Talking Simulator Podcast
1) Before I Forget with Chella Ramanan
Chella Ramanan explains how she wrote a first-person story game in which the player character has dementia.
2) Animal Crossing: New Horizons (cultural events) with Marie Foulston
As museums, galleries, and theatres close their doors, Jordan and Marie discuss cultural events taking place in Animal Crossing.
3) Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Bunny Day) with Pip Warr
As Jordan prepares for an Easter spent in isolation, she and Pip discuss the run up to Bunny Day, in which the rocks, trees, earth, sea, and sky of our islands fill with eggs.
4) Animal Crossing: New Horizons (multiplayer) with V Buckenham
As Jordan misses her social-distancing friends, she visits V on their island for a conversation about how Animal Crossing is bringing people together.
5) Animal Crossing: New Horizons (learning) with Chella Ramanan
As Jordan (like undoubtedly many others) loses her sense of time, Chella tells her how she's been taking Animal Crossing: New Horizons at her own pace.
6) Animal Crossing: New Horizons (min-maxing) with Kat Brewster
As Jordan struggles to come to terms with being unproductive during a pandemic, she and Kat discuss min-maxing and ask for what imagined future we create collections like museums.
7) Telling Lies with Lizi Attwood
The sole programmer on Telling Lies, Lizi Attwood, breaks down how the game was made.
8) Parenthood with Keza MacDonald
The Guardian's video games editor Keza MacDonald shines a light on parents in games.
9) Esports with Frankie Ward
Esports host Frankie Ward kindly takes the time to explain to Jordan why she loves esports so much.
10) Elsinore with Katie Chironis
Elsinore's writer and team lead Katie Chironis discusses the process of turning Shakespeare's Hamlet into a time-looping adventure game.