Blue Cup Tools Podcast

Another episode of Top Scores! We pick more of our favorite tunes from different games and share them with you.

The usual chat about games we're playing, how to effectively pepper backstory and information in your game via documents and/or conversation, and an extensive Roberta Williams bashing session!

This week, we discuss routines and schedules and how they help when designing games, Ben tells us all about his exciting new job, and we each discuss more of our boring personal lives!

OoooooOOOOOOooh! In this SPOOKY Halloween episode, we talk about Australia's sad lack of the holiday, games we've been playing, our favorite scary games, and discuss if we would ever make or work on a horror game.

In this week's episode, we talk about our individual nerd adventures, parser interfaces vs point and click and the effect on interactivity, protagonists who are cowards, and a guy who has never seen a PC game before!

We discuss our eBay activities and thrift shops, the magical art of editing Wikipedia pages, Grundislav expresses his displeasure at the Gabriel Knight remake, would we remake our own games, and a surprise interview with Joel Staaf Hasto!

Today, we rant about HD remakes, citing Flashback as an example. Grundislav rants about the Beyond: Two Souls demo. Are games today too reliant on player objectives? Other random blabbings!

Grundislav and ThreeOhFour watch too many movies and tv shows, what do we like about adventure games, anyway? Design documents, word searches, and many more random topics.

Another episode of Top Scores! We each pick 8 of our favorite tunes from different games and share them with you.

Grundislav's laziness takes its toll on our audio quality, we talk about variety in games and how to mix up your puzzles in adventure games. Also, lots of non-sequitir nonsense!

We're back! Ben feels sad for a bit, but all is forgiven and we talk about various things, including character identities!

Our longest episode yet! Atmosphere in games, games with atmosphere we like and dislike, and creating good atmosphere in your own games. Also, a planned hiatus starts now while Grundislav moves away.

This episode, we discuss companion characters in games: the good, the bad, and the Cedric! Also, be nice to each other!

Consequence in games and how to handle multiple endings. Listen to it or face the consequences!

In which we do a brief recap of the games entered in the One Room One Week Competition, and discuss dialogue in games.

A very special episode: Top Scores! We each pick 8 of our favorite tunes from game soundtracks and play them for your listening pleasure!

This episode we talk about working with deadlines, how entering MAGS can be beneficial, and the magic potion of salt lick, dog food, glue sticks, and molasses!

After yet another long hiatus, Grundislav and Ben304 return and briefly reminisce about Bogans 2013, discuss art styles in several games, and give tips on developing your own style.

After a less long hiatus, Grundislav and Ben304 return and talk about 2012's game of the year, what 2013 has in store for them game-wise, The Morales Paradox, the taboo subject of house rape, and much more!

After a long hiatus, Grundislav and Ben304 return with a new less silly format to discuss what it's like to start new games!