Episode 428: Chaotic Evil Steamed Hams

The Crate and Crowbar

Jamie and Marsh voyage into their deepest nightmare – a metatextual commentary on the subjective nature of storytelling – and shine a light on Alan Wake 2, then decide to incarcerate their dying, plaque-filled brains in the philosophical puzzle islands of The Talos Principle 2.

• Alan Wake 2
• Twin Peaks: The Return
• The Simpson’s Steamed Hams sketch.
• The Talos Principle 2
• It’s “Roboterhaus”. Thanks, Germans.
• Free on the Epic Game Store if you’re an Amazon Prime customer: Invincible Presents: Atom Eve.
• Lovely Mike Cook’s lovely talk at the Roguelike Celebration, encouraging people to experiment with making the very rules of games themselves procedural.
• In his Roguelike Celebration talk, the also lovely Tom Francis picks apart the procedural considerations and the many teleporters of Heat Signature, lovely-ly.

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.