Crossplay Conversations: A Video Game Podcast Luke Lewis, Joseph Hooper & Jacob McCourt

Episode Notes
This week Joseph and Luke discuss their time playing Another Crab’s Treasure, Manor Lords and Animal Well! Additional topics include a bit of industry analysis about the upcoming console generation and the ongoing debate of video games versus art.

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Podcast: @crossplayconvos
Joseph Hooper: @Th3HoopMan
Jacob McCourt: @JacobMcCourt
Luke Lewis:@lukewarmlewis

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Player Player Podcast: @PlayerPlayerPod
Cutscenes: A Video Game Movie Podcast: @Cutscenes_Pod
Left Behind Game Club: @LeftBehindClub
Video Game Trivia: @VG_Trivia
The LukeWarmGames Podcast: @lukewarmgames

Episode Notes
This week Luke and Joseph discuss open ended game design, how this design philosophy differs between the AAA and Indie spaces and their favorite examples from the past and present.

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Podcast: @crossplayconvos
Joseph Hooper: @Th3HoopMan
Jacob McCourt: @JacobMcCourt
Luke Lewis:@lukewarmlewis

Check out our other shows:


Player Player Podcast: @PlayerPlayerPod
Cutscenes: A Video Game Movie Podcast: @Cutscenes_Pod
Left Behind Game Club: @LeftBehindClub
Video Game Trivia: @VG_Trivia
The LukeWarmGames Podcast: @lukewarmgames

Episode Notes
This week Luke and Jacob give their review impressions on a wonderful quartet of recent indie releases including Buckshot Roulette, Mars After Midnight, Let's! Revolution! and Pepper Grinder. Thank you to Sandbox Strategies, popagenda and Stride PR for providing review codes for this episode.

Timestamps:
0:00-Intro
2:40- Ice Breaker Question: What games are you hoping to pull out of your backlog this year?
10:53- Buckshot Roulette
14:47: Mars After Midnight
20:12- Let’s! Revolution!
30:07- Pepper Grinder
39:23- Outro

Links to Today’s Games:


Buckshot Roulette
Mars After Midnight
Let’s! Revolution!
Pepper Grinder

Find us on Twitter for show updates and more:


Podcast: @crossplayconvos
Joseph Hooper: @Th3HoopMan
Jacob McCourt: @JacobMcCourt
Luke Lewis: @lukewarmlewis

Check out our other shows:


Player Player Podcast
Left Behind Game Club
The LukeWarmGames Podcast
Cutscenes: A Video Game Movie Podcast
Video Game Trivia

This week, special guest Ngachacha joins Luke and Jacob to discuss remakes and remasters and which games need one!

Support Ngachacha: Twitter | PlayStation Drive

Timestamps:


0:00 Intro
2:10 Ice Breaker Question: "What Remake or Remasters Did You Played Last"?
9:30 What Makes A Good Remake or Remaster?
21:20 Building the List of the Top 15 Games That Need Remakes/Remasters
1:21:00 Outro

Find us on Twitter for show updates and more:


Podcast: @crossplayconvos
Joseph Hooper: @Th3HoopMan
Jacob McCourt: @JacobMcCourt
Luke Lewis: @lukewarmlewis

Check out our other shows:


Player Player Podcast
Left Behind Game Club
The LukeWarmGames Podcast
Cutscenes: A Video Game Movie Podcast
Video Game Trivia

This week, the Lads are joined by special guest CGDannyB to talk about their experiences at PAX East 2024 and Day of the Devs 2024! Remember to wishlist all the games you think sounded cool, it helps!

Support CGDannyB: Twitter | Twitch | TikTok

Timestamps:


0:00 Intro
2:30 PAX East 2024 Overall Impressions
6:30 Dustborn (Danny's Game of Show)
9:15 Let’s Revolution (Jacob's Game of Show)
14:25 Enter the Chronosphere (Joseph's Game of Show)
18:50 My Familiar (Luke's Game of Show)
21:00 Into the Dead: Our Darkest Day
25:20 Starvaders
27:30 Below the Stone
31:55 Crypt Custodian
36:35 Animal Well
39:40 Disco Samurai
41:25 Beat Slayer
43:55 Fretless
46:50 Zombie Rollerz: The Last Ship
48:45 LUCID
51:40 Tape to Tape
53:45 So To Speak
57:10 Astro Duel 2
57:40 Hell of an Office
58:20 Kamikaze Lassplanes (Listen to Jacob, CGDannyB & Joseph on the Six One Indiecast)
1:00:20 Lysfanga: The Time Shift Warrior
1:01:10 Light Odyssey
1:01:50 Helskate
1:02:10 Memory's Reach
1:02:35 Day of the Devs (LukeWarmGames' Day of the Devs Episode)
1:03:45 Sophia the Traveler
1:04:50 Selfloss
1:05:40 Chasing the Unseen
1:06:40 Outro

Other PAX Stuff:


Between 2 Screens: A Nintendo DS Retrospective (Jacob & Danny's Panel)

Find us on Twitter for show updates and more:


Podcast: @crossplayconvos
Joseph Hooper: @Th3HoopMan
Jacob McCourt: @JacobMcCourt
Luke Lewis: @lukewarmlewis

Check out our other shows:


Player Player Podcast
Left Behind Game Club
The LukeWarmGames Podcast
Cutscenes: A Video Game Movie Podcast
Video Game Trivia

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This week, the Lads do a deep dive into one of their favourite video game studios: Double Fine Productions. Why? Because Jacob and Luke did a Double Fine bar crawl in SF!

Timestamps:


0:00 Start
2:30 Ice Breaker Question: "What Makes Double Fine So Unique"?
8:00 The Double Fine Bar Crawl
17:05 Favourite Double Fine Games? Backlog Games from Double Fine?
26:30 What Games Do We Want Next from Double Fine?
31:00 Psych Odyssey
40:00 The Lasting Impact of Psych Odyssey
49:00 Outro

Find us on Twitter for show updates and more:


Podcast: @crossplayconvos
Joseph Hooper: @Th3HoopMan
Jacob McCourt: @JacobMcCourt
Luke Lewis:@lukewarmlewis

Check out our other shows:


Player Player Podcast: @PlayerPlayerPod
Cutscenes: A Video Game Movie Podcast: @Cutscenes_Pod
Left Behind Game Club: @LeftBehindClub
Video Game Trivia: @VG_Trivia
The LukeWarmGames Podcast: @lukewarmgames