1UP FM Plays Through Psychonauts
Since I haven’t posted any news about the games I am working on (Brutal Legend is awesome, btw, and my personal game is finally heading towards some simple playtests), how about a game I worked on years ago?
1UP FM’s Podcast crew has spent the last portion of several shows talking about their recent experiences playing through Psychonauts. It’s way, way better than a review, and a different experience than a focus test. I don’t know if it’ll be interesting to people who didn’t work on Psychonauts, but I found the podcasters surprisingly insightful about what they liked. It can actually be fairly difficult to talk intelligently and accurately about what does and doesn’t work for you as you play through a game: so many inputs combine to create your experience that it can be difficult to isolate any real causes. The 1UP crew, though, does a solid job. I actually took notes.
In case you’re interested– and I don’t actually know if it’s interesting to more than 40 or so people– you can get to all the relevant podcasts from their main 1UP FM page. The relevant bits are:
7/28 – 1:09:28
8/04 – 1:16:15
8/11 – 1:22:39
8/18 – 1:15:15
(Thanks to several DFers for providing the dates and timestamps. I merely copy-paste!)