock's adopted highway
• Is Internet Court a legal entity?
• Bad Dog
• The buyout of Humongous Entertainment
• Nancy Drew: Mystery of the Seven Keys
• Co-Author Crush character reveals! (are not in this podcast)
• Copyright complaints on free music

All this, plus why Michael is now legall...

In this month's episode!

• Adult beginners' hockey class
• San Francisco
• Goosebumps: Attack of the Mutant
• Home Alone traps
• How to pronounce "Live a Live"
• Paul's review of the D&D movie!
• Michael's review of the Mario movie!
• The external factors that determine whether you like something
• Making Mario feel self-conscious
• Absolutely nothing about game development

All this, plus an ...

In this month's episode!

- How do you buy movie tickets?

- The D&D and Super Mario movies

- Michael and Paul's experiences as DMs

- When your characters won't stop talking

- Player-friendly puzzles

- Charles Clarinet

- Goal-oriented gaming

- A pool of liquefied humans

- How we use guilt to motivate ourselves

- Gaming pranks

All this, plus how to unlock Luigi in Super Mario 64! You won't want to miss it...

In this month's episode! - Is AI going to write Cat President 3? - AI-generated titles for our games - Evil blobby aliens - Distractions - The Idle Miner Tycoon community - The back part of Spencer's Gifts - What are show notes? Are these show notes? - Goof Troop vs. A Goofy Movie - Continuity problems between Cat President 1 and 3 - Games from our childhood that we still go back to All this, plus... *hold music* If you have que...

In this month's episode! - Our favorite games that we made - Lame-duck Congresses - Quick updates on Cat President 3 and the Moms Game - Michael's live stream of The Lost Oregon City Gold - Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper - The difference between publishers and developers - Is Sherlock Holmes too OP? - Comedy puzzles in serious games - Brothels - Our favorite games that we made All this, plus...is episodic gaming over? (Pleas...

In this month's episode! - The death of Chief Justice Goober - Trying to remember our own jokes and storylines - Which months are dead-er than others - Februum - Febroom - How a game's interface can screw up your cool haikus - Is it okay to name your son after the family sword? - WWWWWWWWWW - The lyrics to MMMBop - Games we never made (…yet?) All this, plus old men (us) shout at clouds (modern gaming consoles). You won't want to ...

In this month's episode! - The ways we indent our code! - Beating up your computer - Sales breakdowns between PC, Switch, PlayStation and Xbox - Our outline for Cat President 3 - Broadway musicals - Cat genders - Bitter giant artichokes - Coming up with backstories for main characters - Paul's hot take on the Big Mac - Underrated, underappreciated games (like M.C. Kids) All this, plus Bill Clinton plays the sax! We're An-i-ma-nia...

In this month's episode! - Twitter holidays - The winner of the Cat President 3 purresidential election! - Is Earl Grey dead? - Potential Cat President 3 titles/subtitles - The 1980 Presidential election - Mixing AI and hand-drawn art - The big Cat President update! - Do we have any tips for making visual novel playthrough videos? - …What about when they're boring. - Paul's embarrassing Return to Monkey Island crisis All this, pl...

In this month's episode! - "You gotta monetize your friendships, bro!" - AI art vs. actual real drawings - Having art vs. not having art - Michael should fire his editor (Paul) - Replacing stock photos and music in the original Cat President - Pride and Prejudice and Murder is out now!! - How to get hired for one of our games - Naked holidays in Portland - Illusion of choice in games - Paul and Michael try to figure out some math ...

In this month's episode! - Time does not exist - Cats: The Musical (The Dating Sim) - Adapting works from the public domain (into dating sims) - "Does everything have to be a dating sim?" - Naming the characters you date in dating sims - Paul makes Michael uncomfortable - Paul makes Michael more uncomfortable - Making visual novels harder - Michael's hot cowboy friends - How visual novels are like those personalized books you can ...

In this month's episode! - Paul's problems with level(s) design - We try to pick our next project: mommies, supervillains, or creepy kids? - Writing during the pandemic - The concept of blue - Quack Man & Honk Girl - Dark Michael - Deconstructing Goosebumps - Recording authentic early 2000s cell phone sound effects - Holes in bridges - Mother 3 All this, plus Michael reveals the lost Lost Oregon City Gold death scene! You won't w...

In this month's episode! - Michael is a sleepy boy. - GameCola's 20th anniversary? 10-year? 50th? - The 2022 Nancy Drew Mega Marathon - Oh, a Rock! geocaching! - Selling games to cheevo hunters - Using AI-generated art in visual novels - Outlines, outlines, outlines - Navigation in adventure games built with Ren'py - Designing a Disney World based on Oh, a Rock! games - It's very dangerous to get us talking about theme parks. If ...