The Short Game

This is our  fourth  episode! Can you believe it! This week, we discuss Tim Schaffer’s modern point and click adventure game Broken Age . Nate is away this week, so Shane & Raygan have the show to themselves. Topics include: Tim Schaffer’s early career at LucasArts working on touchstone games like Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle , his founding of Double Fine Productions, and the record-s...

This week on The Short Game, we discuss indie gaming touchstone Cave Story . If you’ve played games on a computer in the last decade, odds are you’ve played or at least heard of Cave Story. If not, there’s never been a better time to try it as it’s now available in multiple versions on multiple platforms. Cave Story harkens back to the great “Metroidvania” games of the 16-bit era, drawing its infl...

In our exciting second episode, we discuss The Stanley Parable, one of the strangest and funniest games of 2013. But it also makes you think, ya know? Here’s the description from developers Galactic Cafe: The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, y...

In this, our first episode, we were still resolving some microphone and sound issues. Sound quality in future episodes is vastly improved. Welcome to our first exciting episode! In this episode, we discuss the unexpected indie hit of 2013  Gone Home , a “story exploration game” from new developer The Fullbright Company.   Pre-show topics from this week’s show include: The inspiration for the show!...

We have a release date! Tuesday, April 15th This pre-launch welcome episode is just mainly a way to allow you the listeners to subscribe to the show in advance, and so that we can make sure that our feed is working. Subscribe to us in your favorite podcast app! We are waiting for our show to be listed in iTunes, but you can already  subscribe to the show in your favorite podcast app  (feed link)....