“Explosions!” Power Fantasies; Game Trailers

This week your Nice Hosts break open Power Fantasies and Indie Game Trailers and analyze what makes them work! Can boredom be a game mechanic? Is the age old storytelling rule "show don't tell" actually bad advice for indie game trailers? Can a power fantasy game really ever have too many explosions??

If you have a trailer for your game and want to get some feedback on it send us a link on Twitter to see if it gets the "Stephen Would Actually Watch This" Seal of Approval!

Content Warning: We briefly discuss Not Nice News about gun violence in the meta section- if you don't want to hear that please skip from 16:20 to 18:08!

Picture credit Gearbox Software

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Game Devs of Color Expo Talks

Friends of the show gave talks! Aubrey Scott talks at 49:57 and Evva Kraikul is on a panel at 4:07:54.

Swimsanity (If your team includes two brothers it has to be sea themed)
Worker Bee is publishing Widget Satchel in Japan!
The Ooblets team is amazing and you should plan on buying the game on the Epic Store when it comes out!

(Ooblets was going to be published by Double Fine until Double Fine was bought out by Microsoft)

[0:18:08] Power Fantasies

Monster Den was a game store/event space in Minneapolis where Martha first played Halo- there is a different game store there now called Dreamers Vault Games

[0:43:27] Game Trailers

Widget Satchel Trailer
If you have a trailer for your game and want to get some feedback on it send us a link on Twitter to see if it gets the "Stephen Would Actually Watch This" Seal of Approval!

This week your Nice Hosts break open Power Fantasies and Indie Game Trailers and analyze what makes them work! Can boredom be a game mechanic? Is the age old storytelling rule “show don’t tell” actually bad advice for indie game trailers? Can a power fantasy game really ever have too many explosions??

If you have a trailer for your game and want to get some feedback on it send us a link on Twitter to see if it gets the “Stephen Would Actually Watch This” Seal of Approval!

Content Warning: We briefly discuss Not Nice News about gun violence in the meta section- if you don’t want to hear that please skip from 16:20 to 18:08!

Picture credit Gearbox Software

Meta

Game Devs of Color Expo Talks

Friends of the show gave talks! Aubrey Scott talks at 49:57 and Evva Kraikul is on a panel at 4:07:54.

Swimsanity (If your team includes two brothers it has to be sea themed)
Worker Bee is publishing Widget Satchel in Japan!
The Ooblets team is amazing and you should plan on buying the game on the Epic Store when it comes out!

(Ooblets was going to be published by Double Fine until Double Fine was bought out by Microsoft)

[0:18:08] Power Fantasies

Monster Den was a game store/event space in Minneapolis where Martha first played Halo- there is a different game store there now called Dreamers Vault Games

[0:43:27] Game Trailers

Widget Satchel Trailer
If you have a trailer for your game and want to get some feedback on it send us a link on Twitter to see if it gets the “Stephen Would Actually Watch This” Seal of Approval!