The Short Game is a podcast celebration of video game storytelling and craft, in video games you’ll actually finish! We choose one great, short game per episode, and discuss it in depth. Episodes release Monday mornings in your podcast app of choice!
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This week we are kicking off our coverage of IFComp with coverage of a handful of games, including some new names and returning Short Game favorites. Looking forward to playing more over the coming month!…Read morePodcast: Play in new window | Download
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This week Shane and Raygan betray the premise of the podcast and have a nice long chat about Baldur's Gate 3, an immense game we're both enjoying immensely, with some digressions into D&D and (ding)…Read morePodcast: Play in new window | Download
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As a follow up to our episode on our favorite mechanics, a listener suggested we talk about which ones we hate! So we did!Read morePodcast: Play in new window | Download
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This week we're celebrating PICO-8 games! PICO-8 is a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games that runs on PC/Mac/Linux. Raygan, Nate, and Shane talk a little about the "console" itself, then review…Read morePodcast: Play in new window | Download
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Set sail with your Short Game hosts on a spooky adventure about... fishing? This week we're covering Dredge by Black Salt games, who describes it as "a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent." What…Read morePodcast: Play in new window | Download
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From Flying to Fleas, this week we're just about some of our favorite mechanics from the many games we've covered over the years.Read morePodcast: Play in new window | Download
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South Scrimshaw is uses the visual novel form to do something very unusual: a science fiction nature documentary. Using hundreds of beautiful bespoke watercolor and ink illustrations, South Scrimshaw tells the story of a whale…Read morePodcast: Play in new window | Download
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Hope you're hungry... for narrative fiction! This week we're dealing with dosas and building biriyanis in Venba. It's a story-driven cooking game centered on a South Indian family living in Canada. Expect it to take…Read morePodcast: Play in new window | Download
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We're finally playing this long anticipated first person puzzler. (No Shane you can't call the genre a "Portalortal".) It's a breezy but inventive and incredibly well executed exploration of perspective. We wrap up with one…Read more
