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Partying at the World's Worst Summer Camp in The Quarry

Jul 1, 2022

55:14

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The Problem With Interactive Fiction

01:28

Counterpoint - Is Director's Mode More Effective Than Direct Mode?

01:42

Is It a Branching Pathways Thing?

02:09

Introduction

1min

The Quarantine, the New Game From Supermassive

2min

The Dark Picture's Anthology - Until Dawn

2min

The Quarry - The Most Uncanny Valley Scenario

2min

Is This a Horror Movie?

2min

Does It Help in a Video Game?

2min

Game Review - 'Satelliing Ethos'

2min

Game Review - 'Eat Up the Theatr'

2min

I Think the Fatial Capture Is Fantastic

2min

10.

I'm Not Criticising Them, but I Don't Want Them to Look Like Celebrities

2min

11.

Supermassive Horror Games - Director Mode

2min

12.

The Last Girl Trope - I'm Not Going to Open That Fokand Trap Door

2min

13.

Qell, Is There a Direct Mode A, or a Dt Mode B?

2min

14.

Game Lineage Type Stuff That Holds Over

2min

15.

The Online Version May Very Well Be, Yes.

2min

16.

The Quarry - The Director's Mode

2min

17.

I Love Hat's A, I Saw a Cabin in the Woods and Didn't Go in the Basement

2min

18.

Thea Who Pressed Mute on Untel Don

2min

19.

The Story Telling Game, Shooting the Tubes

2min

20.

Quonic Dream

2min

21.

Is It a Branching Pathways Thing?

2min

22.

The Problem With Interactive Fiction

1min

23.

Counterpoint - Is Director's Mode More Effective Than Direct Mode?

2min

24.

The Quarantine

2min

25.

Game Review: The Looker

2min

26.

Steam Workshop - Is That All Through Steam Workshop?

2min

27.

Steam Tactics - A Game About Cheating People at Cards

2min

28.

How to Find the Best Card in a Poit

2min

29.

Card Shark Review - Nea, White, Fogging

2min

30.

How to Beat the Levels

2min

31.

The Bestes on Apple Podcast

2min

This week, we're playing Supermassive's latest interactive horror movie-game-thing, which we played in a bunch of different ways, some less recommended than others. Also, we discuss the genre's origins in FMV at length, because ... of course we do.

Other games discussed: Until Dawn, Heavy Rain, The Looker, Neon White, Card Shark, Stardew Valley Expanded

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