In this episode I have a conversation with my friend Mike Thal. He’s an audio engineer and fighting game enthusiast. We talk about audio design, video games generally, popular media, Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) design, fighting games, character arcs in games, suffering as a description for human experience, and the plurality of human perspective. …
The ubiquity of early access titles is currently a net positive for the gaming community but it will only remain that way if we consciously make that decision. The biggest two benefits of this phenomenon are that gamers are nicer to developers and independent developers have a chance to self-fund or crowd-fund their projects without …