The Right to Return w/ Dom Nero and Kyle Starr | X-Strike Summer #4

Into the Aether - A Low Key Video Game Podcast

On the finale of X-Strike Summer, AJ chats with Dom Nero (Eye of the Duck) and Kyle Starr (Y-Button) about being gamer dads, puzzle games, and how you are well within your rights to return any console within 30-days because you can't beat the Elden Ring DLC. It is *not* your fault, it's the *controller* that's broken.

Dom's Links
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/dominicknero
Dom's website: https://domnero.com
Dom's story "the bells" in the No Tokens journal: https://notokensjournal.com/fiction/the-bells/
The Eye of the Duck podcast: http://www.eyeoftheduckpod.com/

Kyle's Links
On Threads: https://www.threads.net/@_kylestarr
On Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@kylestarr
The Y-Button podcast: http://ybutton.online/
Zero Counts: https://zerocounts.net/

Into the Game Jam Links
itch page: https://itch.io/jam/itgj-summer-2024
Find the forum thread on the TWG Discord: Navigate to the "Games Forums" category, select the games-events forum, find "Into The Game Jam (Summer 2024)" forum thread and say hello!

Discussed: Into the Game Jam, being a Gamer Dad, Sell My Old Consoles I'm Off to Handheld from Zero Counts, Video Games are Millennials Too from Zero Counts, the hand-me-down console, Shadows of the Empire Was the Original Star Wars Smuggler Story by Dom for Esquire, the Anbernic RG405V in transparent purple, the Gamegirl, gaming curriculum, Describing the Aether, getting your kids to like junk food, Kyle's Gameboy restorations, the PICO-8, games being made *right now*, Splore, Retro Game Corps, a bunch of Splore games (check the chapters!), Playdate's Lua SDK, thoughts about games, X-Strike or X-Strike? Or X-Strike???, more like the Lame-o of Time, Kingdom Hearts, Animal Well, Return of the Obra Dinn, Chants of Sennaar, Apotris, Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, Cocoon, COCOON - Story and Ending Explained by Pixel Pondering, this Second Wind video about puzzles, games Kyle has been thinking about, The Legend of Zelda: The Ultimate Trial, the ONE Metal Gear Solid to play, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, Lookouts, the finale of X-Strike Summer <3
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Timecodes:

• (00:00) - Intro with Dom and Kyle!
• (01:42) - Into the Game Jam is underway!!!
• (05:52) - What it's like being a gamer dad
• (16:16) - What games our kids will play
• (24:01) - Gaming 101
• (31:09) - Kyle's handheld experience
• (39:23) - PICO-8, a fantasy console
• (47:29) - Dom's Splore list
• (47:36) - Hot Wax | Dom's Splore list
• (48:08) - Marble Merger | Dom's Splore list
• (48:14) - Tetrolled | Dom's Splore list
• (48:39) - Embrace | Dom's Splore list
• (49:07) - Just One Boss | Dom's Splore list
• (49:44) - Modern game design with limited tools
• (52:49) - Kyle's rabbithole
• (01:08:15) - How's AJ doing?
• (01:10:44) - Gaming is back
• (01:11:47) - Kingdom Hearts | Kyle's big ol' list
• (01:19:53) - Animal Well | Kyle's big ol' list
• (01:32:07) - Games that Kyle has been thinking about
• (01:35:16) - The Legend of Zelda: The Ultimate Trial | IF YOU'RE GOING TO STOP LISTENING, LISTEN TO THIS BIT AT LEAST
• (01:44:29) - AJ's been thinking about Metal Gear Solid
• (01:48:26) - Shadow of the Erdtree| What if someone made a game that was hard???
• (01:50:45) - Lookouts | Stay tuned for more on dotzip!
• (01:51:42) - X-Strike Summer is over!!!
• (01:53:15) - Find Dom and Kyle's links in the show notes!
• (01:56:06) - Wrapping up

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