Emmi & Annie Talk Indie
Two longtime friends discuss what indie (and sometimes not indie) video games they're playing this week.
Episodes
Annie and Emmi revisit games from their respective childhoods. Annie brings Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst, a game about being friends with your ex, and Emmi brings Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It’s Dark Outside, a star vehicle for Pamela Adlon. Spoilers for games that are decades old.
This episode was deeply cursed with recording issues, roommate noises, and college youths having a party down the street, so apologie...
Gird your chthonic loins for the Hades II Early Access anniversary. Emmi and Annie talk muscle mommies, lunar lasers, and so many spoilers. No section on upcoming games this week because we simply had too much to say about Hades II.
Corrections:
Emmi misspoke when she said Giant Bomb was sold from CBS to Fandom. The 2020 sale of Giant Bomb was from CBS to Red Ventures. Red Ventures then sold Giant Bomb to Fandom in ...
In their first itch.io Snack Mix episode, Emmi and Annie scale fish, believe and forget, and descend into the depths. Snack along at the links below.
Games discussed:
Scale the Depths
Bulbo’s Belief System
Upcoming/newly released games:
Locomoto (Apr 8)
Blue Prince (Apr 10)
Rusty Rabbit (Apr 17)
Beholder: Conductor (Apr 23)
News links:
US Switch 2 Stockpile as reported by Polygon
Chapters:
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For April Fools’, Emmi & Annie play a little game called Balatro.
Upcoming/newly released games:
The Chef's Shift (Mar 30)
PEPPERED: an existential platformer (Apr 7)
Tiny Garden (Apr 8)
Maliki: Poison of the Past (Apr 22)
News links:
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nintendo-announces-new-lending-feature-for-digital-games
https://www.polygon.com/gaming/547367/time-cops-mission-of-lennon-free-narrat-game
Annie is a know-it-all. Emmi is a know-it-none. No news or upcoming games this week because we spend too long talking about which anthropomorphic animals from Aviary Attorney we would kiss.
Vive la France.
Links:
2014 Siliconera interview with Darya Noghani and Mandy Lennon
Original Kickstarter for Aviary Attorney
The Public & Private Life of Animals by J.J. Grandville and P.J. Stahl
Music:
Bit Forest Intro music by Bertsz...
Emmi & Annie played two games with very different styles. Emmi was disturbed by Mouthwashing's body horror; Annie was disturbed by Europa's cuteness. These problems are the same.
TW for discussion of sexual assault.
Maddie Myers on motion sickness in Indiana Jones
Mouthwashing playthrough Annie referenced
Gene Park interview with writer of Mouthwashing
Liz Ryerson, who recommends Decarnation
Upc...
Emmi and Annie played Death of the Reprobate. Content warnings for: Hieronymus Bosch, tomfoolery, bird violence.
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BBC article about 2011 23-day PSN outage
Polygon article about PSN outage
Emmi wants this Infinity Nikki outfit and she’s stressed about it. This is the pizza box Playdate case that Annie has.
Upcoming games:
Ale Abbey (Feb 18 - Early access)
Unbridled: That Horse Game (Feb 19 - Early access)
Cinnabunny (Feb 19)
Annie has personal news. Emmi makes an inaccurate Nintendo prediction. And they discuss Drova, which Emmi quit after a shift while Annie put in a 40-hour work week.
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An important note about timing/content: we recorded this shortly after the 2024 election and spent some time up top discussing how we were handling it. We hope we don't sound in any way glib about a situation that's obviously gotten way worse since and hope...
Emmi and Annie play Potion Permit, and discuss the tradition of bad mayorship in video game towns.
Upcoming games mentioned (now out):
Totally Spies! - Cyber Mission
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Europa
Drova: Forsaken Kin
Prim
Intro/Outro music:
Bit Forest Intro music by Bertsz -- https://freesound.org/s/545457/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
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In which Emmi & Annie introduce themselves, and talk about why they like video games so much. Special guest in the subtext: guilt around lack of productivity brought on by the American-Protestant work ethic.
Show notes:
Here’s a decent overview of explicit vs implicit memory
Joint-media engagement paper Emmi was drawing from:
Takeuchi, L., & Stevens, R. (2011). The new coviewing: Designing for learning throu...
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