#10b - Adorable Small Business Tyrant Simulator
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Alex Ross (@Alexrosswrites) returns for part two of this examination of the indie game world via a few documentaries for part two. this time we cover the post-indie boom from around 2015-now. first we look at depressing vanity project/indie survival story "Surviving Indie" from late 2016, then we look at a surprisingly quality documentary about the indie game scene in China called "Indie Games In China" from 2018. and then in an ill-advised move... we look at this year's E3 "Wholesome Direct" stream.
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#10a - White Collar Mario From The Future
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hey everyone! for the 10th episode i've brought game academic and writer Alex Ross on board for part one of a punishingly long journey relitigating all the ridiculous things of independent game development scenes past via a few documentaries.
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#09 - We'll Be Middle-Aged Children (But So What)
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hi folks! it's 2021 now, i guess. perfect time to get back into the Cinderella story of a bunch of middle aged guys who hit the big time from the city of Dayton, Ohio.... Guided By Voices. specifically i focus on what i consider the strangest and most unique album of their catalog, 1993's Vampire on Titus.
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#08 - Hurtling Over Peak Videograme
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it's a video...grames episode! i briefly talk about cool oddball that very much bear the mark of their creators: the colorful and goofy Super Bogus World (which has a new sequel) and the very unsettling Pagan: Autogeny.
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#07 - The Great Sea Swallows Her Whole For A Treat
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greetings and apologies for the time between episodes! the music industry facing a severe downturn because of the recent pandemic and the general deluge of traumatic news has made me reflect more on smaller, more understated artistic triumphs as an antidote.
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#06 - Enduring Mock Funerals
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a journey through the myth, the legend, the phenomenon Travel Channel tv show and Ghost Bro hunter sanctum Ghost Adventures featuring special guest Ian Williams.
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#05 - Remixed Down In The Scab Hole
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hello fellow dark voyagers of the great beyond,
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#04 - That's A Dead Kid
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welcome back, universe!
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#03 - Third Eye Wide Blind
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greetings! on this very chunky special episode, i rewatched Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut (1999) and talk about its various allusions and resonances to the modern day hell world we are all trudging through. major spoilers for the film.
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#02 - Trapped Inside A Soul Cube
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my brain is forever infected by worms after 15 hours of Soul Axiom, the Southland Tales of videogames... maybe? it's a bizarre and clunky videogame released in 2016 that is far more ambitious than it has any right to be. because my mind is a prison now, i talk Jeffrey Epstein, eugenics, corny indie game cliches, and the tech world. uhh oh yeah, and also a lot about Soul Axiom. is it a good game? is it a bad game? is it a "so bad it's good" game? who the hell knows anymore.
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this is a very special musical episode about my (sometimes sordid) history and musical background with the online videogame music arrangement community OC ReMix, the music and artistry of several things i enjoyed on that website, and the many dramas of that era that still haunt me in ways that i can't put into words today.
you are in for a journey, and a real treat. so be patient and sit back and relax.
internet archive of the John Romero blog post: https://web.archive.org/web/20020402073523/http://www.rome.ro/
judges' decision i reference later in the episode in the "Panel Is A Disaster" part: https://ocremix.org/community/topic/2436-no-sonic-cd-jp-work-it-retrohouse-mix/
much music is feature in this episode. in order of appearance:
1. "yup.mid" - my very first midi track which i used for my Wolf 3D mod Chemical Warfare
2. "Dark World Jazz" Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past arrangement by Gux: https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00156
3. "Happily Merried" - my very first finished remix that was submitted (and declined):
(Judge decision for Happily Merried): https://ocremix.org/community/topic/869-no-super-mario-rpg-happily-merried-ft/
4. "The Atomizer" Final Fantasy 6 arrangement by Mustin: https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00163
5. "Da Phunky Forest" Super Mario World arrangement by me: https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00908
6. "Forest Birdcussion" Donkey Kong Country 2 arrangement by Protricity: https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01138
7. "Trippin' On Rainbows" Super Mario Kart arrangement by Mazedude: https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00686
8. "Cyborg Blobby" A Boy And His Blob arrangement by Mazedude: https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00881
9. "Static Aversion" Silent Hill 1/2 arrangement by Children of the Monkey Machine & Steve Pordon: https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00451
10. "74 Floors" The Combatribes arrangement by K. Praslowicz: https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00600
11. "IceCapped" Sonic 3 arrangement by MkVaff (formerly McVaffe): https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00240
12. "Team Gato" Chrono Trigger arrangement by Dale North & Mustin: https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00313
13. "Niggaz 4 Life" Astérix (NES) arrangement by zykO & RocketMermaid: https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01125
14. "Juese Belmont" Castlevania arrangement by Disk Mastah Smokabitch (aka Shael Riley): http://olremix.org/remixes/300
15. "Ocarina Boogie" Zelda 64-related jam by The Black Lodge: https://williamjacksn.github.io/ocremoved/mp3/TheLegendofZeldaOcarinaofTime_OcarinaBoogie.mp3
16. "Little Kids Can't Fly" Kid Icarus arrangement by Daknit, Bard of Tarot: https://williamjacksn.github.io/ocremoved/mp3/KidIcarus_LittleKidsCantFly.mp3
17. "Lesser Kerubic Patchwork" Chrono Trigger arrangement by Israfel: https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00871
18. "All Blues" arrangement from Miles Davis's Kind of Blue from the album "Kind of Bloop" by Shnabubula: https://soundcloud.com/shnabubula/miles-davis-all-blues-nes-chiptune-vrc6
19. "The Rose General" Final Fantasy 9 arrangement by katethegreat19: https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01859
20. "Cry of the Chasmal Critter Chain" Donkey Kong Country arrangement by me: https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01256
21. "Forest Starlight" Chrono Trigger arrangement by posu yan (formerly po!) from the Squaredance album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8dgymZJpIQ
22. "Halls of Abandonment" Alisia Dragoon arrangement by LastUnicron: https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00928
23. "Banish" Donkey Kong Country arrangement by Redg: https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03109
24. "Mode Serpent" Final Fantasy 6 arrangement by Quinn Fox: https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00954
(the podcast theme as always is "Museum of Agony" by Norio Hanzawa from the Stretch Panic OST)