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This was recorded in the immediate aftermath of last week's episode and it is immediately apparent. Thank you for your patience.

Today we're talking about Grow Light by Danielle Taphanel! A game about living on the moon and photosynthesizing.

Play Grow Light on itch.io!!! Follow Danielle Taphanel's work on their website!

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Art by Tara Crawford

Theme music by _amaranthine

Additional sounds by Boqeh

Produced and edited by AJ Fillari
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Timecodes:

(01:13) - Hey

(01:50) - dot.cat

(02:17) - This is the second podcast

(03:06) - What is Grow Light?

(04:33) - Bitsy games?!

(05:17) - No spoiler break here! The game is short!

(06:04) - What'd we think of the video game?

(09:55) - What makes a Kim game a Kim game

(11:16) - Are we ready for Big Takeaways???

(11:30) - Robin has more thoughts!

(12:09) - Becoming a plant

(15:14) - Kim's Quote Corner

(17:31) - Run TRANSFORMATION

(21:07) - Big Takeaways???????

(21:14) - Kim's Big Takeaway

(26:06) - AJ attempts (and fails) a Big Takeaway

(27:00) - Robin's Big Takeaway

(28:58) - AJ's Big Takeaway

(30:14) - Thanks for listening!

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You can hear AJ's cat purring through the whole beginning of this lmao.
We're goin WILD this week and talking about a musical, a movie, a podcast, AND video games. Also AJ talks a bit about how they're feeling in the weeks following the recording of the "she danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died" episode and how they want to get better at reading poetry.
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Discussed in the episode:
The Last Five Years on Wikipedia
Lolcows and the Internet's "Digital Freakshow" from Never Post
Independent Media Collective including Never Post, Rascal News, Aftermath, and Rogue!
Godzilla: Minus One
[ANALYSIS] Godzilla (1954 film) from Asynchronous
The Truly Absurd Secrets of An Incredible Americano by James Hoffmann
Pigeon: A Love Story by Wristwork Ltd.
FACEMINER by Wristwork Ltd.
It’s Not That Complicated from Girl Mode
Constance for Nintendo Switch by Blue Backpack
Grow Light by danielle taphanel
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Art by Tara Crawford

Theme music: "Anemone" by Boqeh

Produced and edited by AJ Fillari
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Timecodes:

(00:00) - Intro

(00:18) - Hear more RAMs on the member feed!!

(01:22) - The Last Five Years

(07:03) - Godzilla: Minus One

(10:32) - The Truly Absurd Secrets of An Incredible Americano

(13:40) - Pigeon: A Love Story

(21:40) - Sol Cesto

(22:38) - Constance on Switch

(26:09) - Episode post-mortem

(29:33) - That's it today!

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🚨THIS EPISODE CONTAINS DISCUSSIONS OF RAPE, SUICIDAL THOUGHTS, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND GENERAL ABUSES OF POWER🚨
Today we're talking about she danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died by alienmelon! A game poem about living after the end of the world and not forgetting the past.

Get she danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died on Steam and itch.io!!! Follow alienmelon's work on their itch page!

Discussed in the episode:
calling out my rapist (for context on the autobiographical angle of this game poem)
Additional links:
TETRAGEDDON ::: 2k2k++ CYBERMONKEY HAS DIED REMYX ::: by alienmelon
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Produced and edited by AJ Fillari
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Timecodes:

(00:00) - burn.cds

(01:22) - MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY

(02:08) - What is she danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died

(05:00) - CONTENT WARNINGS CHECK THE SHOW NOTES

(05:33) - This game is about abuse of power

(11:26) - Talking about the game part of the game poem

(16:23) - This game is poetry

(18:07) - The sounds

(21:41) - Specific moments

(27:31) - The "How"

(29:31) - The ending sequences

(36:12) - Big Takeaways

(36:17) - Kim's Big Takeaway

(38:39) - AJ's Big Takeaway

(40:46) - Robin's Big Takeaway

(44:10) - Amazing!!

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Today we're talking about HITM3 by xiri! A game about making a movie with your boyfriends and feeding the kitty.

Get HITM3 on Steam and itch.io!!! Follow xiri's work on their itch page!

Discussed in the episode:
Mediterranea Inferno on Steam
Automatic writing on Wikipedia
HITM3 Soundtrack by Lia Nadja, Niñosindigo, Lavina Yelb, Vicente Palma, leorina, paltamango & mariapepinos on Bandcamp
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Timecodes:

(00:30) - Something something short shorts

(01:33) - How find HITM3?

(02:41) - What is HITM3?

(04:27) - The artistic intent

(12:16) - You do make a movie

(17:29) - This one is for the boys

(18:55) - Kitty

(20:00) - This game is Doin Stuff

(25:32) - The mundanity

(33:17) - The title sequence

(33:59) - The way people look and the use of color

(35:13) - Big Takeaways

(35:21) - Chase's Big Takeaway

(40:55) - Kim's Big Takeaway

(46:34) - AJ's Big Takeaway

(48:59) - was the Grek there?

(50:26) - Grek's Big Takeaway

(51:02) - Robin's Big Takeaway

(55:39) - Thanks so much for listening!

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AJ, Kim, and Robin sit down with Remy Siu to talk about sunset visitor's upcoming game Prove You're Human! Wishlist it on Steam!!!

Remy elsewhere talking about PYH:
ARTICLES
1000xResist dev says we need a universal video codec for games by Bryant Francis for Game Developer
Interview: Prove You're Human - 1000xResist Devs by Hayes Madsen for CGMagazine
1000xResist Studio Turns The Internet's Most Annoying Task Into A Game With Prove You're Human by Jessica Cogswell for Gamespot
1000XResist devs talk about their next game, Prove You're Human by Elijah Gonzalez for AV Club
The team behind 1000xResist is making a game about convincing an AI that it isn’t human by Andrew Webster for The Verge
Prove You're Human, A New Game From The 1000xResist Team, Combines AI Anxiety, Severance, And CAPTCHA Tests by Charles Harte for Game Informer
Prove You're Human Announced At The 2026 Triple-I Showcase From 1000xRESIST Developers by Kate Sánchez for But Why Tho?
1000xResist studio reveals next game Prove You're Human by Austin Manchester on Polygon
Some of the best writers making games today decided to form a publisher "an hour" after a call: Slay the Princess and 1000xResist devs team up for new sci-fi adventure by Oscar Taylor-Kent for GamesRadar+
How Two Indie Darlings Are Challenging a Collapsing Industry With Their Next Game by Isaiah Colbert for Gizmodo
PODCASTS
Remap Interview: Prove You're Human from Remap Radio
Where Do Video Games Go from Here? from Post Games
How Black Tabby Publishing’s "Developer-First" Vision Empowers Sunset Visitor's 'Prove You’re Human' [EXCLUSIVE] from But Why Tho?
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(01:23) - AJ bungles the intro SO badly

(02:25) - What is Prove Your Human?

(03:08) - The press tour and "The Secret Thing"

(05:44) - The team has grown

(10:43) - Intentional use of video assets in PYH

(15:58) - Unexpected technical limitations informing work

(18:35) - Influences that are being drawn from

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