MeDIDa: Slay the Princess
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Episode 17 of MeDIDa, and we're talking about the game Slay the Princess, with special guest Eil! Slay the Princess was developed by the indie game studio Black Tabby Games, the duo of Abby Howard and Tony Howard-Arias, with the original game released in October 2023, and an expanded version, called the Pristine Cut, released in 2024. Slay the Princess is a sort of visual novel, adventure horror game that plays with time and space and the concept of life and personhood in really fascinating ways. This game is not explicitly about multiplicity in that it never uses that language, but it is very apparently present in almost every aspect of the game (including the multiple different interpretations you can get out of it). In this fairly extensive discussions, we only really cover a few of the potential interpretations this game has to offer, and we really hope you try this game out and discover the plurality of it for yourself! If you have any comments or suggestions about media to cover, or even would like to be a guest on the podcast, send an email to [email protected] Intro and Outro music: Bug Catching by Emily A. Sprague Link to Land Acknowledgement of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe Link to Eil's Online Memoir Other media mentioned during this discussion include: The Stanley Parable (2013 game) In Stars and Time (2023 game) Jim Henson's The Storyteller: The Soldier and Death (1988 tv series) On Borrowed Time (1939 film) - this is the SciFi media that Eil couldn't recall in the moment
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