Midpoint Save - The Game Club Podcast

Have you ever had one of those days when you don't wanna wake up? Everything sucks? You don't really know why, but you want to justify playing Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer. In this month game from The Game Club, we talk to Jay Thorlen, lead designer of both Hypnospace Outlaw and Slayers X about the difficulties of developing a game that’s being developed by a character fro...

Looking for something cozy, maybe a little challenging, looking for a collect-a-thon, or maybe you want something that pulls at the heartstrings? Lucky for you, this month's Game Club title covers everything and much more. Valley Peaks sets you out on a climbing adventure that will have you scaling to new heights as you complete your father's last job. There are stamps to collect, machines to repa...

Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name – because there’s only two dozen people on the island. Welcome to Elk is a biographical adventure game mixing real world stories with mini-games and an island connecting all of them together. It’s a game that dives into how stories define us and what we will leave behind after we’re gone. Also, there are fun mini-games. I talk to Murray Somm...

Lose your apartment only to head out to the big city looking for a new place, fight off giant rats, cause a prison break, and find a lost civilization? Sure, we’ve all been there. The Midpoint Save presented by The Game Club loads up the cargo van with Wuppo, an adventure game by Lars Korendijk. We talk about balancing exploration with action, building your favorite NPC’s, and the lessons he utili...

The Game Club dive into Farewell North this month, a game about a collie and his master exploring the Scottish Isles, remembering the past, and having to say farewell to the past. We talk to Kyle Banks about how music played an important role in the game, how to design a world around islands, and how to deal with heavy subjects while not getting lost in the darkness. Head over to The Game Club now...

Crows like shiny things, helping people, and relieving themselves on your car or unsuspecting person. You can do all that and more in Just Crow Things by Unbound Creations. We take flight with Jakub Kasztalski founder of Unbound Creations about telling a story broken up into multiple sections, why a bird helps you stay grounded in the world, and what's hitting steam next for him and his developmen...

Next to playing video games, we love talking about video games. And next to that, we love talking about how we talk about video games. Is your head dizzy yet? Good! Mike from Six One Indie joins us this week to put the petal to the metal in the genre defying Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom by Panik Arcade. With a game that’s like putting the N64 into a blender, how do you go about describing one of the mos...

We talk to Melos Han-Tani and Marina Kittaka, the co-developers of Anodyne 2 and the recently IGF nominated Angeline Era, about developing a sequel, how Angeline Era almost became the third in the series, and what does Anodyne mean to them.

Having trouble remembering the past or getting your story straight? Re:Call – this month’s pick for The Game Club – lets you pick apart the stories of the past to make the present better. Developed by maitan69 and published by Whitethorn Games, you’ll dive into the shoes of our protagonist who has the power to alter the past. Someone else out there wants that power and will do anything to take it...

Sun, sea, and a dead body? I swear, this is a cozy game. Midpoint Save wades halfway into this month’s indie title, 24 Killers with the developer Todd Luke. In the game, you wake up in a cursed dead body on the shores of an abandoned military island. Free the monsters lurking in the depths of the silo, help them achieve their goals, and you may find a way off this slice of deserted paradise. We ta...