Explore every episode of the podcast The Game Design Hacks
| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mario Golf Should Have Been Better (Season Finale) | 22 sept. 2021 | 01:08:19 | |
In the season finale, Mario Golf underwhelms Dale and Tom with its lofty promises - but it takes Dale a moment to realise it. Also, we decide which was the best game of the season. 0:10:19 - What Are We Playing? 0:22:56 - Mario Golf Diagnosis 0:54:30 - The Best Game Design of the Season | |||
| Torn Apart - an RPG based on Tommy Wiseau's The Room (Design Challenge) | 19 juil. 2021 | 00:52:51 | |
Tom channels his inner Tommy bringing a rendition of Tommy Wiseau's The Room into tabletop form to meet Dale's challenge. | |||
| Is Fez Still Good? (and E3) (Diagnosis) | 29 juin 2021 | 00:55:00 | |
Dale and Tom look at E3 2021 and decide to play Fez instead - but does it hold up or it does it fold up? Yeah, nah, it holds up so we gush about it and break it down a bit and also E3 wasn't that bad but there wasn't any Switch Pro and is this description still going and wasn't it third person a moment ago? Listen for E3 hot takes and a Fez mechanical review. | |||
| Everything Wrong with Sonic Generations (Diagnosis) | 27 mai 2021 | 01:24:26 | |
Dale and Tom try to figure out where the feeling changed in Sonic's 3D games, also we discuss Nintendo Indie World really, really late. 0:00:59 - Nintendo Indie World 0:22:35 - What Are We Playing? 0:39:45 - Sonic 3D Diagnosis | |||
| Playcast: The Athenian Philosophical Olympic Pentathlon (Non-random Ancient Greek Court Intrigue) | 06 mai 2021 | 01:32:02 | |
May the best boast win - Dale and Tom are joined by Milly, Kayleigh and Rocco to play an Olympic Pentathlon where the ultimate sportsman is the player who can best describe their Olympic feats. | |||
| Gardenscapes' Seven Thousand Levels ain't A Short Hike's One (Diagnosis) | 08 avr. 2021 | 00:58:19 | |
Tom addicts himself to free-to-play mobile game Gardenscapes while Dale enjoys the infinitely more conquerable A Short Hike. | |||
| Design Challenge: Non-random Ancient Greek Court Intrigue | 23 mars 2021 | 01:13:13 | |
Dale answers Tom's design challenge: Ancient Greece, non-random and Court Intrigue. Meanwhile, Nintendo goes Direct and Stadia goes to shit. | |||
| Is Hades well designed? (Diagnosis) | 09 fÊvr. 2021 | 00:39:17 | |
Tom inspects Hades' procedural generation, meta and narrative design before setting Dale his first design challenge. | |||
| 2020: The Best and Worst Game Mechanics | 25 janv. 2021 | 01:27:47 | |
Dale and Tom dive into the best and worst game mechanics from the year that was 2020. | |||
| What's wrong with Super Mario Party? (Diagnosis) | 01 janv. 2021 | 01:04:39 | |
Dale rips apart the board play of Super Mario Party and while Tom dissects the text display for Planescape: Torment. | |||