Emmi & Annie Talk Indie – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Emmi & Annie played two games with very different styles. Emmi was disturbed by Mouthwashing's body horror; Annie was disturbed by Europa's cuteness. These problems are the same. 

TW for discussion of sexual assault.

Maddie Myers on motion sickness in Indiana Jones

Mouthwashing playthrough Annie referenced 

Gene Park interview with writer of Mouthwashing 

Liz Ryerson, who recommends Decarnation 

Upcoming games: 

Knights in Tight Spaces (Feb 28) 

Split Fiction (Mar 3) 

Myrmidon (Mar 7) 

Centum (Mar 11) 

Mudborne (Mar 20)

Mashina (TBD)

Music:
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News sources: 

gamesindustry.biz article on WB closures

Polygon on WB closures

PC Gamer on Call of Duty gen AI

Aftermath on Steam Next Fest and AI

PC Gamer on Blizzard AI patent

Chapters: 

(00:40) News 

(08:18) Europa 

(33:45) Mouthwashing (TW: sexual assault) 

(01:12:04) Upcoming games 

Emmi and Annie played Death of the Reprobate. Content warnings for: Hieronymus Bosch, tomfoolery, bird violence. 

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BBC article about 2011 23-day PSN outage 

Polygon article about PSN outage 

Emmi wants this Infinity Nikki outfit and she’s stressed about it. This is the pizza box Playdate case that Annie has. 

Upcoming games: 

Ale Abbey (Feb 18 - Early access) 

Unbridled: That Horse Game (Feb 19 - Early access) 

Cinnabunny (Feb 19) 

Blood Typers (Feb 20) 

Die in the Dungeon (Feb 21 - Early access) 

Tortuga City (Feb 21) 

Good Coffee, Great Coffee (Feb 27) 

Card Survival: Fantasy Forest (Feb 28 - Early access) 

Mycelium Heaven (Feb 28) 

Music:
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Chapters: 
(00:35) Annie got a Playdate 

(03:55) PSN outage 

(07:55) Death of the Reprobate 

(56:01) Upcoming games 

Annie has personal news. Emmi makes an inaccurate Nintendo prediction. And they discuss Drova, which Emmi quit after a shift while Annie put in a 40-hour work week. 

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An important note about timing/content: we recorded this shortly after the 2024 election and spent some time up top discussing how we were handling it. We hope we don't sound in any way glib about a situation that's obviously gotten way worse since and hope everybody is hanging in there. If you want to skip that conversation, it ends around 3:30. 

Watch Andrea Love’s needle felted animations here 

Upcoming games (now out unless specified):
Dragon Age: The Veilguard 

Ale Abbey 

Lonely Mountains: Snowriders 

Toads of the Bayou 

Worshippers of Cthulhu (Early access) 

Scarlet Deer Inn (TBA release date) 

SPARROW (TBA release date) 

Music:
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Chapters 
(00:00) The News, Mario Party power dynamics, and Celestial Seasonings 

(03:30) Skip to here to avoid talk of the 2024 election 

(14:01) Drova: Forsaken Kin 

(55:51) Upcoming games 

Emmi and Annie play Potion Permit, and discuss the tradition of bad mayorship in video game towns.

Upcoming games mentioned (now out):
Totally Spies! - Cyber Mission
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Europa
Drova: Forsaken Kin
Prim

Intro/Outro music:
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In which Emmi & Annie introduce themselves, and talk about why they like video games so much. Special guest in the subtext: guilt around lack of productivity brought on by the American-Protestant work ethic.

Show notes:
Here’s a decent overview of explicit vs implicit memory

Joint-media engagement paper Emmi was drawing from:
Takeuchi, L., & Stevens, R. (2011). The new coviewing: Designing for learning through joint media engagement. New York: The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. https://www.joanganzcooneycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/jgc_coviewing_desktop.pdf

Other games podcasts hosted by women!
Fake Gamer Girls
Baddy Breakdowns
What’s Good Games
Utterly Unqualified

Upcoming games mentioned (now out):
One S’More (9/22/24)
Tiny Glade (9/22/24)
Ninano: Green Ranch (9/22/24)
Islands & Trains (9/22/24)
Forest Cafe Simulator (9/27/24)

Other games mentioned:
Pizza Possum

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An intro to the intro.

Gird your chthonic loins for the Hades II Early Access anniversary. Emmi and Annie talk muscle mommies, lunar lasers, and so many spoilers. No section on upcoming games this week because we simply had too much to say about Hades II.

Corrections: 
Emmi misspoke when she said Giant Bomb was sold from CBS to Fandom. The 2020 sale of Giant Bomb was from CBS to Red Ventures. Red Ventures then sold Giant Bomb to Fandom in 2022.

News links:
Polygon sale and subsequent layoffs 

GoFundMe for those affected by Polygon layoffs 

Giant Bomb “strategic reset” 

 

Chapters: 
(00:32) News
(06:12) Hades II

Music: 
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In their first itch.io Snack Mix episode, Emmi and Annie scale fish, believe and forget, and descend into the depths. Snack along at the links below. 

Games discussed:
Scale the Depths
Bulbo’s Belief System 

my father’s long long legs 

Upcoming/newly released games: 

Locomoto (Apr 8) 

Blue Prince (Apr 10) 

Rusty Rabbit (Apr 17) 

Beholder: Conductor (Apr 23) 

News links: 

US Switch 2 Stockpile as reported by Polygon 

Chapters: 

(00:48) News 

(05:58) Scale the Depths 

(19:25) Bulbo’s Belief System 

(27:00) my father’s long long legs 

(50:02) Upcoming games 

Music:
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For April Fools’, Emmi & Annie play a little game called Balatro.

Upcoming/newly released games: 

The Chef's Shift (Mar 30) 

PEPPERED: an existential platformer (Apr 7) 

Tiny Garden (Apr 8) 

Maliki: Poison of the Past (Apr 22) 

News links: 

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nintendo-announces-new-lending-feature-for-digital-games 

https://www.polygon.com/gaming/547367/time-cops-mission-of-lennon-free-narrat-game 

https://anime-sickos-podcast.itch.io/time-force-x 

Chapters: 

(01:00) News 

(08:10) Balatro 

(43:09) Smash or Pass: Joker Edition 

(59:12) Upcoming games 

Music:
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Annie is a know-it-all. Emmi is a know-it-none. No news or upcoming games this week because we spend too long talking about which anthropomorphic animals from Aviary Attorney we would kiss. 

Vive la France. 

Links: 

2014 Siliconera interview with Darya Noghani and Mandy Lennon 

Original Kickstarter for Aviary Attorney 

The Public & Private Life of Animals by J.J. Grandville and P.J. Stahl 

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