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Idle Thumbs - Babywall the Horse Armor
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There's a podcast on this thing called the 'internet' called Idle Thumbs. You may or may not have heard of it. Naturally it's about video games. It's a little different from how I see / hear video games get discussed though. It's not necessarily based on news going on in the industry, and the discussions of games goes beyond the "I enjoyed this, I enjoyed that!" type of commentary. There's a weird analytical / academic / artistic thing that the hosts are able to do with games that is just so damn interesting. I mean, that's not to say they avoid the usual "fuck yes!" type things, or that the podcast is always "srs biz" (hell no, not by a long shot), and there very much are in-jokes and memes of the podcast. But it's worth hearing. I promise. That's why I'm making this thread. To share it with the world!
Idle Thumbs has long since been a website, starting as a publication / editorial space, but back a few years ago (2008) part of the crew started a podcast form of the site. It proceeded to die, resurrect as "The Idle Thumbs Podcast," die again in 2010, and came back yet again in 2012 following a highly successful Kickstarter campaign. Thirty Flights of Loving, found on Steam, is a game the current hosts worked on, and Chris Remo recorded the soundtrack for.
Hosts:
Chris Remo
Formerly of Gamasutra (editor), formerly of Irrational Games, currently of Double Fine. The podcast pretty much exists because of Chris, as he owns and manages the recording equipment (which is why the podcast died back in 2010, when he took the job at Irrational). His background in video game playing is oldschool PC era, and he's a music major. He's actually made some great tunes related to the podcast.
Jake Rodkin
Jake works at Telltale Games, which has recently come up big in the industry for its Walking Dead titles. Along with Chris he's the only consistent host of the podcast. He's notorious for never actually playing video games. When he was younger though he had a lot of exposure to video games of any given platform, it seems.
Sean Vanaman
A coworker of Jake's that was guest appearing on the podcast during the 2010 year, Sean now fills the third seat in the podcast. He has a fascinating story about how he and a coworker worked at Disney for a brief time and helped conceive Epic Mickey (I think it's told in the GDC 2011 content). He's currently hooked on DotA 2.
Previous Hosts:
Nick Breckon
The reason why the podcast first died, Nick still works at Bethesda Softworks (and is previously of Shack News). Notorious for never having an opinion, Nick is actually really insightful when it comes to strategy games and is very competitive when playing them. And he's good too. Since having left the west coast, he makes very rare appearances on the podcast still.
Steve Gaynor
Formerly of Idle Thumbs (the writing era), formerly of 2k Marin. People may actually know Steve from his blog. He's currently self-employed, having started the Fullbright Company and making the game Gone Home. Steve is opposite from Nick in that he hates strategy games. He also seems to hate linearity in games, I can't tell. He makes frequent guest appearances on the cast still.
Relevant Media: (more may come later)
Space Asshole (song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcUBI-YVRY8
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Latest Episode: Babywall the Horse Armor (February 6th)
Topics discussed: SimCity, Spore, Gabe Newell's Austin speech, Little Inferno, Antichamber, The Unfinished Swan
Run time averages 80 minutes; can and will vary
Latest Episode: Babywall the Horse Armor (February 6th)
Topics discussed: SimCity, Spore, Gabe Newell's Austin speech, Little Inferno, Antichamber, The Unfinished Swan
Idle Thumbs has long since been a website, starting as a publication / editorial space, but back a few years ago (2008) part of the crew started a podcast form of the site. It proceeded to die, resurrect as "The Idle Thumbs Podcast," die again in 2010, and came back yet again in 2012 following a highly successful Kickstarter campaign. Thirty Flights of Loving, found on Steam, is a game the current hosts worked on, and Chris Remo recorded the soundtrack for.
Hosts:
Chris Remo
Formerly of Gamasutra (editor), formerly of Irrational Games, currently of Double Fine. The podcast pretty much exists because of Chris, as he owns and manages the recording equipment (which is why the podcast died back in 2010, when he took the job at Irrational). His background in video game playing is oldschool PC era, and he's a music major. He's actually made some great tunes related to the podcast.
Jake Rodkin
Jake works at Telltale Games, which has recently come up big in the industry for its Walking Dead titles. Along with Chris he's the only consistent host of the podcast. He's notorious for never actually playing video games. When he was younger though he had a lot of exposure to video games of any given platform, it seems.
Sean Vanaman
A coworker of Jake's that was guest appearing on the podcast during the 2010 year, Sean now fills the third seat in the podcast. He has a fascinating story about how he and a coworker worked at Disney for a brief time and helped conceive Epic Mickey (I think it's told in the GDC 2011 content). He's currently hooked on DotA 2.
Previous Hosts:
Nick Breckon
The reason why the podcast first died, Nick still works at Bethesda Softworks (and is previously of Shack News). Notorious for never having an opinion, Nick is actually really insightful when it comes to strategy games and is very competitive when playing them. And he's good too. Since having left the west coast, he makes very rare appearances on the podcast still.
Steve Gaynor
Formerly of Idle Thumbs (the writing era), formerly of 2k Marin. People may actually know Steve from his blog. He's currently self-employed, having started the Fullbright Company and making the game Gone Home. Steve is opposite from Nick in that he hates strategy games. He also seems to hate linearity in games, I can't tell. He makes frequent guest appearances on the cast still.
Relevant Media: (more may come later)
Space Asshole (song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcUBI-YVRY8 Henroid on
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Also in this week's episode a post is pointed out during the SimCity discussion, and here it is below (while I'm cross-posting stuff the community there is pretty great, hence why I linked to their forum in the OP). I haven't played the game myself yet so the lines that the Thumbs are mentioning between SimCity 4 + Spore to the new SimCity are lost on me. Maybe it'll make sense to those of you that have.