Special guest Kara Stone (Sext Adventure, Medication Meditation) joins Eric and Jon (SSMP) to discuss game jams, gender representation, That Dragon, Cancer, and relationships in Dragon Age: Inquisition.
This week’s episode was recorded during the closing arcade at TOJam and there is some background ambiance from the event. We apologize for the exuberance.
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Programme:
- 0:00 – Intro – “The Blacker the Berry” by Kendrick Lamar
- :35 – TOJam post mortem
- 10:45 – Gender representation at game jams
- 21:15 – Yoga interlude
- 22:20 – That Dragon, Cancer and Thank You For Playing
- 32:10 – Relationships in Dragon Age: Inquisition
- 41:30 – Problems with relationship systems in games
- 47:45 – Shadow of Mordor, the controller speaker, and other controller possibilities
- 50:03 – Outro – “i” by Kendrick Lamar
