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The Short Game

The Short Game

A podcast about video games that respect your time

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  • 25 episodes
  • fortnightly
  • Avg 59 min
  • English

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  • Jun 11, 2025 · 54 min

    441: ENA: Dream BBQ

    From the depths of Steam and YouTube comes ENA, a strange polygonal girl in a surreal hypercapitalist dreamscape. Your hosts were left wondering what the hell this was all about, and why is it so incredibly beautifully animated? (00:00) - ENA: Dream BBQ (33:21) - What's Making Us Happy This Week? (33:26) - Shane: Getting Into 3D Printing (41:16) - Raygan - New NAS Goofin' (46:55) - Laura: The Clock (1945) (53:10) - Outro

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  • May 30, 2025 · 1 hr 1 min

    440: Skin Deep

    Indie game royalty Blendo aka Brendan Chung, creator of Thirty Flights of Loving and Quadrilateral Cowboy among others has come out of his cicada-like 7 year dev cycle with another instant classic. Skin Deep is an immersive sim about popping the detachable heads off of space pirates and flushing them down space toilets in order to save a bunch of talking space cats. It’s an easily the funniest and probably one of the best immersive sims ever made. (00:00) - 440: Skin Deep (47:07) - What's Making Us Happy This Week? - Fantasy Novel Edition (01:00:36) - Outro

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  • May 17, 2025 · 54 min

    439: Despelote

    A video game memoir by Ecuadorian indie developers Julián Cordero and Sebastian Valbuena, and published by Panic, Despelote takes you back to a childhood in 2001 Ecuador, and the magical grip soccer held over the entire country during the lead-up to the 2002 World Cup. This is something we have never seen in video games before. (00:00) - 439: Despelote (01:00) - Soccer Memories (08:07) - Despelote (14:05) - A long aside about Great Wolf Lodge (16:43) - Despelote! (21:52) - Another digression about child endangerment (24:08) - Despelote!!! (41:36) - What's Making Us Happy This Week? (41:52) - Nate: A Sandworm's Dream (44:26) - Shane: Moms & Myst (47:17) - Laura: Jet Lag: The Game (52:11) - Outro

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  • May 6, 2025 · 57 min

    438: Many Nights a Whisper

    We’re talking about Many Nights a Whisper, a short, meditative archery (kinda!) game from Red Strings Club developer Deconstructeam and Selkie Harbour. The Dreamer has prepared their entire life for one impossible shot that will define a generation. Hear the wishes of your people, and prepare for your one chance to make them come true in this interactive essay on the flight of wishes and the pressure of expectations. In “What’s Making Us Happy”, Nate is playing the classic Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and Raygan recommends an app. An app! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Mario:_The_Thousand-Year_Door https://www.suppermariobroth.com https://reederapp.com/ (00:00) - Many Nights a Whisper (31:29) - What's Making Us Happy This Week? (31:36) - Nate: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (42:23) - Raygan: Reeder (53:03) - Outro

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  • Apr 11, 2025 · 1 hr 8 min

    437: Expelled! Spoilers!

    We spent this week playing a bit more of Inkle’s follow up to Overboard!, and made some shocking discoveries! (00:00) - Expelled! Spoilers! (05:42) - Big Surprises (30:51) - The Content Warnings! (32:38) - Getting Away With It (47:35) - Loose Threads (56:19) - Resetting your Evil Meter (59:24) - Wrap-up

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