Episode 88: Her Story
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English - June 15, 2021 15:00 - ★★★★ - 10 ratingsVideo Games Leisure game boy gameboy advance atari lynx sega gamegear gear nintendo Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this episode six years in the making, Pierce Courchaine joins us to talk about the mysterious and innovative 2015 game Her Story. We compare notes, discuss its calculated writing and attempt to uncover the truth. Note that we do spoil the hell out of the game eventually, but there is quite a big of spoiler-free talk at the beginning, as well as a clear warning before we get into the finer details.
And because the universe is weird, turns out, that Sam Barlow, the creator of Her Story, announced a new game called Immortality right after we recorded this episode!
Show Notes:
If you want more Her Story, Mark Brown of Game Maker’s Toolkit, did a much better job explaining how this game works than we did. And here’s Mark’s complete explainer for the game.There is also an exhaustive breakdown of the game by DePaul and University of Chicago professor Ian Bryce Jones, who has used Her Story as a teaching tool in his college classes.