Oh, a Podcast!

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 ...

In this month's episode! - John Cena's Peacemaker - Is social media getting better or worse? - The ice-cream business - The Pizza Delivery Boy Who Saved the World is now on Switch, PlayStation and Xbox!! - Changes we made for the console release - What would a (theoretical) Pizza Boy sequel look like? - The Lost Oregon City Gold is coming out in two weeks! - Keeping things consistent when you have multiple writers - Getting permis...

In this month's episode! - WE KNOW WHAT TUPLES ARE NOW. - Burger King hacks - Updates to the credits sequence in Too Many Santas! (and why) - Getting your kids to scream - Authentic elevator sounds - Redoing art assets for sequels - Making dumb workarounds look intentional - Are games just too loud nowadays? - How do we find music for our games? - "The Lost Gamer" All this, plus why devs should watch people stream their games! Yo...

In this month's episode! - Visual;Conference (aka VNConf) 2022 - Nose picking and armpit-hair removal - Accidental flirting - …Are we making an adventure game? - Our new collaborative workflow! - Editing our game art so we don't get sued - Making VNs feel more lively - HTML color codes! - Changes we make so people won't laugh at us - The Oh, a Rock! Book Club All this, plus we try to settle, once and for all: Is WarioWare a visua...

In this month's episode! - TOO MANY SANTAS IS OUT NOW, somehow! - Things we cut from the game in order to finish it in time - "His eyelids are definitely someone else's eyelids." - Why politicians only "suspend" their campaigns, never "end" them - Steam still doesn't think we're real :( - What's next? - How John Cena cured his cholera - The mystery of the unbuyable t-shirt - Tripods! - Our favorite rocks All this, plus COVID DOES...