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Emmi & Annie Talk Indie

Emmi & Annie

Leisure

Frequency: 1 episode/14d. Total Eps: 25

Two longtime friends discuss what indie (and sometimes not indie) video games they're playing this week.

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🇨🇦 Canada - games
17/08/2026
#76
🇨🇦 Canada - games
16/08/2026
#54
🇬🇧 Great Britain - games
18/05/2025
#98
🇩🇪 Germany - games
18/05/2025
#84
🇬🇧 Great Britain - games
17/05/2025
#69
🇩🇪 Germany - games
17/05/2025
#53
🇬🇧 Great Britain - games
13/03/2025
#80
🇬🇧 Great Britain - games
12/03/2025
#54

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https://eati.games
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https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nintendo-announces-new-lending-feature-for-digital-games
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https://bsky.app/profile/eati.games
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb0Etli2WY2PX8ILEzDsSJQ
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Ep 5: Europa & Mouthwashing

Season 1 · Episode 5

Thursday, March 6, 2025 • Duration 01:22:10

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:
Bit Forest Intro music by Bertsz -- https://freesound.org/s/545457/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

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

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Ep 4: Death of the Reprobate

Season 1 · Episode 4

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 • Duration 01:02:50

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)

Ep 3: Drova: Forsaken Kin

Season 1 · Episode 3

Tuesday, February 4, 2025 • Duration 01:01:16

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:
Bit Forest Intro music by Bertsz -- https://freesound.org/s/545457/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Ep 2: Potion Permit

Season 1 · Episode 2

Tuesday, January 21, 2025 • Duration 56:22

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:
Bit Forest Intro music by Bertsz -- https://freesound.org/s/545457/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Follow us on bluesky! https://bsky.app/profile/eati.games

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Ep 1: An Introduction to Emmi & Annie Talk Indie

Season 1 · Episode 1

Tuesday, January 7, 2025 • Duration 58:19

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
Intro/Outro music:Bit Forest Intro music by Bertsz -- https://freesound.org/s/545457/ -- License: Creative Commons 0Follow us on bluesky! Follow us on Instagram!

Season 1 Teaser

Season 1 · Episode 99

Wednesday, January 1, 2025 • Duration 00:36

An intro to the intro.

Ep 9: Hades II (Early Access)

Season 1 · Episode 9

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 • Duration 01:27:23

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:
Bit Forest Intro music by Bertsz -- https://freesound.org/s/545457/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

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Listen on our website! https://eati.games

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Ep 8: itch.io Snack Mix 1

Season 1 · Episode 8

Tuesday, April 15, 2025 • Duration 56:00

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:
Bit Forest Intro music by Bertsz -- https://freesound.org/s/545457/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Ep 7: Balatro

Season 1 · Episode 7

Tuesday, April 1, 2025 • Duration 01:03:46

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:
Bit Forest Intro music by Bertsz -- https://freesound.org/s/545457/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Ep 6: Aviary Attorney

Season 1 · Episode 6

Tuesday, March 18, 2025 • Duration 01:13:00

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

Music:
Bit Forest Intro music by Bertsz -- https://freesound.org/s/545457/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Listen on our website! https://eati.games

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