The Crate and Crowbar

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Episode 232: Don’t Hate The Flayer Mar 30, 2018

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Chris, Pip reunite with Tom Francis to discuss GDC highlights, Sunless Skies, Far Cry 5, and first impressions of All Walls Must Fall.

You can find the full IGF results here.
Everybody love a bit of Wobble Garden.
Rezzed! We’re doing it.
Pip’s been playing Sunless Skies.
Tom has been playing Far Cry 5 and All Walls Must Fall.
Here’s Daniel Solis’ graph of victory arcs.
Chris has found much to like in Tyler Hurd’s VR music videos.

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Tom Francis
Chris Thursten

Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Episode 231: Spite Horn Mar 23, 2018

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Chris and Pip gather in GDC week to discuss basically no news from GDC, many short games you should play, and space mistakes you shouldn’t make in Scavenger SV-4.

Plus: a showcase of Pip’s ability to remember a grudge from four years ago, but not a song from last week.

Jalopy is out next week. Here’s Pip tale of NOTHING BUT SAUSAGE SUCCESS.
Here’s James Davenport’s article about Giant Sparrow’s animal-centric next game.
Pip’s been playing a whole load of short, interesting games:
Skreal
Birdland
Dog of Dracula 2
My Father’s Long Long Legs
A Museum of Dubious Splendors
Stick Shift, via Robert Yang’s radiator 2 collection.
Chyrza
Little Party
Chris as been making space mistakes in Scavenger SV-4, as featured in this excellent Alex Wiltshire venture.

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Chris Thursten

Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Episode 230: Good Co-op, Bad Co-op Mar 16, 2018

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Pip, Chris and Alex discuss Artifact, Deep Rock Galactic, Vermintide II, and the inevitable end of everything.

Plus: π bake it, Garfield’s first name, co-op FOMO, the dings of Catchphrase, Dota Plus, and my libido (an Amiibo.)

Anyone for questions? I’ll pour!

This is Artifact, the Dota 2 card game, from Vlav. And this is Tim Clark’s exhaustive article about it.
Sam Barlow’s new interactive TV thing, #WarGames, is out now.
Alex has been enjoying the dwarves of Deep Rock Galactic…
…while Chris has been enjoying the dwarf of Vermintide II.
Twelve Minutes is the Groundhog Day-style game we discussed way by when.
Here’s a bleak found footage documentary about what became of Blobbyland.
Pip doesn’t buy tat. Also Pip: this.

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Alex Wiltshire
Chris Thursten

Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Episode 229: A Tantalising Omelette Recedes Before Us Mar 09, 2018

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Tom S, Chris and Alex check in on VR, consider the gorgeous eggs of Final Fantasy XV, and ponder the literary aspirations of Beckett.

Oculus’ critical Rift whoopsie has now been resolved.
Here’s The Day Today’s remarkable foreshadowing of the experience of using Google Earth VR.
Here’s Final Fantasy XV. And here’s the most important thing about Final Fantasy XV.
Alex has been playing Beckett.
We digress (imagine!) to discuss how great Thirty Flights of Loving is.
Chris doesn’t have a GTX 1080. He has a GTX 980. That’s a hundred fewer graphics points! Sorry for lying.

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Alex Wiltshire
Chris Thursten

Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Episode 228: Don’t Eat Time Pods Mar 02, 2018

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Tom, Tom and Chris discuss a range of ways in which one might fail upwards, from Into The Breach to Phoenix Point to the spooky bayou of Hunt: Showdown.

Plus: my dog ate Hunt The Freeman, accent quandries, questionable etymology, and a sad dearth of whale colour options.

Into The Breach is out now and, well, it’s very good.
Phoenix Point is Julian Gollops’ upcoming crab battler.
Hunt: Showdown is a weird multiplayer experiment that Chris quite likes, so good luck to it.
CJKinni’s Brough-Like Turbrough and Odward Frenry’s Ship Reck’ are the fresh fruit of our Discord’s #game-dev channel.

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Tom Francis
Chris Thursten

Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Episode 227: A Unified Theory Of Terrapins Feb 23, 2018

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Pip, Alex and Tom F are back to once again tackle the tough topic of turtle taxonomy. Also games about Garys (Legendary Gary), games by Garys (Abandon Ship), and it would round this out nicely if the other two games related to Garys but they don’t. Cypher and Fe.

Also, we’re doing a live show at Rezzed! It’ll be recorded but if you do want to come along, it’s 4.30pm on the Saturday. You’ll need a Rezzed ticket for that day.

Choose which finger to give people in Legendary Gary
Fe is pronounced ‘fay’ and it’s not doing much for Pip yet.
Cypher is a playable museum of cryptography.
Abandon Ship is FTL on an oil painting of the high seas.
A snapping turtle has feets but is not a tortoise.
Pouring boiling maple sap onto snow makes maple taffy.
Being derezzed is indeed dying in Tron, and being rezzed is being digitally instantiated.

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Tom Francis
Alex Wiltshire

Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Episode 226: Notorious Bee OP Feb 16, 2018

Show notes

Pip, Tom F and Alex discuss knowing your enemy in Slay the Spire, dabbling In Other Waters, Dear Esther Live, and turning your tentacles into chickens and bees in Octogeddon.

Also:

Slay the Spire is in Early Access but already worth it.
In Other Waters is about halfway to its goal on Kickstarter.
Last Man Kicking is a cheap spin-off of the forthcoming Last Man Sitting.
More info on Dear Esther Live.
Octogeddon is the new thing from Plants vs Zombies creator George Fan. It’s £10.

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Philippa Warr
Tom Francis
Alex Wiltshire

Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Episode 225: It’s What’s Missing Feb 09, 2018

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Tom S and Chris are joined by Alex Wiltshire to discuss Into The Breach’s imminent release, why it’s okay to hunt monsters if they’re bastards, RPG combat design and more.

Plus: a brief return to Subnautica and further musings on the ocean willies therein; the secret missing element to Subnautica’s survival formula; toxicity, Dota 2, PUBG, sport, and why the internet is bad perhaps.

Into The Breach is out on the 27th of February!
Tom’s new game is Tactical Breach Wizards.
Everybody’s playing Monster Hunter World, which is out on PC in the Autumn.
Tom has been playing Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age.
Alex has been unpicking the fineries of Divinity: Original Sin 2‘s combat design.
Here’s Stephen ‘thecatamites’ Gill-Murphy’s talk at Fantastic Arcade, as discussed in episode 216.
Alex is hosting a panel on the early British games industry in London on the 12th of February.
…and Tom S and Pip will be at the PC Gamer Weekender, also in London, 17th-18th February.

You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us at questions@crateandcrowbar.com or tweet us @crateandcrowbar. This episode is on YouTube here, and you can subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.

The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.

You can also follow us on Twitter dot com:

Chris Thursten
Tom Senior
Alex Wiltshire

Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Episode 224: Sustained Ocean Willies Feb 02, 2018

Show notes

Tom F, Chris and John R discuss… ‘computer games’. Including but not limited to Iconoclasts, Celeste, Subnautica and Slay The Spire.

Plus: wrench size considerations, creating modes for Bennett Foddy (to hurt him), and that thing where Chris says ‘I’m not going to go deep on this’ and then does that.

Paragon is no more.
Here’s that GOG tweet about Opus Magnum.
John’s been playing Iconoclasts.
Tom has been playing Celeste.
Here is that video of a platform game that hates you.
Chris has been playing Subnautica.
Tom’s also been playing Slay The Spire.

You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us at questions@crateandcrowbar.com or tweet us @crateandcrowbar. This episode is on YouTube here, and you can subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.

The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.

You can also follow us on Twitter dot com:

Chris Thursten
Tom Francis
John Roberts

Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Episode 223: Subnautica With Pip Jan 26, 2018

Show notes

Join Pip under the sea as she heroically embarks on a one-Pip Subnautica special. Featuring the sounds (and underwater bellows) of the game itself.

Apologies for the shaky schedule of late: we’ve had extensive holiday-and-illness-related scheduling problems over the last couple of weeks. Expect regular service to resume next week, and Patreon backers should note that they won’t be charged for anything short of a full pod.

Pip’s been playing Subnautica. You might be able to tell.

You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us at questions@crateandcrowbar.com or tweet us @crateandcrowbar. This episode is on YouTube here, and you can subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.

The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.

You can also follow us (Pip) on Twitter dot com:

Philippa Warr

Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

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