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39:14now available on disney plus rated pg of course founder of wildflower interactive of course the people behind the upcoming game coven of the chicken foot coming to the chicken foot bruce wishlist now uh bruce of course people can talk to you by writing into youtube.com slash kind of funny games to be a super chatter brand cakes 94 says question for bruce been wanting to start my game dev journey but i don't know where to begin any tips for someone who wants to start making games there's a lot of free software that just may just make games that's it make games uh get your friends somebody does voice acting just go through all the different disciplines the more you know about what it takes to make a game the and the more you can just speak to experience of like yeah i did that oh this is how i did my voice recording oh this is how i i scripted that character oh this is what like the more you can speak to what you've done and have that experience the more you're right that somebody's going to listen to you like on on from my perspective for sure you know a lot of people come out of school and they come there's like a theory of like the philosophy of games and they have these heady ideas and that doesn't help me make a game i'm not looking to create some sort of like you know dialectic sort of interpretations of white paper theory but like i don't we just are trying to figure out how to get this up and running and that's how we make a game and so getting people that have that mindset of just like no no i've been in there i know what it's like i know what it's like those people are the ones that you want to you want to get in the in the studio i found that so fascinating do you in your estimation would you tell people they have to is the right word but would you encourage school or can you be self-taught on what you need to get to i think you can be self-taught i really do i think that uh there's there's there's so much software out there there's so many communities out there of people builders uh like-minded people you can read all you can watch a thousand youtube videos on on the theory of game development or the design theory, etc.

41:07So just like you don't need you don't need schooling for that. You don't need to pay. You don't need to go into debt for that. Fair enough. Thank you. Good advice. We move on to story number two. A couple of Divinity headlines. Of course, another Game Awards announcement still making news. We'll start with 2A. Divinity, like Baldur's Gate 3, is a turn based RPG. Larian confirms this is the one, the only. WIP at IGN.com. Larian has confirmed that its upcoming role-playing game divinity is indeed turn-based following speculation from the developers fans following the announcement of divinity at the game awards fans had wondered if it would follow 2023's baldergate 3 and prior games in the divinity series by offering turn-based combat or mark a significant shift for larian and move to a more action game oriented combat confirmation that it is sticking with turn-based comes from a bloomberg interview with larian boss Sven Vicky Vicky Vicky I always Winky once I introduce Sven's name I just start calling him Sven so that's it but you know him he would chain mail from the game awards very nice man next time I meet him I'm gonna say yell your name say it say it quote this is going to be us unleashed I think he said it's a turn based RPG featuring everything you've seen from us in the past but it's brought to the next level end quote he took part in a round of interviews with the media following the announcement and spoke to IGN in an interview of our own on what to expect from Divinity.

42:29The key points he made during the IGN interview include, Divinity is a single player game with cooperative multiplayer as with Baldur's Gate 3. Larian has been working on Divinity for two years already and it is now in full production. Larian owns Divinity so it is free from the Dungeons and Dragons shackles it built Baldur's Gate 3 with. Divinity is bigger than Baldur's Gate 3. I think that's a weird bullet point but okay fine. Divinity will most likely use early access prior to full launch as Baldur's Gate 3 did but Larian is undecided. We're going to take a turn here into a bigger topic in video games.

43:04So right now, while we're just talking about Larian, Baldur's Gate, divinity, and all that jazz, did you play Baldur's Gate three? I did not. That's fine. I'm fine with that. No, no, they're fine with it too. Don't worry. Don't worry about it. I wanted to. What turned you off time? Yeah. Just time too big of a game. Yeah. It's a lot. I've never, I'm just an action platformy, kind of old school, SNES-y, whatever you want to call it. Like that, that's the type of game that I grew up with. That's the type of game I play and the type of game I make. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so it's not to say I wouldn't, I want to, but I, it's always this barrier.

43:39Like I don't have the language, you know? Yeah, that's a big thing for me. And I, Baldur's Gate 3 on paper should be so my shit. I love games and I love choice and I love permutations. Right. But every time I've started, it's just so CRPG and I'm just like, oh, this isn't how, like, it takes a special turn-based RPG for me to be into it. And I'm thinking like a JRPG turn-based rather than a CRPG turn-based. Whereas, like, I'm going to give it another shot. If you've been listening to me on Gregway, I've had a smoldering of, like, I think I might be able to have, I want to do Baldur's Gate 3, so I'm hoping after I finish the next few Game of the Year contestants I have to get through to kick it on again and maybe have some time over Christmas break with it.

44:20but it's I it is the most you know I did you play expedition 33 this year I did not you're fine don't worry this isn't about you it's about me I take the arrows I'm turning my I'm doing the thing I'm the I have a lot of my play guys I know you're busy expedition 33 is a game that I also just didn't connect with like I I loved everybody loved it we did the review and I'm not at all saying it's not that yeah we did the review yesterday and watching those cut scenes uh from where I played 11 hours of it so I got through some of the big things but we watched more and talked more like i want to experience that so i'm pressed up against the glass being like i wish i could enjoy that baldur's gate is the one where i'm like pressed up the glass crying where i'm like i gotta get over this everything i i keep sitting i'm like do i you know fallouts here everybody season two of fallouts here we're reviewing episode one tomorrow but we watched episode one last but the embargo is weird so we're not reviewing it today but it doesn't matter uh but like i was like i finished that i'm like man i could really go for a fallout so you turn on 76 and I'm like this ain't it and it's like do I want to go back to New Vegas again I'm like I know Baldur's Gate is what I want Baldur's Gate is what I want to make crazy decisions and roll the dice and do the thing I gotta get over the gameplay.

45:27Gotta schedule it It's not even the time, well it is the time but it's the gameplay I just gotta get over it. Is it wild to you or is it normal to you? Like that trailer that was shown at the Game Awards. Yeah And then I read this and it's like oh does it in your brain is that okay with you? Does it match? The violence of it? No, I don't mind. I'm all about violence. I don't care. It's more about... It's so CG. It's so not the game. I feel like the train is so far out of the station. It doesn't matter anymore. I mean, remember Blur and Diablo. We thought it was important. There's gameplay in our trailer.

46:08We specifically said, we need to show what you're doing. Again, though, that's the double standard. That if you came out as a brand new studio in a brand new game, no gameplay ever. I don't even know what this is. We thought it was really important that you saw the game running. Yeah. Especially like we've been in the shadows for so long. It was important. So ours is like a bookend, secret spoilers, whatever. But the beginning and the end are kind of the bookends about the golden path, what you're doing on the golden path, secrets. But the middle is like how you're doing it. That's kind of the vibe that we had on the trailer.

46:39So at least you get to see like, okay, I don't know what I'm going to, he threw me something, but do I have a control for that? But that'll all get revealed but um when this game comes out it was wild to watch a cg thing that long in we don't have it when this game wishlist on steam um no it was wild to watch and by the way we wanted nothing more than to go right after that we thought that would be the greatest thing ever just like guy burning alive and said they do the muppets the muppets were before after his drip his drippings are turning into like demon like everything about it was just like yeah we need to go right after It would have been the best location.

47:13Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Very different, though. It is very different. The game from the CG. I don't know. I'm looking forward to see what Divinity is, obviously, based on the pedigree and what Larian's working with. And again, them being another one of these. Larian and Baldur's Gate 3 was so The Witcher 3 and CD Projekt, where it was like, oh, this is the coming out party. They've been doing stuff, and people have loved it, but now suddenly they're the biggest thing in the world. They're huge. And everybody pays attention to what they say, and sometimes they might not say the right thing. 2B.

47:40Divinity Maker is using Gen AI But promises no slop in the final game This is Ethan Gotch over Kotaku Larian Studios is apparently bullish On generative AI Despite backlash against the technology from fans And even some of its own developers The studio hood Sven says The Baldur's Gate 3 Maker has embraced it For exploring ideas And for the early prototyping of new content Bloomberg reports that Larian has been Quote, pushing hard on generative AI End quote, using it for things like PowerPoint presentations, placeholder text, and even concept art. The RPG powerhouse has reportedly moved ahead with the tools, even against the wishes of some staff at the company, though Sven believes most of the team is on board with how it's currently being implemented.

48:22Quote, I think at this point everyone in the company is more or less okay with the way we're using it, he said. The Larian director also promised that no generative AI would make it into any finished games, like the studio's upcoming turn-based RPG Divinity. Quote, everything is human actors, we're writing everything ourselves, he told Bloomberg. Okay. All right, Mr. Doodling on the sands while you surf. I'm sure you're using AI left and right in your game, right? There's no AI. It's weird. I can't use the term AI to define the creature companion anymore. It used to be like you had at Naughty Dog, we had like five or six AI programmers.

48:58But now you can't say AI without everybody going like, how dare you? You're going to hell. That's the end of the world. and so now we have to come up with like, oh, companion character, like a novel NPC, like something you haven't seen before and like... The way the computer thinks. An ally companion. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Computer thinking logic, it's hard. I remember complaining about the AI in Madden, you know, in Genesis or something like that. Yeah, it's been around forever and we've used it in a specific way, but now mainstream and these generative AI tools have come in and twisted that into something.

49:31Well, now it's so much larger than... Like when you have like Xbox studios having to downsize because of the mothership, you know, Microsoft saying, no, we're investing in AI. And then that affects our industry. That affects us. And so you can't help but to go like, fuck AI, you know, on some level. Excuse me. But it's like you got to be like. Fuck AI. We're all there. You know, but it could be useful. It could be a tool. My buddy has a concept studio and he hasn't had a, and they do amazing stuff. they've been working on AAA games and smaller games and they do stuff for DreamWorks and they haven't had a gig in like seven weeks because of, you know, everybody can just go, Hey Sora, make this thing look like that thing.

50:13Yeah. And so it's wild just to know, like it is affecting people in this industry and it does affect like, and you know, is it, is it compelling? And it's that Jurassic park thing. It was like, you are so interested in, you could, you didn't think you should. And I think we're there and that's where I 100 % agree with you. And I think, I forget who it was. I apologize, but over on BS, that's a blue sky, Bruce. They were talking and having, this was going around and somebody quote tweeted, it was like, this is going to be a great fallback plan when inevitably something they did use for generative AI makes it to the final game and they're always a mistake.

50:45We didn't need to do it. And maybe it is an actual mistake. But again, it's like anytime you insert something in the code or whatever, an inside joke that then makes it or we do something stupid in the dock and then that somehow gets like, this is how you, this is a, you can see the rake. we're inside the house but I can see the rake in the front yard and I know you're going to step on it like don't do it like don't bother doing it and like powerpoints let's stop making powerpoints nobody needs powerpoints anyway nobody needs a deck only Snowbike Mike stop making decks alright he makes fun decks that's other than other yeah I don't know no we don't need AI I think I think like it really I mean I don't want to be on my high horse and the soapbox and the whole thing but I really do think it's the demise of a human species our brain we need a frontal lobe we need something that can actually like go through the i'm learning piano right now and i can feel like when i go to i'm just like huh and i don't know what i'm doing and the the next morning i wake up after a good night's sleep i come up and i get back to the piano i'm just like oh i kind of and i can feel my brain and it's just like that's what we're making we have hundreds of thousands of years of like this supercomputer that's built and they're making you know football fields and draining water supplies etc to try to replicate something that a human can already do it doesn't make sense to me it just doesn't make sense to me okay i'm getting off my soapbox no no this is a great conversation it's a while to have you again we have the chuckleheads who don't make the games we have this conversation on kind of funny all the time so it's great to have someone here who's in the same vein of just i love that somebody doesn't know what it was the it was the greatest pleasure at naughty dog honestly to see somebody who was challenged at something they weren't great at something and they persevered and persevered that ability to stick to something and go like okay can I do it despite what my head says like I'm a failure I'm not good at it whatever the thing is that we all tell ourselves like I don't know how that evolved into humans I don't know how we got through that but somehow we say that to ourselves and then you see them accomplish something or make something and they feel proud of themselves and I can go like dude you did that or you know you whoever you did that and that's such to me that was the greatest pride that I had with the team is like seeing people get challenged and overcome those challenges that's to me what it is to be on a team and be in a community and do stuff is we get to be inspired by each other and ai doesn't inspire me yeah i don't want to watch a movie that i know somebody prompted like there's nothing that says like a human is behind that trying to struggle with how do they how do they find a voice how do they actually like uh try to communicate like what their i don't know their fantasies are their childhood trauma is like whatever the things they're sorting out their art you know and and i don't think that you know prompting an ai gets to the heart of what a human experience is that's that's a lot i'm no it's great away from the mic no no no no i'm gonna put you right back on it because it's like the question i would have for you then of like so here you are out there wildflower interactive coven of the chicken foot you're doing your own thing you're independent the industry at large dealing with many problems as always or whatever but it really is this ai business what you see over at xbox right and you see playstation occasionally trying to tackle it in some other way but everywhere it's happening to some degree or whatever and so then do you go oof thank god i got out of having a giant corporate overlord or do you go oof they're burning down the entire house and it's going to get everybody no matter what it's kind of the whole house but i i think that there's always going to be room for creators i think there's always room for somebody to say something i think that um you know um i i think we as humans i i always had this thing at naughty dog people might not understand the the details or sort of the subtext of everything we put the decisions and the choices that we as developers have put into every single pixel and every single line of dial everything but they feel it and that's the difference between like you don't have to know you know you know i work in the sausage factory it's my job to know how the sausage is made everybody else just needs to like enjoy the sausage i don't want to use the sausage metaphor anymore but yeah um and so i think that's the thing for me is just like uh um sticking to my guns what i maybe i'm an older generation you know and i don't know what's going to happen with the next generation i don't know it has maybe it's more accessible maybe it's more available for people and it's just like what they do but i also feel like there's going to be a bar that's set that there's going to be like you're going to define slop and then you're going to have something that feels like it's created by a human that's my guess that's the hope right that if people continue to lean into all this ai bullshit and get fed just the lowest common denominator this thing that the things that aren't using that stand out even more where you do look at something like claire obscure you do look at something like wildflower entertainer interactive sorry wild flyer we're putting our hearts in it i mean that's the reality is like every single thing every choice in that game is is driven by somebody on the team who's putting all they're all in it we don't have any ai anywhere even in the docs that we have to write and i've had to write many a doc and many of things to try to figure out like how to even like all the press release stuff like could have just spit that out you know in some AI but I felt like it doesn't then sound like me and I know that some people are even saying like oh this is the first time that they're starting to prompt in a way that like they it's replicating my voice etc I don't know I just okay here's maybe an argument that I don't hear said a lot when we first had computers they said everybody's gonna have a computer a laptop or a computer on their desktop and it's gonna free up so much time it didn't free up any time i think we always fill the time with whatever like whatever work has to get done so whatever this tool is if people keep calling it a tool i really need to get off this soapbox i hear myself and like but the point is i think we're just going to fill more and more time using ai it's not going to somehow be this spiritual revolution where we're like i can now meditate Oh, man, it's so great.

56:28AI's here. I can have, like, a spiritual experience. Like, I'm going to go off and, you know, have a trip around the world because AI is doing it for me. I mean, the economy is already in 40 fall. When it takes away, when AI takes away the work you're doing at your job, what are you doing? You're not working a job anymore. Like, that's, let's cut to the, you know, the Microsoft example. The reason they're shoving AI into everything is to try to streamline and pay fewer people to do the jobs they're already doing. So it's like we don't see the end of this. Which is even worse because then it's the thievery of it, too.

56:57That's just like it has to. It devours the work of another human being that put their energy, love, passion into something. And it goes like, you know, back out. Oh, man. You know, snake eating its own tail. That's the vibe I get. But I don't know. Good luck. But I'm sure Larry is going to use it in a great way. Story number three on the Roper Report. Dead Island 3 is aiming for a 2028 release with the sequel. and now the primary focus of the studio. This is Connor McCarr over at Eurogamer. Financial documents have revealed that not only is Dead Island 3 in development at Dan Buster Studios, but it's aiming for a 2028 release.

57:35This was spotted by the user. I love it when the news is spotted by some user on, this is an ex-user, was spotted by ex-user Bogo Rad 222 who posted the Dan Buster annual financial report online, including a brief overview of the company and what's currently working on. The overview reveals the primary focus of the studio is now Dead Island 3. Quote, after the release of Dead Island 2 Ultimate Edition in October 2024, the primary focus for Dan Buster Studio is now Dead Island 3 the report states. All developers are assigned to the project and once the Luna and Mac versions of Dead Island 2 are complete, all of Dan Buster's QA team will be assigned to Dead Island 3.

58:10End quote. The report continues, parts of the game are now in early production with feature, character, world, and story designs moving at pace. The current predicted release window for the project is Q1 or 2 of 2028. As for Dambuster's main risks, the report states that these stem from, quote, having the right version and mission to know which games are trending in three to five years, staying on top of engineering standards of AAA games, as well as having the right talented team available for working on projects. End quote. Awesome news. Everybody knows, probably don't actually because we never talk about it, but I like Dead Island 2.

58:44I didn't think, I forget what I gave it on whatever scale we were even using at the time. I'm kind of funny to review it, but it was an enjoyable open world zombie romp. yeah so it's like this is what we're talking about from before yes take all the lessons and all the reviews and all the criticisms from that game and make a dead island 3 keep that team together don't lay everybody off yeah go ahead and iterate on that and make something hopefully better and even more fun can i just say this is wild that there's the news that specifically they're saying all the developers are assigned to the project then we're going to move on to the like that that's a level of detail i've never seen in a report before that's cool like somebody's being that transparent well damn busters put out like nobody's going to catch this but they weren't ready for Bogo Rad 222 on Twitter to be digging through the financials.

59:23That's wild. Yeah. Good for them. Good for them. Number four on the Roper Report with 15 days left. Nacon confirms its Terminator game is releasing in 2025. This is Andy Robinson at VGC. Thank God we got confirmation. With 15 days of the year left, Nacon has confirmed that it's open world Terminator game. Terminator survivors won't be released in 2025 as planned. I'm sorry. In its first update since the game's last delay to 2025, the publisher confirms that survivors is no longer will no longer release in early access and that the plans for cooperative multiplayer in the game are also axed in a letter to fans creative director marco point claimed that the decisions came after months of internal testing discussions with the players i'm having trouble reading it because i've never i don't i did not know about this game and i like terminator a lot and so i'm seeing a trailer over here for terminators and i that gets my attention because i like terminator it kind of looks like our graders it wouldn't this is what i would expect from you know terminator oh there it is shit that's terminator right this guy's dead you know oh damn there it is t800 stomping in damn how did i miss this well i guess because it got it got announced in 2024 oh that's all it was that's how i missed it okay uh quote though we've been quiet we haven't been idle this year has been productive and we've made important progress across all fronts from world design and combat to narrative depth and atmosphere after months of internal testing discussions with players and fans of the license we came to the conclusion that to give you an authentic terminator experience with the best possible shooting and exploration gameplay we would have to put aside cooperative multiplayer we know this may come as a disappointment but we believe it is the right creative direction for the uncompromised division of the world after judgment day he continued uh we've also had to overhaul the release our release plans instead of launching an early access we want our your first steps in the wasteland to be complete and polished experience you might have guest already but that means terminator survivors won't be launching in 2025 we don't have a new date locked in but we'll let you know when we're ready to share a new release date well it's still going still live yeah i was gonna say again for something i don't know they're saying the right things like yeah don't rush it out i don't want to i don't need a crappy early access version of what's going on here it's more interesting judgment day this is this is the terminator survivor steam page judgment day has come as the rare survivor of this catastrophic catastrophic event uh fight and help the resistance rise from the ashes of civilization but beware skynet's machines patrol relentlessly the surface and the legendary t800 is on your tail fascinating me a single player game because i mean like the even the gameplay why the trailer is outdated since it's not co-op anymore but it looks so much like arc raiders it's arc raiders totally yeah yeah and also uh what there was that uh zombie game it had a multiplayer mode uh oh they weren't zombie they were infected um it's not sit my time last of us yeah and then they made a big deal they're gonna do a multiplayer one good multiplayer original yeah it's almost like a pillar of the company left they couldn't do the multiplayer version that's not that's not that's not accurate i'm just joking everybody calm down we're joking around with bruce everybody calm down bruce when terminator survivors comes out and has released it oh shit we didn't prep you Wait, wait, wait.

1:02:38Terminator, do you think that you have a Terminator companion? Do you think that you can have a robot friend that has intel? Do you think you need to hack one so that you can get the information about... Look at this game design right now. Let's figure out what the core loop is here. We're going to hear all the ideas we come up with. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That sounds cool. I... Who is making... Oh, I had it open. Let me... Control-Shift-T. Nope. Control-Shift-T. There it is. This is... Oh, it's so it's Nacon Studio Milan. So I don't know anything. What did they make? What did they make? TTI of man, a bunch of racing games.

1:03:16I think that sounds too cool for what I expect out of this game. I have been wrong about Nacon games before. I think they've turned a corner, right? Because of course they had the row RoboCop rogue city game. We all like that was like a RoboCop RPG. Wait, this is fucking rad. And then they also did Hell's Us, right? They published it. So it's like they're doing good stuff. Yeah. But I think of them as that double A space. And so like. Think this is a bit bigger? I think this. No, I think this is. I think it's going to be scary. I think this will be focused on purely surviving. There's a story over what we're trying to get the MacGuffin to do the thing to whatever.

1:03:49But it's like we're running from the Terminators. I don't think we'll get to hack them and take their information and flip them to our team and stuff. That'd be cool. Like cut close to the bone. Here it is. This is the core experience. You're the rebel group against the. Sure. Part of the resistance. Fair. Fair. I'll keep my eyes peeled. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to add this to my wish list. The motorcycle scene, though. You've got to have one motorcycle. You've got to have the motorcycle on there or whatever. All right, now, we didn't brief you for this. Oh, okay. I'm going to do a bad transition, then you've got to read that highlighted part, okay?

1:04:15Okay, I'm reading. No, not yet. Okay, here we go. You ready? No. No, no. Now, Bruce, Terminator Survivors coming out any year would be big news. But if I wanted the tiniest news, say the tiniest news in the world about video games, where would I go? You'd go to our last story, the Wii News Channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about. Are you Gertie's voice in the game? I don't know. Is that from your game? She is Scottish. Number five on the Wii News. Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection is going to launch on March 27th, if you can believe that. Another Game Awards announcement.

1:04:54Where Wins Meet has surpassed 15 million players. Escape from Tarkov has sold 1 million copies since its 1.0 launch on November 15th. No rest for the Wicked Showcase. wicked inside set for december oh wait hold on i'm thinking about game here no rest for the wicked oh fuck yeah hell yeah okay everybody now we got some now we're cooking no rest for the wicked has a showcase the wicked inside set for december 18th at 9 a.m oh doctor that's a great one i'm excited for that one if you aren't playing it's in early access right now we're big fans of no rest for the wicked from moon studios the award-winning developers of ori in the blind forest and ori will of the wisps comes no rest for the wicked a visceral precision action rpg set to set to reinvent the genre huh big words big words big words we'll see what they got up their sleeve on jessember 18th i'm excited for that two days from now me too maybe uh games daily if it's worth it and that's it for we news we news thank you bruce now we jump back to your super chats before we get into any of the your wrongs here okay carl moore says i do phd part time in machine learning ai is overused and sold there are applications that are great i.e.

1:06:08catching medical conditions but we are being sold what we already do f capitalism indeed that's my thing is like there's got it i know there are good capitalism use there's good uses for ai generative ai for sure just not doing the fun stuff do the boring shit i don't want to do yeah Yeah, I agree with that. Samson XP says, we need a different word for using Gen AI to write an email versus Gen AI for concept and creativity. Now, as a writer, by trade, that's nails on a chalkboard to me. No, write your own fucking email. Don't worry about where you put in your commas. Just let it be in your voice.

1:06:43Let it be a personal experience. I like typos in my emails. I intentionally text as well. Whatever. That's me. That's fine. They'll get it. I start every email. Oh, hey, that's just how it is. Gary III says, author Brandon Sanderson recently did a speech on AI art. His thesis is the end product isn't the art. The artist is. The human. AI rips that away. I would agree with that. When we play something, we enjoy anything. You want to know what inspired that. Are you watching Plurbis? Yeah. My favorite thing with Plurbis is then going onto TikTok and seeing all the creators who are tearing it apart and looking at this reference.

1:07:18And I'm like, man, what is Vince Gilligan trying to say here? I like that. I love it. Yeah. I also am wondering what he's trying to say. So that's good. Are you enjoying it? I'm in it. Yeah. Yeah. The way I describe it when Jen and I talk about it with other people is like, I'm interested. Yeah. But I'm not enthralled. It could use some editing. I want it to be severance where it's like, oh man, a new episode, shop everything. Let's go watch. Most of the time I'm like, oh, it's Saturday. Oh, there was a new pluribus last night. Do you want to watch it tonight? And then we get into it. It's like.

1:07:43Same vibe. Same vibe in our household. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

1:07:51all right, let's go. This is going to be fun. It's like, I don't like it when people have to tell me when they're playing a game. It's just like, well, about 40 hours in, it really takes off. You can't do that. I don't have time for that anymore. Over here, we got Krabby Patty who says, Bruce, what inspired the design of the main characters in Coven of the Chicken Foot? Oh. Can we get the trailer back up while we talk about it, Kevi? Thank you. Well, it started off with just simply saying, like, how do you create an asymmetrical relationship that these two characters are going to need to rely on each other?

1:08:18And so if I'm creating a world of adventure based on like the hero's journey and saying like, okay, well, what if it's not your typical hero, like, you know, jacked to the gills and, you know, with a sword and a shield and, you know, what if it's a little old lady? What if it's somebody on the sidelines of adventure usually and then cast out into a world not meant for her? And so it started off with a boy and then it went to a girl and then it went to like an old lady. So it was this evolution of just like, it's testing against the world of adventure and like, how can I say something about heroes, about heroism, what heroism really is, isn't about like fighting your way through the problems but instead about like you know loyalty commitment sacrifice that kind of stuff and really it's not about like one person hasn't kind of did the ai thing a little bit it's not about the individual it's not about the capitalistic like the gains you know which is usually games is like xping up your sword but i thought it was more interesting to go like what if what if she wasn't like built for with a double jump and a sword what if you find a sword in the world and she picks it up and drags it because it's too heavy for her.

1:09:19Bruce, you're saying all the right things. That suddenly got really exciting for me. If you're going to have a world that has threats in it, then how is she going to get over the threats? That became the relationship. You need to figure out how to build a bond with this character, this creature, in order to actually overcome the obstacles in the adventure. How much money do you need for publishing? Kevin, get out the checkbook. We'll put on the Patreon thermometer. Wow, Kevin's improving. We got it, everybody. also just for your heads up when you get off of here i need a text from you later today to let me know how fast herman has reached out for a meeting with you from playstation because game informer is already approaching bruce straley on coven of the chicken foot quote it's actually an idea from way back when we started jack and dexter end quote so that headlines out there so you're in for a world of pain right now so i'm sorry for that the creature was actually started i did some watercolors i thought it was going to be a lot muckier and darker and then our art director valter gort Wouter.

1:10:15He's amazing. And he works with Ola, Silly Oaks, to do everything you see on the screen. This is like out of his sketchbook. This is like him saying, like, we want to do something that lasts the test of time. And so his renderings of the creature were a lot more lighthearted. And I thought that was interesting that then it started inspiring the idea of like, everybody wants it to be about the helpless and the brute. Like, the brute's going to protect the helpless. And we thought, well, the player's the one on the stick. The player's the one that's going to be pushing forward. So Gertie is the one who shows persistence because you, the player, are just going to push forward.

1:10:47It's just your nature as a player. You can't design apprehension in a protagonist. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you can in your companion character. And so we thought it was fun to play with the tropes of like, okay, what if it's not a brute? What if it's actually scared of the dark and completely naive to things and loves muffins? And what if that's the take on it? So Valtor helped find this more adorable. Can't wait for the plushies. you know they're coming. Jay Overson says, Bruce, thanks for all your work on so many games that I grew up with. Jack and Daxter and beyond. Greg, as always, thanks for you and your team for bringing such interesting people each and every year.

1:11:24Thanks, Greg. You're welcome, Bruce. Thanks for coming through. Similar vein, Mute That Guy says, thank you for your incredible content. The love you get from the industry and us best friends is proof you are needed. Well, thank you. And with your support on all our platforms, we'll continue to be around. Zeke Speaks Super Chat and says Cersei is one of the most beautiful, quietly devastating books I've ever read and Ishiguro is a legend, Barry Giant especially Amazing Rex, everyone check these out Here's my thing with Cersei, how much do I need to know about the Odyssey? You don't She does an amazing job of building that character up to get her to the point that she's willing to make that type of decision but you don't have to know that, I just set you up you're good.

1:12:08Perfect. Great. Great read. Okay. And then final one goes to rabbit of, uh, canter by nog, uh, 13, a team cherry is the goat selling 7 million copies within a few months. Lots of praise by critics and fans. And the cherry on top is the announcing the DLC for next year. Only a few days after the game awards next year, which of course, isn't wrong for what I had said already about it. Can't wait for pizza. And I'm not going to end up buying Bruce a pizza next year. Guaranteed. And in one year you can come back and give me the pizza. Put it in your calendars. So I know about that. And of course, put on your Steam wish list, Coven of the Chicken Foot.

1:12:42Coven of the Chicken Foot. I'm very excited for this game, Bruce. I'm very excited to continue making it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, the team's great. They're like hitting a stride right now. We've got some real, we're ending the year on a high note with this build that we've got and now the trailer. And then I just want to say thank you to everybody out there that's giving us like, it's unheard of, the amount of positive response that we've got from this thing. We know that we're not like, you know, AAA. We know that we're a very specific audience now. It's a different type of game that we're making. But the fact that other people, it's resonating with this other audience and that they're excited by these two and learning more about their adventure is, the team is jazz.

1:13:22We're super excited to come back into the new year and just hit the ground running. I mean, I can't say enough about how your guys' response really has an effect on development. It really does. What you guys put out there comes back. it really it's it's amazing i love that well thanks again for coming up and doing this everybody go steam wishlist coven of the chicken foot right now thanks greg follow bruce and all his social medias thanks everybody no problem thank you and thank you everybody ladies gentlemen and bees for watching remember that this has been kind of funny games daily each and every weekday we run you through the nerdy video game news you need to know about live twitch youtube podcast services around the globe uh if you like that pick up a membership patreon youtube apple or spotify and of course Remember, we're a business all about live talk shows, and that means the content doesn't stop.

1:14:08We're going to roll from this into the Kind of Funny Gamescast and run through every game coming out in January. Then it's going to be a stream. Already forgotten what it was, though. No, I almost have it. It's sponsored. What was the other sponsor, Kevin? Flip the thing. Make the thing flip. Is that on a timer?

1:14:32There it is. What's up on a galaxy? Yeah, that's a stream. Then after that, of course, if you're a Patreon member, we're doing... That's how it is around here. They knew what they were sponsoring. If you knew that, we're doing the happy hour over on Patreon. But for now, we will bid you adieu and say, until next time, it's been our pleasure to serve you. Thanks, buddy. Thank you, buddy.