Developer and humourist Curtis Lassam joins us to discuss humour in games. We discuss comically hard games, sandboxes as a vehicle for comedy, what makes it hard to write a funny game, and a goat.

Octodad
QWOP
Enviro-Bear 2000
The Worms series
Dwarf Fortress Boatmurdered
Team Fortress’ “Meet The Team” shorts
Steamclock Software
Cave Johnson’s dialogue from Portal 2
The dialogue in Duke Nukem Forever
Goat Simulator Trailer
“Xbox Sign Out” trolling
Spelunky
Super Time Force review on Polygon

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