The Short Game is experimenting with our format this week, and you’re the guinea pig! We’re calling these shortisodes; half-length (or less) episodes in which we break from our regular format of talking in depth about one game per episode and talk instead about… whatever we want! This will allow us to still get something in your feed each week (cough late cough) while we move to our bi-weekly-ish format.

In this, our first shortisode, we discuss some of the points raised in Ben Kuchera’s recent Polygon article, “To hell with longer games, tell me how SHORT your game is.” We couldn’t agree more.

Links for this episode:

• To hell with longer games, tell me how SHORT your game is – Polygon
• THE VANISHING OF ETHAN CARTER REVIEW: DISAPPEARING TRICK – Polygon
• The Entertainment Software Association – Industry Facts – The average age of a game player is 31, average age of a game purchaser is 35!
• The Short Games Revolution – Adrian Chmielarz
• City Connection
• Teslagrad

You can follow our show on Twitter at @_shortgame

Your hosts this week were:

• Raygan Kelly – @raygank
• Shane Kelly – @8bitShane