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Helping Each Other Out in Hypogea

Season 2 Episode 45 Published 3 months ago

And so then I said "And my long-stick-with-a-hook-on-the-end!" and they were like "You mean a *staff*??" so I just left out of embarrassment.

Today we're talking about Hypogea by Charlie Wagner! A game about climbing out of a megastructure and meeting little guys.

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Art by Tara Crawford

Theme music by _amaranthine

Additional sounds by Boqeh

Produced and edited by AJ Fillari

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Timecodes:

(00:00) - The horrors of dirty soda
(00:41) - RIP Arthur Morgan
(01:15) - NOT HYPERBEAT
(01:37) - YES Hypogea
(02:41) - What is Hypogea
(05:18) - The joy of movement
(08:23) - Rewarding attention
(11:07) - The controls and progession
(14:40) - Little guys and why they're here
(17:48) - The use of body language
(19:12) - Vaulting over to spoilers!
(19:28) - The relationships
(25:35) - The recollections and the story
(31:25) - Mechanical moments
(33:48) - The structure of the world
(37:01) - The final moments and cosmic improbability
(38:46) - Shoutout to freesound.org
(42:02) - I regret saying this
(42:28) - AJ's Big Takeaway
(44:20) - Chase's Big Takeaway
(47:35) - Robin's Big Takeaway
(49:52) - The final shot of the game
(51:18) - Thank you so much for listening!

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