Happy February, gang! Thanks for sending in questions for our very first Q&A session. The Kappa, Science is Bad, Lutair, Mr. Glitch, and I answered as many as we could. Enjoy us discussing the appeal of Butterfly Soup, the history of Nintendo’s litigiousness, and which forgotten Maxis games should be resurrected, among many other topics.

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This episode contains major spoilers for a few games, namely Brothers – A Tale of Two Sons, BioShock, and Life Is Strange. Specific spoiler warnings can be found in the linkdump. We had some minor audio issues while recording this episode; we apologize for a few instances of static.

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Timestamps:
0:15 – Introductions
5:10 – What We’ve Been Playing… and Building
40:50 – Q&A: Intro
41:25 – Q&A: Gaming in Difficult Times
51:40 – Q&A: Player Interaction as a Storytelling Tool
1:02:15 – Q&A: Games Based on Books
1:04:50 – Q&A: Remake a Game in a Different Genre
1:15:40 – Q&A: The Legality of Game Preservation
1:28:20 – Q&A: Re-released or Remastered Games
1:46:35 – Q&A: Needle Drops
1:52:15 – Q&A: Coming to Games Late
2:06:05 – Conclusion