House of Games #61 - Shooting Yourself in the Foot

Load ’em up and aim down below as we discuss the concept of “Shooting Yourself in the Foot”, or ruining the fun in games. Listen in as we talk about stories where we ruined our own fun and how you can stop players from doing the same in your game!

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Chapters
00:00 Episode Intro
00:55 Introducing the Theme for the Episode: Shooting Yourself in the Foot
03:02 Open-World Games and Collectibles
13:41 How Developers Are Shooting Themselves in the Foot
14:28 Open-World Games (in Space) Are Overhyped and Over-Promised
17:32 Sunset Moon Update
19:48 Shooting Yourself in the Foot With Trophies
25:29 Achievements in KnifeBoy
29:45 The Antidote
42:33 Why Open World Space Games Are Boring, Continued
47:53 Points of No Return in Games
52:23 Problems and Solutions for Card Games Inside Video Games
58:00 How Developing Games Replaces Playing Games
01:03:15 Episode Outro

Your Hosts and Their Games
⁠https://store.steampowered.com/app/2436180/Sunset_Moon/⁠ — Wishlist Sunset Moon on Steam!⁠https://www.play-asia.com/red-colony-trilogy/13/70fmjh⁠ — Buy the Red Colony trilogy on Switch!⁠https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/24596/Red_Colony_Uncensored_Threesome_Bundle/⁠ — Buy the Red Colony trilogy on Steam!⁠https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/knifeboy-rebooted-switch/⁠ — Buy KnifeBoy on Switch!⁠https://store.steampowered.com/app/889130/KnifeBoy_Rebooted/⁠ — Buy KnifeBoy on Steam!⁠https://ottowretling.medium.com/list/game-development-427e99aefd01⁠ — Read Otto’s blog about game development!⁠https://discord.gg/mYM72SQ9CP⁠ — The discord server for Game Hub Umeå.⁠https://youtu.be/drUKDVWgeTo?si=6CRqqX1Rzn3VQbyK⁠ — Credits to Miketendo64 for the KnifeBoy gameplay background footage.

Get all the links and the transcript for this episode right here: ⁠https://medium.com/@ottowretling/house-of-games-61-shooting-yourself-in-the-foot-6d38587bc684