Naming and Aesthetic Choices

We're joined by droqen (The End of Gameplay, Starseed Pilgrim), Darius Kazemi (Tiny Subversions, Harvard Applied Social Media Lab), and Tara Macalister (mathematician, composer) to discuss Vertex Dispenser, the second game in our year-long exploration of the work of Michael Brough.

Next Month: Kompendium

Audio edited by Dylan Shumway.

Discussed in this episode:

Vertex Dispenser https://store.steampowered.com/app/102400/Vertex_Dispenser/

Michael Brough's Website https://www.smestorp.com/

Four color theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem

Graph coloring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_coloring

Starcraft II https://starcraft2.blizzard.com/en-us/

Splatoon https://splatoon.nintendo.com/ Dota 2 https://www.dota2.com/home Droqen's rare color graph/explanation https://discord.com/channels/690388280767807518/1442554518092120186/1465039921147412510

lots of michael brough games https://smestorp.itch.io/lots-of-michael-brough-games

The Sense of Connectedness https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=16151.0

Kompendium https://mightyvision.blogspot.com/2012/06/kompendium.html

The End of Gameplay https://droqen.itch.io/the-end-of-gameplay

Utopia Clicker https://tinysubversions.com/game/utopia/

A Jackpot of Skulls https://brainfruit.studio/games/jackpot

_update() Jam https://adamatomic.itch.io/update-jam

https://secretlives.games/

https://discord.gg/tslog

https://www.patreon.com/tslog

https://www.youtube.com/eggplantshow