DGC Ep 429: Fez (part Four) Dev Game Club podcast

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DGC Ep 429: Fez (part four)

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Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we complete our series on Fez. We talk about getting to New Game +, some favorite puzzles or mechanics, and then turn to our takeaways. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary.

Sections played: Finished the game! (once)

Issues covered: Tim's audio quality, community event, mind blowing, needing a certain number of cubes, a discussion of QR codes, every QR code a Fez puzzle, not being sure you should follow a QR code, stepping through the 32-cube door, metaphysical reflections, stepping back through bit depth, meme sunglasses, seeing how the world is built, debug tools, keeping a secret, independence and control of marketing and secrets, time pivots and traversing quickly, glowing gates and time of day, the low gravity space, Fez notes, Brett tries to talk around figuring out how to translate the language, talking yourself into being on the right track but not being, the lore in the world, subverting expectations and norms, exploring consequences of innovation, inspiration and subversion of classic games, not overstaying the welcome of its mechanics, changing how you think of the game, always having something going on, the artifacts and treasure maps, a more approachable platformer, difficult twitch reflexes, so you're saying it's possible.

Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Keep Talking and No One Explodes, Kaeon, Calamity Nolan, Space Team, BioStats, Beyond Good & Evil, Alan Wake, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Super Hexagon, Atari 2600, NES, Adventure, Plato/The Republic, The Wizard of Oz, Assassin's Creed, Dark Souls, Mines of Moria, sixty second shooter prime, MYST, Minecraft, Tetris, Humongous, Freddi Fish, Pajama Sam, Father Beast, Vessel, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, Axiom Verge, Hollow Knight, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia.

Next time: TBA!

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