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    Unconsoleable

    Guess what? Not all video games are about shooting people in the face or driving recklessly! Games have evolved into a rich and varied medium where there’s something for everyone. No gaming experience? No console? No idea where to start? Enter your heroines, Anna Tarkov and Jessica Dennis.

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    138: It's Not You, It's Us May 10, 2017

    So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye
    I leave and heave a sigh and say goodbye

    After 137 wonderful episodes, we bid you, our faithful listeners, the very fondest of farewells. We've arrived at the metaphorical fork in the road, and we don't even care what a dreadful cliché that is. We hope you've had as much fun, learned as much, and generally had as good a time as we have with Unconsoleable.

    Remember, aloha means goodbye, but it also means hello and love: so to you, our listeners, aloha!

    Keep in touch:

    • @jessicadennis and @annatarkov on twitter
    • Anna's new venture, Indie Sidekick
    • Email Anna
    • Email Jessica
    137: Doggins 2: First Blood May 03, 2017

    The Real Doggins viewing one of his many awards

    They make charming games, have an adorable dog, work side by side while staying happily married, and did we mention the cute dog?

    Who are these fabulous guests? Why, it's Brooke and David Condolora of indie game studio Brain & Brain, of course.

    We chatted with the dynamic duo about how they got started in games, struck out on their own, and possibly invented the quiet adventure genre in the process.

    We also dug into a recent op-ed about narrative in games that has been making the rounds lately, and Brooke and David weighed in.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, our other merch, and email us if you too have a cute dog we should meet :-)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Burly Men at Sea (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Doggins (iOS & Android)
    • King’s Quest IV
    • Star Trek episode “Spock’s Brain”
    • Alastair Humphreys
    • Oregon Trail
    • Odell Lake
    • Apple IIGS
    • Oregon Trail postmortem at GDC 2016
    • Fangamer merch
    • Society6 merch
    • Thimbleweed Park viewmasters
    • Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise (iOS & Android)
    • Sword & Sworcery (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Mini Metro (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Amanita Design
    • Kentucky Route Zero
    • Ian Bogost’s piece
    • Papers, Please
    • The Wind Rises
    • Hidden Folks (iOS & Steam)
    136: Game Training Apr 25, 2017

    It counts as exercise if you're sitting on one of those balls

    Practice makes perfect, and massive congratulations are in order for Jessica. Why? You'll find out right at the top of the episode.

    As is often the case, the App Store is experiencing a bit of a drought right now, but good stuff is coming. In the meantime, we experience the crap and the mediocre stuff and tell you all about it :-)

    Meanwhile, Facebook continues to believe it'll be a force in games, but we're not so sure, and neither are the devs we spoke to. And in something of a reversal, we have developers being crappy instead of gamers. It might all be ok, though, with a little in-game retail therapy headed our way soon, but could we try not being crappy too? Nintendo, that also means you :-/

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, our other merch, and email us if you’d like to finance our game merch addictions :D

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Alan’s episode
    • Pocket Card Jockey
    • Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer
    • Matt Ditton’s episode
    • Fairyland Story (iOS only)
    • Shooty Skies (iOS & Android)
    • Snipperclips
    • Lost Maze (iOS & Android)
    • Vignettes (iOS only)
    • Please Don’t Touch Anything (iOS & Android)
    • App Unwrapper
    • Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise (iOS & Android)
    • July 4, 1956 (iOS only)
    • The Last Door (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Invert (iOS & Android)
    • Tetris music
    • Maize Wallin
    • Tape it Up (iOS only)
    • Topsoil
    • Ninja Pizza Girl
    • Nicole Stark
    • Facebook still trying to court developers
    • Ben at Mighty Games
    • Developers being shitty
    • Shopify is partnering with Unity
    • Candy Crush + Moschino
    • No more NES Classic Minis
    135: Hint Whales Apr 19, 2017

    A pod of hint whales

    His games drive us nuts, but we can't help loving them anyway. So after much trash talk, we welcome puzzle master extraordinaire (and Unconsoleable listener!) Alan Hazelden to the show.

    Alan tells us a bit about what he did before making devilishly challenging puzzle games, how he goes about designing and testing his games, which developers he looks up to, and even his favorite pizza toppings :-)

    But wait, there's more! We also tell Alan how he can turn his games into F2P gold mines so the next time he comes on the show, he can have a Notch house of his very own :-p Of course we kid. None of that will happen, but it was fun to imagine!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, our other merch, and email us if you also want to register your hate for bell peppers.

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Snakebird (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Cosmic Express (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • A Good Snowman is Hard to Build (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Glorious Trainwrecks
    • Shit Snake
    • These Robotic Hearts of Mine (iOS & Android)
    • Sokobond
    • PuzzleScript
    • Rust Bucket (iOS & Android)
    • SpaceChem
    • Human Resource Machine (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Alan’s recent interview with Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    • Deus Ex: GO (iOS & Android)
    • Mekorama (iOS & Android)
    • Stephen Lavelle
    • English Country Tune (iOS & Steam)
    • Stephen’s Sausage Roll
    • Terry Cavanaugh
    • VVVVVV (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • QWOP
    • GIRP
    • Ira Glass
    • TypeShift (iOS only)
    • Benjamin Davis
    • Kami 2 (iOS only)
    • Cheesing
    • Abuse Alan on Twitter
    134: Whatever Threats are Necessary Apr 12, 2017

    Listen up

    Jessica is a big puddle of feels after playing the long-awaited conclusion to our 2016 Game of the Year and is charmed by an as-yet-unreleased charming game from the charming folks at Mighty Games. We conclude that quick-play games might not be as special as the games that truly win our hearts, but are still pretty awesome.

    Anna is left wanting more after playing a horror-themed puzzle game that has just arrived on iOS from Steam, but the real rage is directed at a mobile-first game that has an awful control scheme, rendering it virtually unplayable. Luckily, a silly but fun game with impeccable controls comes to the rescue!

    We roll our eyes pretty hard at the best mobile game BAFTA winner, as we do for most winners in the mobile category of various games awards. We wish awards would go more often to games that are truly the best rather than those that are the best known.

    Meanwhile, should games display the battery indicator? What’s a fun new way to get hints in a new adventure game? How long can we neglect our laundry? And what non-curse words will we lob at our guest next week? Listen now to find out!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, our other merch, and email us to tell us how long you’ve neglected your laundry :-p

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Love You to Bits (iOS only for now)
    • Charming Runes (not yet released by Mighty Games)
    • Break Liner (iOS & Android)
    • Let's Go Rocket (iOS & Android)
    • Crossy Road (iOS, Android & Microsoft devices)
    • Rare Sloth
    • King Rabbit (iOS only)
    • Slayaway Camp (iOS & Steam)
    • After the End (iOS only)
    • Legend of the Skyfish (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • MouseBot (iOS & Android)
    • BAFTA winners announced
    • Reigns (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Clash Royale (iOS & Android)
    • Pocket Card Jockey
    • Twine hints for Thimbleweed Park
    • Alan Hazelden
    • Cosmic Express (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • A Good Snowman is Hard to Build (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Johnny Dangerously
    • The Usual Suspects
    133: Sweet, Sweet Nutella Numbers Apr 05, 2017

    Admit it: this is how you eat Nutella

    We just love when people discover mobile games all of a sudden and pretend that they all sucked up until that moment! Did we say love? We meant the opposite.

    But first, Thimbleweed Park is out and we hope you’re as excited as we are! Toilet paper options! Helpful to-do lists! And more! Neither of us has finished the game, and we’ll eventually have members of the team on the show, so stay tuned.

    In the meantime, Jessica and Anna both play the sequel to a pretty puzzle game. The results vary, but we definitely agree it's gorgeous. Jessica spends some time in the beautiful world of another game, while Anna definitely hasn’t got the hang of a new card-based strategy game just yet.

    And is it good, annoying, or both when games get so popular that they spawn merchandise, movies, and yes, apparently even game shows? Is anyone more excited about the new Room game than Jessica? Are your favorite iOS games going to stop working? Listen now to find out.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, our other merch, and email us to confess that you too eat Nutella straight from the spoon.

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Thimbleweed Park
    • Toilet paper options!
    • Ron Gilbert
    • Gary Winnick
    • Ron’s episode
    • Jenn’s episode
    • Pavilion (iOS, & Steam)
    • Accessibility in games
    • Our 2016 GOTY episode
    • Kami 2 (iOS only)
    • Kami (iOS & Android)
    • Pinchworm (iOS only)
    • State of Play
    • Card Thief (iOS only)
    • Swap Sword (iOS only)
    • Card Thief’s first week
    • Card Crawl (iOS & Android)
    • King Rabbit (iOS only)
    • Candy Crush game show is coming
    • Mario Lopez
    • Wipeout
    • Double Dare
    • Neko Atsume movie
    • Barry Meade’s episode
    • A new Room game is coming
    • Jessica’s tweet in Touch Arcade
    • Disney Crossy Road figurines
    • Scurvy Scallywags (iOS & Android)
    • Verge article
    • Kotaku Australia article
    132: Full On Cannibal Mar 29, 2017

    The most dangerous game

    Why has Jessica been eating her ship’s crewmates? Could a card-based strategy game have struck her fancy, even though she usually shuns the genre? What new heights has her horsey game obsession reached? And what awesome new toy does she have to add to her collection? All these questions and more will be answered!

    Meanwhile, Anna is all in on puzzle games lately, but wonders whether she should be allowed to play them at all. An old nemesis of a game is tackled again and somewhat defeated, but is there any pleasure in the victory? Maybe we’d both rather be shifting letters instead in the latest offering from a favorite dev.

    Of course there’s always sighing at Nintendo to be done, and we continue that long and sad tradition here. But hey, Kickstarter has done something interesting! Finally, we ponder a story about Jewish game developers in these troubled times.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, our other merch, and email us if you’ve ever cannibalized someone. Or maybe… don’t.

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Thimbleweed Park
    • Jenn Sandercock
    • Jessica’s bookshelf of games stuff
    • Alto’s Adventure llamas
    • Thimbleweed Park t-shirts
    • American Apparel
    • TypeShift (iOS only)
    • Zach Gage
    • Sage Solitaire is what Anna meant to say (iOS & Android)
    • Really Bad Chess (iOS only)
    • Card Thief (iOS only)
    • Pocket Card Jockey
    • Card Crawl (iOS & Android)
    • Sunless Sea (iPad & Steam)
    • Failbetter Games
    • Fallen London (iOS, Android, & browser)
    • Ben Weatherall
    • Cosmic Express (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Snakebird (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • The episode where Anna yelled about Snakebird
    • Alan Hazelden
    • Ending (iOS & Android)
    • Rust Bucket (iOS & Android)
    • Nelly Cootalot (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Super Mario Run is now on Android
    • Nintendo is doubling production of the Switch
    • Our Gaming Yoda
    • Tomorrow Corp.
    • NES Classic Mini
    • RPS story about Cheap Golf
    • Jessica’s other alleged podcast
    • Gamasutra article about Jewish gamedevs
    • Black man a victim of hate crime in NYC
    • Where Richard Spencer’s money comes from
    131: Fake Horsey Girl Mar 22, 2017

    It's actually pretty unsafe for a child to be alone with a horse. And she's holding that carrot wrong.

    Jessica and Anna are back with a vengeance from PAX East and GDC respectively, and we have a lot to talk about. We played some new games on our journeys of course, but the best part about any conference is the people!

    Jessica’s love affair with horsey games has taken a bizarre turn, thanks to a new friend from PAX East. It’s weird, it’s unsettling, and it might have some problematic elements! What is this mystery game? You’ll need to listen to find out.

    Anna might have a new favorite developer after GDC (and he certainly knows how to entice Jessica to play his game), but is this the beginning of a beautiful friendship or the dawn of a frustrating, rage-inducing future? (Spoiler alert: it’s both :-))

    A big change has also come to the games area of the App Store and we think it rocks. And is Jessica more powerful and influential than she realizes? All signs point to yes!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, our other merch, and email us if you can recommend other horse games for us to play, maybe less creepy ones.

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Pocket Card Jockey
    • I Need Diverse Games
    • Tanya DePass
    • Jenn Sandercock
    • Ben Britten
    • Miellyn Barrows
    • My Horse Prince (iOS & Android)
    • City of Love (iOS & Android)
    • Hatoful Boyfriend (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Jessica’s tiny horse
    • Hexarden
    • Spry Fox
    • Night in the Woods
    • Ooblets
    • Mineko’s Night Market
    • Andrew Fray
    • Thomas Brand
    • Katherine Cross
    • Thimbleweed Park
    • Ryan Cash
    • Snowman
    • Desert Alto
    • Unconsoleable GDC event
    • Luke from Prettygreat
    • Joel McDonald
    • Asher Vollmer
    • Steve and Maureen
    • Sabriel Mastin
    • GX3
    • Cosmic Express (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Indie Megabooth
    • A Good Snowman is Hard to Build (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Alan Hazelden
    • Beglitched (iOS & Steam)
    • Euclidean Lands (iOS only)
    • Old Man’s Journey
    • Lumino City (iOS & Steam)
    • App Store will have a permanent spot for indies
    • Pocus (iOS only)
    • What our stickers look like
    130: The Unconsoleable Time Machine Mar 15, 2017

    With Anna recovering from GDC and Jessica away at PAX East, we decided to take you on another trip down memory lane, to our first real episode. We'll be back with new content next week, but meanwhile we hope you enjoy another blast from the past!

    Wooohooo, we made it to episode two! Wait, that's not really a big accomplishment. Or is it? You tell us, dear listeners.

    On this episode we talk about Steam's new discovery tools, SQUEEEEE about the impending Monument Valley expansion and talk waaaay too much about Desert Golfing and how games like it and Monument Valley are wonderfully relaxing. So make yourself a chamomile tea, put on a moisturizing mask and your spa robe and enjoy the show.

    Stuff we talked about:

    • Steam announces new discoverability features
    • A dev team is already feeling the impact
    • Join OUR Steam group!
    • Monument Valley new levels are coming
    • Monument Valley
    • Helpful article on IAPs
    • Ustwo developer talks about the design of the game [VIDEO]
    • The Great Totem Controversy, in tweets
    • Monument Valley fan art!
    • Desert Golfing
    • Ars Technica piece on Desert Golfing
    • Jonathan Blow

    And finally.... we are officially on iTunes. If you're enjoying this podcast even a little bit, please review us.

    129: Still Failing After All These Years Mar 08, 2017

    Failure in a Box

    With Anna away at GDC and Jessica ramping up the travel anxiety prior to PAX East, we decided to take a little break and re-release our very first episode, Failure in a Box.

    Hey look, it's the inaugural episode of Unconsoleable!

    Learn more about your co-hosts, Anna and Jessica, our decidedly unimpressive gaming histories, why the heck we are doing this podcast, and why we game the way we do.

    Stuff we talked about:

    • App.net
    • Isometric
    • Brianna Wu
    • Revolution 60
    • Evan Passero, designer extraordinaire
    • Totally Uncool
    • Spawn on Me
    • Civilization
    • Article on kids not being able to pass Level 1 on Super Mario Brothers – Hmm, this doesn't look like a link. Turns out, this story was a hoax and all the sites that wrote about it have taken it down. That being the case, it's still quite possible we suck at games more than little kids!
    • Whac a Mole - Duh, of course there is an iOS game.
    • Thomas Was Alone
    128: Accepting Delivery of My New Unicorn Mar 01, 2017

    Jessica's new unicorn

    Apologies for the lateness of these show notes, dear listeners. Anna is at GDC and struggling to keep up. To make it up to you, we will likely have many amazing guests in the coming months, so stay tuned!

    This week we punched some Nazis, won some horse races, went golfing, hopping and mashing, and found adorable hidden things in an adorable, charming new game.

    We also catch up on Unity’s 2016 mobile games report, wonder if Pokémon GO really expanded the mobile game player base, yell at Nintendo as per usual, and much, much more!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you talk about your medical history loudly on a train cause we want to disapprove :p

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Jessica’s Rocket appearance

    • Alayna Cole

    • xkcd explains the 1st Amendment

    • Tanya DePass

    • Tanya's episode

    • Pocket Card Jockey

    • Hidden Folks (iOS & Steam)

    • Charming Keep (iOS & Android)

    • Mudd Masher

    • Super Deluxe’s Punch a Nazi

    • Wii Fit

    • OK Golf (iOS only)

    • Rhom Bus (iOS only)

    • Alto is going to the desert

    • Where Cards Fall Trailer

    • Life is Strange

    • Luca Redwood’s new game

    • Unity’s mobile games report

    • iPhone Plus

    • Our 2016 GOTY list

    • More NES Classic Minis?

    • Mobile games make you happy :)

    127: Go Straight to Jerk Jail Feb 22, 2017

    Convicted of 18 counts of crappy opinions

    Both Jessica and Anna struggled to properly control a few games this week, because hey, apparently this mobile gaming gig is hard work! Luckily, a wonderful new game has come out to make us forget about all that.

    And if it's a day that ends in Y, someone has said something dumb about Nintendo—and we did record this on a Friday, sooo….

    Something that's way worse than dumb, though, is the PewDiePie fiasco. We "salute" Felix for finding several ways to be horrible, rather than being content with just one! And this incident calls to mind another horrible person who has recently risen to dubious prominence after winning a Madden e-sports event. Let's not reward horrible people, ok gaming industry? This isn't hard.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you too want to brag about your virtual horse breeding program ;-p

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Ben Britten
    • Miss Fisher and the Deathly Maze (iOS only)
    • Pocket Card Jockey
    • Narcissus (iOS only)
    • Hecticube (iOS & Android)
    • Never Alone
    • Hidden Folks (iOS & Steam)
    • Super Gridland (iOS & Android)
    • Kitty Powers’ Matchmaker (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Kitty Powers
    • Richard Franke
    • Parallyzed (iOS & Android)
    • Digby Forever (iOS only)
    • Hilarious Nintendo article
    • If Super Mario Run was a F2P game
    • City of Love (iOS & Android)
    • PewDiePie
    • Disney cuts ties with Pew Die Pie
    • Fiverr
    • Veronica Mars
    • Spawn on Me
    • Resist Jam
    • Devolver Digital
    • Jessica’s guest spot on Disruption
    126: Flappy Bird is a Corolla Feb 15, 2017

    We kick off this week with Jessica scolding our guest from last week’s show. Yes, you read that right. But it all has something to do with games, we swear!

    Other than scolding people and solving mysteries, Jessica tries a game on the advice of a listener and finds it super hard, yet she somehow can’t stop playing it. What madness is this? Meanwhile, a game based loosely on a beloved Twitter account is very average, but hey, at least it’s free.

    Anna tries to be a hardcore mobile gamer and shuns a game that seems too easy, but isn’t drawn in by one that’s much more challenging. Where oh where is the happy medium? Add to that a badly monetized, cheesy visual novel from Ubisoft, and it has been a somewhat odd gaming week.

    Turning to the news, we wonder if we should be annoyed with Nintendo (answer: usually yes, but possibly not in this case), squee about Tim Cook’s visit to ustwo, and mull over the big news from Steam this week. A big change is coming, but will it help or hurt indie developers and the platform as a whole?

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you want to tell us what car make and model most accurately represents your game :-D

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Benjamin Britten
    • Tin Man Games
    • Miss Fisher and the Deathly Maze (iOS only)
    • Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
    • Faithful listener @StrawVagetarian
    • Super Gridland (iOS & Android)
    • Swap Sword (iOS only)
    • We Rate Dogs on Twitter
    • Good Dogs (iOS & Android)
    • Alien Path (iOS & Android)
    • Missileman (iOS only)
    • City of Love (iOS & Android)
    • Nintendo says mobile is just a means to an end
    • Mazda CX-9
    • Mazda 3
    • Tim Cook visits ustwo
    • Dan Gray
    • Mills
    • Steam axes Greenlight
    • Itch.io
    • Resist Jam
    125: Very, Very Mighty Feb 08, 2017

    After inserting himself into our 100th episode despite never having been a guest, the mighty Ben Britten finally joins us on the actual show.

    Ben may not have an Aussie accent, but he does have an Academy Award and, in our opinion, a great life story all around.

    We talk to Ben about how he got into games, making the shift from premium to free-to-play, Mighty Games’ newest (and most charming? :-)) arrival and much more!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you’r currently developing a horsey game, because we'd like to know more! :-p

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Mighty Games
    • Matt Hall
    • Matt Ditton
    • Matt Ditton’s expletive-laden episode
    • NZGDC
    • Tin Man Games
    • The Arcade
    • Film Victoria
    • Timothy Best
    • Crossy Road (iOS & Android)
    • Shooty Skies (iOS & Android)
    • Disney Crossy Road (iOS & Android)
    • Charming Keep (iOS & Android)
    • Charming Keep website
    • AdVenture Capitalist! (iOS & Android)
    • Clicker Heroes (iOS & Android)
    • Pocket Card Jockey
    • Rhiannon Poley
    • Ben’s GCAP talk
    • Hipster Whale
    • Academy Awards technical awards
    • Stealth
    • Ghost Rider
    • Neil Rennison
    • Scott Bartlett
    • Pinchworm (iOS only)
    • Factorio
    • Borderlands
    • Skyrim
    • Human Resource Machine (iOS & Android & Steam)
    • Little Inferno (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Unconsoleable stickers and more
    124: If Nothing Else, We’ve Got Games Feb 01, 2017

    Reminder: your fresh horrors device also does games

    American politics continues to be a trash fire, but hey, at least we've got games!

    Jessica’s love affair with that horsey game continues, but she tears herself away for a bit to try some other games. She even gets to engage in her favorite activity in one of them: snooping!

    Anna is somewhat enamored with a new endless runner, but is super sad about her inability to play another game that's really great — unless you’re the type to get lost. Also, cute critters have come on the scene and we may want to take a ride in their spaceship.

    But that's not all! There's some potentially game-changing news for App Store devs, exciting adventure games coming this year, a Neko Atsume movie (!!!!!) and a study about female gamers that we think misses the mark.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you’ve taught your cat to pee in the toilet cause, well, you're weird :-p

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Kiva Bay
    • Our episode with Kiva
    • Body dysmorphia
    • Toxic masculinity
    • Holocaust Remembrance Day
    • Twitter account tweets out passenger manifest of ship w/Jews from Europe
    • Pocket Card Jockey
    • A Normal Lost Phone (iOS & Android)
    • Poochie & Yoshi’s Woolly World
    • Our friend Jenni
    • No Man’s Sky
    • Shards of Memories (iOS & Android)
    • Sky Dancer (iOS & Android)
    • Red’s Kingdom (iOS only)
    • Nubs’ Adventure (iOS & Android)
    • Splitter Critters (iOS only)
    • King Rabbit (iOS only)
    • Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise (iOS & Android)
    • Devs will soon be able to reply to App Store reviews
    • Yeti Pie (iOS only)
    • Neko Atsume movie trailer
    • Adventure games to look forward to in 2017
    • Jenny LeClue
    • Full Throttle Remastered
    • Tacoma
    • Spawn on Me episode w/Steve Gaynor
    • Female gamers study
    • US pro soccer pay structure
    • Stardew Valley
    123: Make Games Great Again Jan 25, 2017

    Although maybe this should be an Australian flag

    Our newly inaugurated president scares us to death, but we are here for the games. They help us cope and we hope they work that way for you too.

    Anna finds solace in a silly Japanese cult game while Jessica continues to self-medicate with hefty doses of Pocket Card Jockey.

    We also talk about a perennial favorite topic: what Apple can do to move mobile gaming forward. The iPhone recently turned 10, so someone saw fit to ask a bunch of dudes this question. But you know you'd rather hear our thoughts, right? :)

    Finally, it turns out Steam and mobile gaming share many of the same problems matching players to games. A recent article delves into this and so do we!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you can get Jessica a job at Nintendo or Apple :-p

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Pocket Card Jockey
    • Yuri (iOS only)
    • Our friend Brian
    • Charming Keep
    • Mighty Games
    • Nintendo Switch
    • Snakebird (iOS & Android)
    • Minekos Market
    • Hidden My Game by Mom (iOS & Android)
    • Hidden My Game by Mom 2 (iOS & Android)
    • Super Mario Run is coming soon to Android
    • Nintendo’s next mobile game is coming soon too
    • PocketGamer asks a bunch of dudes to speculate on the future of iOS gaming
    • Yankee Swaps
    • Megan Fox
    • How developers want Steam to improve in 2017
    122: Toilet Paper Beliefs Jan 18, 2017

    I didn't do it. It wasn't me.

    Listeners know we have strong political beliefs, and of course strong beliefs about games. But toilet paper? It turns out Jessica is fairly indifferent, but Anna isn't, and an upcoming game has her and others in a bit of a tizzy.

    Speaking of toilets, as we are often wont to do, we chuckle at a developer who has realized that people play their game on the toilet. of course we knew it all along, and all joking aside, there are some good lessons there about understanding your players.

    All this plus some of our reactions to the Nintendo Switch news, what we are playing (Pugs! Cat horses! Chickens!), and much more.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you have strong toilet paper feelings you'd like to share with us ;-)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Pocket Card Jockey
    • Ron Gilbert
    • Jessica’s cat horse
    • Breakout Ninja (iOS only)
    • Milkmaid of the Milky Way (iOS & Steam)
    • Cluckles’ Adventure (iOS & Android)
    • Legend of the Skyfish (iOS & Android)
    • Party Pugs (iOS & Android)
    • Our friend Janie
    • Hitman GO (iOS, Android & PS4)
    • Tiny Rails (iOS & Android)
    • Splatoon 2
    • There will be a new Mario Kart
    • Wii Sports
    • Why does this cost $50?!!
    • Phone screens are super dirty
    • Developer realizes their players play their game on the toilet
    • You Must Build a Boat (iOS & Android)
    • 10000000 (iOS & Android)
    • Jenn Sandercock
    • The toilet paper in Thimbleweed Park is WRONG
    121: The Vagina Game Jan 11, 2017

    It's a flower

    We’ve talked about playing games in the bathroom, but what about controlling a game with a part of one’s anatomy? Yes, these are brave and wild times in which this will soon be possible for those who backed a certain IndieGoGo campaign.

    Besides vaginas, this episode sees us dive into the 2017 gaming season with some featured games we didn’t hate! In fact, we liked pretty much everything we played this week, even though we just used our hands to do it (how boring!).

    We also talk about some wacky news, like Iran freaking out about Clash of Clans (and not because it has $100 IAPs!), predictably underwhelming mobile category award nominees, and more.

    Finally, what does 2017 have in store for mobile games? We ponder one recent take and talk about things we’d like to see change in on the platform in the coming year, especially given some recent data.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you plan on exercising your pelvic floor :-D

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Whitaker Trebella
    • Rescue Remedy
    • Remedy Rush (iOS only)
    • Pocket Gamer interview with Whit
    • 3 Sprockets
    • Breakout Ninja (iOS only)
    • Drawn to Kill (iPad only)
    • AirPods
    • Milkmaid of the Milky Way (iOS only)
    • Drop Flip Seasons (iOS only)
    • Trick Shot (iOS & Android)
    • Game Developers Choice Awards
    • Iran bans Clash of Clans
    • Mini Metro episode
    • Most Games are not a Vagina
    • Luxuria Superbia (iOS & Android)
    • IndieGoGo campaign for the vagina controller
    • Kegel exercises
    • Pelvic floor
    • Zombies, Run! (iOS & Android)
    • GamesIndustry.biz looks ahead to gaming in 2017
    • Our GOTY episode
    • Love You to Bits (iOS only)
    • No Man’s Sky
    • EEDAR data about mobile gaming habits
    • Jessica’s cute owl design
    120: The Usual Caveats Apply Jan 04, 2017

    It's our SECOND ANNUAL (hey, that's totally a big deal!) GAME OF THE YEAR EPISODE!!! We are using all CAPS in case you can't tell how excited we are. Because we're excited!

    2016 may not have been a good year for politics, but it was a pretty decent year for mobile games, as it turns out. So on this episode we celebrate the many games that we loved and cherished. We’ve got categories like prettiest, most innovative, most addictive, weirdest, and many more!

    Unlike last year, the winners aren’t listed in the show notes below, so you’ll have to listen to find out who won everything, including our ultimate game of the year and our individual picks for best game of 2016. There’s some arguing and lots of hemming and hawing, but we feel great about our winners and we hope you will too.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you think there’s a great game from 2016 that we missed!

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Severed (iOS only)
    • Our master list of best games of 2016
    • Isoland (iOS only)
    • Love You to Bits episode
    • Too Many Limes (iOS only)
    • A Tiny Game of Pong (iOS only)
    • Pinchworm article
    • The Last Door (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Zach Gage
    • Kenny Sun
    • Circa Infinity (iOS & Android)
    • Reigns episode
    • Furdemption (iOS only)
    • Mini Metro episode
    • Pocket Card Jockey
    • Versus Evil
    119: Advisory Women Dec 28, 2016

    These models will impart sage wisdom unto you

    Jessica and Anna are both played a new train game featuring a woman who explains stuff: a common occurrence in mobile games. Now, women know things, but Anna isn't sure about all these advisory women in mobile games. Why are they there? Is it for the right reasons or the wrong ones?

    Something we’re more sure of is that Nintendo’s eShop is awful. Nevertheless, Jessica managed to play a game on her 3DS that she actually liked!

    And of course, Super Mario Run is out and people have Opinions. About the price, about the monetization, about the gameplay, and more. We dive into some of these takes on Nintendo’s first real mobile game, and of course provide our own as the advisory women that we are :-)

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you'd like us to womansplain something to you :-p

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • AirPods
    • Matt Ditton’s swear-filled episode
    • Tiny Rails (iOS & Android)
    • Hermione
    • Our Gaming Yoda
    • Pocket Card Jockey
    • Super Mario Run (iOS only)
    • Shareware
    • Age of Empires
    • Super Mario Run’s inevitable backlash
    • Kotaku Toad Rally piece
    • Leap Day (iOS & Android)
    • People are upset about SMR’s data usage
    • NES Classic Mini
    • Should VR take its cue from casual games?
    • Job Simulator
    • Toilet gamer iOS stickers
    118: An Instant Classic Dec 21, 2016

    At long last and all the way from New Zealand, we welcome the developers of Mini Metro.Yep, we think the game is an instant classic and so should you.

    We talk to (twin!) brothers Robert and Peter Curry about how Mini Metro came about, their past exploits in game development, staying indie, the fear and anxiety that comes with success, and, as always, much, much more!

    Whether you've been loving designing transit systems like we have, want to hear the thought processes of smart devs, or are keen to join their dinosaur polo club, listen up!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you want to design the jackets we’ll wear at our dino polo club :-p

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Mini Metro (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Civilization
    • XCOM
    • World of Goo
    • Aquaria
    • Ludum Dare
    • IGF Awards
    • Barry Meade’s episode
    • The traveling salesman problem
    • You Must Build a Boat (iOS & Android)
    • Luca Redwood
    • Dinosaur Polo Club
    117: Whatever, Nintendo Dec 14, 2016

    We're all very fancy around here

    Super Mario Run is about to come out and some worrisome news about it has also come out. Uh-oh.

    Here to help us make sense of it all plus issue other tidbits of knowledge and wisdom is our beloved friend and developer Joe Macirowski.

    Meanwhile, what are Anna’s first impressions of the game having trekked to the Apple Store to play the demo? What recent gaming triumphs has Jessica enjoyed? Will Apple ever make a controller? And just how many ties DOES one of the Joe’s cats have? All these questions and more will be answered so listen now!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you know why Nintendo is opposed to making money :-p

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Super Mario Run (iOS only SOON)
    • Swap Sword (iOS only)
    • Design Home (iOS & Android)
    • Jessica’s 5-star design
    • Sling Kong (iOS & Android)
    • 2016 GOTY contenders list
    • Sally’s Law (iOS & Android)
    • Super Cat Tales (iOS & Android)
    • Mutant Mudds (iOS only)
    • Nubs’ Adventure (iOS & Android)
    • Big Bang Racing (iOS & Android)
    • Slip Away (iOS & Android)
    • Perchang (iOS & Android)
    • Engadget impressions of Super Mario Run
    • Leap Day (iOS & Android)
    • Super Mario Run demo video
    • Super Mario Run will need constant internet connectivity
    • NES Classic
    • British dude is annoyed that mobile games require online play
    • Game of War (iOS & Android)
    • Base Wars
    • Paste piece on Nintendo games that should come to mobile
    • Backgammon
    • Duck Hunt
    • Drawn to Kill (iPad only)
    • The Nintendo Switch
    • Legend of the Skyfish (iOS & Android)
    • Our listener Jared
    • Too Many Limes (iOS only)
    • Burger (iOS & Android)
    • Tiles
    • Bodega cats on Twitter
    116: Game Shame Dec 07, 2016

    Inside one of the secret women meetings

    Apparently this is the show where we reveal our deepest, darkest gaming secrets. Are you ready to learn Jessica’s latest game shame? We don’t want to ruin the fun for you, so you’ll have to listen to find out what it is!

    Speaking of deep, dark, secrets, we have some to impart to Zynga, who apparently wants to make a Candy Crush-like game for the Indian market. But they want it to appeal specifically to women. What’s the problem? Well, there are a number of them, and we try to explain it to the hapless devs who no doubt aren’t listening.

    We also puzzle over a new mobile game streaming service Rovio plans to launch. Can something meant to be the Spotify of mobile games find success?

    And of course we played some new games too, though almost none of the ones Anna tried came from the App Store (GASP!)

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you want to confess a shameful gaming secret of your own ;-p

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • 2016 GOTY contenders
    • Severed (iOS only)
    • Burly Men at Sea (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • TIME’s list of top 10 games of 2016
    • Prune (iOS & Android)
    • 2015 GOTY episode
    • Our friends Brian & Joe
    • Icarus (iOS only)
    • Game of War (iOS & Android)
    • 4 Ways to Spot a Shameless Cash Grab
    • Swap Sword (iOS only)
    • Andrew Fray
    • Spryfox episode
    • Facebook launches Messenger games
    • Tentacles: Enter the Mind (iOS only)
    • Rovio is launching a mobile game streaming service
    • Zynga
    • Zynga seeks to target Indian women mobile gamers
    • Indian currency crisis
    • Candy Crush Moms article
    115: The Herring Theory Nov 30, 2016

    Why do herring make you smarter? Something something school.

    What's one weird trick for games to infuriate us? Bad monetization. Jessica even almost really liked a new game this week—almost.

    It was much the same with Anna who, along with Jessica, struggled with a home decorating game. Struggled to play it that is, because the monetization is so brutal.

    We also wondered about Microsoft Solitaire coming to mobile and who on earth would pay for it, got a sneak peak at Asher Vollmer’s next game, learned who the best navigators are, and chuckled at an unlikely political incursion into a mobile soccer game we’ve never played.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you subscribe to the herring theory :)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Icarus (iOS only)
    • Sling Kong (iOS & Android)
    • Let's Go Rocket (iOS & Android)
    • Shooty Skies (iOS & Android)
    • Islands (iOS only)
    • Kathy Rain (iOS & Android)
    • George W. Bush’s paintings
    • Bob Ross
    • Design Home (iOS & Android)
    • Covet Fashion (iOS & Android)
    • Kim Kardashian: Hollywood (iOS & Android)
    • PHP
    • Oh… Sir! Insult Simulator (iOS & Android)
    • Microsoft Solitaire comes to mobile
    • Microsoft Solitaire (iOS & Android)
    • Solitaire Forever (iOS & Android)
    • Fallen London (iOS, Android & browser)
    • Windows Phone
    • Solitaire subscription in Windows 10
    • Asher Vollmer’s episode
    • Guildlings
    • GIF of first revealed Guildlings character
    • Sea Hero Quest (iOS & Android)
    • The best navigators are Nordic
    • Football Manager (iOS & Android)
    • Brexit
    • Pro-Brexit player is mad
    114: Millions of People Must Be Wrong Nov 23, 2016

    The story of Tetris is aaaaah tetrominos attack!

    Could millions of people be wrong about mobile games being awesome? Clearly not, though they might be wrong about their choice of presidential candidate — but we digress!

    Anyway! We try to go back to "normal" this week, whatever that is, and talk about more games, more out of touch articles, more shooty stabby gamers who don’t get mobile, and more Mario of course!

    Also, Nintendo, you're pissing us off. Stop it.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you have some NES classic minis you want to gift to us ;-)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • King Rabbit (iOS only)
    • PAC-MAN 256 (iOS, Android & PS4)
    • Scurvy Scallywags (iOS & Android)
    • You Must Build a Boat (iOS & Android)
    • Luca Redwood
    • SteamWorld Heist (iOS & Steam)
    • Irish Senator says it all
    • SteamWorld Dig
    • Boon Cotter
    • Men of Game Development
    • Uncharted: Fortune Hunter (iOS & Android)
    • Jake Sawyer
    • The Trail (iOS & Android)
    • Peter Molyneux
    • Godus (iOS & Android)
    • Alice in Wonderland Puzzle Golf Adventures (iOS & Android)
    • Telepaint (iOS only)
    • Portal
    • NES classic mini
    • Super Mario Run has a release date
    • GamesIndustry.biz article
    • What if Candy Crush had a story?
    • Til Morning’s Light (iOS only)
    • Deus Ex GO (iOS & Android)
    • The Game Awards

    Special bonus trivia! Serendipitously, as it turns out, the Simpsons episode Jessica references (here's an archive.org capture of whatbadgerseat.com) features a chalkboard gag concerning the 2000 election: "I will not plant subliminal messagores."

    113: All Our Parties Have Gotten Pooped On Nov 16, 2016

    Us as the results rolled in. Us now.

    This is still a show about games, but we had to talk about the election.

    Because this isn't like any other election, and this president-elect isn't like any other president-elect. We are afraid and traumatized, not so much for ourselves, but for so many others. This show has always been partly about our lives, and this was a cataclysmic event for us both.

    We do get around to games eventually, we promise. Both of us played a few new things, though games haven't been as comforting. We also talked about some good reactions to the election result in the games community, as well as some not-so-good reactions, plus a Blizzard CEO that seems to be a wee bit misguided.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you have a colony on Mars we can join.

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • The 5 stages of grief
    • Ruffled Feathers episode
    • Reports of hate crimes
    • GaymerX
    • Jezebel list of orgs to donate to
    • ACLU
    • Planned Parenthood
    • CAIR
    • Trans Lifeline
    • #translawhelp
    • Scurvy Scallywags (iOS & Android)
    • Westworld
    • Fancy Cats (iOS & Android)
    • Sailor Moon Drops (iOS & Android)
    • Neko Atsume (iOS & Android)
    • The Trail (iOS & Android)
    • The Room games
    • The Lost Shield (iOS only)
    • Brick breaker
    • Nellie’s Ark (iOS only)
    • Gamedev people react to Trump
    • Patrick Thornton’s article
    • California used to be Mexico
    • Don't Move to Canada, Move to a Swing State
    • Blizzard CEO says no one has figured out mobile
    • Facebook announces their Steam competitor
    • More Facebook Messenger games are here
    • Peach
    • Jake Sawyer
    • Taco Illuminati t-shirts
    • Gone Home
    112: Signing Up for Judgement Nov 09, 2016

    We're not this friendly

    Games that we play sign up for judgment, but what about raiders of Halloween candy? Will anyone step forward and admit to taking all of it when no one’s looking?

    While we ponder chocolate-induced crime and punishment, we also talk about the games we’ve played this week, to varying degrees of enjoyment and success. Jessica realizes walking around in a game can get tiresome while Anna embraces her spy identity.

    We also roll our eyes at a tone-deaf piece on fan demands in games and comics and lament the fact that someday we may not be able to play our favorite iOS games anymore.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you'd like to confess to any candy crimes ;-p

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Doomsday Clicker (iOS & Android)
    • Scurvy Scallywags (iOS & Android)
    • Rusty Lake: Roots (iOS & Android)
    • Severed (iOS only)
    • Gone Home
    • Til Morning’s Light (iOS only)
    • Cook, Serve, Delicious (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Appsolute Games
    • Ketchapp
    • Flip Heroes (iOS only)
    • Lumino City (iOS & Steam)
    • Canabalt (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Gossip Girl
    • Vikings: An Archer’s Journey (iOS only)
    • Our friend Joe
    • Drawn to Kill (iPad only)
    • Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise (iOS only)
    • GCAP award winners
    • Covert Affairs
    • Guessy Stars (iOS & Android)
    • Harvest (iOS only)
    • Rodeo Stampede (iOS & Android)
    • Disco Zoo (iOS & Android)
    • The fans are going to win
    • Mobile gaming isn't so mobile
    • Toilet gamer t-shirts
    • Games getting pulled from the App Store
    • How to back up your games
    • NES Classic is coming soon
    111: Gamer Stank Nov 02, 2016

    The popular perception of gamers

    Do gamers stink differently than other people? Some people seem to think so and [cue infomercial voice] have they got the product for YOU!

    But before we get to all that, Jessica recounts some woes with a new game’s tutorial and an old game’s inability to cloud save her progress, oh no!

    Meanwhile, Anna falls under the spell of a very silly, but very charming time management game and we also talk about a story that made us both do a double take.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you’ve spent millions on a mobile game, because we’d like to be your friends ;-)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Vikings: An Archer’s Journey (iOS only)
    • Drawn to Kill (iPad only)
    • Road Not Taken (iOS only)
    • Mini Metro (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • FRAMED (iOS & Android)
    • Rusty Lake: Roots (iOS & Android)
    • Year Walk (iOS only)
    • The Last Door (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Fireproof Games
    • Heart’s Medicine (iOS & Android)
    • Matt Hall
    • Cook, Serve, Delicious (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Hay Day (iOS & Android)
    • Tap My Katamari (iOS & Android)
    • Anna’s latest Remeshed column
    • Phil Schiller in charge of the App Store
    • Deodorant for gamers Kickstarter
    • Man spends $2 million on a game & leads a boycott
    • Skinner boxes
    • Fallen London (iOS, Android & browser)
    • 4 Ways to Spot a Shameless Cash Grab
    • Gamer stats from the ESA
    • Our friend Christian
    110: So Designy Oct 26, 2016

    Longtime listeners will recall that there was a time when Jessica built A LOT of boats. Now she's building a lot of transit systems, and Anna is too! That's right, Mini Metro has taken us by storm and we’re having a blast.

    We also announce the winner of our Burly Men at Sea giveaway, and Anna talks about some other games and, um, hassling various developers.

    And of course… the Nintendo news! We talk all about the Switch and whether we, the target market, are interested in it.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you’re bringing your dog to GDC, because we want to meet them!

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Mini Metro (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Our Gaming Yoda
    • Train Conductor World (iOS & Android)
    • SimCity franchise
    • Shooty Skies (iOS & Android)
    • MARTA
    • Burly Men at Sea (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Neko Atsume (iOS & Android)
    • Bengal Jack
    • Tubbs
    • Doggins (iOS & Android)
    • Shadow Bug (iOS only)
    • Shadow Bug Rush (iOS & Android)
    • Janie Clayton
    • Brent from Spryfox
    • FRAMED2 teaser
    • FRAMED (iOS & Android)
    • Josh at Loveshack
    • PinOut!
    • Smash Hit (iOS & Android)
    • INKS. (iOS only)
    • Really Bad Chess (iOS only)
    • Zach Gage
    • Sage Solitaire (iOS & Android)
    • Puzzlepops! Trick or Treat (iOS & Android)
    • Puzzlepops! (iOS & Android)
    • Nintendo Switch teaser
    • Disruption
    • NYT analysis of the Switch
    • Some European devs have Switch dev kits
    • Zelda Windwaker
    109: Your Phone in Your Bra Oct 19, 2016

    Fancy phone-holders

    Everything in the world is terrible, but we are here to bring you stories of our sometimes silly and difficult lives, and we do eventually talk about games, we promise!

    We tried some new stuff this week, to varying degrees of success, but we mainly talk about a game that you probably haven’t heard of or played. And that’s maybe for good reason. Intrigued? Mystified? Trepidatious? Then listen now and all will be revealed.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you can volunteer to be Jessica’s rescuer when she falls down the stairs ;-p

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Nate Silver
    • Jessica has never yelled at children
    • The "L"
    • Episode 52
    • Episode 30
    • Episode 79
    • Alto's Adventure (iOS & Android)
    • Andy Sum
    • Overwatch
    • Concrete Jungle (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Cognition (iOS only)
    • Does Not Commute (iOS & Android)
    • Piloteer (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Flappy Golf 2 (iOS & Android)
    • Noodlecake
    • Super Stickman Golf series
    • Crystal Rush (iOS & Android)
    • Splashy Cats (iOS & Android)
    • Not a Clone (iOS only)
    • EULAs
    • Jake Sones
    • Zombie Match Defense (iOS only)
    • Love You to Bits (iOS only)
    • Puzzlepops! (iOS & Android)
    • Good mobile games for anxiety
    • Outfolded (iOS & Android)
    • Note to Self episode about games
    108: Show Me Your Graphs Oct 12, 2016

    Graaaaaaaaaphs

    Welcome to Anna being partially drunk during this recording and Jessica well on her way there! Cut us a break though; have you seen the US election? It's amazing we're sober EVER.

    Shockingly, Jessica played more than one game this week! Anna did as well, including attempting That Dragon, Cancer now that it's on mobile.

    Search ads have also come to the App Store and we look at one developer’s experiences so far, including the possible problems and pitfalls. Also, Square Enix is taking a stand on premium games and there are some Nintendo LULZ too.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you want us to play games with you while drunk (but we’ll probably say no ;-p)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Wellington Vineyards
    • Spawn on Me
    • Rent-a-Center
    • Jessica plays Tomb Raider
    • Burly Men at Sea (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Shadow Bug (iOS only)
    • Shadow Bug Rush (iOS & Android)
    • Alto's Adventure (iOS & Android)
    • That Dragon, Cancer (iOS & Steam)
    • Donate to childhood cancer (Jessica goofed, but St. Jude is awesome)
    • Maximum Car (iOS & Android)
    • Wordlings (iOS only)
    • Spryfox
    • App Store search ads are here
    • One developer's search ad experience so far
    • User acquisition
    • Square Enix wants premium games to be a pillar of their business
    • Shareef Jackson's #GamingLooksGood
    • Shareef's episodes (29 and 59)
    • Hilarious Nintendo article
    107: The High End of Mediocre Oct 05, 2016

    Huskies are also dismayed by idiots on the internet

    Jessica is still in the thrall of Shadow Bug Rush, but both of us did play a bunch of other games this week. And some were even good!

    Anna gushes about a game she never thought she would enjoy while both she and Jessica are not 100% sold on a dog sledding game that has too much management for our liking. And what game did Jessica reject after 5 minutes while Anna fell in love with it? You’ll have to listen to find out!

    There’s also talk of a sushi game that sadly doesn’t involve eating sushi, some high quality ridicule of dumb people on the Internet, and much more!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you’ve made a dog ownership simulator, because we want to play it :-p

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Anna's 2nd Remeshed column
    • Shadow Bug Rush
    • Shadow Bug (iOS only)
    • Redditor is confused about Game Center
    • Game Center is gone, sort of
    • Nitrome
    • Magic Mansion (iOS & Android)
    • Burly Men at Sea (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Brain & Brain
    • Doggins (iOS & Android)
    • Dog Sled Saga (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Guild of Dungeoneering (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Shooty Skies (iOS & Android)
    • Sushi GO (iOS only)
    • Letterpress (iOS only)
    • Our 100th episode
    • Isoland (iOS only)
    • Excite Bear (iOS & Android)
    • Jake's announcement
    • Ubisoft acquires Ketchapp
    • Business Insider profile of Ketchapp
    • Ubisoft's super casual new game
    • Jenn Sandercock
    • aglimpse: friends (iOS & Android)
    • Brian's sticker pack
    • Brian's second sticker pack
    • Rich Stevens' cat pack
    • Rich Stevens' pumpkin sticker pack
    • Truth, Truth, Lie
    106: Baby Spoons Sep 28, 2016

    The best kind of spoon

    This week, we finally had the space and time to talk about what we’re playing! Except Jessica seems to have played just one game. But no matter, one game is all you need if it’s the right one.

    Meanwhile Anna isn’t sure if any of the games she played are the right one for her. She did enjoy eating people, however, while difficult controls in other game gave her the sads.

    And both your hosts played a game that in some ways had a rocky start on the App Store, but is that the fault of the developer or the players?

    That’s not all! We also had time for a bit of news and a recent piece launched us into the perennial discussion on the evils of some free-to-play games and what might be done about them.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you too share our love for baby spoons :-)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • HTC Vive
    • Palmer Luckey is funding Donald Trump's meme factory
    • Palmer's TIME magazine cover
    • Oculus
    • What is shitposting?
    • Buy a guilt-free Oculus
    • Megan Fox
    • Hot Tin Roof
    • Alt-right i.e. white supremacists
    • Out Magazine heavily criticized for Milo profile
    • Taco Illuminati episode
    • Shadow Bug Rush
    • Shadow Bug (iOS only)
    • Land Sliders (iOS & Android)
    • Sling Kong (iOS & Android)
    • Enyo (iOS & Android)
    • Enyo's first week
    • Card Crawl (iOS & Android)
    • You Must Build a Boat (iOS & Android)
    • Whitaker Trebella
    • Piloteer (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Submerged (iOS only)
    • Uncharted 4
    • Boon Cotter
    • Slither.io (iOS, Android & browser)
    • Tiltagon (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Pirahn.io (browser; iOS & Android coming soon)
    • Supercell buys a stake in Frogmind
    • Badland (iOS & Android)
    • Badland 2 (iOS & Android)
    • A Player's Manifesto
    • Skinner Boxes
    • Buy some baby spoons
    105: A Carousel of Privilege Sep 21, 2016

    There's always that one jackass

    A real, actual Mario game is finally coming to mobile and we are EXCITED. But not everyone shares our glee.

    We talk about the hand-wringing over how a quasi-premium game will be received on the platform, and answer concerns about whether mobile gamers care about games period. We have a few choice words to offer on this topic.

    All this ties into the larger issue of whether premium games are dead on mobile (spoiler alert: NO). We talk about how crappy this narrative is, plus how Amazon’s move away from mobile games isn't necessarily a valid example of premium games’ struggles.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you know anyone at Nintendo Enthusiast cause we'd like to give them a wedgie :-p

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Submerged (iOS only)
    • Deus Ex GO (iOS & Android)
    • Shadow Bug Rush
    • Shadow Bug (iOS only)
    • Muro Studios on Twitter
    • SMG Studios on Twitter
    • Rare Sloth on Twitter
    • Matt Hall
    • Notch
    • The smaller iPad Pro
    • Apple Pencil
    • Anna's first column for Remeshed
    • Mario game announced for mobile
    • Miyamoto presents at the Apple keynote
    • Miitomo (iOS & Android)
    • Fire Emblem & Animal Crossing delayed
    • Canabalt (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • PocketGamer.biz worries about Mario's success
    • Snakebird (iOS & Android)
    • Gamesindustry.biz also worries about Mario
    • Nintendo Enthusiast's condescending article
    • Betteridge's Law of headlines
    • Triple Town (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Words With Friends (iOS & Android)
    • Crossy Road dinosaur update
    • Miyamoto demoes playing Super Mario Run
    • Stickers in iMessage for iOS 10
    • iMessage game Truth Truth Lie (iOS only)
    • Barry Meade's episode
    • Jake and Saam's episode
    • Amazon pivots away from mobile
    • Til Morning's Light (iOS, Amazon AppStore for Android)
    • Amazon Game Studios
    • Randy's episode
    • Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Mediocre
    • Henrik from Mediocre
    104: Don't Go in the Arsenic Room Sep 14, 2016

    We really like gifs, ok?

    This episode rules! That’s because we have with us Francois Alliot, creator of one of our latest obsessions and yours, Reigns.

    Sometimes we rule for many years and sometimes we die quickly, but we’re always having a great time playing this immensely innovative game.

    Francois tells us about what he’s learned in his remarkably short time making games, answers all our burning questions about the game, and tell us some EXCLUSIVE NEWS!

    So, remember not to go into the arsenic room and please enjoy this episode!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you know how to trick the devil!

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Commodore 64
    • Jenn Sandercock's episode
    • Drawn to Kill (iPad only)
    • Devolver Digital
    • Fork Parker
    • Crashlands (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • 80 Days (iOS & Steam)
    • Brexit
    • King Rabbit (iOS only)
    • Tinder (iOS & Android)
    • Reigns' artist Mieko Murakami
    • Monument Valley (iOS & Android)
    • Ustwo
    • Giant isopods
    103: How Can We Monetize Our Poop Data? Sep 07, 2016

    You can blame Jessica for the quality of this particular gif

    All our dungeons are getting looted (or is it lootied?) on this episode as we welcome Jake Sawyer and Saam Pahlavan of Taco Illuminati, makers of the adorable and fun Looty Dungeon.

    The fellas tell us about how they got into making a mobile game, what they learned releasing their first title on the platform, and much, much more including, yes, some very interesting poop data ;-p

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Annatoo), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email usif you have a scientific use for Jake and Saam’s poop data :)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Looty Dungeon (iOS only)
    • Torchy’s Tacos in Austin
    • Taco Illuminiati t-shirts
    • Job Simulator
    • 50 character limit imposed on app names
    • Yeti Pie (iOS only)
    • Luke Muscat's episode
    • Ryan Cash's episode
    • Alto's Adventure (iOS & Android)
    • Reigns (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Devolver Digital
    • Canabalt (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Roguelikes
    • Shadow Bug (iOS only)
    • Assassin's Creed 2
    • Crashlands (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Butterscotch Shenanigans
    • Tiny Tower (iOS & Android)
    • Faily Brakes (iOS & Android)
    • Leap Day (iOS & Android)
    • Pokemon GO (iOS & Android)
    • Does Not Commute (iOS & Android)
    • Rooster Teeth Expo
    • Disco Zoo (iOS & Android)
    • SpellTower (iOS & Android)
    • Lara Croft GO (iOS & Android)
    • Battleheart Legacy (iOS & Android)
    • Vainglory (iOS & Android)
    • Downwell (iOS, Android & Steam)
    102: The Angry 1% Aug 31, 2016

    Alas, we only wish our hair were that perfectly shiny

    In yet another episode in between guests, we have so many games to talk about. So we spend almost the entire episode doing just that!

    From a hilarious and charming game by a former guest that you might not know exists, to the new GO game from Square Enix, to a new mobile Zelda-esque game that gave us some trouble with the controls, but that we still sort of loved, we run the gamut.

    Jessica also has some adventures with an archery game that might be a bit problematic, Anna makes a foray into social engineering (in a game only, we promise!) and much more!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Annatoo), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if think you qualify for the very elite, very exclusive, angry 1% club ;-p

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • The Men of Unconsoleable
    • Taco Illuminati
    • Looty Dungeon (iOS only)
    • Ron Gilbert's episode
    • Scurvy Scallywags (iOS & Android)
    • You Must Build a Boat (iOS & Android)
    • Reigns (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Crashlands (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • François Aillot
    • Legend of the Skyfish (iOS only)
    • Til Morning's Light (iOS only)
    • QTE (quick time events)
    • Revolution 60
    • Jenna Hoffstein
    • LIMBO (iOS & Android)
    • Drawn to Kill (iPad only)
    • Tiny Archers (iOS & Android)
    • Are You Afraid of the Dark?
    • Tanya DePass
    • Medieval POC Tumblr
    • Spryfox episode
    • Triple Town (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Deus Ex GO (iOS & Android)
    • Hitman GO (iOS, Androi, Steam & PS4)
    • Lara Croft GO (iOS & Android)
    • Shadow Bug (iOS only)
    • Mr. Robot (iOS & Android)
    • Screenshot from Mr. Robot w/SQL server
    • Lifeline (iOS & Android)
    • 24
    • Proteus
    • Gone Home
    • Firewatch
    • Dear Esther
    • Lost Within (iOS only)
    • Hidden object games
    • Pokemon GO Ars Technica piece
    • Business Insider's more sober take
    101: The Game is Your Common Enemy Aug 24, 2016

    Me too, Skinny Bear. Me too. Screenshot from @OneSavvySiren

    We’re kicking off a new century of Unconsoleable with guests who make games that are definitely not our enemies. Quite the opposite in fact. If you know anything, you know that Spryfox means quality, polish, unique mechanics, and a boatload of charm.

    Andrew Fray and Pat Kemp are two Spryfoxes and they’re here this week to talk with us about evil (some might say) puzzle games, non-evil free to play, how their development process works, and much more!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Annatoo), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if agree that Spryfox games need more foxes ;-p

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Alphabear (iOS & Android)
    • Steambirds Alliance
    • Bushido Bear (iOS & Android)
    • Andrew's GDC talk about remote working at Spryfox
    • Don't Starve Together
    • Snakebird (iOS & Android)
    • Puzzlepops! (iOS only)
    • Furdemption (iOS only)
    • Rare Sloth
    • King Rabbit (iOS only)
    • Quell Zen (iOS & Android)
    • Shooty Skies (iOS & Android)
    • Mr. Jump (iOS only)
    • Clash Royale (iOS & Android)
    • Pokemon GO (iOS & Android)
    • Triple Town (iOS & Android)
    • Brent Kobayashi
    • Daniel Cook
    • David Edery
    • Verby Noun on Twitter
    • #Alphabear tweets
    100: Happy Hundredthversary! Aug 17, 2016

    IT’S OUR 100TH EPISODE, AAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

    Now that that’s out of the way, what can you expect on this super, hugely exciting milestone episode? We reminisce about the journey we’ve been on, answer some listener questions, and divulge some behind-the-scenes secrets!

    But there’s TONS MORE and we don’t want to spoil any of the surprises in store. So just sit back and strap in for a wild ride you won’t soon forget!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Annatoo), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you want to suggest an amount of episodes we should make beyond 100. But we’ll just ignore you :-p

    This episode is sponsored by Fracture. Photos printed on glass. Tell them we sent you using this link and selecting "Unconsoleable" to get 10% off your first order.

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Moises
    • ESN.fm
    • Ken Wong's episode
    • Totally Uncool
    • Diablo
    • Seb Burnett's episode
    • Episode 42 - Laserdisc Porn
    • Barry Meade's episode
    • Our 1 year anniversary episode
    • Andy Sum
    • Tetris Party
    • Mini NES
    • Mini Sega
    • Game Gear
    • Base Wars
    • Duck Hunt
    • Georgia Dow's episode
    • Disruption
    • The iMore Show
    • Grant Roberts' episode
    • Matt Hall's episodes (Ep. 14, Ep. 21, Ep. 43 & Ep. 52)
    • Steve Lubitz's episodes (Ep. 23, Ep. 33, Ep. 45 & Ep. 57)
    • Shareef Jackson's episodes (Ep. 29 & Ep. 59)
    • Spawn On Me
    • Operation Cubicle
    • Gaming Looks Good
    • Pancake (iOS & Android)
    • Burger (iOS & Android)
    • Karyl Gilbertson's episode
    • Painted Sky Studios
    • Lifeline (iOS & Android)
    • Mars Jokela's episode
    • Liftoff Labs
    • Galaxy Golf
    • Sling Kong (iOS & Android)
    • Prune (iOS & Android)
    • Joel McDonald's episode
    • Yasmine & Russell's episode
    • PocketCasts (iOS & Android)
    • Material podcast
    • Joe Macirowski's episodes (Ep. 60, Ep. 77 & Ep.94)
    • Unconsoleable Episode 2
    • Unconsoleable Episode 18
    • Luke Muscat's episode
    • Prettygreat
    • Land Sliders (iOS & Android)
    • Slide the Shakes (iOS & Android)
    • Matt Ditton's episode
    • Neven Mrgan's episode
    • The Men of Unconsoleable
    • Ghostbusters on the NES
    • Ghostbusters misspelled screen
    • Enric Jorda's episode
    99: Making Cookies and Games Aug 10, 2016

    The talented and wonderful Jenn Sandercock

    We haven’t had an Aussie on the show for far too long, so we fix that in this episode by welcoming the awesome and talented Jenn Sandercock.

    Jenn loves innovative gameplay mechanics, games that give you hugs, and yes, cookies. If she ever acquires a Notch house, we have secured an invite to the cookie room :-D

    We found out all about how Jenn came to be in games and what keeps her here, what she would change about the industry if she could, and of course what mobile games she likes (we may have some recommendations for her :-)) All this and so much more, so listen up!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you want to make a game especially for us!

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Jenn's mobile game
    • Thimbleweed Park
    • Escape the room games
    • Indie Game Festival at GDC
    • Threes (iOS, Android & in the browser)
    • Viridi (iOS & Android)
    • Neko Atsume (iOS & Android)
    • Sierra games
    • Swift Playground
    • LA Noire
    • Lara Croft GO (iOS & Android)
    • GDC Conference Associate program
    • Global Game Jam
    • Bonza (iOS & Android)
    • Bag It (iOS & Android)
    • Twofold Inc (iOS & Android)
    • Love You to Bits (iOS only)
    • Zero Escape games
    • Andy Sum
    • Are developers responsible to players?
    • Emily Greer
    • Ben from Mighty Games
    • Thimbleweed Park podcast
    98: First Prize in Dickery Aug 03, 2016

    You "win," you stupid jerk with your stupid trophy

    Who is the “lucky” winner of the first prize in dickery? It could apply to many people, as this episode will demonstrate.

    Sandwiched between guest episodes, this installment of the show brings you the Jessica and Anna you know and love, talking (and complaining) about the games we’re playing and calling out developers who have a dim view of mobile gaming, but still want to make mobile games.

    Luckily we played some great stuff this week too. Jessica rediscovers the joy of a Quell game while Anna plays a fencing game that actually feels like real fencing. En garde! There’s also some news to cover and we continue to be concerned about gaming’s favorite whipping boy, Nintendo.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you think you can talk some sense into Nintendo; ACTUALLY NO, email Nintendo ;-)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Ron Gilbert episode
    • Guild of Dungeoneering (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Our Gaming Yoda
    • Hearthstone (iOS & Android)
    • The Booby Mage
    • Road Not Taken (iOS, Steam & PS4)
    • Bushido Bear (iOS & Android)
    • Snakebird (iOS & Android)
    • Puzzlepops! (iOS only)
    • Snakebird devs don't play mobile games
    • Furdemption (iOS only)
    • The Guides (iOS & Android)
    • King Rabbit (iOS only)
    • Quell Zen (iOS & Android)
    • Quell Memento (iOS & Android)
    • Luca Redwood's tweet
    • The developer whose game we trashed
    • FIE Swordplay (iOS & Android)
    • China has overtake the US in iOS game revenue
    • Hipster Whale moves into publishing
    • Investors realize Nintendo doesn't own Pokemon
    • CNBC article on Nintendo
    • NX might run all Nintendo mobile games
    • Pokemon GO Plus wrist accessory
    • Pokemon GO revenue not affecting other mobile games
    • Pokeball pasties
    • Sega mini-console
    97: Doom Killed Adventure Games Jul 27, 2016

    Our guest this week is none other than Ron Gilbert, who we determined is definitely legendary, has achieved everything based on skill alone, and is totally not old. Is any of this true?! You'll have to listen to find out :-p

    We go all over the place in this episode, from the far reaches of adventure gaming history to what makes a game succeed to good and bad design in adventure games and even movies.

    What mobile games does Ron like? Is he ever moving to Australia? Will there ever be a third Monkey Island game? And how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? We get to the bottom of all this and much more!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you think you too are legendary (but like Ron’s sister, we might beg to differ :-))

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Lucasfilm
    • The cat hair puzzle
    • Doom
    • Monkey Island
    • Firewatch
    • Telltale Games
    • King's Quest 4
    • Thimbleweed Park
    • Grim Fandango Remastered (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • The Witness
    • Our Blame the Game episode
    • Pocket Mortys (iOS & Android)
    • Seb Burnett's episode
    • Survy Scallywags (iOS & Android)
    • Tower defense games
    • Kingdom Rush
    • Love You to Bits (iOS only)
    • The Cat Lady
    • Bertram Fiddle (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • The Ring
    • Stephen King's IT
    • SCUMM
    • Gabriel Knight
    • Jessica complains about octagonal plates
    • Brazil
    • Terry Gilliam
    • Donnie Darko
    • Exploding hamster easter egg in Maniac Mansion
    • David Fox
    • Matt Ditton
    • Jenn Sandercock
    • Michael Land
    96: Being Grumpy Together Jul 20, 2016

    Kids today and their pokey mans

    The world has officially lost their minds over Pokemon GO, but has Jessica finally become a Pokemon trainer or not? And can we trust Niantic, the game’s developer, with our data?

    We also have a pretty huge announcement, squeeeee over Nintendo’s recent mini (tee hee) announcement, talk about what we’re playing of course, and Jessica looks forward to an impending VR adventure that might erase her disappointment with the Rick & Morty mobile game that fell flat.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Annatoo), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us with questions for Ron Gilbert. We aren’t kidding around this week; DO IT!

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Klocki (iOS & Android)
    • Ron Gilbert's extensive Wikipedia page
    • SCUMM
    • Day of the Tentacle Remastered (iOS & Steam)
    • Crashlands (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Love You to Bits (iOS only)
    • Outfolded
    • 3 Sprockets
    • Pac-Man 256 (iOS, Android, Steam, PS4 & Xbox One)
    • Prime Day
    • Amazon Dash buttons
    • Tap My Katamari (iOS & Android)
    • Super Stickman Golf 3 (iOS & Android)
    • Noodlecake Studios
    • God of Light (iOS & Android)
    • Neko Atsume (iOS & Android)
    • Nintendo announces adorable mini NES
    • Phoenix Wright
    • Emulators
    • Jessica's adventures in streaming
    • Pokemon GO permissions kerfuffle
    • Incense outside children's hospitals
    • Pet shelters using Pokemon GO
    • Autism mom's Pokemon story
    • Girl gets hit by a car chasing Pokemon
    • Robbery via Pokemon GO
    • A gym at the Westboro Baptist Church
    • Hillary Clinton does an appearance at a Pokestop
    • Pokemon stampede in Central Park
    • Pocket Mortys (iOS & Android)
    • Rick & Morty VR game
    95: Don't Pokemon and Drive Jul 13, 2016

    Screenshot of Pokémon Shame courtesy of @tangentworlds

    This episode is brought to you by Fracture. Go here now for more information and to get 10% off your order. Don’t forget to mention Unconsoleable in the one question survey to show your support for our show!

    Yes, Pokemon GO mania has come to Unconsoleable, but for only one of your hosts (for now :-))

    But before we get to all that, we took a moment to acknowledge the difficult and violent week the US has had. We hope, if you’ve struggled this week as so many have, that we can take your mind off things for a little bit. Not to forget, but just to take a mental break.

    For example… did you know that idle clicker players aren’t who you would expect? Anna also found out that gamer surveys really don’t plan for our flavor of gamer. And what has Jessica been tapping like a mofo??? Find out all this and more by listening now.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you know where the good Pokemon are :)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Recent Spawn on Me episode
    • Ben from Mighty Games
    • Why "lame" is bad
    • Fallen London (iOS & in the browser)
    • Neko Atsume (iOS & Android)
    • Tap My Katamari (iOS & Android)
    • The original Katamari
    • Quiz on what sort of gamer you are
    • Idle clicker gamers aren't who you might think
    • Pokemon GO (iOS & Android)
    • Pokemon international release halted
    • Our friend Sabriel
    • Person broke their phone playing Pokemon GO
    • Police warning pedestrians to be careful
    • Wyoming teen finds a body playing Pokemon GO
    • Pokemon GO subreddit
    • Android users in the UK are claiming gyms
    • Unofficial Android APKs have malware
    • Sea Hero (iOS & Android)
    • Cook, Serve, Delicious (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Glu Mobile
    • Gordon Ramsey Dash (iOS & Android)
    • Perchang (iOS only)
    • Touch Arcade article on Perchang
    • Threes (iOS, Android & in the browser)
    94: The Bagels are Game Center Jul 06, 2016

    An actual WWDC bagel. Caraway seeds? Really?

    Our WWDC spy has arrived! That’s right, back on the show for the third time and full of tales of San Francisco and Apple’s plans for gaming, it’s our awesome friend Joe Macirowski.

    Joe rains on our parade a lot, but hey, we already knew that Apple and gaming aren’t exactly a match made in heaven. If you’ve been deluding yourselves, maybe this episode will cure you!

    There’s a lot to talk about and many important questions to answer, like do games have a better shot of success on the Apple Watch or the Apple TV? Why doesn’t the West Coast know from good bagels? And will we finally find out what Craig Federighi’s hair smells like??!!! Listen now to find out.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you know anyplace to get good bagels in San Francisco :)

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    Show Notes

    • WWDC
    • Yeti Pie (iOS only)
    • Auto Adjust
    • Normalize
    • Joe's previous episodes
    • Ableism
    • Dan Graf
    • Rodeo Stampede (iOS & Android)
    • The podcast Joe does with Jessica
    • Craig Federighi
    • John Siracusa
    • House of the Dead game
    • Base Wars
    • Pocket Gamer controller review
    • LIMBO (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Shadow Bug (iOS only)
    • SpriteKit
    • SceneKit
    • A Tiny Game of Pong (iOS only)
    • Letterpress (iOS only)
    • Nubs' Adventure (iOS & Android)
    • Gose beer
    • Poke
    • Phil Schiller
    • Cardboard
    • Cicero from Spawn On Me
    93: Premium Chickens Jun 29, 2016

    Jessica’s game drought continues unabated, but not for the reasons you might expect! Anna is enamored with some new games however while others have been… DELETED (gulp).

    Is everything lost for UK mobile game developers in the wake of #Brexit and does it even matter? Are games like Clash of Clans the future of gaming? Does mobile need more premium games? Should Steve Lubitz start a Hearthstone newsletter? (answer: YES) All these questions and more will be answered!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Annatoo), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you too want more premium chickens ;-)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Our Aussie fan base is strong
    • Fallen London (iOS & in the browser)
    • Neko Atsume (iOS & Android)
    • Give It Up 2 (iOS & Android)
    • King Rabbit (iOS only)
    • Freehold Raceway Mall in New Jersey
    • Nintendo Vans
    • Doomsday Clicker (iOS & Android)
    • Ben from Mighty Games
    • Train Conductor World (iOS only for now)
    • Rodeo Stampede (iOS & Android)
    • Skiing Yeti Mountain (iOS & Android)
    • Splashy Cats (iOS & Android)
    • Squaredance (iOS & Android)
    • “The Pancake Guy”
    • Desert Golfing (iOS & Android)
    • Viridi (iOS & Android)
    • UK devs react to Brexit
    • More details on Game Center going away
    • Are games like Clash of Clans the future of games?
    • Square Enix CEO says mobile needs more premium games
    • Zombie Match Defense (iOS only)
    • A tale of woe about slot machine games
    • Two Dots (iOS & Android)
    • Our episode w/Steve & Maureen
    • Steve's #Hearthzone
    92: #NotAllManPants Jun 22, 2016

    The great game drought of 2016 has hit Jessica as she played not a single new game this week, turning up her nose at everything new. Anna forced herself to try a few new games and actually liked one of them. Hooray!

    Meanwhile, there’s lots of news out of WWDC to dig into, a listener question to answer, and are messaging app games the future or a scourge to avoid? We discuss all this and more!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you’d like to volunteer to be our spy at WWDC 2017 ;-)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • King Rabbit (iOS only)
    • Little Inferno (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Fallen London (iOS & in the browser)
    • Touch Arcade
    • Our friend Joe
    • Swift Playground
    • Egg (iOS & Android)
    • Nix Hydra
    • Egg Baby (iOS & Android)
    • Blocko. (iOS only)
    • Puzzlepops! (iOS only)
    • VOI (iOS only)
    • Botanicula (iPad only)
    • Drawn to Kill (iPad only)
    • Our friend Brian
    • Revolution 60
    • The Wolf Among Us (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • GaymerX
    • Lumino City (iOS & Steam)
    • Love You To Bits (iOS only)
    • Our Apple TV episode w/Joe
    • Apple TV developers can now require controllers
    • Game Center removed in iOS 10
    • INKS (iOS only)
    • Lara Croft GO (iOS & Android)
    • Chameleon Run (iOS & Android)
    • LINE headed for IPO
    • FB Messenger games
    91: Fire Saga Jun 15, 2016

    We have the best listeners in the world! Case in point, one of them recommended the most adorable and fun game to us, and it involves setting things on fire! Nothing could be more perfect, especially for Jessica’s appetite for destruction. It’s not a new game, but it’s new to us and might be to you too.

    The rest of you lot, if you’ve never recommended a game to us, get off your lazy asses! ;-)

    When not setting things on fire, we spent time this week wondering what both China’s new stance towards mobile games and the changes coming to the App Store will mean for developers. Is the sky falling or is everything going to be ok? Listen now to find out!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you have some stuff for us to burn ;-)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Little Inferno (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Human Resource Machine (iOS & Steam)
    • Fallen London (iOS & in the browser)
    • Looty Dungeon (iOS only)
    • Sailor Moon Drops (iOS & Android)
    • Pinchworm (iOS only)
    • Pinchworm clone (iOS only)
    • Hatoful Boyfriend (iOS only)
    • Manowar (iOS only)
    • The Guides (iOS & Android)
    • Deux Ex GO teaser
    • Bertram Fiddle Episode 2 trailer
    • China regulating mobile games more heavily
    • China curbing investment in games
    • App Store changes are coming
    • Drawn to Kill (iPad only)
    90: Throw Them Into a Volcano Jun 08, 2016

    In you go, kid. Sorry.

    Jessica has fallen hard for Fallen London while Anna struggles to like a game that everyone else seems to love. And that’s only the beginning!

    Never Alone comes to mobile, a game that kinda makes you code might not be for actual programmers, some gamers are terrible, Miitomo isn’t doing so hot, and… well, just listen to the episode dammit!

    And yes, we’re still playing Candy Crush. FORGIVE US!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Annatoo), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you know of an available volcano we can use ;-)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Fallen London (iOS only)
    • Til Morning's Light (iOS only)
    • Looty Dungeon (iOS only)
    • Candy Crush Soda Saga (iOS & Android)
    • Never Alone (iOS only)
    • King Rabbit (iOS only)
    • Human Resource Machine (iOS only)
    • Botanicula (iPad & Android)
    • Amanita Design
    • Simogo
    • Pinchworm (iOS only)
    • #Annareviews tweets
    • Puzzlepops (iOS only)
    • Steppy Pants (iOS only)
    • Hatoful Boyfriend (iOS & Steam)
    • Warp Shift (iOS only)
    • Miitomo is apparently a bust
    • Smaller devs can innovate with multiplayer
    • Why the "git gud" attitude is so harmful
    • Tanya DePass
    • New emoji are coming
    89: To Die or Not to Die Jun 01, 2016

    This episode was sponsored by Drobo, a family of safe, expandable, and simple-to-use storage arrays. Visit them now to learn more and be sure to use the discount code UN100 to save $100 on your purchase of a Drobo Mini, Drobo 5D, Drobo 5N, or any 8-drive or 12-drive Drobo in the Drobo Store.

    On this episode we’re psyched to welcome special guest Enric Jorda, one of the creators of Love You to Bits, which we both adore! We’re sure you’ll love it too, so go play it immediately, if not sooner. Adorable, lovingly made adventure games on mobile are a rare breed, so they need our support!

    Enric tells us about his backstory in game development, how Love You to Bits was conceived, and much more. So get in your spaceship and blast off on an adventure with us!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you’ll volunteer to gather up all our parts on an epic space journey if need be :-)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Tiny Thief on Steam
    • 5 Ants
    • Chuzzle
    • Popcap
    • Ron Gilbert
    • Alike Studio
    • Bertram Fiddle (iOS & Steam)
    • Rovio
    • Drawn to Kill (iPad only)
    • Valiant Hearts (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • People were upset about paying for the Monument Valley expansion
    • Helpful Love You to Bits walkthrough
    88: Call of Candy May 25, 2016

    Surprise, surprise, Jessica is still not happy about Apple’s featuring changes. Will nothing satisfy her? Maybe only things with candy can do that. That’s right, Jessica may have gone deeper down the Candy Crush rabbit hole this week. But don’t judge her! Or judge her a lot, your choice! ;-p

    We also hear about Jessica’s adventure’s in VR-land, Anna’s misadventures with another arty game, Monument Valley Year Two numbers, and much more!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Annatoo), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you have even more hilarious name ideas for games King can make with Blizzard or Activision IP.

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Candy Crush Jelly Saga (iOS & Android)
    • HTC Vive
    • Omega Agent
    • Catlateral Damage
    • Fallen London (iOS only)
    • Rare Sloth
    • Land Sliders (iOS & Android)
    • Love You to Bits (iOS only for now)
    • NO THING (iOS & Android)
    • Uncharted accessibility
    • Lost Journey (iOS & Android)
    • Disney Tsum Tsum (iOS & Android)
    • Slide the Shakes (iOS & Android)
    • Mekorama (iOS & Android)
    • King/Activision/Blizzard merger
    • King looking to make games w/Blizzard IP
    • Ustwo posts more Monument Valley data
    • Thailand military coup good for mobile games
    • Casual Connect
    87: The Meaning of Life May 18, 2016

    This episode was sponsored by Drobo, a family of safe, expandable, and simple-to-use storage arrays. Visit them now to learn more and be sure to use the discount code UN100 to save $100 on your purchase of a Drobo Mini, Drobo 5D, Drobo 5N, or any 8-drive or 12-drive Drobo in the Drobo Store.

    Anna thinks things are looking up as there were some great games out this week, but Jessica finds cause to complain about the way Apple is handling featuring lately. And the complaints don’t end there!

    Both your hosts also try to make peace with the fact that we didn’t drop Candy Crush Soda Saga as swiftly as we expected to. This week’s hot topic was a piece that claimed that the gaming industry is aging us out. Is it? Elsewhere, should no one have been surprised that Nintendo’s mobile games will be free-to-play? We dig into all this and more.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Annatoo), like us on Facebook and email us if you know how to get cat hair off a Drobo or… anything else :-p

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Candy Crush Soda Saga (iOS & Android)
    • Nowhere: Lost Memories (iOS only)
    • Disney Tsum Tsum (iOS & Android)
    • King Rabbit (iOS only)
    • New Instagram icon (there was some brouhaha)
    • Bushido Bear (iOS & Android)
    • Runaway Toad (iOS only)
    • Leap Day (iOS & Android)
    • Nitrome
    • Rust Bucket (iOS & Android)
    • Cracked article on gaming aging you out
    • The Cat Lady
    • Ori and the Blind Forest
    • Miitomo (iOS & Android)
    • Pocket Gamer Biz column about Nintendo
    • Apple might make a car (!!!!)
    • App review times cut to a day
    • Check out our merch!
    86: A Mundane Way to Die May 11, 2016

    Games are BLAH lately; where is the excitement?? INKS is great, but we’ve been playing it forever now and nothing else interesting seems to be coming out. We are boooooored.

    Trying to find something new and fun, Anna bravely wades back into the featured games and finds out that yep, they still suck. Meanwhile Jessica gives the Uncharted mobile game a whirl, and both of your hosts admit to something they aren’t proud of.

    The news is full of depressing stuff, Anna has to be bleeped for the first time ever, and much, much more awaits you!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Annatoo), like us on Facebook and email us if you live in a foreign country we can possibly move to come November :-(

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • UNCHARTED: Fortune Hunter (iOS & Android)
    • Candy Crush Soda Saga (iOS & Android)
    • Fallen London (iOS only)
    • Boombit
    • Ball Escape gameplay video (out May 12)
    • Black Hole Joyrider (iOS only)
    • Super Smash the Office (iOS & Android)
    • INKS (iOS only)
    • Out There (iOS & Android)
    • Trump's Wall (iOS & Android)
    • Mobile games implicated in German rail accident
    • Our episode with Barry
    • ZeptoLab
    • Kotaku story about this
    • ZeptoLab "apologizes"
    • Bioshock Infinite
    • Gamasutra post by ZeptoLab
    • Impact of featuring is decreasing
    • App Store search was down
    • Nielsen will rate mobile games
    85: Getting Ahead by Being Evil May 04, 2016

    Choose evil

    Hang onto your hats, ladies and gents! Anna and Jessica played one of the Candy Crush games. You can pick your jaw up off the floor now and have no fear, we played other stuff too :)

    In other news, it turns out there are some good reasons for why touch controls can be so bad. But we’re not letting developers totally off the hook just yet.

    And can the founder of Atari make great mobile games? He certainly seems to think so, but what do we think?

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook and email us if you think you can save mobile games so Nolan Bushnell doesn’t have to :-p

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Fallen London (iOS only)
    • Sunless Sea
    • Runaway Toad (iOS only)
    • Adam & Bex Saltsman
    • Finji
    • Vine w/the Saltsmans' daughter
    • Canabalt (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Shadow Bug (iOS only)
    • Til Morning's Light (iOS only)
    • Looty Dungeon (iOS only)
    • INKS trailer
    • State of Play
    • Disney Crossy Road (iOS, Android & WinPho)
    • Sling Kong (iOS & Android)
    • Whitaker Trebella
    • Candy Crush Soda Saga (iOS & Android)
    • Puzzlepops trailer
    • Layton Hawkes
    • List of female-hosted podcasts
    • Science explains bad touch controls
    • Nolan Bushnell will make mobile games
    • Nintendo investors not happy
    • Next Nintendo mobile games announced
    84: A Potato With a Face Apr 27, 2016

    I should apologize for this creepy potato but I won't –Jessica

    Things haven’t been easy this week, but we’re here for you dear listeners, and the show goes on!

    We played some good games—even ones we might be a little, err, ashamed of, and discussed a few truly bizarre news items. One of them is guaranteed to make your jaw drop, we promise.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Annatoo), like us on Facebook and email us if you can throw away things with faces 'cause we might need your help at Jessica’s house :-D

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Sarah McLachlan ASPCA commercial
    • Harmony remote
    • Lady Meow Meow
    • Neko Atsume (iOS & Android)
    • Shadow Bug (iOS only)
    • Looty Dungeon (iOS only)
    • Shooty Skies (iOS & Android)
    • Discobeard
    • Train Conductor World (iOS only)
    • Sara and Death (iOS & Android)
    • Chrome Death (iOS only)
    • Michael Mann
    • A Good Snowman is Hard to Build (iOS & Android)
    • Doomsday Clicker (iOS & Android)
    • Ryan at Pik Pok
    • Article about peaceful games
    • Boy cuts off his finger
    • Cracker Jack does away with prizes
    • PAX East
    • Tubbs cosplayer
    • We are on Google Play Music
    83: Important Anger Business Apr 20, 2016

    This is not our preferred gaming face

    This week we discover who the Real Gamer is on the podcast as Jessica dominates in a game that Anna can barely play.

    Anna also wades into the dangerous territory of the top charts on the App Store and samples an arty game (they do exist on mobile!) that may or may not be awful. You’ll have to listen to find out.

    And, of course, as is often our way, we have some important anger to share with you. You don’t have to agree with our anger of course. But you do have to listen to it :)

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Annatoo), like us on Facebook and email us if you’re on the super secret App Store team so we can tell you what to do :D

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • iKlear cleaning solution
    • Disney Crossy Road (iOS, Android & WinPho)
    • Shadow Bug (iOS only)
    • Jessica's video to help Anna
    • Mutant Mudds (iOS only)
    • Radiation Island (iOS only)
    • Crashlands (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Evo Explores (iOS & Android)
    • Sara and Death (iOS & Android)
    • Killscreen article
    • Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal
    • Our episode with Matt Ditton
    • App Store secret team
    • The defunct iAd
    • Most people play mobile games to waste time
    • Rust Bucket (iOS & Android)
    • Tanya's piece on Dark Souls 3
    • Manveer Heir
    • Brandon Williamson
    • #notGDC
    • Chrome extension to replace Dark Souls
    • Nerd gatekeeping sucks t-shirts
    82: Dizgeekery Apr 12, 2016

    Gone fishin'

    Games, games, and more games! If you’ve ever wanted to hear us spend a ton of time talking about what we’re playing, this is the episode for you!

    Suuuuure, much of that time is taken up by Disney Crossy Road, but hey, what do you expect? It’s new and adorable and we’ve predictably been playing it a lot.

    But don’t worry! We played lots of other games too. Some are out, some aren’t, but we have important opinions about all of them and think you’ll probably want to check them out.

    We also touch on some news and along with that, what sort-of game is Jessica boycotting and why? All this and more so get to listening!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Annatoo), like us on Facebook and email us if your Game Center is also working now and we’ll PLAN A PARTY! :-D

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • iOS public beta sign-up
    • Our friend Jenni
    • Disney Crossy Road (iOS, Android & WinPho)
    • Epbot
    • Cake Wrecks
    • Mekorama
    • Odd Bot Out (iOS & Android)
    • Martin Magni
    • Looty Dungeon (iOS only for now)
    • Taco Illuminati
    • Miitomo (iOS & Android)
    • The Alison Rapp debacle
    • Pktball (iOS only for now)
    • Laser Dog
    • Shadow Bug (iOS only for now)
    • Our friend Steve
    • King Rabbit (iOS only for now)
    • Furdemption (iOS only)
    • Pocket Gamer top 100 mobile games list
    • A Tiny Game of Pong (iOS only)
    • Mobile is the biggest platform
    • Facebook pays out a lot of money to game developers
    • Dreadsteed (not Hearthsteed, oops!)
    • Dan Gray talks to Pocket Gamer
    • Til Morning's Light (iOS only)
    • HTC Vive
    81: Mickey Chicken Apr 07, 2016

    Crossy Haunted Mansion!

    At long last we bring you a chat with our awesome friend, Unconsoleable #1 fan, possibly the best Australian Matt, and oh yeah, game developer of some note, Matt Hall!

    Disney Crossy Road is now out everywhere, and we talk to Matt about how this dream team-up with Big Mouse came about, what players can expect, and much more!

    Matt also turns the tables and interviews Anna about her recent sojourn at GDC, and we all ponder why extreme commercial success turns into a nightmare for some developers.

    Keep in mind that this episode was recorded a few weeks ago, so if there's some stuff said that doesn't make sense, that's why :-)

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook and email us if you want to apply to be our (unpaid, natch) community manager ;-p

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Matt's last episode
    • Our new chicken friends (just imagine plushies of this)
    • Tom's excellent fashion sense
    • Andrew from Spryfox
    • Sam Izzo
    • Flash Backward: 30 Years of Games
    • Zootopia
    • Haunted Mansion
    • Tangled
    • Big Hero 6
    • Ryan Langley
    • Picross 3D
    • Fez
    • Indie Game: The Movie
    • Terraria
    • Factorio
    • Factorio trailer
    • Stardew Valley
    • Clash Royale (iOS & Android)
    • Supercell
    • Retry (iOS & Android)
    • Our mutual friend, Liam
    • Matt Ditton's episode
    • Droppy Balls (iOS & Android)
    • Inside Out
    • Wreck-It Ralph
    • iOS nightshift mode
    • The Division
    • Josh Boggs
    • Framed (iOS & Android)
    • The Unsatisfied Mind
    • Edmund McMillan
    • JW from Vlambeer
    • Land Sliders (iOS & Android)
    80: Posturing as a Cool Person Mar 30, 2016

    Cool as a capybara

    It’s kind of back to normal with this episode; no more husbands and still no Matt Hall. Patience please, you’ll eventually hear the dulcet tones of that Aussie accent :-p

    We did play some new games though and some of them were even good! Jessica is in the thrall of a bunny while Anna doesn’t know what to make of an adventure game she’s playing and tries to understand why people like idle clickers.

    So sit back, enjoy and please don’t stalk people on LinkedIn, mmmkay?

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook and email us if you love the PS Vita (but sorry, no one cares).

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Totem in Crossy Road
    • Jaguar in Crossy Road
    • The largest rodent on earth
    • A Tiny Game of Pong (iOS only)
    • Sling Kong (iOS & Android)
    • King Rabbit (iOS only)
    • Furdemption (iOS only)
    • We made fun of the devs on this episode
    • Sinless (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Doomsday Clicker (iOS & Android)
    • Clicker Heroes (iOS & Android)
    • Miitomo is doing well
    • Get an App Store feature by being a creep
    • Disney head of mobile interview
    • Sony opens new mobile studio
    • PS Vita
    79: The Look of Murder Mar 25, 2016

    Note: not the actual men of Unconsoleable

    We know you were expecting an episode with our friend Matt Hall, but hey, sh*t happens and being the pro podcasters that we are, we rolled with it.

    Not only did we record a replacement episode for you, dear listeners, at the eleventh hour, but we also managed to snag the awesomest, the most amazing, the most famous guests EVAR. That’s right! Put your hands together for Anna and Jessica’s husbands, Jim and Reuben! (oh, and some guy named Moises was there too ;-p)

    Finally getting their turn at the mic, the fellas gave us the lowdown on what being married to world-famous podcasters is like, divulged behind-the-scenes secrets, talked about what kinds of gamers they are, and much, much more.

    So please enjoy and don’t worry, you’ll still hear Matt’s episode eventually, we promise!

    Giant Wii U Button

    78: A Charity for Game Developers Mar 16, 2016

    Doesn't this scene from Lost Tracks look cool? But it's actually the most annoying part of the game.

    Hellooooooo there, dear listeners! Anna is at GDC this week, but the show goes on as usual, not least because Jessica has Some Strong Feelings about a game she played this week. Spoiler alert: they aren’t good feelings :-p

    Meanwhile, Anna talks in more detail about Clash Royale, Amazon has some sort of new type of app store that we can’t figure out, and Jessica wonders if there’s a very specific and political reason that Supercell is so successful*.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook and email us if you want to put tilt controls in your game (warning: this will result in you getting yelled at :-))

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Trump rally cancelled in Chicago
    • Jessica's alma mater hosts Anita Sarkeesian
    • Pokemon Picross
    • Droppy Balls (iOS & Android)
    • Faily Brakes (iOS & Android)
    • The Inner World (iOS & Android)
    • Bertram Fiddle (iOS & Steam)
    • Lost Tracks (iOS only)
    • Tiltagon (iOS & Android)
    • LIMBO (iOS & Android)
    • Clash Royale (iOS & Android)
    • Here’s a baby gorilla
    • Australian baby possum
    • Telepaint (iOS only)
    • Supercell is making so much money
    • Megan Fox’s episode
    • Amazon has created a new type of app store
    • Lumberyard
    • Goat Simulator (iOS & Android)
    • Jessica is the purveyor of awesome cat GIFs

    *Extremely minor correction: as it turns out, Rovio is also located in Finland, which may or may not weaken Jessica's wild theories

    77: Empathetic Killbots Mar 09, 2016

    Mobile games are serious business

    After two weeks of guests, we had a lot of complaining bottled up, so here we go!

    And because we didn’t want to just complain to each other, we asked our friend and sometime developer of games, Joe Macirowski, to join us.

    But don’t worry. It’s not only complaining as we also talk about what we are playing (Jessica has built a robot army, what?), some awesome news of course, and, well, yes, ok, there is a lot of shouting at Apple. But then what else is new?

    So, sorry we’re not sorry that this episode is over an hour long, but the complaining wasn’t going to record itself!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook and email us if you think you can kick Jessica's ass at gin rummy :-p

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Joe's previous episode
    • Cinemoji (iOS only)
    • You Must Build a Boat (iOS & Android)
    • Grand Gin Rummy (iOS & Android)
    • Dirac (will be out on iOS soon)
    • Choice of Robots (iOS & Android)
    • Attack of the Clockwork Army (iOS & Android)
    • Firewatch
    • Cibele
    • Train Conductor World (iOS only for now)
    • The Voxel Agents
    • Bag It (iOS & Android)
    • Love You to Bits (iOS only)
    • Slide the Shakes (iOS only for now)
    • Desert Golfing (iOS & Android)
    • Clash Royale (iOS & Android)
    • Assassin's Creed: Identity (iOS only for now)
    • Joe's recommended battery charger
    • Ken Wong officially announces a new studio!
    • New State of Play game coming
    • Lumino City (iOS only)
    • Hitman GO developers talk mid-core
    • Mortal Kombat X (iOS & Android)
    • Apple's Phil Schiller takes over stuff
    • Neven Mrgan's episode
    • Binding of Isaac gets rejected by Apple
    • Our friend Brian
    • Does the ESRB rate mobile games?
    • iOS update with night shift
    • ATP tipster on Twitter
    • ATP
    76: The Old Reach-Around Mar 02, 2016

    We are back with another awesome guest this week. Incidentally, it’s someone else we had trouble luring in; is there some sort of conspiracy to see how long game developers can evade our clutches? The answer is, not long! So after persistent badgering, we bring you Rumpus Animation’s Seb Burnett, the brains behind the adorable Victorian comedy adventure game, Bertram Fiddle.

    It turns out Bertram is basically Seb. Or is Seb really Bertram? They live inside each other on Twitter so who really knows? What we do know is that Dad jokes are great, meat should be sold door to door, and quirky, funny adventure games should be plentiful.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook and email us if want to join our team of Donald Trump assassins.

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Bertram Fiddle Kickstarter

    • Dopamine from social media

    • Bertram Fiddle on Steam

    • Amanita Design

    • Kate Hindley

    • Bristol games hub

    • Flappy Bird

    • Color Switch (iOS & Android)

    • Our episode with "Fireproof Barry"

    • Shooty Skies (iOS & Android)

    • Kickstarter video with "Tim Schafer"

    • Ron Gilbert

    • Thimbleweed Park
    75: Get Off Your Ass and Try Feb 24, 2016

    Try... to forge... a good thing!

    At long last, we welcome special guest Barry Meade! Barry is the head of Fireproof Games, the studio behind the enormously popular and award-winning Room games of which we are huge fans and whose third installment won our 2015 GOTY.

    Barry talked with us about his career in the industry, how Fireproof was born and what he thinks has been the key to his company’s success. But more importantly, he made an impassioned plea for innovation and excellence in mobile game design. And he asserted that developers and the industry at large need to rethink the way they approach the platform and its gamers. We might have gotten goosebumps a little.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes if you want everyone to hear awesome episodes like these, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook andemail us if you’ve ever stolen someone’s work so we can yell at you!

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Commodore 64
    • Amiga
    • Bullfrog
    • Guildford, UK
    • Criterion Studios
    • Burnout
    • Unity
    • Chinese puzzle boxes
    • Zen Bound (iOS only)
    • Pocket Gamer article from 2013
    • Our episode with Asher
    • Ryan Cash
    • Snowman
    • Alto’s Adventure (iOS & Android)
    • GTA
    • Omega Agent for VR
    • Monkey Island
    • LucasArts games
    • Grim Fandango: Remastered
    • The Room on Steam
    • Doom
    • Quake
    74: Negative OMG You're Going to Die Celsius Feb 17, 2016

    If including a photo of an adorable arctic fox is wrong, we don't want to be right

    Yes, yes, we know we promised you special guest Barry Meade on this episode, but everything imaginable went wrong and then we had technical difficulties soooo… no Barry for now.

    But next week! Next week there will be Barry and in the meantime there is us reveling in our awesome new listener reviews, talking about what we’re playing (or not), the news of the week, and what’s that? Someone thinks Neko Atsume is a dirty capitalist game?! For our thoughts on that and much more, listen now :-)

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook and email us if you also have a AAA sob story to share :-)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • You Must Build a Boat (iOS & Android)
    • Libsyn
    • The Room 3 (iOS & Android)
    • Neko Atsume (iOS & Android)
    • A capitalist critique of Neko Atsume
    • Young boy spends thousands in Jurassic World game
    • Object permanence
    • Tamagatchi
    • Let's Go Rocket (iOS & Android)
    • Spawn on Me
    • _PRISM (iOS only)
    • Rust Bucket (iOS & Android)
    • Amazon launches Lumberyard
    • Amazon's game studio
    • Interview with head of Lumberyard
    73: In a Parallel Universe Feb 10, 2016

    Even though Jessica is trapped in an alternate universe, luckily that universe has both warm cats and recording equipment. So the show goes on! :-)

    We announce our next super exciting guest, talk new and old games we’re playing, try to figure out if Nintendo stole their first mobile game idea from a nascent social app and much, much more.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook and email us if you want to brag about your Peachball score ;-p

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Fireproof Games
    • The Room
    • Monument Valley LEGO idea
    • Canabalt (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Mr. Jump (iOS only)
    • Procedural generation
    • Adam Saltsman
    • Bex Saltsman
    • The Guides (iOS & Android)
    • The Westport Independent (iOS & Android)
    • Papers, Please
    • Shooty Skies (iOS & Android)
    • Land Sliders (iOS & Android)
    • Caishen
    • Matt Ditton
    • Andy (Sum)
    • Puzzledrome (iOS only for now)
    • Weather Underground
    • Pull My Tongue (iOS only)
    • Nintendo gives more Miitomo details
    • Our most recent episode with Shareef
    • Peach
    • Peachball
    • Alto's Adventure will be free on Android
    • Noodlecake
    • UK government funds games
    • Bushido Bear trailer
    • Runaway Toad trailer
    • Gamasutra op-ed
    72: Ruining Your Productivity Feb 03, 2016

    And when you double-tap a card...

    We were all ready to love new puzzler Twofold, but we're... unsure. Also, Anna dives pretty deep into Crashlands while Jessica tries to stay objective about a game designed by Donald Rumsfeld. Yes, that Donald Rumsfeld.

    We also fill you in on the latest adorable updates to the games we care about, wonder if we’ll even attempt The Witness, and hey, there’s a contest specifically for indie mobile games. All this and more, so get to listening!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook and email us if you have a better Donald Rumsfeld joke to make than that one Medium commenter ;-p

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    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Churchill Solitaire (iOS only for now)
    • Twofold (iOS & Android)
    • Threes (iOS & Android)
    • rympdkapsel (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Monument Valley (iOS & Android)
    • Hocus (iOS only)
    • Star Trek: Timelines (iOS & Android)
    • Crashlands (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Crashlands devs' podcast
    • Butterscotch Shenanigans
    • Capoiera
    • Capoiera gameplay
    • Rust Bucket (iOS & Android)
    • Land Sliders (iOS & Android)
    • Indie mobile game contest
    • Asher Vollmer
    • Joel McDonald
    • The Witness video review
    • Jonathan Blow
    • The Stanley Parable
    • App slicing
    • Take This
    • Kitten Zelda meme
    • Video games can help with anxiety
    • Donald Rumsfeld is an app developer?
    71: Peeing in a Jar Jan 27, 2016

    Mason jars: hipster drinking glasses and gamedev toilets

    Because we are suuuuper important gaming podcasters of note (not really), we got some codes for some games this week. So, you know, disclaimer given, we have ethics, blah, blah, blah :-p

    Meanwhile, Jessica also plays a game with cats, because of course, and Anna dives into the new Star Trek game, among others. You know you want to hear our opinions on all of the above.

    In gaming news this week, some people are pissed that The Witness is going to cost $40? PUH-LEASE. You’ll hear about this and more in our news discussion.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter and email us if you’ve ever peed in a jar and can justify why it was necessary to do so ;-p

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Jessica’s pile of cats
    • Cat Physics (iOS & Android)
    • Battle.net
    • Crashlands (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • Chutzpah
    • Furdemption (iOS only)
    • Mutant Mudds (iOS only)
    • Rust Bucket (iOS & Android)
    • Nubs' Adventure (iOS & Android)
    • Totes the Goat (iOS only for now)
    • Xeodrifter
    • The developer: Jools Watsham
    • Star Trek: Timelines (iOS & Android)
    • John de Lancie (Q)
    • Baum (iOS only)
    • Botanicula (iOS & Android)
    • Joel's interview
    • Matt & Andy are in GQ, but the article isn’t online :-(
    • The Witness
    • Jonathan Blow is peeing in a jar?
    70: The Bechdel Test for Games Jan 20, 2016

    Don't be this mobile game developer

    What is the Bechdel Test for Games? No, it doesn't have anything to do with the real Bechdel Test. You'll just have to listen to find out.
    Also, it turns out that Jessica isn't cut out for critiquing games unless she thinks no one is listening, while Anna has no problem savaging the games she tries, because hey, they totally deserve it.
    Meanwhile, a developer contemplates making the sequel to their game F2P and their struggle to decide strikes us as very problematic, we talk about what we're playing, read a new iTunes review, and much more!
    Remember to rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter and email us if you can do a better fake French accent than Jessica ;-p
    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Pocket Mortys (iOS & Android)
    • Adult Swim Games
    • Rick & Morty
    • Pokemon
    • The #Jessicareviews tweet in question
    • New Star Trek game (iOS & Android)
    • RPGs
    • Halfpipe Hero (iOS only for now)
    • Grayout (iOS only)
    • Neven's episode
    • Sling Kong (iOS & Android)
    • Submit a bug report to Apple
    • Into the Dim (iOS only for now)
    • Choices (iOS only for now)
    • Rust Bucket (iOS & Android)
    • Nitrome
    • Beneath the Lighthouse (iOS & Android)
    • Prettygreat
    • Mighty Games
    • Furdemption (iOS only)
    • The developers' blog post
    • Our friend Joe
    • YMBAB sales
    • Big changes at Ustwo
    • Ken Wong's episode
    • Ustwo games group photo
    • Samsung Gear VR game by Ustwo
    • #Annareviews and #Jessicareviews tweet
    69: We Are the Unlikely Gamers Jan 13, 2016

    Our first guest of 2016 joins us on this episode and we are super excited to welcome him.

    Neven Mrgan is a designer at his day job, but he has also made some unforgettable iOS games, most recently Grayout, which is a prequel to the earlier Blackbar.

    We talked to Neven about how he decided to start making games, where he gets his inspiration, how the App Store should be revamped, and much, much more.

    Please remember to rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter and email us if you know how we can get Tim Cook to hire Neven ;-)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • YMBAB dev tells Jessica to stop
    • Panic
    • The Incident (iOS only)
    • Space Age (iOS only)
    • LucasArts Adventures
    • Aphasia
    • Monkey Island
    • Tomb Raider
    • Bioshock
    • Gone Home
    • Steve Gaynor
    • Monument Valley (iOS & Android)
    • Monument Valley in year two
    • Into the Dim (iOS only)
    • VVVVVV (iOS & Steam)
    • Super Meat Boy
    • Indie Game: The Movie
    • Super Hexagon (iOS & Android)
    • Kero Blaster (iOS only)
    • Dungeon Raid (iOS & Android)
    • Spaceteam? (iOS & Android)
    • Async Corp (iOS only)
    • Paradox Factor (iOS & Android)
    • To Be or Not to Be (iOS & Android)
    • Peach
    68: Can I Set This on Fire? Jan 06, 2016

    Lightin' up some dangling corpses, no big

    It is with great sorrow that we must tell you, dear listeners, that one of your hosts has become a console gamer. Well... maybe not exactly, but the evidence is fairly strong!

    Yes, your very own Jessica Dennis has played a console game on more than one occasion and streamed it on Twitch to boot. What game has caused her to go over to the Dark Side? How did she do? All will be revealed on this episode!

    We also try to figure out if a recent game’s controls are bad and should feel bad, look forward to what 2016 will have to offer mobile gamers and much, much more.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter and email us if you have some stuff for Jessica to burn ;-)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Jessica's 1st Tomb Raider stream
    • Jessica's 2nd stream
    • Jessica’s Twitch channel
    • Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
    • Rise of the Tomb Raider
    • Elgato
    • You Must Build a Boat (iOS & Android)
    • Shooty Skies (iOS & Android)
    • Our GOTY episode
    • Lifeline: Silent Night (iOS & Android)
    • Choices (iOS only for now)
    • Undertale
    • Power Hover (iOS only for now)
    • Land Sliders (iOS & Android)
    • Oddrok
    • Luke Muscat's impending GDC talk
    • A Dark Room (iOS & Android)
    • A Noble Circle (iOS only)
    • Ori and the Blind Forest
    • Washing dudes in the shower game
    • Best indie mobile games of 2015
    • Best 2015 mobile games you didn't play
    • Mashable lumps games in with apps
    • Mashable's top 10 mobile games of 2015
    • Developers look forward to 2016
    • Barry from Fireproof
    • The Room 3 (iOS only for now)
    • Some anticipated games in 2016
    • Out There (iOS & Android)
    • The Witness
    • Jonathan Blow
    • Braid
    • Duke Nukem
    • Crossy Road arcade machine
    • Material podcast
    • Yasmine and Russell's episode
    • Jessica on the Star Wars Electric Shadow
    • Jessica on Less Than or Equal
    • Listen for info about #SpawnforGood on Spawn on Me (coming soon!)
    67: This is All Highly Subjective Dec 30, 2015

    Are you ready for... our first ever game of the year episode??!!!

    Yeah, we’re just a little bit excited :D

    After an amazing year of some absolutely incredible games, we made a list of 35 that we feel are the best of what mobile had to offer us. And from them we picked our Game of the Year, as well as some other winners in special categories we came up with.

    Remember that as the title suggests, this is totally subjective. If these aren't your picks for the best mobile games of 2015, that's cool. But it doesn't make us wrong either ;-)

    Please, please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter and email us if you’ve played YMBAB more than Jessica, because you might well be a unicorn! ;)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Norton Critical Editions
    • Touch Arcade's GOTY post
    • Our Most Addictive Winner: Land Sliders (iOS & Android)
    • Matt Ditton's very bleeped episode
    • Prettygreat
    • Our Most Pretty Winner: Lumino City (iOS & Steam)
    • Please Don't Touch Anything (iOS & Android)
    • Our Most Weird Winner: Burger (iOS & Android)
    • Our Most Innovative Winner: Framed (iOS & Android)
    • Our Most Funny Winner: Bertram Fiddle (iOS & Android)
    • Bertram Fiddle Kickstarter funded
    • Our Worst Game Winner: Dictator (iOS & Android)
    • Colin Lane on Twitter
    • Our friend Brian on Twitter
    • Our friend Joe on Twitter
    • Our Collusion GOTY Winner: Drawn to Kill (iPad only)
    • Our Apple TV episode
    • Our Best Apple TV Game Winner: Yeti Pie (iOS only)
    • Our Best Apple Watch Game Winner: Lifeline (iOS & Android)
    • Yeti in Crossy Road
    • Jessica’s Personal GOTY: Til Morning’s Light (iOS only)
    • Anna’s Personal GOTY: Shooty Skies (iOS & Android)
    • Unconsoleable’s 2015 GOTY: The Room 3 (iOS only for now)
    66: Sweaty Butt Money Dec 23, 2015

    Moist

    Note: We will record our GOTY (game of the year) episode on December 25! Please send us or tweet us your nominations and personal stories of mobile games you’ve loved this year.

    On this episode we actually talk about what we’re playing! For more than three rushed minutes! And we’re going to keep doing it early in the episode every time we don’t have guests. Novel idea, huh? :)

    We also have lots of plushie news to tell you about and even a few things that aren’t about stuffed toy chickens! For instance, has F2P won as the only sensible monetization strategy on mobile? What the heck is COPPA? And whose butt did that sweaty money come from? You’ll learn all this and much more.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter and email us if you want to send us on an-expense paid trip to Australia ;)

    • Elf on a Shelf
    • Mensch on a Bench
    • Anna guested on this podcast
    • You Must Build a Boat (iOS & Android)
    • Neko Atsume (iOS & Android)
    • Conductor Whiskers
    • Billy the Kitten
    • Sling Kong (iOS & Android)
    • Totes the Goat (iOS only for now)
    • Unity’s alleged image problems
    • Grayout (iOS only)
    • Blackbar (iOS only)
    • Neven Mrgan
    • Dashy Crashy (iOS only for now)
    • Dumpling Design
    • Land Sliders (iOS & Android)
    • Power Hover (iOS only for now)
    • RETRY (iOS & Android)
    • Swing Copters 2 (iOS & Android)
    • Til Morning's Light (iOS only)
    • Alto's Adventure (iOS only for now)
    • Cloud Chasers (iOS & Android)
    • Crossy Road plushies have arrived
    • Threes plush pillow
    • Threes for free in the browser
    • FTC settles w/COPPA violators
    • Jones on Fire
    • Zoonuts (iOS only)
    • Games Top People of 2015
    • Matt schools Notch
    • Masi Oka
    • GaymerX Australia
    • The discussion in mobile is over, F2P has won
    • Randy's episode
    • Zombie Match Defense (iOS only for now)
    • Megan Fox on Twitter
    • Square Enix knows how to make mobile games
    65: Turtles Have No Gratitude Dec 16, 2015

    You can take your gratitude and...

    NOTE: We will record our GOTY (game of the year) episode on December 25! Please send us or tweet us your nominations and personal stories of mobile games you’ve loved this year.

    As we near the end of 2015, we’ll be talking a lot about various top lists of games. On this episode we go over some highlights of Apple’s annual top charts of most downloaded games and apps as well as the picks the App Store editors make. Did we agree or disagree with their picks? You’ll have to listen to find out :)

    But before that, we fawn over quite possibly our most special and meaningful iTunes review ever, written by our bestie and wonderful human being, Matt Hall. Once more with feeling, we love you, Matt <3

    You too can be wonderful and rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter and email us if you think we’re entirely wrong about turtles :)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Is Tanzania a country?
    • Alto's Adventure (iOS only)
    • You Must Build a Boat (iOS & Android)
    • Shooty Skies (iOS & Android)
    • Luca Redwood's tweet
    • Dogs reunited with soldiers sample video
    • Steve (our Gaming Yoda)
    • Hearthstone (iOS & Android)
    • What is Infinite Arena?
    • Sling Kong holiday update
    • Land Sliders holiday characters (including the dreidel)
    • Land Sliders is on Android!
    • Some of Apple's top apps & games lists
    • Lara Croft GO (iOS & Android)
    • Rules (iOS only)
    • Lifeline (iOS & Android)
    • Lifeline 2 (iOS & Android)
    • Lifeline: Silent Night (iOS only for now)
    • Rayman Adventure (iOS & Android)
    • Trivia Crack (iOS & Android)
    64: Buy Us As Friends Dec 09, 2015

    Matt Hall really is a sharp-dressed man

    Help us settle the question of last week’s episode and vote for your favorite Aussie Matt on Twitter using the hashtag #MattWars :-D

    While we ponder that important question, we cross our arms and declare that games don't have to be hard and certainly shouldn’t be made so for the wrong reasons. Meanwhile, is Jessica having a hard time with the newly updated You Must Build A Boat? You'll need to listen to find out.

    We also revel in the accolades that some awesome mobile games are receiving (again), but sigh at some bad behavior by those types of mobile gamers; the ones who don't want to pay for games. All this plus exciting news and much, much more!

    Remember to rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter and email us if you have a Tesla you’d like to give us or at least give us a ride in one ;)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Tesla Motors
    • Boon Cotter
    • Prettygreat
    • You Must Build a Boat (iOS & Android)
    • Lara Croft GO (iOS & Android)
    • Lara Croft GO wins at Game Awards
    • Square Enix Montreal's tweets
    • IGN review of Lara Croft GO
    • IGN video; mobile is for babies
    • Smash Hit (iOS & Android)
    • TIME's GOTY list
    • TIME's Best Looking Games
    • Prune (iOS & Android)
    • Joel McDonald
    • Her Story (iOS & Steam)
    • Last year's TIME list
    • Downwell (iOS & Steam)
    • Alto's Adventure (iOS only)
    • Lumino City (iOS & Steam)
    • Google ads that let you demo apps
    • Material podcast
    • Choices: And the Sun Went Out (iOS only for now)
    • Neko Atsume (iOS & Android)
    • The Room 3 (iOS only for now)
    • Tiltagon (iOS & Android)
    • Totes the Goat (iOS only for now)
    • Traffic Rush 2 (iOS only for now)
    • Prettygreat are working on game #2!
    • New game coming from Snowman and The Game Band
    • GaymerX
    • Anna's panel at GaymerX
    • Australian GaymerX
    63: Who is the Best Australian Matt? Dec 02, 2015

    Matt Ditton, International Man of Mystery. Australian Game Dev of Mystery. Same difference.

    This being the episode with our third Aussie Matt (Matt Ditton, to be precise), you know we had to ask the question. But what's the answer? You'll have to listen to find out!

    Other than wondering why there are so many Matts in Australia, we also talked about super serious gaming topics like the Men of Gamedev calendar. No, really, there was actual talk about games and mobile as a gaming platform, we promise!

    We recorded this episode on Thanksgiving so we want to say we are very thankful for all of you, our listeners. If you're thankful for us, please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter and email us if you want to help plan the Aussie Men of Gamedev Pageant ;-p

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Mighty Games
    • Shooty Skies (iOS & Android)
    • Many Monkeys
    • Breath of Light (iOS & Android)
    • Matt Ridgeway
    • Multiplicity
    • Matt Hall vs. a piece of cardboard
    • Sneakers
    • Men of Gamedev 2016
    • Rob Davis (Mr. December)
    • Boon Cotter
    • Land Sliders (iOS only for now, Android coming soon)
    • SHMUPs
    • Tony Parmenter
      • (Tony's podcast)
    • Monument Valley merch
    • Crossy Merch
    • Hacky Cat (iOS only)
    • Power Stone (Dreamcast game)
    • Screen Australia
    • Tom Killen
    • Andy and Tom at Apple keynote (starts at 68:18)
    • Fish Tank (Shooty Skies character)
    • Clicker Heroes (iOS & Android)
    • AdVenture Capitalist! (iOS & Android)
    • You Must Build a Boat (iOS & Android)
    • Pause (iOS & Android)
    • Fallout 4
    • Fallout Shelter (iOS & Android)
    • Pip boy app (iOS & Android)
    62: You Can't Sell Games Nov 25, 2015

    Ok., games can be sold. Or can they? We tried to figure that out and much, much more when we talked to Tigerstyle's Randy Smith.

    Tigerstyle made some of the iconic, early games when mobile gaming was still young. But their latest game hasn't done well and we talked about the realities (and brutalities?) of the App Store and how it influences what games get made and what games succeed.

    Remember to rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter, and email us if you too are pro-socialism :-)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Spider: Secret of Bryce Manor (iOS & Android)
    • Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon (iOS, Android & Steam)
    • BioShock
    • The Thief game series
    • Edge Magazine
    • Doodle Jump (iOS & Android)
    • Waking Mars (iOS & Android)
    • Zynga
    • Pocket Gamer article on Spider sequel not doing well
    • Indiepocalypse
    • Our episode with Asher
    • Polygon op-ed by Mr. Cranky Pants
    • Episode where we talked about that
    • Death Cab for Cutie
    • Ketchapp
    • Jake Sones
    • Zombie Match Defense (iOS only for now)
    • Jake's Medium piece
    • Prune (iOS & Android)
    • Our episode with Joel
    • Where do mobile players find games
    • Papers, Please
    • Cart Life
    • Unity
    • Australian PM talks about games
    • Progress Quest
    • Neko Atsume (iOS & Android)
    61: Artivism Nov 18, 2015

    This episode is a departure from our usual happy-go-lucky ways, but we think it was fitting and important. We hope you'll agree.

    We talked with the fabulous Kiva Bay about her game 12 Hours, homelessness, and much, much more. So the discussion was weighty and we couldn’t feel more strongly about it.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter and email us if you want ideas for how to help the homeless (but we'll just refer you to Kiva).

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • 12 Hours was greenlit on Steam

    • 1 in 5 trans people will be homeless

    • Caelyn Sandel

    • Twine

    • Mental health issues among the homeless

    • Defensive architecture

    • This War of Mine (iOS & Steam)

    • Sheltertech

    • Portland Loos

    • The criminalization of poverty

    • Kiva’s comic on being a homeless gamer

    • Article about being a low-income gamer

    • Gawker blog by a woman in poverty

    • The Pongo Fund

    60: Tappy vs. Clicky Nov 11, 2015

    Yet another special guest joins us this week, perhaps the most special guest of all! It's our beloved friend, Joe Macirowski, creator of Yeti Pie and eventually (we hope) other games we will all be able to play on the toilet :D

    For now, we discuss Joe's experiences developing for the AppleTV, Jessica's experiences gaming on it, what early reviews have said, where we hope the Apple TV will go as a gaming platform and much, much more.

    So sit back, relax, and toss a pizza to your friendly, neighborhood yeti, because he's hungry!

    Don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (follow Anna & Jessica too), and email us if you've got something that we need to collude on :)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Ruffled Feathers
    • Anna's version of collusion
    • Jessica's collusion revision
    • New Apple TV
    • Ars Technica article on AppleTV
    • Polygon's article
    • Canabalt (iOS only)
    • SpriteKit
    • Unity blog post
    • Lumino City (iOS, MAS and Steam)
    • Slide To Play Apple TV app lists
    • Zillow
    • Mac World piece
    • Daniel Jakult's app rejected
    • The Room 3 (iOS only for now)
    • Shooty Skies lands on Android
    • Bertram Fiddle hits goal!
    • Bertram Fiddle (iOS & Steam)
    • GDC
    • WWDC
    • Me millionth dollar GIF
    • Activision buys King
    • Current Xbox One deals
    • Limbo (iOS & Android)
    • Til Morning's Light (iOS only)
    • Breath of Light (iOS & Android)
    • Recommend us in Overcast
    59: A Baby With a Jetpack Nov 04, 2015

    On this episode, we are super thrilled to welcome back our awesome and talented friend, Shareef Jackson.

    Shareef is our Nintendo guru, or is it ninja? We figure that out and much, much more, like what the heck is Miitomo going to be and why is it Nintendo's first mobile game? Would Nintendo ever develop for the Apple TV? Is Shareef really a Yoshi?!!! All these and other pressing questions will be answered!

    Please remember to rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Shareef too!) and email us if you have some adorable Nintendo character plushies you'd like to send us ;-)

    DONATE NOW to Shareef's Extra Life team. All proceeds go to the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Yeti Pie (iOS only)
    • Unstealthiest ninja t-shirt
    • Heroes
    • Piloteer (iOS & Steam)
    • Alto's Adventure on Apple TV
    • Yeti Pie developer, Joe, on Twitter
    • Nintendo announces Miitomo
    • Tomodachi Life
    • Splatoon
    • Gamasutra analysis of Nintendo news
    • Blue Ocean strategy
    • Live blog of Nintendo's announcement
    • Animal Crossing
    • Kim Kardashian's game (iOS & Android)
    • Interview w/Pac-Man creator
    • Yoshi's Woolly World
    • Twine
    • Minecraft
    • Ken Wong's Polygon op-ed
    • Rami Ismail's talk: You Don't Stand a Chance
    • Destiny
    • Twilight
    58: Survival Tips by Jessica Oct 28, 2015

    You only think these dogs are here to help you

    Not only is this episode about games, news and our many complaints, but it also includes useful winter survival info! What can we say, we do it all here at Unconsoleable. You're welcome.

    With no pesky guests to get in the way (KIDDING, we love our guests to death :-)) we cover all the News We Care About, why a recent op-ed about mobile games is a bunch of hooey, and a perspective on a hot, new game that you're only likely to hear from us.

    We'd love it if you could rate and reviews us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter and email us if you have suggestions on what to do when freezing to death (or any other reason too :-))

    Stuff We Mentioned:

    • Zombie Match Defense (iOS only for now)
    • Jake on Twitter
    • Our episode with Jake
    • Jake at IndieCade
    • Prune (iOS & Android)
    • Our episode with Joel
    • Bertram Fiddle (iOS & Steam)
    • Episode 2 on Steam Greenlight
    • Kickstarter for Episode 2
    • Landsliders hits 1 million downloads
    • Polygon op-ed by a mobile developer
    • Spider sequel doesn't do well
    • Girls made a LEGO Turny
    • Ustwo might write a rebuttal
    • Downwell (iOS & Steam)
    • About Ojiro
    • Roguelikes
    • Bloodborne
    • iOS games for people who hate them
    • Land Sliders (iOS only for now)
    • Sling Kong (iOS & Android)
    • Yeti Pie
    • Apple TV
    • Please Don't Touch Anything (iOS only for now)
    • Shooty Skies (iOS only for now)
    • Osmos (iOS & Android)
    • Katamari
    • Super Sharp (iOS only)
    • Mr. Jump (iOS only)
    57: The Couple That Games Together Stays Together Oct 21, 2015

    Jessica is bad at Photoshop.

    Our Gaming Yoda Steve is becoming quite a fixture on the show, but this episode features someone even more special: his lovely wife, Maureen.

    Distraught that Steve was never getting to talk about Hearthstone on Isometric, we offered our show up as a safe space to do just that. And well, um, it doesn't hurt that Anna is also obsessed with Blizzard's hugely popular CCG.

    As per usual though, we got a lot more than we bargained for and Hearthstone wasn't the only topic of discussion. So sit back and enjoy as we hear both Steve and Maureen's voices together for the first time in a long time.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes (no, seriously, do it NOW), follow us on Twitterand email us if you want to tell us the furthest you've ever driven to see a goat.

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Kookaburra
    • Angry Chicken from Hearthstone
    • Hearthstone's origin story
    • HearthStats
    • Heroes of the Storm
    • Vainglory (iOS & Android)
    • Diablo III
    • Warcraft III
    • Doctor Draw deck
    • The Walking Dead
    • Dr. Boom
    • HearthArena
    • Dogs playing Hearthstone painting
    • Hearthstone commercial
    • Annoy-o-Tron
    • Hay Day (iOS & Android)
    • Paradise Bay (iOS & Android)
    56: Mobile Gaming and Chocolate Oct 14, 2015

    You knew we couldn't go too long without having more Aussies on the show. But hey, can we help it if they keep making awesome games we love?

    And so, ladies and gentlemen, we present to you the legendary designer of Fruit Ninja, Jetpack Joyride, and many more iconic mobile titles, Luke Muscat! Oh yeah, and some guy named Phil Larsen too ;-p

    Luke and Phil make up two thirds of Prettygreat (funded in part by our good friends Matt Hall and Andy Sum) and though Land Sliders is their first game, we're pretty sure that their studio name suits them perfectly. We think that you'll agree.

    Please rate and review us on iTunes if you haven't already, follow us on Twitter and email us if you can explain the Land Sliders ARG to us (and then please report to the NSA for the job you're probably qualified for).

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Hugh on Twitter
    • Shooty Skies (iOS only for now)
    • Episode with Matt & Dean
    • Krome
    • Pandemic
    • Fruit Ninja (iOS & Android)
    • Zelda: Ocarina of Time
    • Epic Touch Arcade Land Sliders thread
    • Trials Evolution
    • Narraganset beer
    • Bloodborne
    • The Witcher 3
    • Fran Bow
    • The Beginner's Guide
    • Oblivion
    • Skyrim
    • Monument Valley characters in Crossy Road
    • Desert Golfing (iOS & Android)
    • Justin Smith
    • EnviroBear (iOS & Android)
    • True Skate (iOS & Android)
    • Halfbrick
    • Halfbrick lays off designers
    • Pancake (iOS & Android)
    • Burger (iOS & Android)
    • Pinna (iOS & Android)
    • Drawn to Kill (iPad only)
    • Matt's advice to developers
    • Monster Dash (iOS & Android)
    • Fruit Ninja used in rehab
    55: Tanya is Not the Outrage DMV Oct 07, 2015

    Art by Sylvie Reuter

    Today is the first anniversary of #INeedDiverseGames and to celebrate, we welcome our friend Tanya DePass on the show to tell us all about it and what she's up to these days in her quest to make games more diverse.

    We need diverse games on mobile too, by the way, so we introduced Tanya to Piloteer, which has a kickass black woman as the only character. It turns out the developer made her that way because he was inspired by #INeedDiverseGames! So there's all kinds of feels at that part :-)

    Tanya also shared her experiences since #INeedDiverseGames started and the ups and downs of suddenly being thrust into the spotlight. So sit back and enjoy; you might even learn something.

    Rate and review us on iTunes so everyone knows how awesome we are, follow us on Twitter and email us if you want us to be outraged about something. LOL, just kidding, we don't need any help being outraged. But email us about anything else :)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Contribute to the #INeedDiverseGames GoFundMe
    • INDG Patreon
    • INDG will be at IndieCade
    • Mikki Kendall
    • Fresh Out of Tokens
    • David Reeves
    • Anna's & Tanya's panel at Gaymer X
    • Shawn Alexander
    • Ken Gagne
    • JJ from Minus World
    • Geek Girl Con
    • ValorCon
    • Uncanny Mag article about diversity at cons
    • WisCon
    • #ShoutYourAbortion
    • Tanya's piece on Medium about suddenly woke white folks
    • Tim Wise
    • Gang Nations
    • Mad Max
    • The Walking Dead
    • Life is Strange
    • Distress Kickstarter
    • Dragon Age
    • Fallout Shelter (iOS & Android)
    • Piloteer (iOS, Android, & Steam)
    • Drawn to Kill (iPad only)
    • The Rocketeer
    • Whitaker Trebella
    • IGN video
    • Alphabear (iOS & Android)
    • Asphalt
    • Land Sliders (iOS only for now)
    • You Must Build a Boat (iOS & Android)
    • Bejeweled Blitz (iOS & Android)
    • Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal
    • Mass Effect 2
    • Bloodborne
    • Happy Wheels (iOS only)
    • Contra
    54: Yeti Pie to the Ground! Sep 30, 2015

    Yeti Pie to the Ground, courtesy of Joe Macirowski

    This week we take a breather between episodes with guests to do what we do best. Complain and call out bad behavior.

    From a feature by Apple of a game with ugly stereotypes to the release of PewDiePie's bro-ey mobile game, we have a lot on our plate. But fear not, dear listeners. There's a little positivity mixed in here and there too.

    Remember to rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter and email us if you can teach Jessica how to take a screenshot with her new iPhone ;-)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Yeti Pie
    • Land Sliders (iOS only for now)
    • Prettygreat
    • Halfbrick
    • Kotaku profile on Matt
    • Device 6 (iOS only)
    • Simogo
    • The Sailor's Dream (iOS only)
    • Spawn on Me
    • Journey
    • Our t-shirts and other merch
    • Rich's comic
    • GaymerX
    • Direct link to the panel
    • Matt Conn on LTOE
    • Midboss
    • Tanya DePass
    • Gang Nations
    • The Gang Nations lineup
    • They suggest their lady game
    • PewDiePie's game (iOS only for now)
    • Who is PewDiePie?
    • Guardian review
    • Lunar Flowers (iOS only for now)
    • Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon (iOS & Android)
    • Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor (iOS & Android)
    • Article about Spider not doing well
    • Till Morning's Light (iOS only)
    • Amazon's games studio
    53: Yasmine is Scary Spice Sep 23, 2015

    Yasmine and Russell at Google IO 2015

    You might say we're a bit iOS-focused here on Unconsoleable so this week we welcomed our old friend Yasmine Evjen and our newer friend, Russell Ivanovic. Yasmine and Russell are two thirds of the Material Podcast which is all about Google and Android.

    Apple fans, don't run away screaming. It's an interesting show even for you. And hey, we've even managed to keep our Australian streak going as Russell hails from the infamous land of snakes and spiders.

    We talked about the (maybe?) wonderful future and present of gaming on our TVs, what Yasmine and Russell like to play on mobile, Russell's polygamist tendencies and much, much more!

    Don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter and email us if you have PocketCasts problems (but we'll just forward those emails to Yasmine :-))

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Samsung Galaxy S
    • PocketCasts (iOS & Android)
    • That other podcasting app developer
    • Overcast (iOS only)
    • Google I/O
    • Women Techmakers
    • Rocket League
    • Ouya
    • Kitty Android Wear face
    • Nintendo games on Android Wear
    • FireTV bundle w/controller is coming
    • Table Top Racing
    • Jenna Hoffstein
    • The Counting Kingdom (iOS & Android)
    • Mario Party
    • Hearthstone (iOS & Android)
    • Alphabear (iOS & Android)
    • Spry Fox
    • Prune (iOS only for now)
    • Sling Kong (iOS & Android)
    • The Spice Girls
    52: Please Downplay Our Achievement Sep 16, 2015

    Andy presenting multi-player Crossy Road at the September 9 Apple event

    This is our super duper special, SUPERSIZED, one-year anniversary episode!

    That’s right, we’ve been bringing you the magic of Unconsoleable for an entire year now and we celebrate the occasion in the best way we know how: with fantastic guests we love.

    Joining us for the fourth time is our good friend Matt Hall and for the first time ever, we also welcome his partner in crime (sometimes almost literally), Andy Sum

    Andy had just returned to Australia after presenting at this little event at Apple, you may have heard of it ;-) There’s a lot he couldn’t tell us about it, but have no fear, we got the most crucial details.

    We also found out what the Hipster Whale fellas think of the future of gaming on the Apple TV, what happened the time Matt and Andy played a game together, what valuable life advice Matt gives to Andy and much, much, MUCH more. Seriously, we are not exaggerating. There is a lot more.

    Remember to rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter, and email us if you want to make Andy an offer of marriage :-D

    Show Notes and Links

    • Andy (and Tom) at the Apple Keynote
    • Crossy Road (iOS & Android)
    • Pac-Man 256 (iOS & Android)
    • Andy’s website
    • Matt’s website
    • Sydney Morning Herald article about Andy
    • Rob Murray
    • Tall Poppy Syndrome
    • Felicia Day
    • GCAP
    • Craig Federighi’s hair
    • Jony Ive
    • Tampons as survival gear
    • The rose iPhone
    • New Apple TV
    • Eddy Cue’s most recent questionable fashion choice
    • Tom Killen
    • The scarf guy
    • Sly Cooper
    • Crash Bandicoot
    • Tearaway
    • Steelseries controllers
    • Toyota HiLux
    • EA pulls iconic games from the App Store
    • Flight Control)
    • The Last Express (iOS & Android)
    • Grim Fandango (iOS & Android)
    • Jessica and Reuben’s LP of Grim Fandango
    • Sad Notch
    • Hearthstone (iOS & Android)
    • Never Alone
    • Payday
    • Heat)
    • Does Not Commute (iOS & Android)
    • Surgeon Simulator RageQuit video
    • GAME OF THE YEAR: 420BLAZEIT
    • Seon at 3Sprockets
    • NVIDIA Shield Makes Fun of Crossy Road
    • Our Fearless Leader
    • Shooty Skies (coming soon; here’s a screenshot)
    • Land Sliders
    • Sling Kong (iOS & Android)
    • 1942)
    • @AppStoreGames
    • Wrassling (iOS & Android)
    • Nubs’ Adventure (iOS & Android)
    51: Boys Smell Sep 09, 2015

    Smelly.

    First things first. Notch, come on the show. Seriously. We can help you and we have some shoulders you can cry on. Tweet us. Email us. Let's make this happen.

    Besides providing counseling and advice for rich Swedes, we side-eye the new App Store games Twitter account, scratch our heads over YouTube and Mobcrush, and Anna professes her love for Jessica. Why? You'll have to listen to find out!

    Rate and review us on iTunes if you want our undying gratitude forever, follow us on Twitter, and email us if you're a rich, white guy who needs ideas for how to live a fulfilling life! :-P

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Ben Brooks
    • Nubs' Adventure (iOS & Android)
    • Brandon on Twitter
    • @AppStoreGames premieres
    • The Walking Dead game (iOS & Android)
    • Story about TWD/Pew Die Pie
    • Lonnie plays Sling Kong
    • Face Hunter deck
    • The Booby Mage
    • Notch is saaaaaad
    • Article about successful, but depressed devs
    • Mobcrush raises $11 million
    • Anna's Yeti Pie stream
    • Craig, The Silver Fox
    • Simogo scary childrens' stories
    • Year Walk (iOS only)
    • Device 6 (iOS only)
    • Sailor Dream podcast series
    50: A Tree is Composed of Branches Sep 02, 2015

    Maybe it's not Zen, but we still love Joel McDonald's amazing game, Prune and you should too.

    Joel tells us how the idea for Prune came about, plans for future updates, his origin story in gamedev, his shameful mobile gaming secret, and much, much more!

    Don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter, and email us if you want to brag about your Burger top score (actually, please don't do this).

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Unity
    • Apple family sharing
    • Blek (iOS & Android)
    • Fran Bow
    • Doggins (iOS & Android)
    • Lumino City
    • Laura Croft GO (iOS & Android)
    • Dean and Matt's episode from last week
    • Doom
    • Quake
    • Command and Conquer
    • Raven Software
    • Pancake (iOS & Android)
    • Burger (iOS & Android)
    • Cut the Rope (iOS & Android)
    • Aaron San Filippo on Twitter
    • Simon Ferrari
    • Our Android-loving friend Yasmine
    • Tiny houses
    • Tiny Wings (iOS only)
    • Hundreds (iOS & Android)
    • Alto's Adventure (iOS only)
    49: The Best Dinosaur Sound Aug 26, 2015

    Sling Kong is one of our latest obsessions for very good reason. So please put your hands together for Dean Loades and Matt Knights of Protostar who so kindly brought it into our lives.

    Dean and Matt answer some very important questions about their future housing plans, tell us where the best game developers come from and much, much more. What on earth makes the best dinosaur sound? You'll have to listen to find out!

    Pleeeaaase rate and/or review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter and email us if you have a yacht that Dean can borrow until he can get his own ;-)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Checkpoint Champion (iOS & Android)
    • Prettygreat
    • Featherweight Games
    • Skiing Yeti Mountain (iOS & Android)
    • Baby kangaroos are kinda gross
    • Cassowaries
    • Ruffled Feathers
    • Halfbrick
    • Angry Birds (iOS & Android)
    • Fruit Ninja (iOS & Android)
    • Flight Control (iOS & Android)
    • Burger (iOS & Android)
    • Sometimes You Die (iOS & Android)
    • Crossy Road (iOS & Android)
    • Sling Kong desert characters teaser
    • You Must Build a Boat (iOS & Android)
    • Two Dots (iOS & Android)
    • Touch Arcade
    • Hearthstone (iOS & Android)
    • Heroes of the Storm
    • Pac-Man 256 (iOS & Android)
    • The Room (iOS & Android)
    • The Room 2 (iOS & Android)
    • The Room 3 is coming
    48: Notch Houses For Everyone! Aug 19, 2015

    Driving down the road to our Notch House

    This episode is brought to you by SaneBox. Get your email under control and keep it that way. Get a no-credit-card-required, 2-week free trial and $25 off when you sign up by visiting SaneBox.com/esn.

    Genuine fan of the show and our ESN fearless leader, Moisés Chiullan, stops by and talks about his gaming credentials (or lack thereof :-)) and we try not to shame him too hard about not being a real filthy casual.

    We also run down the newsworthy events of the past week and then proceed to rant about the latest assholery perpetuated against casual gamers. Female casual gamers to be exact. Are you ready to be outraged?

    Remember to rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter, and email us if you want to know where to send Jessica's birthday present ;-)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Steve Lubitz
    • Destiny
    • Sling Kong (iOS & Android)
    • Joel McDonald
    • Prune (iOS only for now)
    • Sling Kong FB post
    • Framed (iOS only for now)
    • Framed tweet about sales and Android launch
    • Hearthstone is making $20 million per month
    • Nintendo employee fired
    • Nintendo says nice things about mobile
    • Final Fantasy: Record Keeper (iOS & Android)
    • Final Fantasy: All the Bravest (iOS & Android)
    • Nintendo concept phone
    • One take on Casual Connect
    • Chris Furniss' comic
    • Popcap
    • Stephen Amell's abs
    • Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure
    • Karina Longworth's podcast
    PSA: We Got Some Things Wrong Aug 19, 2015

    If you heard Episode 42, you might recall that we said some things about iOS gaming site Touch Arcade that were a bit harsh and unkind.

    While we stand by a lot of what we said, we believe that we unfairly mischaracterized the site in a number of ways as well.

    We hold ourselves to a high standard here at Unconsoleable so we wanted to correct the record, so to speak. We hope our listeners and of course the editors and writers at Touch Arcade will forgive our hastiness. Mobile Game Avengers should stay allies.

    47: From Inside My Batcave Aug 12, 2015

    Jessica's recording environment

    Hellooooo there, dear listeners! That echo you hear is coming from inside Jessica's empty house as she prepares to leave it soon for New York (the state, not the city). The transition is bittersweet, but we are both in much better spirits this week so yay!

    Last week we talked about clones and copycats and we now relay our friend Matt Hall's thoughts on this, since Crossy Road has predictably been copied a ton.

    We also ponder the suggestion that big companies can do better than indies at the cloning game, whether indie success depends on luck, some possibly dubious advice for indie devs, the latest announced crop of celebrity games and much more!

    Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter, and email us if you too enjoy dancing in your car to Shake It Off ;-P

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • City of Heroes
    • Zoonuts
    • Shareef Jackson
    • Pac-Man 256
    • The Crossing Dead (iOS & Android)
    • Jurassic Hopper (iOS & Android)
    • Ball King (iOS & Android)
    • Mountain Goat Mountain (iOS & Android)
    • Down the Mountain (iOS & Android)
    • Folly Road (iOS & Android)
    • Carter Dotson thinks Zynga is squeezing out indies
    • Making indie games in 2015
    • Bree Newsome
    • Kotaku in Action
    • Maddy Myers
    • The Mary Sue
    • There are no lucky indie game developers
    • Jake Sones
    • Pair Solitaire (iOS only)
    • Domino Drop (iOS only)
    • New celeb games are coming
    • Mashable's hilarious wish list for celeb games
    • Tale of Tales
    • Kim Kardashian: Hollywood (iOS & Android)
    • You Must Build a Boat (iOS & Android)
    • Mr. Umbrella (iOS only)
    • Sling Kong (iOS & Android)
    • Halfbrick
    • Jetpack Joyride (iOS & Android)
    • Fruit Ninja (iOS & Android)
    • Protostar
    • Prettygreat
    46: Our Enthusiasm is Through the Roof! Aug 05, 2015

    Whac-a-mole

    As you'll find out, the title of this episode is a bit on the sarcastic side. Jessica is having a rough time packing up her life in Atlanta and Anna is dealing with the hot and humid Chicago summer with her difficult-to-entertain preschooler.

    But we do our best for you and solider on to talk about Bethesda being gun shy about more mobile games, what we think of clones and copycat games, whether indies are charging more for games because of eeeevil free mobile games and how you might not be able to slack off at work anymore as easily as you once did!

    This is the week to MAKE OUR DAY and rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and actually tweet at us), and email us to give feedback, ask questions, or offer Jessica a job in her soon-to-be new home in Schenectady, NY.

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Our new bestie, Jake
    • Zombie Match Defense
    • Jake's funny tweets
    • You Must Build a Boat (iOS & Android)
    • Hearthstone (iOS & Android)
    • Bethesda not planning on more mobile games
    • Fallout Shelter (iOS only for now)
    • itch.io
    • Monument Valley (iOS & Android)
    • Crossy Road (iOS & Android)
    • Asher Vollmer shares results of taking Threes free
    • Megan Fox
    • Ketchapp
    • Our Lifeline episode
    • Amazon games
    • Dave & Busters mobile game
    • Big Buck Hunter
    • Golden Tee
    • Prune dev tweets about awful clone
    • Prune (iOS only for now)
    • Down the Mountain (iOS only for now, Android in the future)
    • The Long Siege (iOS only for now)
    • Rami's tweet about game ideas in 15 seconds
    • Are indies charging more?
    • Hot Tin Roof
    • Solitaire sort of won't be free anymore
    • Piloteer (iOS & Android)
    • EVE Online

    Photo credit: By sa_ku_ra / sakura (Source: Flickr image.) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

    45: It's for Drunks! Jul 28, 2015

    Mega Mensch tee shirt: inspired by Steve, designed by Karyl

    Our Gaming Yoda and good friend Steve Lubitz is back in the Unconsoleable clubhouse to throw down some wisdom and, as it turns out, exact a long-overdue apology from your two hosts.

    Should Apple get into publishing their own games? (spoiler alert: NO) Will anyone ever get mobile gaming to be compelling on a TV? Who is mobile gaming on a TV even for? All these questions and more are answered in this episode.

    Want to be awesome? It's so easy! Just rate and review us on iTunes and follow us on Twitter. You can also send us an email if you have comments or questions about the show or have a real boat to give to Jessica so she can stop building virtual ones :-)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • Massholes
    • Thunder From Down Under
    • Hearthstone (iOS & Android)
    • Moises' tweet about our show
    • Anna's Mobcrush channel
    • Yeti Pie stream
    • You Must Build a Boat (iOS & Android)
    • The Long Siege (coming soon to Android)
    • Prune
    • Should Apple make games?
    • Mac App Store is a second class citizen
    • Kingdom Hearts
    • Fallout Shelter (coming soon to Android)
    • Mortal Kombat X (iOS & Android)
    • Sample Hearthstone commercial
    • Bar Rescue
    • Twenty (iOS & Android)
    • Comcast offers a new service for games
    • Ouya
    • The Happening
    • Alphabear (iOS & Android)
    • Spry Fox
    • Fairytale
    • A Dark Room (iOS & Android)
    • This War of Mine
    • Steve's blog, Multiball
    44: An Excellent Toilet Rating Jul 22, 2015

    Zombie Match Defense is as fun as it is adorable, trust us

    This week we welcome another awesome indie developer (and Unconsoleable fan :-)) to the show!

    Jake Sones has worked for some big names like Sony and Blizzard, but the lure of mobile was too strong. He struck out on his own and is now developing Zombie Match Defense which is due out this fall.

    Don't let the name fool you. This match 3 game is destined for greatness and you can find out for yourself by signing up to be a tester (just scroll down to the bottom of the site).

    So please enjoy, dear listeners, and don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter and email us as many underwear model photos as you like. Really, don't hold back ;-)

    Stuff we mentioned:

    • The OTHER Jake Sones
    • Our Jake :)
    • You Must Build a Boat (iOS & Android)
    • Bejeweled Blitz (iOS & Android)
    • Popcap
    • Plants vs. Zombies (iOS & Android)
    • The DaVinci Code
    • Revolution 60
    • App.net
    • Hearthstone (iOS & Android)
    • Mobcrush
    • Anna's Mobcrush channel
    • Blizzard
    • Everquest
    • Champions of Norrath
    • Insomniac Games
    • Diablo
    • Nubs' Adventure (iOS & Android)
    • Pocket Gamer Connects
    • IndieCade
    • Yeti Pie
    43: Most Games are Not a Vagina Jul 15, 2015

    I know, dear listeners, we're really on a roll with these episode titles, right? Again, this is still mostly safe for children unless you're not comfortable with them hearing about the big V :-)

    This week we welcome back to the show our friend, Matt Hall, one of the creators of smash hit Crossy Road.

    Matt is now slightly more famous than the last time we spoke, but he loves us (and we him) so he made room for us in his busy schedule to talk about going to E3, WWDC, his current projects, what the future holds and what American delicacy he recently tried at Disney World :-)

    Matt also gave us our first exclusive! You can hear something on this episode that no one else has heard. We were thrilled that Matt shared it with us and hope you'll be excited too!

    Don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter, or send us an email if you want to rant or rave about the show or recommend more filthy games to Jessica ;-)

    Stuff we talked about:

    • Matt's previous appearances on our show
    • The Notch house
    • Pac-Man game
    • What does QA mean?
    • Korean update of Crossy Road
    • Starcraft
    • 3 Sprockets
    • Namco
    • Morpheus
    • The Getaway
    • Valve's VR thingie
    • Oculus Rift
    • First person Crossy Road video
    • Todd Howard
    • Jumpysaur
    • Skylanders
    • A Yoshi's Wooly World amiibo
    • Pokemon Shuffle
    • Asher Vollmer (he was on our show too)
    • Vlambeer
    • Metamorphabet
    • Breath of Light (iOS & Android)
    • Luxuria Superbia (iOS & Android)
    • Fight Club
    • Mighty Games
    • 1942
    • Andy Sum
    • Down the Mountain
    • Skiing Yeti Mountain (iOS & Android)
    • Alto's Adventure
    42: LaserDisc Porn Jul 08, 2015

    Kids, this is a LaserDisc player

    Yes, dear listeners, you read that title right. And this is still mostly safe for children, we swear, though you might have some explaining to do if they're old enough to understand certain terms ;-)

    Besides porn on extremely old, outdated types of media, we talked about Touch Arcade's Patreon (spoiler alert: we are not fans), Bethesda's "surprise" hit Fallout Shelter, Nintendo's pronouncements on how their mobile games will be monetized and much, much more!

    Don't forget to tweet at us with the hashtag #bringbackJoe or #nomoreJoe to let us know what you thought of our awesome guest editor on Episode 41, Joe Macirowski.

    Please also rate and review us on iTunes, check out #Annareviews and #Jessicareviews on Twitter, and email us if you have a porn collection you're dying to confess to someone about. On second thought, maybe don't. But email us about anything else you want to tell us :-)

    Stuff we talked about:

    • Our #1 fan, Jared
    • Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    • The Hunt for Red October
    • LaserDiscs
    • Submit a FANTRO!
    • Pay It Forward
    • Love Story
    • Totally Uncool - The Funeral
    • Maddie Messer's episode
    • Fresh Out of Tokens
    • Shareef Jackson
    • Drawn to Kill
    • Pocket Gamer podcast
    • Mortal Kombat X (iOS & Android)
    • Hitman GO (iOS & Android)
    • Hitman Sniper (iOS & Android)
    • Nintendo says it will do F2P differently
    • Pocket Gamer op-ed
    • Limbo (iOS & Android)
    • The Last Door (iOS & Android)
    • Her Story
    • You Must Build a Boat (iOS & Android)
    • 10,000 (iOS & Android)
    • Zombie Match Defense
    • Nubs' Adventure (iOS & Android)
    • Infinity Blade
    • Odd Bot Out (iOS & Android)
    • MOBAs
    • Vainglory
    41: Trick the Children Into Learning Jun 30, 2015

    Jenna Hoffstein's debut game is a super fun tower defense puzzler that teaches kids math.

    Please support App Camp for Girls! We're posting this week's episode early because there is little time left to donate to their campaign and we want you . Contribute NOW and do your part to ensure a bright future for women in technology.

    We welcome awesome indie game developer Jenna Hoffstein to the show to talk about her game, The Counting Kingdom, how being an indie isn't always all sunshine and rainbows and much more.

    Thanks again to our wonderful friend Joe for editing this week's episode! You're the best.

    Pleeeaaaase rate and review us on iTunes.

    Where in the world are Anna and Jessica? Follow the show on Twitter or email us if you want to go on Jessica's next Disney vacation and won't take no for an answer! ;)

    Stuff we talked about:

    • Jumpysaur
    • Lunasaurs
    • The Counting Kingdom (iOS & Android)
    • Inside Out
    • Carmen Sandiego
    • Treasure Mountain
    • PAX
    • Boston FIG
    • Tale of Tales goes under
    • Tale of Tales' games
    • No Man's Sky
    • Mike Bithell
    • Our episode w/Megan Fox
    • Hot Tin Roof
    • Daniel Cook article
    • Bitcoin
    • Speedrunners
    • Unity
    • Eclair Android OS
    • Ida's Red Dream now free for all
    • Monument Valley (iOS, Android, Windows Phone)
    40: Very Bunchy Panties Jun 24, 2015

    Jessica's midlife-crisis-mobile

    Unconsoleable has hit middle age with our 40th episode and we are celebrating by getting a totally inappropriate, shiny, new sports car!

    Sadly, that's not really true. Instead we talk about the important news mobile gamies need to know that came out of WWDC and E3, and why negative portrayals of gaming and other societal ills shouldn't be swept under the rug just because they make us uncomfortable. Think that's a bummer and don't want to hear about it? TOO BAD.

    Please don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter, record a fantro, or email us if you need advice on how to talk to racist friends or relatives (or, you know, something about the show or games too :-))

    Stuff we talked about:

    • Douglas on Twitter
    • Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me
    • Our Lifeline episode
    • Touch Arcade
    • Pocket Gamer
    • Polygon
    • @millsustwo
    • Matt Hall on Twitter
    • Carmen Sanediego theme
    • Apple Design Award winners
    • Crossy Road (iOS & Android)
    • Shadowmatic
    • Does Not Commute (iOS & Android)
    • Vainglory
    • MOBAs
    • Metamorphabet
    • Windosill
    • This War of Mine
    • That Dragon Cancer
    • What WWDC means for games
    • One of the happy California cows commercials
    • Fallout Shelter
    • Mobile gaming news from E3
    • Spawn On Me
    • Cool indie games at E3
    • ESPN piece by a black woman gamer
    • You Must Build a Boat (iOS & Android)
    • Hearthstone (iOS & Android)

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