Hiraeth? Sensucht? Saudade? Listen to Alexis and Lottie cry as we talk nostalgia, sequels and games, from 17th-century Swiss cowbells to sailing away from your loved ones into danger. We talk transmission of experience from one generation to the next, the future of games as gamers get old, and the impossible loss of childhood - and why that's not such a bad thing after all.
Games / books mentioned in this episode, for your gaming / reading pleasure:
- Sunless Sea, by Alexis Kennedy and Failbetter Games
- The Nature of Order, by Christopher Alexander
- Toy Story 3, by Pixar
- No Country for Old Men, by the Cohen brothers
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