Big Game Hunger

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Marie Enger, artist and game designer, combats a fear of one of the prompts: Shrieking Worms GPS augmented reality phone game And they do that by making a game called Worm Calling, a geocaching-esque game where you must uncover a little worm friend using audio cues. Try to pinpoint a worm's location by following the audio trail on your phone - just make sure you beat the birds to it! Follow Marie...

Bree Paulsen, author and artist of graphic novels like The Firelight Apprentice, brings a lot of spooky scary coze to the podcast with the prompts: Cerebral Premise: a worker at a temp agency is mistaken sent to the underworld and has to ferry souls down the river styx and she must navigate it and figure out how to do that, Title: Charon is Caring 2D fighting game A spooky/cerebral experience grou...

Sophia Ricciardi, host of Moviestruck and member of Rolling with Difficulty, helps create an alibi for a totally new word: latibulative (to hide in a corner) Sidekick FMV point and click In Sideclick, you play as a hero's best friend, helping them on their day off... but finding a mystery where there is none! This extremely Philadelphia-based game sees you sneaking around the lairs of beloved Phil...

Charles Harte, Associate Editor at the newly returned Game Informer, get a little bit distracted by the Switch 2 business but eventually get down to task at hand with the prompts: Feral The Slenderman's Arms, an English Pub/Inn Mobile game who's gameplay is wildly different from the ads In Splended Man: Steamy Hills, things are less scary and more horny than you might expect. Within the halls of t...

Haley MacLean, a video game lawyer and host of Pew Pew Bang, gets down to work with the prompts: Lovecraftian Blue collar job simulator Bleak Play-to-Lose, Papers Please-style In "Porous," you must track down the long sticky tendrils of Pore-Bearer, the elder creature clogging up the city's pipes. But that's not the greatest horror: you also have to do paperwork! Keep the city and your family safe...

Emmett Watkins Jr, writer for VGU.tv and host of Player's Club Podcast, brings his expertise of traversal games to the prompts: Speedrun Optimized Cycle of life for a forest knowledge-gated progression A surprisingly environmentally-focused game, "Amazon Vine" sees you replanting a forest using sick stunts, and reaping the benefits in later stages of the forest. Plant a grove of bamboo to get heig...

Danny O'Dwyer, documentary maker and founder of NoClip, tackles some difficult questions, like how do you create truth in history, and some difficult prompts, like: Psychadelic A time-traveler arrives from the future to stop you from committing an unspecified act that leads to catastrophe on their timeline. The setting is flexible and can be determined by the adjective, but the player character sh...

Izzy Kestrel, indie game dev and Gexpert, tackles a special returning prompt with: borborygmic (“of or relating to a rumbling or gurgling sound caused by the movement of gas in the intestines) Surgery all control inputs are opposite The resulting game, "Reflections of a Surgeon: Control Issues," will test your patience as you work on patients in a number of mirror worlds. Start out with a normal k...

Francis Zierer, creator of CreatorSpotlight, pulls us back together again as a people with the prompts: Sticky cursed game from the future maze game - tilting Play three different modes in "All the King’s Horses: A Terraforming Game"! As earth itself, trying to reform Pangaea and reset humanity down to a certain threshold, as a world leader trying to reform Pangaea and preserve human life, or as e...

Lynda and Tim, co-devs of D'Avekki Studios, lend their game-making expertise and total lack of mushroom knowledge with the prompts: wild mushroom hunting phone game It may seem like a simple mushroom-identifying phone app, but "Professor Morel's Bad Trip" has so much more going on. Delve into the mysterious mushroom that killed Professor Morel and pinpoint who could have done the deed. Was it the...

Huld Martha, FMV actress and power-lifter, is ready to harness the power of science fiction with the prompts: Fierce movie tie in that should have happened Centrifuge Huld and Jenna pitch a very subtle tribtue to Galaxy Quest called "Cosmos Odyssey: Fred Kwan played by Tony Shaloub from Galaxy Quest and Literally Just Some Guy’s Zoo Day." In this multiplayer-game, one person controls the platforme...

Sam Winkler, Narrative Director on Borderlands 4, helps Jenna break a curse with the prompts: shakespearean teaches you how to commit crimes moody indie platformer They make "William Shakedown: Bard from Entry," a moody edutainment game where William Shakedown has to break into manor houses and castle to find the material for his next play. Outrun guards, fans - and a bear or two - in this delight...

Jesse Galena, GM, writer, and Second Wind contributor, brings his RPG expertise to the prompts: shakespearean teaches you how to commit crimes timeloop In Cryptick, play as a junior spy trying to cover up the fact that they have lost their secret spy decoder key. Try to decipher strange clues and riddles to complete the necessary spy actions. But you can't let your spy master know that you messed...

Jay, an indie game dev and co-founder of Second Wind Group, and Jess, editor and creator for Second Wind Group, are the first ever DUAL GUESTS on the show! With significantly more brain power in their brain skulls, they tackle the terms: shakespearean teaches you how to commit crimes timeloop The cheekily named game Prophicide ;) features a surprisingly amount of soup related content for a game ab...

KC Nwosu, creator with Second Wind Group and a community moderator, is ready to dismantle some corrupt systems using the prompts: shakespearean teaches you how to commit crimes timeloop In "Revolt Report Repeat," play as an investigative journalist on the trail of a child sacrificing cult. Track down the identities of the five shadowy cultists, and quickly now - because they've all seen your face....

Nick Calandra, editor in chief for Second Wind Group, melds his love of action films with Jenna's love of action films and the prompts: shakespearean teaches you how to commit crimes timeloop You're being hunted by the ultimate assassin, ane he's so good the only person who could him... is himself! "Recyclcide" forces you to maneuver henchmen around to trick an assassin into wiping himself before...

Jack Packard, GM for Adventure is Nigh and host of Red Letter Media, has got a sicko inside of him and he is not letting it stay dorment. Thankfully we've got a lot of space to play with the prompts: shakespearean teaches you how to commit crimes timeloop Play as an Elizabethean actor trying to break up an alliance the easiest way possible; by seducing one of the participants in a marriage between...

Phil Salvador, the Library Director of the Video Game History Foundation and returning guest, is ready to apply his archiving expertise to the prompts: taste-o-vision fourth-wall breaking QTE His grounded approach to game preservation keeps Jenna from making a vape game, which is truly for the best. And weirdly, his additional expertise in Frasier finds its own part to play in "Frasier: Dinner Rol...

Marlowe Dobbe, artist and art director for MegaCrit and lots of other games, knows how to brainstorm like a professional, and you'll see it in action with the prompts: indie rock TOUCANS! Cat tower city builder They quickly cycle through about a dozen perfect ideas before settling on a cat-tower-builder with musical elements: "Harmony Cafe Sim: Cats vs Toucans." Keep the Toucans and Cats separate...

No episode this week! Big Game Hunger will return next week for a normal episode, same big time, same big channel. In the meantime, a happy Hanukkah and Kwanzaa for those who celebrate, and a happy Monday for those who don't. They say that absense makes the heart grow fonder, so if you miss this podcast in your life this week, consider subscribing at Patreon.com/TheJenna ! See Privacy Policy at ht...

Gabbyyyyy Darienzo, art director and dev of A Mortician's Tale, is ready to add a new layer to her creative themes with the prompts: Brutal  randomized GENDER Combat? In my fashion game? Slayyyyy, a fashion-rouglike, take the feeling of coveting somebody's beautiful pants to the ultimate end: stealing their legs and putting them where your legs were so that you're now wearing their pants. And that...

Alex Van Aken, video producer and creator of Viewpoints, is taking beautiful notes on how best to make a: Surreal dueling tiki bar Inscrutable, award-winning Eurogame They pile on mechanics in "Overproof," a game about exploring all the highs and lows of bar ownership. Lean into the theatrical intensity of tiki drinks with unique craft cards, and lure the most customers into your uniquely themed j...