Welcome to our first exciting episode!

In this episode, we discuss the unexpected indie hit of 2013 Gone Home, a “story exploration game” from new developer The Fullbright Company.

Pre-show topics from this week’s show include:

• The inspiration for the show! Games are too long. I’m tired. Get off my lawn!

• Nate is really excited about FTL: Advanced Edition, a free DLC for the awesome indie roguelike-in-space, available now for PC and iPad  ($9.99, App Store link)

• Shane introduces us to Eliss Infinity – New game for iPhone and iPad ($2.99, App Store link)
  

• …which Raygan compares to Osmos but it’s… you know… different

• Titanfall. None of us have played it.

• Raygan can’t wait till “some time in 2015” to play Firewatch.

Raygan is way too excited to talk about Gone Home. We discuss:

• The structure of the game and games it reminds us of
• The game’s personal and un-game-like story (Don’t worry, we’ll warn you before spoiling anything!)
• The history of the game and its development team

Links for this episode

• Full play through video | YouTube
• Gone Home on HowLongToBeat.com ~ 2 hours
• From BioShock Infinite to Gone Home: the story of The Fullbright Company | Edge Online
• Gamasutra – The story behind Gone Home, and what makes a ‘great game’
• Play the original Gone Home prototype made with Amnesia’s horror-game engine | GamesBeat

We have a release date!

Tuesday, April 15th

This pre-launch welcome episode is just mainly a way to allow you the listeners to subscribe to the show in advance, and so that we can make sure that our feed is working. Subscribe to us in your favorite podcast app!

We are waiting for our show to be listed in iTunes, but you can already subscribe to the show in your favorite podcast app (feed link). I like Instacast. Downcast is pretty good too, and I hear Pocket Casts is good on Android. The (free!) Apple Podcasts app is pretty solid too.

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Shane, Nate, and I are really excited to share this with you. Our inaugural episode is on the break out indie hit of 2013, Gone Home, a game that in two short hours became my favorite game of 2013. I can’t wait to tell you about it.

-Raygan (@raygank)