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Zero Context 10: secreting secrets
Content warning: suicide plays a central role in Virtue’s Last Reward and is discussed briefly in episode.After a brief taste of freedom, Axe and Nathalie plunge back into Virtue’s Last Reward,...
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Be not afraid of Autumn Rain
Autumn Rain (she/they/it) is a prolific game developer whose work explores religious trauma, non-linear exploration, and getting lost in a maze of rats. We discuss games as miserable piles of secrets,...
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Zero Context 11: Tenmyouji's revenge
Content warning: suicide plays a central role in Virtue’s Last Reward and is discussed briefly in episode.After the last bewildering lock, Axe and Nathalie take the long way down to warehouse B and...
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Zero Context 12: antimater baby
Content warning: suicide plays a central role in Virtue’s Last Reward and is discussed briefly in episode.Jumping all the way back up the termite mound, Axe and Nathalie finally enter the cyan door, a...
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Zero Context 13: Rebuild of Sigma 1.11 ~ You Can (Not) Cum
Content warning: suicide plays a central role in Virtue’s Last Reward and is discussed briefly in episode.After a long sleep in the cryogenic pods, Axe and Nathalie are thrust back into Virtue’s Last...
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Leah Case builds cities out of Twine
Leah Case (she/her) is a writer and game developer who specializes in absurd Twine hacking. In our chat, she digs into why she loves Twine so much, how she approaches writing branching interactive...
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Zero Context 14: my life as a death game robot
Content warning: suicide plays a central role in Virtue’s Last Reward and is discussed briefly in episode.Returning to the director’s office, Axe and Nathalie use their months of nonary knowledge to...
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Zero Context 15: death or calculator
Content warning: suicide plays a central role in Virtue’s Last Reward and is discussed briefly in episode.After what feels like an eternity within the barren halls of Virtue’s Last Reward, Axe and...
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Canvas on making your mechanics crunchy and your robots gay
Canvas (he/she), aka bighandinsky, is the creator of crunchy, narrative driven scifi games A Forgetful Loop (2020) and A Day of Maintenance (2022). He’s collaborated with fellow writers and indie devs...
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Exploring a world of crypts with Lili Zone
Lili Zone (she/they) is the experimental game designer behind works like Crypt World (2013) and Crypt Underworld (2023). She took some time to chat with me about Crypt World’s origins, the nearly...
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Zero Context 16: for want of a snail
Returning after volunteering on a Mars colonization experiment, Axe and Nathalie are back in the Nevada desert for the third and final (?) Zero Escape game, Zero Time Dilemma (Chime, 2016)....
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Terraforming Oddworld
The tale begins with Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, an ambitious puzzle platformer released in 1997 and intended to kick off a quintology of games that would unite to tell a cohesive story spanning multiple...
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And there will be no one to cross the Rubicon
In 1871, as the forces of the National Guard push the French Republic out of the Parisian borders, the Paris Commune is established, marking the first anti-capitalist revolution in human history. While...
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Zero Context 17: big head blood mode
Content warning: this episode discusses scenes involving heavy blood and gore, and briefly touches on suicide.After a brief 90 minute absence, Axe and Nathalie return to Zero Time Dilemma ready to...
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Visiting Brownie Cove with Sam Machell
Sam Machell (he/him) is half of indie game studio Sand Gardeners, known for provocative and unconventional games like Dark Kitchen, Memphis, Bubbleland, and Brownie Cove Cancelled. We chat about the...
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Zero Context 18: incinerate your gays
Content warning: this episode discusses scenes involving characters melting and being burned alive, and a brief mention of suicideAwakening from an explosive nightmare, Axe and Nathalie are thrust...
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Zero Context 19: sadboy570
Content warning: this episode briefly mentions alcoholism and suicidal ideationAfter escaping from a eerily familiar shower game, Axe and Nathalie stand before the exit ready to emerge into the humid...
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Dreaming of piss with Domino Club
Domino Club is a pseudo-anonymous internet collective that makes weird, horny, and genre perverting videogames. In this episode I’m joined by Domino Club card carrying members Emma (she/her), Nat...
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Zero Context 20: Zero's plushie empire
Content warning: this episode briefly discusses suicide and child abuseIn an eerily brief set of fragments, Axe and Nathalie must contend with poison capsules, rotating rooms, and a belligerent...
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Zero Context Holiday Special: Kamaitachi no Yoru
Content warning: Kamaitachi no Yoru contains scenes of blood, dismemberment, murder, suicide, and transmisogyny, which are discussed briefly in this episode.Axe and Nathalie take a break from Zero...
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