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"This podcast is tender without being twee, the kind of soft and open that isn’t an aesthetic, just a genuine question. It’s a special vibe that gives me games discourse nostalgia..." - Sarah Elmaleh, Video Game Voice Actor and Director "It reminds me of my most cherished conversations with other game makers." - Hayden Scott-Baron, Senior game designer at ustwo Games Video Game Feelings is an interview podcast about the way video games make us feel, and the reasons we play them. Each week, host Richard Clark speaks to a video game insider to delve into their hearts and minds and discover the various ways video games make us feel. You'll love this series of conversations with video game developers, journalists, and personalities where we explore why open-world games can feel so lonely, why hype can ruin a video game experience, or what video games can teach us about grief. Video game Feelings is an Area Code Production. Find out more at AreaCodeAudio.com. Theme song by Bruce Holtman.
Matt Meyer just wants those who play his game to feel something.
The music and sound clips you hear in this episode are from the game, Beacon Pines. Matt Meyer is the creative director.
Josh Sawyer felt less pressure working on Pentiment than any game he's worked on in the last decade. Easily.
Josh Sawyer is the design director at Obsidian. He worked on Pillars of Eternity I & II, Fallout: New Vegas, and Icewind Dale I & II.
To round out the year, we invited three friends to gather and discuss the games that made them feel most deeply. (plus, I share my top ten games of the year)
Featuring special guests:
Kahlief Adams is moving past angst.
Kahlief Adams is the host and Founder of Spawn on Me and The Spawnies.
On this episode we processed:
Video Game Feelings is an Area Code Audio production. Hosted and produced by Richard Clark. Mixed and Edited by Nettie Smith. Additional help from Ashley Whitehurst and Matthew Linder.
Ellen Weatherford loves the feeling of finding a bird she's seen before doing something weird.
Ellen Weatherford is the host of Just the Zoo of Us and Spellbound and Gagged.
Video Game Feelings is an Area Code Audio production. Hosted and produced by Richard Clark. Mixed and Edited by Nettie Smith. Additional help from Ashley Whitehurst and Matthew Linder.
James Silva makes his games difficult, because creation is difficult.
James Silva is the developer behind Salt and Sacrifice, Salt and Sanctuary, Charlie Murder, The Dishwasher, and I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1.
Here's some stuff we talked about:
Video Game Feelings is an Area Code Audio production. Hosted and produced by Richard Clark. Mixed and Edited by Nettie Smith. Additional help from Ashley Whitehurst and Matthew Linder.
Walt Williams doesn't want his video game to hate him. He just wants to be entertained.
Walt Williams is a video game writer who has worked on Star Wars Battlefront, Bioshock, Civilization, Borderlands, Mafia, The Darkness, and Spec Ops: The Line. His book, Significant Zero, explores the hardships and insanity of AAA game development.
Here's some stuff we talked about:
Video Game Feelings is an Area Code Audio production. Hosted and produced by Richard Clark. Associate produced by Nettie Smith. Additional help from Ashley Whitehurst and Matthew Linder.
Yons is playing Borderlands with his son, and living out the example his big brother gave him.
Yons is a musician, music teacher, and producer. You can check him out on his website, or listen to his music on Spotify.
Here's some stuff we talked about:
Video Game Feelings is an Area Code Audio production. Hosted and produced by Richard Clark. Associate produced by Nettie Smith. Additional help from Ashley Whitehurst and Matthew Linder.
Video Game Feelings host, Richard Clark, is feeling sick. So there won't be an actual episode of VGF this week.
But here are three games that made him feel better:
Maddy Myers is grieving the loss of her real-life friend while running silly video game errands and stabbing dudes.
Maddy Myers is the deputy editor at Polygon and the co-host of Triple Click and The Mutant Ages.
Here's some stuff we talked about:
Video Game Feelings is an Area Code Audio production. Hosted and produced by Richard Clark. Associate produced by Nettie Smith. Additional help from Ashley Whitehurst and Matthew Linder.
Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.
A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.
But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know.
She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and
captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world.
Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s
blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret.
Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but
all-too-real tale, of a woman from San Jose, California whose secret ripped a family apart and
left a community in shock.
Scamanda is the true story of a woman whose own words held the key to her secret.
New episodes every Monday.
Follow Scamanda on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
Amanda’s blog posts are read by actor Kendall Horn.
