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Back to EpisodesDocumenting The End in Umurangi Generation (+ Macro DLC)
Season 3
Episode 9
Published 1 week ago
Description
I'm having a hard time getting the Cheerwine and the portrait of the personification of existential dread in the same shot with the telephoto lens.
Today we're talking about Umurangi Generatoin by ORIGAME DIGITAL! A game about taking photos and choosing how to live.
Get Umurangi Generation on Steam or Switch!!! Follow ORIGAME DIGITAL's work on their website!
Discussed in the episode:
- The Cheerwine Official Store
- The Article Where I Talk About Umurangi Generation In Full Detail (Total F*ckin Spoilers Ahead), Part One by Kaile Hultner on No Escape
- Interview: Naphtali Faulkner on developing indie smash 'Umurangi Generation' by Jonathan Peltz on inverse
- 5 Years Ago, One Of The Most Brilliant Photography Games Perfectly Captured The Present Moment by Robin Bea on inverse
Additional links:
- The Umurangi Generation is Asking You To Care by Celia Lewis for Vista Magazine on Medium
- What a video game about a futuristic Tauranga can tell us about our present by Dan Taipua for The Spinoff
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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) - Picklesburgh and Kielbasafest
- (01:21) - Welcome back to penn.dot
- (02:17) - What is Unmurangi Generation?
- (03:50) - This game is About Stuff
- (05:12) - The photography is fun
- (15:51) - The way the mechanics aid the story
- (17:41) - All photography has a bias!
- (21:35) - The soundtrack!!! The art!!!
- (24:02) - Spoilers!
- (25:08) - Speeding through the narrative
- (30:07) - What the Macro DLC focuses on
- (39:59) - Big Takeaways
- (40:26) - Robin's Big Takeaway
- (43:42) - AJ's Big Takeaway
- (45:51) - The game is amazing!!!!!!
- (46:52) - Thanks for listening!