Discussion: [Indie Game] (spoilers!) (Discussion: [Indie Game] (spoilers!))

In today’s episode of Discussion: [Indie Game] (spoilers!), Rik and Jo move onto the second of Wadjet Eye’s Blackwell games, Blackwell Unbound.

Apart from helping more lost spirits on their way - but this time, in the past - there’s discussion of assault with a woodwind instrument, why this game isn’t like The Wedding Singer, and a brief pitch for a spin-off title featuring Harriet Sherman.

***KLAXON!*** ***SPOILER KLAXON!*** This podcast features spoilers for Blackwell Unbound.

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Buy Blackwell Unbound on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/80340/Blackwell_Unbound/

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Music for this podcast is by VOiD1 Gaming: ⁠https://www.void1gaming.com/

We come to the end of the first series of Discussion: [Indie Game] (spoilers!), as our hosts discuss rabbi-based mystery The Shivah.

It's another's Wadjet Eye adventure, with tangential links to Blackwell, first released in 2006 and updated in 2013.

Rik and Jo will be back later in the year with more spoiler-tastic discussions.

But for now, it's time to ponder the question, ‘What is the work of God, and what is the work of man?’ as we join Rabbi Russell Stone on a quest to solve the puzzle of a mysterious inheritance.

***KLAXON!*** ***SPOILER KLAXON!*** This episode features spoilers for The Shivah.

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Buy The Shivah:

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/252370/The_Shivah/

GOG: https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_shivah

Music for this podcast is by VOiD1 Gaming: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.void1gaming.com/

Episode 3 of Discussion: [Indie Game] (spoilers!) sees Rik and Jo move seamlessly onto the third game of the Blackwell series, The Blackwell Convergence. 

In this game, art and business mix, with deadly consequences: a comment on the nature of capitalism, perhaps? You’ll find no discussion of such weighty topics here.

Our hosts do, however, talk through another instalment of Rosa and Joey’s spirit-saving capers, with a brief detour via the subject of Chris Klein’s character in the 1999 Alexander Payne film, Election.

Get your spare change for the Joe Gould fund ready, but proceed no further if you don’t want any spoilers, because…

***KLAXON!*** ***SPOILER KLAXON!*** This podcast features spoilers for The Blackwell Convergence.

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Buy The Blackwell Convergence on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/80350/Blackwell_Convergence/

Buy The Blackwell Bundle on GOG: ⁠⁠https://www.gog.com/en/game/blackwell_bundle⁠⁠

Music for this podcast is by VOiD1 Gaming: ⁠⁠https://www.void1gaming.com/

All good things must come to an end, as Rik and Jo reluctantly part ways with the Blackwell saga. 

Not before a good discussion (with spoilers) takes place though, as we deal with gym guys, TV stars, and a looming crack in the sky.

If you haven’t played these games before, then listening to this episode first would be a great way to ruin them for you.

So don’t do that – at least not by accident – it’d be like trying to take a running jump off a dumpster in the snow. 

***KLAXON!*** ***SPOILER KLAXON!*** This podcast features spoilers for The Blackwell Epiphany.

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Buy The Blackwell Epiphany:

Steam: ⁠https://store.steampowered.com/app/236930/Blackwell_Epiphany/⁠

GOG: ⁠https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_blackwell_epiphany⁠

Music for this podcast is by VOiD1 Gaming: ⁠⁠https://www.void1gaming.com/

As we speed into the penultimate Blackwell game, matters are getting a little more complicated. 

And by ‘more complicated’, we mean ‘longer’. In Part 1 of this discussion, Rik and Jo guide Rosa and Joey out of the Hudson River, take a trip to meet an old friend, and delve into the world of dodgy psychics. 

Time to pretend that we didn’t leave university all that long ago, head to a terrible nightclub and request a track by Epileptic Fish.

***KLAXON!*** ***SPOILER KLAXON!*** This podcast features spoilers for The Blackwell Deception.

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Buy The Blackwell Deception on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/80360/Blackwell_Deception/

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Music for this podcast is by VOiD1 Gaming: https://www.void1gaming.com/

Welcome to Discussion: [Indie Game] (spoilers!)

In today’s episode, Rik and Jo discuss The Blackwell Legacy, from Wadjet Eye Games.

Despite all the talk of clearing digital backlogs, it’s a game they’ve both played before. But they’ve never discussed it on a podcast, with spoilers… until now.

In between helping protagonists Rosa and Joey seek out lost spirits, there’s talk of annoying doctors, the merits of Gabriel Knight, and adventure gaming’s alternative to asking your friend if you can walk their dog.

Plus: which of our hosts discovered the ‘bad’ ending?

***KLAXON!*** ***SPOILER KLAXON!*** This podcast features spoilers for The Blackwell Legacy (in case that wasn’t clear). 

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Buy The Blackwell Legacy on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/80330/The_Blackwell_Legacy/

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Music for this podcast is by VOiD1 Gaming: https://www.void1gaming.com/

It’s another two-parter for our latest discussion, with the culmination of the Blackwell saga necessitating a half-time interlude for orange slices and tactical advice from the manager.

What are we talking about? Adventure games, of course! And in this one we visit a very cold New York, some very creepy houses, and the manager’s office of an electronic retailer. 

Get ready for discussion of some shocking moments, although hopefully they won’t be too shocking to those who’ve actually played the game.

If you haven’t, then beware! Great big spoilers lie ahead.

***KLAXON!*** ***SPOILER KLAXON!*** This podcast features spoilers for The Blackwell Epiphany.

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GOG: https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_blackwell_epiphany

Music for this podcast is by VOiD1 Gaming: ⁠https://www.void1gaming.com/

In Part 2 of this discussion, we re-join Rosa and Joey as they threaten a temp agency manager with the (now defunct) power of the press and blackmail a horny music producer.

All before a final battle with an extremely powerful force, known only as ‘Gavin’. 

***KLAXON!*** ***SPOILER KLAXON!*** This podcast features spoilers for The Blackwell Deception.

Links:

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Buy The Blackwell Deception on Steam: ⁠https://store.steampowered.com/app/80360/Blackwell_Deception/⁠

Buy The Blackwell Bundle on GOG: ⁠https://www.gog.com/en/game/blackwell_bundle⁠

Music for this podcast is by VOiD1 Gaming: ⁠https://www.void1gaming.com/

This is Discussion: [Indie Game] (spoilers!), a new podcast series in which hosts Rik and Jo select a short, narrative-based adventure game, go away and play it, then come back to discuss all the details (with spoilers).

Welcome to Discussion: [Indie Game]: (spoilers!)

In another bonus episode, Rik and Jo again steer clear of the promised discussion (with spoilers) and instead poke through tales of their gaming pasts.

Gamers need credentials, after all, so get ready to peruse - and be impressed by - a combined CV that includes being scared by Magic Maths from Codemasters, cheating to get to the end of Wing Commander III, playing Guitar Hero 2 on medium difficulty, and being in the same room as PC Zone’s Charlie Brooker.

(Did they actually meet him? Sorry, no spoilers in the show notes!)

Links:

Magic Maths on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFE1JVs0kjY

Wing Commander III Trailer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAGHpDmHZpg

Message in a Bottle (Guitar Hero 2) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkvYnk6NtKw

Discussion: [Indie Game] (spoilers!) is back, slightly sooner than expected, for a very special episode. 

Rik and Jo are talking all things Blackwell yet again, but this time with Mr Wadjet Eye himself, Dave Gilbert. 

Dave kindly got in touch to say he’d been enjoying the first series and to offer up some time to chat. 

And that chat includes topics such as 90s adventures, the early days of Wadjet Eye, and all of the games discussed (with spoilers) in previous episodes. Plus Wadjet Eye’s new game, Old Skies, which will be out very soon.

The spoiler klaxon hasn’t been wheeled out of storage for this episode: while the interview will probably make more sense if you’ve played the Blackwell series, there’s not much here that really counts as a plot spoiler.

(If you’re worried about such things, exercise caution, and/or play the games and come back later!)

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GOG: https://www.gog.com/en/game/old_skies

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1346360/Old_Skies/

Music for this podcast is by VOiD1 Gaming: https://www.void1gaming.com/

Welcome to Discussion: [Indie Game] (spoilers!)

In their very first episode, Rik and Jo confound their own format by not discussing a specific indie game with spoilers. Instead, the podcast’s opaque title is broken down: what do we mean by ‘spoilers’ these days? What is an ‘indie game’? And how do you have a ‘discussion?’

While our hosts’ shared gaming past involved not being very good at Sierra games in the 90s, they rediscovered their love for adventures via the indie scene in the 00s and beyond. 

Unfortunately, despite the shorter length and more forgiving nature of modern indie adventures, this renewed enthusiasm seems mainly to have manifested itself in sizable digital backlogs for each of them. It’s time to tackle that pile of shame, as well as revisit some past favourites, and then discuss (with spoilers).

No spoilers in this episode, though, but we do mention that there’s a shark in Jaws. (If you haven’t seen it, sorry!)