Oh, a Podcast!

In this month's episode! - Unruly mermaids - Participation playoffs for hockey teams who try their best - Japanese high school clubs - Participating in Steam seasonal sales - The "new" "Harry Potter" "books" - Doc Brown's Chicken - Finding public domain books to turn into games - The original version of Mermaid Mission: Titanic - Playing Toobin' at the doctor's office - Who first introduced us to...

In this month's episode! - Can we replace Michael with potatoes. - Michael's mom reacts to Internet Court - Potty training - Do people still use README files? - Costumes for cats - The cartoony era of adventure games - How videogames can help you see new perspectives - Tipping should be a thing on Steam. - Cat President: The Anime - VN fans don't really like our VNs. All this, plus Michael gets sa...

In this month's episode! - References in our games that we don't understand - Disney princesses - Designing puzzles for text-only games - "Wikipedia Brown" - How to recharge old batteries - The locks at Yale University - Selling our games for embarrassingly low prices - How to demo visual novels at conventions - The dangers of videogames - Where does the name "Oh, a Rock!" come from? All this, plu...

In this month's episode: - I hope you like Harry Potter! - Shifty wizards - Wizards with guns - "Flipendo"??? - Dating 80-year-old Supreme Court Justices - Bulletproof skin - Hogwarts' suspect hiring practices - Percy Weasley fanfiction - We talk a little about game development. - How does anyone find niche games in 2019? All this, plus how to play the little-known Francy Droo spin-off game, Carlt...

In this month's episode! - Snow! - Michael explains marginal tax rates - Designing inventory interfaces - "Forget YOU, YouTubers!" - We try to find something happy to talk about. - Visual;Conference 2019 - Michael's old blog (RIP) - The Oh, a Rock! Extended Universe™ - Games we're looking forward to in 2019 - How to play Kingdom Hearts 3 without knowing anything about the story All this, plus Mich...

In this month's episode! - Pizza bartering - Round two of Internet Court alpha testing - AOL Instant Messenger - Watching yourself act - Bad video quality as a feature - Leaving self-deprecating comments in our code - Args and kwargs - Saying goodbye to sunrises - "It's the Paulcast now." - Christmas traditions All this, plus technical difficulties! (Thanks, Frontier!) You won't want to miss it. I...

In this month's episode! - Politics and pro-wrestling - Ren'py woes - "YES! YES! YES!" - Love, Guitars, and the Nashville Skyline - The like four Christmas games that exist - Songs about cookies - "Everything's stupid, and I hate it." - Telltale Games (R.I.P.) - Ogden, Utah - How do drug dealers pay their taxes? All this, plus a detailed explanation of frivolous tax returns! I can tell already—you...

In this month's episode! - Is Buckingham Palace a real place? - Sherlock Holmes Versus Arsene Lupin - "Met-a-Critic?" - Puzzles that are secretly homework - The NPC meme - Tester feedback on Internet Court - Sending Michael's mom back for reshoots - Inventing a pause function for Ren'py - Carson Drew or Phoenix Wright? - How great it would be to have a budget All this, plus math. ...Wait, seriousl...

In this month's episode! - Do the kids these days know what Harry Potter is? - Michael accidentally mentions theme parks. - Why the default name in Cat President is "Abigail" - Achievements for being bad at games - Trying to make any money off Steam - Watching "Finley" stream Pizza Boy - Which characters in Pizza Boy were supposed to be naked? - How to make yourself look old - "Tangled is better t...

In this month's episode! - Our new game is coming out soon!! - Michael's pizza disaster - Why Internet Court is taking so long to code - Bug-sorting puzzles - What happens when the programmer isn't a programmer - How to tell who's a cat and who's a human - Life in the Dorms is FINALLY out on Steam, kind of - Burritos are basically tacos - Why don't we make apps? - Murder, She Baked and Garage Sale...

In this month's episode! - We have a special guest: Victoria Budkey, one of the stars of Pizza Boy! - ...Uh, what's our game called again? - Victoria's background in the entertainment biz - ** MEETING THE ROCK ON THE SET OF BAYWATCH ** - Charleston, NC - Everyone's favorite Nancy Drew games - How improv and acting skills helped with modeling for Pizza Boy - Paul's lifetime supply of Michael photos...

In this month's episode! - Neither of us has seen the new Star Wars movie, so let's talk about it! - Luke and Leia hooking up in the books - Comparing Star Wars to The Odyssey - Michael (accidentally) releasing two games in the same week - What's next in the piper? What's next-next? - "Pride & Prejudice & Murder" - Playing through Pizza Boy as Michael Jordan - What even is a depot???? - CAT. PRESI...

In this month's episode! - Cracker Barrel trivia - Streaming old adventure games for young Nancy Drew fans - Heroes who are actually terrible people - Characters, backgrounds and items that do nothing and serve no purpose - "Where are the marshmallows?!" - Inventory overload - Pro-tips for Windows Movie Maker - The [censored] [censored] puzzle from Tales of Monkey Island that Paul hates so much -...

This month on the pod! - When is it okay to remake your old game? One week after release? Two? - How Michael ended up as a student in a Nancy Drew game - How Paul ended up as a finger model for Curiosity: What's Inside the Cube? - Paul's month from hell - How DBZ can help you write better dialogue - Letting NPCs solve puzzles so the players don't have to - Testing your testers - Why it's embarrass...

In this month's episode! - Why are GUIs so hard to code?? - And captions?! Jeez! - Image editing isn't so great, either. - Removing background noise from videos—now THERE'S a challenge - Coming up with subtitles isn't so bad though. - DLC vs. a full sequel for Cat President - Games that disturbed us so much we had to stop playing All this, plus our ideas for remaking the calendar. You won't want t...

In this month's episode! - Michael's Michael shirt he had printed up for Internet Court - How to drink soda without getting sued - Casting our moms in our games - What it's like to have more than two people test your game - Oxford commas - Why do we have websites? - Designing and implementing pizza-based puzzles - Naked speed-runs - What tastes better, Tide Pods or Switch cartridges? - We dump on...

In this month's episode! - Special guest Diana Gray (aka the voice of Francy Droo) is here!! - How do you pronounce a question mark? - Recording dialogue on the fly through Skype - Which cat in Cat President is "the weird one"? - HOW ARE THEIR SO MANY TYBOS IN THESE GAMES - Paul reveals that you can date him in a mobile game - One of the models in Pizza Boy is a legit, actual actress - Why and how...

In this month's episode! - Paul's trip report from RetroGameCon! - Michael isn't 100% sure what Undertale is. - Michael isn't 100% sure what Steam is, either. - Francy Droo & Friends is coming out on December 5th!! - Is breakfast a verb? - How to deal with conflicting tester reports (can somebody please tell us?) - Filming babies - Rewriting Pride and Prejudice with alternative love interests - Ca...

In this month's episode! - Francy Droo & Friends is coming very soon! - Finding bugs in My Nigerian Prince, three years later - It's pronounced "Ren'py". - Mermaid Mission Titanic, a new visual novel that Michael's writing, coding, and arting - Michael's impossible dialogue - We completely invent the idea of "pre-alpha". Copyright; that's ours now. - Do mops look anything like hair? - The lost Lat...

In this month's episode! - The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and live theatrical shipping! - Letting Twitch dictate your life (literally) - Text parsers vs. verb menus vs. cursors - Paul's really going to start writing Basically a Cow soon; he means it! - How we (try to) promote our games - What even are GUIs? - Paul and Michael's let's play of Willy Beamish from 2011. - IT'S PRONOUNCED "SUPER NINTENDO"...

We're celebrating one whole year of "Oh, a Podcast!" ...Quietly. In our own ways. It's almost like we didn't mention it at all on the podcast itself, which would be crazy; but if you listen closely, you might hear us talking about things like: - YouTube is putting LPers out of business. - Michael Gray, the swim dad - Pride and Prejudice as an interactive dating sim - How Paul finds contract proofr...

It's podcast season, everyone! What? That's not a thing. Anyway, here's what we're talking about this month! - Paul and Michael are each other's boss. - Angry Man Bun, and other fun nicknames for co-workers - Awkward Steve is going to be showcased at the Smithsonian!!! - No, SERIOUSLY!! - Making death sequences fun, rather than frustrating - An update on Sherlock Holmes' copyright status - Weird M...

Well, we did it! Another podcast in the books. The pod-books. The book of pod. Casts. Podcasts! ...Here's what we're talking about this month: - The Awkward Steve Duology is coming out next month! (And Paul has no idea how to sell it.) - Also, E3 is happening! ...We haven't been keeping up with it, though. - R.I.P. Steam Greenlight, and our bank accounts - Are boring trailers better or worse than...

It's crunch time on Don't Turn Your Back on the Ocean, the long-awaited sequel to Awkward Steve! The game will be coming out in the next few months, and—oh. We forgot to talk about that on the podcast. Here's what we talked about instead! - Paul's ill-fated prototype about a cross-country typo hunt - Little-known franchises we'd like to make games based on, like Animorphs and Harry Potter - Michae...

It's bright and early on a Monday morning! ...But it doesn't have to be. Take this podcast journey with Paul and Michael, and forget all about that pile of work that's threatening to take over your entire life. Here's what's on tap this month: - We're making Michael figure out how to do pixel-art - Point-and-click verb interfaces! - What even is "full-screen"? - Updates on Francy Droo 2, Awkward S...