180. We Are All Stardust Poop

Lords: Ichiro Adam Topics: I learned how to animate by watching cartoons as a child (and I'm curious what else folks absorbed as a child that impacted the kind of adult they became) I created a Totally Human Rapper that can read up on a game and cut a rap video. Frog Fractions is banned from AGDQ "Frog Fractions" by Totally Human Rapper Tiny Mass Games small games cycle. Microtopics: One of the episodes with a cold open. Live from New York, it's. Using ocean water as a mixer. Being of poop and returning to poop. Using the Boston river as a mixer. Learning everything you know about love from Robotech. Losing your fiancee and marrying an alien instead. Paying $6/hr to play a MUD. Corresponding with your MUD lover via dead tree letters. Playing a MUD and cheating on one avatar with another avatar and eventually realizing that they are played by the same person. Sleep is Death. The cool part of the Metaverse circa 2005. Learning what human relationships look like by watching Saturday morning cartoons. Sarah and Duck. Pocoyo. Busting ghosts. (A very important time in a boy's life.) Retired Men's Nude Beach Volleyball League. The center of your Venn diagram as a creator. Ichiro Paydirt. If Tank Girl were a streamer. Endless Seinfeld pulling a Microsoft Tay. The year of the deluge of AI generated crap. Making a BBS door game about traveling into space. Zooming out of yourself and looking at it with ghost eyes. A game that appears to be family-friendly but is actually porn-adjacent. The Timic skip. A very respectful way to play Frog Fractions. The two concessions Jim made to game design in the Frog Fractions remaster. Catering to the you demographic. Blanking on Tim Ambrogi's name. Noted base jumping game "ahh" An underlying engine that just won't swear. Saying something interesting enough to be debated by a bunch of people. Stemming the tide of mediocrity across streaming platforms. The value of making dinner for two people vs. making art for millions of people. Having a thought in your head and wanting people to hear it. Gluing all the ports shut. Games that gradually destroy themselves. Follow the Frog, an arcade action adventure. Where Totally Human Rapper gets his ideas. How to jailbreak ChatGPT. A deck building auto battler without the deck. A well-scoped game design. Not really having anything to say but loving to wrestle with language. An AI generated game about AI generated games. Polishing a prototype enough to put it in front of a mass audience. Rating AI-generated food. Synergies and combinatorics. The development process for each Frog Fractions game. Answering to ask things.