Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

85: Thinking Outside the Box with Witch Beam (Unpacking)

Dec 17, 2021

01:26:30

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Is the Biasing in the Game Trying to Help You?

02:08

The Grid, the Grid Selection Stuff

01:34

Unpacking a Steam Game

01:48

Introduction

2min

Unpacking Is a Foreseen From Your Seide

2min

Game Development - Unpacking

2min

Witch Bearing

2min

Unpacking - A Classic Puzzle Game?

2min

How to Tell a Generational Story

2min

Unpacking - A Story Focus Game

3min

The Puzzle Versus the Story Telling

2min

Is There a Line Per Room?

2min

10.

The Story Beats - The First Room

2min

11.

The Story of a Kid in the Kitchen

2min

12.

Working With a Narrative Designer

3min

13.

Overtimes

2min

14.

The Wifferent Apartment

2min

15.

Asolt Angary Cactus - Level 2

2min

16.

The Boyfront Apartment

3min

17.

The Ingento Game Review - Is This a Good Game?

2min

18.

Turning on Lamps in Unpacking

2min

19.

Rmong Em Erepadeso

2min

20.

The Sound of Unpacking

2min

21.

Non Prophet Games Accelerator Programme

1min

22.

Is Your Game a Good Idea?

2min

23.

Pix Art

2min

24.

How to Optimize the Work of a Small Team?

3min

25.

Pixl Art

2min

26.

How to Design Levels in Asprites

1min

27.

Isi, I'm a Pilaneriven, I Li

3min

28.

The Grid, the Grid Selection Stuff

2min

29.

Is the Biasing in the Game Trying to Help You?

2min

30.

Gameplay

2min

31.

The Replay, the Replay Feature

2min

32.

How Do We Make Them?

2min

33.

Is There a Long Hang or Short Hang in the Closet?

3min

34.

The Order of Operations Was Acrating the Rooms First

2min

35.

The Last Level - Is There Any Space in the Room?

4min

36.

The Houses Are Our Best Hits

2min

37.

Howways - The Adventures of a Socker

3min

38.

Is There a Game That Is Not a Tore?

2min

39.

Unpacking a Steam Game

2min

40.

The Value of a Game Is Not Just in Its Longest Hours

1min

41.

Steam Games

2min

42.

The Gamebling Thing Is Good Advice

2min

43.

Am, It's Like War. I Wanted It to End

3min

Witch Beam's Wren Brier and Tim Dawson join us to discuss their cozy zen puzzle game, Unpacking. We chat about the origins of its subtle narrative, living life on the grid, and the generous details that make it feel like home.

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