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This week, Stephen finally gets a theme song, Mark plays devil's advocate, and Martha gets dangerously close to a topic your nice hosts swore to never talk about on the show. [0:02:40] DLC and Expansions When Mark was young, he bought unofficial Quake mods on CD-ROM. Turns out, Electronics Boutique and EB Games are the same thing. “Day-One DLC Isn’t Always Evil, Says Borderlands 2 Guy” - Tina Amini, Kotaku “Patch The Process” - Rami Ismail “Street Fighter V is a Barebones Game That’s a Sign of the Times” - Paul Tamburro, Crave “Code analysis of No Man's Sky praises engine, criticises "unfinished" game” - Andy Chalk, PCGamer “It turns out Sony won’t be charging PS4 Pro players for 4K upgrade patches” - Danny Cowan, Digital Trends “Mario Party 2: Luigi wins by doing absolutely nothing” - KlydeStrom, YouTube Turns out, Dungeons & Dragons does use software-style versioning for their “patch notes.” After recording this episode, Mark had an idea for how to price DLC in Metro Nexus. “Nier Automata Lets Players Buy PSN Trophies With In-Game Money” - Heather Alexandra, Kotaku “Payday 2 rolls back microtransactions after fan outrage” - Kyle Orland, Ars Technica “5G - Press START to Play” - YouTube “I Am Rich: The Story of the World's Strangest Mobile App” - Antoni Zolciak, In’saneLab [0:38:34 ] Genre in Games Wikipedia says “Genres are not usually defined by the actual content of the game.” “List of accolades received by Grand Theft Auto V”  - Wikipedia Turns out, Call of Duty games have been nominated for a lot of BAFTAs over the years. “What makes an RPG an RPG: a universal definition” - Craig Stern “Mass Effect - Don’t Touch That” - YouTube “Mass Effect - Blasto! (hilarious)” - YouTube “Ludonarrative Dissonance in Bioshock” - Clint Hocking (you’ve probably read this one already) “Naughy Dog Doesn’t Get Ludonarrative Dissonance” - Alessio Palumbo, Wccftech A good critical review of Jason Schreier’s book “Blood, Sweat, And Pixels,” which Mark read recently and really liked.

This week, Stephen finally gets a theme song, Mark plays devil's advocate, and Martha gets dangerously close to a topic your nice hosts swore to never talk about on the show. DLC and Expansions 0:02:40 Martha Megarry Gaming Production When Mark was young, he bought unofficial Quake mods on CD-ROM. Turns out, Electronics Boutique and EB Games are the same thing. Day-One DLC Isn’t Always Evil, Says Borderlands 2 Guy - Tina Amini, Kotaku Patch The Process - Rami Ishmail Street Fighter V is a Barebones Game That’s a Sign of the Times - Paul Tamburro, Crave Code analysis of No Man's Sky praises engine, criticises "unfinished" game  - Andy Chalk, PCGamer It turns out Sony won’t be charging PS4 Pro players for 4K upgrade patches - Danny Cowan, Digital Trends Mario Party 2: Luigi wins by doing absolutely nothing - KlydeStrom,  YouTube Turns out, Dungeons & Dragons does use software-style versioning for their “patch notes.” After recording this episode, Mark had an idea for how to price DLC in Metro Nexus. Nier Automata Lets Players Buy PSN Trophies With In-Game Money - Heather Alexandra, Kotaku Payday 2 rolls back microtransactions after fan outrage - Kyle Orland, Ars Technica 5G - Press START to Play - Make Hack Repeat, YouTube I Am Rich: The Story of the World's Strangest Mobile App - Antoni Zolciak , In’saneLab Genre in Games 0:38:34 Mark LaCroix Game Design Meta Wikipedia says “Genres are not usually defined by the actual content of the game.” “List of accolades received by Grand Theft Auto V”  - Wikipedia - Wikipedia Turns out, Call of Duty games have been nominated for a lot of BAFTAs over the years. What makes an RPG an RPG: a universal definition -  Craig Stern, Sinister Design Mass Effect - Don’t Touch That - svaalbard, YouTube Mass Effect - Blasto! (hilarious) - Generic Gaming, YouTube Ludonarrative Dissonance in Bioshock - Clint Hawking, Click Nothing Naughy Dog Doesn’t Get Ludonarrative Dissonance - Alessio Palumbo, wccftech A good critical review of Jason Schreier’s book “Blood, Sweat, And Pixels,” which Mark read recently and really liked.

Uh oh… they're back… it's EVIL GAMES CLUB! +!+!+!+!+ NICE TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED +!+!+!+!+ Snide laugh! Malicious gafaw! In this, our second evil episode, your evil hosts revisit some of the dumb topics Nice Games Club covered in previous episodes, and correct the record where required. We're at it again, being evil, that is! Intro Dale posts bugs on Instagram now. This is the spider Dale was talking about in the intro. [0:02:46] Crafting Systems (This topic is a followup to the episode “It’s against the law to stop.”) “5 Approaches to Crafting Systems in Games (and Where to Use Them)” - Alexander King “The absolute best video game crafting systems” - Ty Arthur, Game Skinny “How The Witcher 3 succeeds where Mass Effect: Andromeda falls short” - Jody Macgregor “Mass Effect: Andromeda's Menus Are A Mess” - Alex Walker, Kotaku Australia “Games like Fallout 4 take crafting too far for the average player” - BlackTideTV “Fallout 4 Has A Ton Of Junk, And It's Stressing Me Out” - Patricia Hernandez, Kotaku [0:26:23] Game Jams (This topic is a followup to the episodes “Bananas, from here to eternity” and GDC 2017 Special, Part 1.) Global Game Jam 2018 starts Jan 26th. “Echoes of Kai Anders” (Adia and Stephen’s GGJ 2017 game). “Listen Up, Four Eyes” (Dylan, Martha, and Mark’s GGJ 2017 game). Lists of upcoming game jams: Game jams on itch.io indiegamejams.com GameJolt Jams Ludum Dare 40 takes place Dec 1st-4th, 2017 Your evil hosts praised the organizer of Train Jam 2017, Adriel Wallick. (off-topic!) “A Musical Character Customization Trick For Everyone To Copy” - Kirk Hamilton, Kotaku [0:52:39] Bad Gamedev Habits (This topic is a followup to the episode “Can I tweet about this?”) While this topic was mostly evil talk directed at Nice Game Club, it also included some uncharacteristically sage advice from your evil hosts. Take heed, or suffer!

Uh oh… they're back… it's EVIL GAMES CLUB! Snide laugh! Malicious gafaw! In this, our second evil episode, your evil hosts revisit some of the dumb topics Nice Games Club covered in previous episodes, and correct the record where required. We're at it again, being evil, that is! Dale posts bugs on Instagram now. - Instragram This is the spider Dale was talking about in the intro. - Instagram Crafting Systems 0:02:46 Adia Alderson Game Design This topic is a followup to the episode "It's against the law to stop." 5 Approaches to Crafting Systems in Games (and Where to Use Them) - Alexander King, Envatotuts+ The absolute best video game crafting systems - Ty Arthur, Game Skinny How The Witcher 3 succeeds where Mass Effect: Andromeda falls short - Jody Macgregor, PC Gamer Mass Effect: Andromeda's Menus Are A Mess - Alex Walker, Kotaku Australia Games like Fallout 4 take crafting too far for the average player - BlackTideTV, GameSkinny Fallout 4 Has A Ton Of Junk, And It's Stressing Me Out” - Patricia Hernandez, Kotaku Game Jams 0:26:23 Dylan Skerbitz Events This is a followup to the episodes "Bananas, from here to eternity." and this episode which talks about Dylan on the Train Jam GDC 2017 Special (Part 1) Global Game Jam 2018 starts Jan 26th. “Echoes of Kai Anders” (Adia and Stephen’s GGJ 2017 game). - Adia Alderson and Stephen McGregor et al., GGJ “Listen Up, Four Eyes” (Dylan, Martha, and Mark’s GGJ 2017 game). - Dylan Skerbitz, Martha Megarry, Mark LaCroix et al., GGJ A list of upcoming Game Jams Game jams on itch.io indiegamejams.com GameJolt Jams Ludum Dare 40 takes place Dec 1st-4th, 2017 Your evil hosts praised the organizer of Train Jam 2017, Adriel Wallick. - @MsMinotaur, Twitter (off topic!) A Musical Character Customization Trick For Everyone To Copy - Kirk Hamilton, Kotaku Bad Gamedev Habits 0:52:39 Dale LaCroix IRL This topic is a followup to the episode "Can I tweet about this?" While this topic was mostly evil talk directed at Nice Game Club, it also included some uncharacteristically sage advice from your evil hosts. Take heed, or suffer!

Well, it finally happened. Dale LaCroix, (aka: "#1 Playtester," one-third of Evil Games Club, and Mark's wife) joins your nice hosts in the clubhouse to talk about playtesting! Stephen writes down everything Dale says about what it takes to be a good playtester, Martha laughs at all of Dale's jokes, and Mark deals with the fact that his wife doesn't really like his game. We also talked about the recent solar eclipse. Check out Martha's photo, taken at the moment of totality: Links Dale is on Twitter, where she talks about things she hates! She's also on Instagram, where she posts pictures of bugs! This isn't the first time we've talked about playtesting on the show. We mentioned our past episodes on user testing (with Hannah Murphy) and games analytics (with Nic VanMeerten). This is what Martha looks like when she is demoing Claw Breaker: Here's a snapshot of Stephen's playtesting notebook:

Well, it finally happened. Dale LaCroix, (aka: "#1 Playtester," one-third of Evil Games Club, and Mark's wife) joins your nice hosts in the clubhouse to talk about playtesting! Stephen writes down everything Dale says about what it takes to be a good playtester, Martha laughs at all of Dale's jokes, and Mark deals with the fact that his wife doesn't really like his game. We also talked about the recent solar eclipse. Check out Martha's photo, taken at the moment of totality Playtesting Production This isn't the first time we've talked about playtesting on the show. We talked about it on the Interview with Nic VanMeerten Games User Research and Analytics This is what Martha looks like when she is demoing Claw Breaker Stephen's playtesting notebook Dale LaCroix Your Nice Staff Guest Hosts Your Evil Hosts Dale grew up playing computer games, but rediscovered her love of gaming with the more modern generation of consoles, starting when she insisted that she and husband Mark buy a then hard to come by Wii. Since then she can boast that she owns seven videogame consoles to her husband’s three. Dale manages the Nice Games Club Twitter account (@nicegamesclub) where she mostly posts and retweets nice things, but can promise it won’t be free of the swears, or sarcastic comments about Gwent. Dale claims to be the #1 Playtester, a title she gave herself. But don’t take her feedback too seriously, especially if she says your game is too hard because she’s not particularly good at games. Dale is also a part of the Evil Games Club where she also likes to give critical feedback to the Nice Games Club. Projects Reravel Felix Drags Dale Through The Marvel Universe Evil Games Club External link Dale's personal Twitter Dale runs the Nice Games Club Twitter

This week, Martha has so much to talk about that she runs out of time, Stephen espouses the virtues of building your own gamedev tools, and Mark names the episode after a Star Trek thing because it's his birthday today so he gets to. Speaking of Star Trek, Mark’s IGDA-TC presentation, How to build a Holodeck: A Star Trek VR postmortem, is tomorrow night (September 13th, 6pm, at The Nerdery in Bloomington, MN). Join us! Discuss this episode on Reddit using this thread in r/gamedev. [0:03:31] Intro to Linguistics for game developers The Legend of Zelda’s Hylian Language. The Language Creation Society A list of constructed languages in video games. Myst’s created language, D’ni. “UK Professors Go Primal With 'Far Cry'” - Gail Hairston, University of Kentucky SIL’s Glossary of Linguistics article on sonority scale. “Skyrim’s Dragon Shouts” - Matt Miller, Game Informer Omniglot is an encyclopedia of writing systems and languages. The Conlangers Library game list. “No Man’s Sky guide: alien races, languages and Monolith puzzles” - Jeffrey Parkin, Polygon The Rosetta Stone in Fez (Pretty obvious clue in hindsight.) “Twitter Blowup Leads to Sudden Cancellation of Fez II” - Owen Good, Kotaku “Playing the Birth and Death of Language in 'Dialect'” - Alex Roberts, Waypoint “Scientology’s enturbulating lingo” - Britt Peterson, The Boston Globe Kathryn Hymes on Twitter. The Language Construction Kit, a book Martha recommended, is available for free online. Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide For Field Linguists is the other book Martha recommended (get it used, it’s cheaper!). “Speaking ‘Star Trek’: Meet the Man Who Made Up the Klingon Language” - Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics The Klingon Language Institute is a thing that exists. International Phonetic Alphabet, Wikipedia “Mass Effect: Meeting the Elcor Ambassador” - YouTube “Gaming’s favorite VR mouse uses sign language in the cutest way” - Allegra Frank, Polygon “Cantonese vs. Mandarin” - Off the Great Wall, YouTube “Feast Your Eyes on This Beautiful Linguistic Family Tree” - Arika Okrent, Mental Floss The Conlangery Podcast is a neat podcast about linguistics and conlang. [0:44:57] Making your own tools We referenced a few of our episodes during the show: “75% Sure”, “The Stevechievement”, GDC Special Part 1 and Part 2. Stephen’s tool he recently made for Fingeance. Tech Toolbox microtalks at GDC 2017. Our friends at Howling Moon made Super Fast Soft Shadows.

This week, Martha has so much to talk about that she runs out of time, Stephen espouses the virtues of building your own gamedev tools, and Mark names the episode after a Star Trek thing because it's his birthday today so he gets to. Discuss this episode on Reddit using this thread in r/gamedev. Intro to Linguistics for Game Developers 0:03:31 Martha Megarry Audio Game Design The Legend of Zelda’s Hylian Language - Fandom wiki The Language Creation Society A list of constructed languages in video games. - Wikipedia Myst’s created language, D’ni. - Fandom wiki UK Professors Go Primal With 'Far Cry' - Gail Hairston, University of Kentucky SIL’s Glossary of Linguistics article on sonority scale - SIL Skyrim’s Dragon Shouts - Matt Miller, Game Informer Omniglot is an encyclopedia of writing systems and languages - Omniglot The Conlangers Library game list - Conlangers Library No Man’s Sky guide: alien races, languages and Monolith puzzles - Jeffrey Parkin, Polygon The Rosetta Stone in Fez (Pretty obvious clue in hindsight.) - mykwud, YouTube Twitter Blowup Leads to Sudden Cancellation of Fez II -  Owen Good,  Kotaku Playing the Birth and Death of Language in 'Dialect' - Alex Roberts,  Waypoint Scientology’s enturbulating lingo -  Britt Peterson, The Boston Globe Kathryn Hymes on Twitter - @chiclashaw, Twitter The Language Construction Kit, a book Martha recommended, is available for free… - book Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide For Field Linguists is the other book Martha r… - book Speaking ‘Star Trek’: Meet the Man Who Made Up the Klingon Language - Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics The Klingon Language Institute is a thing that exists. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia Mass Effect: Meeting the Elcor Ambassador - Thieving HIppo, YouTube Gaming’s favorite VR mouse uses sign language in the cutest way - Allegra Frank, Polygon Cantonese vs. Mandarin - Off the Great Wall, YouTube Feast Your Eyes on This Beautiful Linguistic Family Tree - Arika Okrent, Mental Floss The Conlangery Podcast is a neat podcast about linguistics and conlang. - Podcast Making Your Own Tools 0:44:57 Stephen McGregor Tools We referenced a few of our episodes during the show: "75% sure." "The Stevechievement." GDC 2017 Special (Part 1) GDC 2017 Special (Part 2) Stephen’s tool he recently made for Fingeance. - Stephen McGregor, Twitter Tech Toolbox microtalks at GDC 2017 - GDC Our friends at Howling Moon made Super Fast Soft Shadow. - Unity Asset Store

"Nice Plays" are video episodes where your nice hosts play and talk about a game, and after 17 minutes, our egg timer goes off and we give our final thoughts. In this episode, Stephen plays the NES port of the classic arcade game Solomon's Key! Links * “30 years on, people are still arguing over how to pronounce NES” - Hugh Langley, TechRadar * Solomon’s Key was indeed part of the very first batch of games for the Wii Virtual Console. * Solomon’s Key cheat codes. Game: Solomon's Key Developer: Tecmo Publisher: Tecmo Platform: NES Release date: July 1987 (US) Genre: 2D Puzzle-Platformer Summary: "You and Dana, the wizard of Lyrac, must unlock Solomon’s scroll of secrets to restore peace in the constellations. With Dana’s magic, fire, and mystical powers, you will help release the imprisoned Princess of the Fairies and harness the evil forces within the constellations. But first, you need the key!"

"Nice Plays" are video episodes where your nice hosts play and talk about a game, and after 17 minutes, our egg timer goes off and we give our final thoughts. In this episode, Mark plays the recent indie game Boor, and your nice hosts all find a lot to like about it! Links * Martha and Mark worked on a game for the 2017 Global Game Jam about eyeballs! * Boor was made by a single developer, a topic we discuss in a previous episode. Game: Boor (http://www.dazlog.com/boor/) Developer: DazlogStudio Publisher: Badland Games Platform: Windows, Mac, Linux Release date: February 14th, 2017 Genre: 2D Puzzle-Platformer Summary: "Eden is a human colony far from Earth. To develop a better society, settlers made an artificial intelligence, BOOR, to help them, but this machine turned against them. When a little girl accidentally lands on the planet of Eden, she discovers BOOR has taken over and there are only a few survivors left. With her special ability to multiply herself, she'll help them destroy BOOR and reclaim the world."

"Nice Plays" are video episodes where your nice hosts play and talk about a game, and after 17 minutes, our egg timer goes off and we give our final thoughts. In this episode, Mark plays the recent indie game Boor, and your nice hosts all find a lot to like about it! Game: Boor (http://www.dazlog.com/boor/) Developer: DazlogStudio Publisher: Badland Games Platform: Windows, Mac, Linux Release date: February 14th, 2017 Genre: 2D Puzzle-Platformer Summary: "Eden is a human colony far from Earth. To develop a better society, settlers made an artificial intelligence, BOOR, to help them, but this machine turned against them. When a little girl accidentally lands on the planet of Eden, she discovers BOOR has taken over and there are only a few survivors left. With her special ability to multiply herself, she'll help them destroy BOOR and reclaim the world." Martha and Mark worked on a game for the 2017 Global Game Jam about eyeballs! Boor was made by a single developer, a topic we discuss in a previous episode. Solo Development Video

"Nice Plays" are video episodes where your nice hosts play and talk about a game, and after 17 minutes, our egg timer goes off and we give our final thoughts. In this episode, Stephen plays the NES port of the classic arcade game Solomon's Key! Game: Solomon's Key Developer: Tecmo Publisher: Tecmo Platform: NES Release date: July 1987 (US) Genre: 2D Puzzle-Platformer Summary: "You and Dana, the wizard of Lyrac, must unlock Solomon’s scroll of secrets to restore peace in the constellations. With Dana’s magic, fire, and mystical powers, you will help release the imprisoned Princess of the Fairies and harness the evil forces within the constellations. But first, you need the key!" 30 years on, people are still arguing over how to pronounce NES - Hugh Langley, TechRadar Solomon’s Key was indeed part of the very first batch of games for the Wii Virt… - Wikipedia Solomon’s Key cheat codes Video

It's a slightly experimental show this week, as we try to see what a two-topic episode looks like. Also, Martha defends her love of coleslaw, Stephen still doesn't really like VR, and Mark has almost completely lost his voice. Discuss this week's episode on Reddit in r/gamedev here. [0:05:54] Video Game Immersion Our pal and VR innovator Andrew Fladeboe. “Representation and Embodiment in Virtual Reality” - Jorge Albor, PopMatters Bioshock (remastered) opening scene “Would You Kindly Read This Article on Gaming’s Greatest Plot Twist?” - Mike Diver, Vice Our recent episode of Nice Plays: OneShot “Enhancing VR Immersion with the CPU in Star Trek: Bridge Crew” - Cristiano F, Intel “Cognitive Flow: The Psychology of Great Game Design” - Sean Baron “Why Sonic the Hedgehog is awful, and always has been” - Ryan Brown, The Mirror Requiem, a “roleplaying” mod for The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim Mark is up to 118 shrines in Breath of the Wild. Stephen is not happy. [0:39:27] Main Menus and First Impressions “Why do console games require a button press before showing the main menu?” - StackExchange “Game Design: Splash Screen” - Jesse Freeman “The Ten Commandments Of Video Game Menus” - Kirk Hamilton, Kotaku We didn’t get a chance to talk about it in the episode, but here is a cool breakdown of the main menu in Brutal Legend, which uses video compositing and some other fun tricks.

It's a slightly experimental show this week, as we try to see what a two-topic episode looks like. Also, Martha defends her love of coleslaw, Stephen still doesn't really like VR, and Mark has almost completely lost his voice. Discuss this week's episode on Reddit in r/gamedev here. Video Game Immersion 0:05:54 Stephen McGregor Gaming Our pal and VR innovator Andrew Fladeboe. Representation and Embodiment in Virtual Reality - Jorge Albor, PopMatters Would You Kindly Read This Article on Gaming’s Greatest Plot Twist? - Mike Diver, Vice 3 Our recent episode of Nice Plays: OneShot - Nice Games Club, YouTube Enhancing VR Immersion with the CPU in Star Trek: Bridge Crew - Cristiano F, Intel Developers Cognitive Flow: The Psychology of Great Game Design - Sean Baron, Gamasutra Why Sonic the Hedgehog is awful, and always has been - Ryan Brown, MIrror Requiem, a “roleplaying” mod for The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim Mark is up to 118 shrines in Breath of the Wild. Stephen is not happy. Main Menus and First Impressions 0:39:27 Mark LaCroix UI / UX Why do console games require a button press before showing the main menu? - StackExchange Game Design: Splash Screen - Jesse Freeman, Medium The Ten Commandments Of Video Game Menus - Kirk Hamilton, Kotaku We didn’t get a chance to talk about it in the episode, but here is a cool brea… - Mike Fahey, Kotaku

This week, your nice hosts are still relaxing in Mark's dining room for an episode that has it all: a disagreement about Bluetooth, some good ClawTalk™, and the shortest conversation ever had on the subject of tabs vs. spaces. All this, plus a slightly higher than usual number of wild digressions. Discuss this episode on Reddit in this thread on r/gamedev! Input Methods and Controls 0:01:29 Stephen McGregor Hardware Stephen’s controller of choice, Power A FUSION. New Windows 10 Xbox wireless controller adapter delayed into 2018 - Gabe Gurwin, Digital Trends Metro Nexus’ tutorial in action - Mark LaCroix, Twitter Behold, the unintuitive enjoyment of Claw Breaker. - Martha Megarry, YouTube “How to Claw Effectively” - Ture Vangaurd, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY-o0zYxjyE - Game Maker's Toolkit, YouTube “You say jump, I say how high?”  - Martin Fasterholdt Martha’s favorite Fingeance fighter, Sparky. - Fingance This goofy game turns your entire keyboard into the controller - Andrew Webster, The Verge Alternative controls game Butt Sniffin Pugs, shown at Ctrl.Alt.GDC. Rocksmith Vs. Rock Band 3 – The Pro Guitar Showdown - Jeff Atwood, Fake Plastic Rock Guy beats Dark Souls with DK Bongos - Jordan Devore, Destructoid Gameplay of racing game Kirby Air Ride - Mutch Games, YouTube We mentioned this previous episode "We joke here." we also mentioned this one "Will you be the best with me?" Coding Syles 0:36:49 Mark LaCroix Programming What is your preferred Indent Style? Whatever you do, don’t code like this. - @HisCursedness, Twitter Don’t be a Stephen: Comment your code! Martha uses a cool HTML template engine called Pug. Getting started with Pug template engine - António Regadas, Medium Russian nesting dolls are called matryoshka. - Wikipedia CamelCase or snake_case? DarkBASIC, which Stephen used when he was young, went open-source in 2016! - the Game Creators History around Pascal Casing and Camel Casing - Brad Abrams, MIcrosoft “Namespacing” in Objective-C - Matt, name spacing hipster JetBrains IDE’s: Webstorm for JavaScript and Rider for C#. Visual Studio Code is a lightweight Visual Studio that Mark really likes. Splatoon 2, ur, I mean Shooters 1:13:45 Martha Megarry Gaming Apparently, Splatoon devs didn’t realize the comparison to Super Mario Sunshine… - Sean Ayres, Nintendo Enthusiast Designing FPS Multiplayer Maps - Dodger, On Game Design Design Patterns in FPS Levels - Kenneth Hullett & Jim Whitehead, University of California - Santa Cruz Lost Planet - SomeCallMeVidal, YouTube Lost Planet's only sequel - Woophoro, YouTube We also referenced our episode on Violence in Games