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In This cast We discuss and define the concept of Gimmicks in games Our Website: https://www.vernaculargames.com/ Our Minds: https://www.minds.com/vernaculargames/ Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VernacularGames/ Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/VernacularGames?lang=en Our Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac Our Audius: https://audius.co/vernaculargames Cliff Notes: 00:09 Introduction 00:23 Gimmick and Gimmicky in Colloquial Speak 01:40 Defining the Gimmick 02:17 Mechanical Gimmicks 03:32 Star Fox Adventure and Refining space Gimmicks 04:26 Guild Wars and Framing space Gimmicks 05:21 Narvisaud Gimmicks 05:43 Narrative Gimmicks 06:34 Skyward Sword and Narrative Gimmicks 07:18 Visual Gimmicks 08:42 Dark Souls and Visual Gimmicks 09:26 Audio Gimmicks 11:32 Accidental Narvisaud Gimmicks 12:31 Accidental Mechanical Gimmicks 13:04 Dev Time Tables and Emergent Gimmicks 13:39 Mechanical Overestimation 14:10 Intentional Mechanical Gimmicks 14:42 Intentional Narvisaud Gimmicks 15:11 Gimmicks in rarity and abundance 16:11 Tactful use of Gimmicks 16:45 Sign Off

In This cast Red Coat speaks at length about Soul Calibur and its design Our Website: https://www.vernaculargames.com/ Our Minds: https://www.minds.com/vernaculargames/ Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VernacularGames/ Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/VernacularGames?lang=en Our Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac Our Audius: https://audius.co/vernaculargames Cliff Notes: 00:04 Introduction 00:12 Soul Calibur as a Tekken Evolution 00:38 What is Soul Calibur 01:01 A 3D fighter with depth of field 01:32 Match flow in Soul Calibur 03:27 What is a Hit Confirm 04:11 Comboed out (or the One Touch) 05:11 How Does Soul Calibur Manage Combos 05:27 The Juggle State 06:11 Aerial Directional Influence 07:23 Damage Ratio and Proration 08:38 Counter hits and Combos 10:00 Arenas and their Influence 11:33 Comeback Mechanics 12:18 Street Fighter 4 and 5 Comebacks 12:57 Supers in Soul Calibur and Soul Edge 13:30 How does it control 13:55 Soul Calibur Frame Data 14:55 Soul Calibur Input Method 16:07 Movement within the 2D view 17:03 Symphonia Movement compared to Soul Calibur 17:29 Radial Movement 18:02 Visible Defensive Options 18:28 Soul Calibur Defensive Options 18:46 Guard Impact 20:11 Guilty Gear and Visible Defensive Options 22:26 Offensive Pacing In Soul Calibur 23:19 2D pacing vs 3D pacing 24:33 Zones in 2D games 25:47 Zones in 3D games 26:27 Soul Calibur 2 26:52 Soul Calibur 3 29:24 Soul Calibur 4 34:27 Soul Calibur 5 36:14 Damage Conversion 36:49 Ex Moves 40:10 Soul Calibur 2 And Character Balance 40:47 Soul Calibur 6 Impressions 41:46 Soul Charge 43:19 Lessons to learn from Soul Calibur 44:29 Pressure Construction in Anime Fighters 45:11 Stuffed Actions 45:40 Pressure Construction in Soul Calibur 46:35 Healthy Rhythm 47:44 Inspiration and Respect for the Martial Arts 49:23 Influence of Soul Calibur on Red Coat's Design Philosophy 50:09 Combat as a Conversation 51:26 Final Statements 51:42 Next Cast and Sign Off

For this cast we begin the task of exploring competitive environments. Particularly Defining what the Environments are and the kinds of Engagement they engender Our Website: https://www.vernaculargames.com/ Our Minds: https://www.minds.com/vernaculargames/ Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VernacularGames/ Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/VernacularGames?lang=en Our Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac Our Audius: https://audius.co/vernaculargames Cliff Notes: 00:04 Introduction 00:20 Tweaking Competitive Environments 00:37 Desired Environment Shape vs Reality 00:55 Internal Play Testing 01:41 External Play Testing 02:01 Magic Un-sets and Unintended Play 03:07 Identifying What Can Change 03:46 Predicting Tweak Affects 05:12 Modulating Vision With Tact 06:06 Listening to your Audience 06:40 Do You Know Your Play Environment 07:15 Enabling Player Feedback 08:04 Player Complaints and Profiles 08:56 Completeness of Player Environment Lens 09:19 Player Skill and Complaints 10:02 Metrics and Context 10:20 Congruency of Vision 10:43 Outliers and Broad Complaints 11:14 Handling the Community 11:40 Encouraging Positive Community Interaction 12:27 Guilty Gear Xrd 12:42 Establish the Environment Style 13:13 Clayfighter and Aggressive Environments 13:43 Sportsmanship and Tournaments 14:25 Incentivise Sporstmanship and Exemplify it 14:42 Tournaments and Commentators 15:35 New Player Acquisition 16:19 Provide Ways to Prepare Before Engaging 16:43 Encourage Good Etiquette 17:02 Learn and Teach The Jargon 17:33 The Value of Older Players 18:06 Mixed Player Environments and Smash Bros 19:12 4 Player Interaction Motivations 20:30 Clashing Interaction Motivations 20:50 Questions For the Meshed Environment 21:07 Managing Player Archetype Interactions 22:16 Local Play and Communication 22:36 Gating and Player Interaction 22:49 Gating in Splatoon 23:30 Single Player Modes 23:56 How Much Playstyle Interaction Do You Want 24:28 Indirect Playstyle Changes 24:41 Dark Souls and Indirect Functional Effects 24:56 Guild Wars 1 and Unintended Player Conflict 25:35 Dark Souls and PVP Playstyles 25:56 Smash Brothers and PVP Playstyles 26:19 House Rule Viability 26:41 Dark Souls and Player Imposed House Rules 27:20 Smash Brothers and Crew Battles 27:56 Smash Brothers and Variable Rulesets 28:20 Maintain an Understanding of the Full Community 28:53 For Fun and For Glory In Smash 4 29:53 Clarity of Intention and Audience Awareness 30:44 Next Cast and Sign Off

For this cast we begin the task of exploring competitive environments. Particularly Defining what the Environments are and the kinds of Engagement they engender Our Website: https://www.vernaculargames.com/ Our Minds: https://www.minds.com/vernaculargames/ Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VernacularGames/ Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/VernacularGames?lang=en Our Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac Our Audius: https://audius.co/vernaculargames Cliff Notes: 00:04 Introduction 00:27 Identifying Competitive and Party Environs 01:15 Smash Bros as Both Competitive and Party Environs 02:30 What Comes from Understanding Competitive Environs 03:22 Defining Victory Conditions 04:10 Best Performance Victory Conditions 04:33 First to Goal and High Score Games 05:02 Olympics as High Score and Races as First to Goal 06:24 First Goal Type Games 06:51 Highest Score Type Games 07:14 Last Player Standing Environments 07:33 Player Interaction Scale 08:17 Psychologically Focused Interaction 08:56 Functionally Focused Interaction 10:08 Psyche and Function Together 10:40 Best Performance and Player Interaction 11:20 Last Player Standing Games 12:12 Competitive Games And Tests of Skill 12:36 Skills Tested In Competitive Games 13:05 Physical Skills 13:42 Cognitive Skills 14:41 Chess and Cognitive Tests 14:59 Fighting Games and Cognitive Tests 15:19 Logistic Skills 15:40 Prioritization 15:50 Allocation 15:59 Optimization 16:08 Magic the Gathering and Logistics 17:40 Star Craft 2 and Logistics 19:19 Long and Short Term Logistics 19:49 Intuition Skills 21:03 Physical Intuition 21:40 Intuition vs. Habit 22:40 Adaptation Skills 23:31 Card Games and Adaptation 23:54 Smash Bros. and Adaptation 24:27 How We Can Use All This 25:04 Influencing Product Construction 25:50 Influencing Marketing 26:17 Influencing The Base Skills Needed 27:14 Easing the Parsing of Player Feedback 27:56 Next Cast and Sign Off

For this cast I take a moment to interview Sientir about his experiences modding Starcraft Our Website: https://www.vernaculargames.com/ Our Minds: https://www.minds.com/vernaculargames/ Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VernacularGames/ Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/VernacularGames?lang=en Our Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac Our Audius: https://audius.co/vernaculargames Cliff Notes: 00:04 Introduction 00:14 Some Background 01:31 How does Modding Effect the Design Process 03:06 Simplified Design from an Established Base 03:36 Lessons Learned from Modding 03:47 Rote and Emergent Role Interplay 05:19 Building Emergent Counterplay 06:03 Magic's Color System and Emergent Counterplay 06:45 The Carrier Mod Example 07:27 Exploring the Removal of Air Units 08:41 Age of Exploration Mod 09:32 The Value of Idea Exploration 11:39 Developed Design Intuition? 12:20 StarCraft and StarCraft 2 Modding Differences 13:20 The Research Backbone 14:17 End State Variance 16:07 Limitations in Starcraft and Starcraft 2 Modding 18:13 Player or Modder? 20:11 Lesson Carry Over 20:30 The Value of Modding 24:14 Next Cast 24:57 Sign Off

In this cast we talk about the idea of creating emotional investment in game concepts and how to do so well and poorly. Our Website: https://www.vernaculargames.com/ Our Minds: https://www.minds.com/vernaculargames/ Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VernacularGames/ Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/VernacularGames?lang=en Our Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac Our Audius: https://audius.co/vernaculargames Cliff Notes: 00:04 Introduction 00:17 Spoilers 00:33 Through the Lens of Loss 00:53 Emotion and Thematic Dissonance 01:27 Prince Rurik and Dissonant Emotional Investment 02:58 Star Fox and Dissonant Emotional Investment 04:23 Escort Quests and Mechanical Dissonance 05:00 Dad of Boy and Good Escort Quests 06:26 Producing Congruent Emotional Response 06:44 Pre-Searing Ascalon's Congruent Emotional Response 07:55 Final Fantasy 7 and Effective Loss 09:14 Tales of Symphonia, Kratos and Zelos 10:23 Tales of Symphonia, First and Second Act Characters 11:15 Fire Emblem Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn 12:13 Recap and Investment Cash In 13:00 Narvisaud Build Up to Mechanical Cash In 14:06 Give the player a Functional Reason to care 14:35 But Don't forget the Narvisaud Identity 14:56 Wrap Up and Sign Off

In this cast Red Coat talks about Racing games that eschew reality in service of fun and spectacle Our Website: https://www.vernaculargames.com/ Our Minds: https://www.minds.com/vernaculargames/ Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VernacularGames/ Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/VernacularGames?lang=en Our Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac Our Audius: https://audius.co/vernaculargames Cliff Notes: 00:04 Introduction 00:19 What is a Fantastical Racing Game 00:44 Modern Racers and Reality 01:07 Kart Racers 02:33 Kart Racers as Party Games 02:50 Examples outside of Kart Games 03:09 Burnout (the series) 04:47 Split Second 05:52 Motorstorm 08:04 The Boost Gauge 08:53 Episode 1 Pod Racer 10:23 Hydrothunder 11:09 F-zero GX and AX 11:32 Back to Hydrothunder and water racers 13:25 Vehicular Combat 14:02 Combat in Kart Racers 14:23 Non Kart Style Combat and Extreme G 15:05 Combat in F-Zero 15:47 Evolving Vehicular Combat 16:50 The Core Weakness of Racing Games 17:23 Kart Racers and Rubberbanding 18:30 Why Rubberbanding and Comeback Mechanics? 18:49 A More Interactive Combat Paradigm 20:52 The Secondary Skill Set 21:39 SSX Tricky and Additional Skills 22:26 Horse Racers and Resource Management 23:37 Watching the Indy 500 and Formula 1 24:27 Racing Prep and Stock Car Racing 25:44 My Opinion on Stock Car Racing 26:28 What I like about Fantastical Racers 27:34 Distance/Nitronic Rush 28:02 Cruis'n USA and San Francisco Rush 28:43 Digital Survival Racing 29:08 Want More Creative Racing Games 29:42 Hydrothunder Plug 30:09 Dragon Racer? Other Horizons? 30:51 Underwater Racer? 31:12 Nobody Knows the Sub Mariner 31:40 Sign Off

In this cast we explore Randomness as a concept and how it can be applied to video games Our Website: https://www.vernaculargames.com/ Our Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/vernaculargames Our Minds: https://www.minds.com/vernaculargames/ Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VernacularGames/ Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/VernacularGames?lang=en Our Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac Our Audius: https://audius.co/vernaculargames Cliff Notes: 00:04 Introduction 00:13 What is Randomness 01:03 Suspension of Disbelief 01:57 Predictability and Disbelief 02:32 Deterministic Unpredictability is Hard 03:04 Randomness and Suspension of Disbelief 03:47 Randomness and Gameplay Variance 04:00 Card Games and Randomness 04:34 Predictability and AI 05:08 Randomness and Risky Play 05:24 Random results and Pokemon 06:09 How can Randomness can be implemented 06:29 Progressive and Insular Randomness 07:15 Humans and Pattern Seeking 08:22 Pattern Seeking and Player Perception 09:29 Result Relevance and Pattern Seeking 10:20 Pokemon and Result Relevance 11:40 Audio Cues and Impact Perception 12:34 "Owed" Luck or Unluck 13:21 Contextual Randomness and Disbelief 14:29 Implementing Insular Randomness 14:40 Implementing Progressive Randomness 14:48 Bag of Results or Deck of Cards 15:11 Results History 15:28 Adjusting Chance 16:20 Progressive RNG to Match Player Expectation 17:04 Sample Size and Standard Distribution 19:09 Pokemon and Binary Result Logic 19:45 Miss Chance and Binary Result Logic 20:50 Card Games and Gradated Result Logic 21:40 Result Gradation 22:11 Gradated Results and Fire Emblem 22:47 Randomness and Skill 24:13 Skill, Randomness and Exciting Play 25:54 Next Cast and Sign Off

Behold the heroic knight Sigurd! His blade is just and true. His will as indomitable as his pompadour. He'll surely be an integral part of the quest to save the kingdom of Mathmatica! Barring unforeseen circumstances, the game will be coming out on Steam Monday the 14th of March (Pi day). You can Wishlist it here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1638690/Legends_of_Mathmatica_Under_the_Shadow_of_Certainty/ Christoph's Twitch Channel. https://www.twitch.tv/christoph_jakob A listening party for the OST should occur there on the 11th of March!

A brief update on what's going down with Legends of Mathmatica²: Under the Shadow of Certainty. Barring unforeseen circumstances, the game will be coming out on Steam Monday the 14th of March (Pi day). Christoph's Twitch Channel. https://www.twitch.tv/christoph_jakob A watch party should occur there on the 11th of March! For more infos, check the video above.

In this one we explore various elements of crafting systems creation and how they can be used to produce positive engagement Our Website: https://www.vernaculargames.com/ Our Minds: https://www.minds.com/vernaculargames/ Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VernacularGames/ Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/VernacularGames?lang=en Our Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac Our Audius: https://audius.co/vernaculargames Cliff Notes: 00:04 Introduction 00:11 What is a Crafting System 00:15 Conversion Systems 00:48 Conversion System Parameters 01:24 Trade Systems 02:13 Grab Bags 02:58 The Crafting System in Detail 04:11 Customization and Modification Systems 05:05 What are Crafting Systems for 05:28 Increasing Player Immersion 06:07 Increasing Player Freedom 06:21 Crafting Materials to increase differentiation 07:06 Crafting Material examples 07:09 Guild Wars 1 (Weapons) 07:37 Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild (cooking)\ 08:09 Adding polish to the reward structure 08:19 Increasing Game Depth 08:34 Altelier Series and Crafting Depth 09:24 Cooking Mama 10:00 Meshing a Crafting system into your game 10:20 Mechanical Identity Reminder 11:21 Questions to define Crafting's Role 12:24 Ask why your player is Crafting in you game 13:57 Recap of purspose discovery questions 14:13 How to make it interesting to engage with 14:30 Player Skill Based Crafting 16:09 Character Skill Based Crafting 18:25 Points to Remember when creating crafting systems 19:00 Meaningful Choice in Crafting 20:18 Breath of the Wild and Meaningful Choice 21:51 Next Cast 22:04 Sign Off

The Second part of our exploration of Complexity. Here we explore the for different types of Complexity Our Website: https://www.vernaculargames.com/ Our Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/vernaculargames Our Minds: https://www.minds.com/vernaculargames/ Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VernacularGames/ Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/VernacularGames?lang=en Our Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac Our Audius: https://audius.co/vernaculargames Cliff Notes: 00:04 Introduction 01:07 A brief history 03:08 The Modes of Play 04:28 The iteration process 05:44 Guild Wars 1 Crafting 08:14 Guild Wars 2 Crafting 11:57 Material Acquisition in both Games 12:40 Experimenting with Questing 16:48 The Point of Quests 18:32 Contextualization, Hearts and Presence 19:34 Goblin Slayer and Reputation 20:50 Level Cap and Skill Acquisition 21:19 Guild Wars 1 Progression 23:25 Guild Wars 2 Progression 24:46 Guild Wars 1 and Early Level Cap 26:47 Guild Wars 2 and Later Level Cap 28:00 Guild Wars 2 Combat and Build System 28:51 Comparing Guild Wars 2 to Middle Earth Shadow of War 32:24 Guild Wars 1, Balance, and Bad Builds 37:16 Guild Wars 2, and Lowered Build Variance 39:56 Guild Wars 1 and Barrier of Entry vs. Depth 40:25 Guild Wars 2 and Opportunity Cost 42:33 The Removal of the Healer Class 43:35 Play Variance or Lack there of 46:05 Big Take Aways 46:39 Managing Scope 47:55 You Need to Game's Design Identity 48:41 Overall Guild Wars 2 is not a bad game 49:14 Wrap Up, Next Podcast, and Sign Off

The Second part of our exploration of Complexity. Here we explore the four different types of Complexity Our Website: https://www.vernaculargames.com/ Our Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/vernaculargames Our Minds: https://www.minds.com/vernaculargames/ Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VernacularGames/ Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/VernacularGames?lang=en Our Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac Our Audius: https://audius.co/vernaculargames Cliff Notes: 00:05 Introduction 00:23 The 4 Complexity Manifestations 01:25 Identifying Negative and Positive Engagement 02:41 Comprehension Complexity 03:31 Negative Comprehension Complexity 04:37 Games that Focus on Comprehension Complexity 04:57 Phoenix Wright, Professor Layton, and Ghost Trick 05:24 Engagement from Discovering What Something Is 05:32 Situational Complexity 06:52 What is Situational Complexity 07:10 Situational Complexity and The Word Search 07:48 The Situation Assessment Triangle 08:46 How Memory Grouping Interacts with Situational Complexity 10:21 Strategic Complexity 10:54 Startegic Complexity and the Learning Curve 11:59 Make sure Strategy involves Meaningful Choice 12:59 Positive Strategic Engagement 13:26 The Importance of Readability for Strategy 14:00 Readability and E-sports 14:26 Executional Complexity 14:55 All objects have Executional Complexity 15:17 Executional Complexity and the Learning Curve 15:51 Executional Complexity as a barrier to play 16:25 Conventional Sports Games and Training 16:56 Training and Video Games 17:20 Positive Executional Complexity 18:17 How do we apply these concepts to Game Design 19:18 Ghost Trick and Focusing on specific elements of Complexity 20:18 Multi-faceted Complexity manipulation 20:59 The Counter System Example 21:20 Examining a Forced Stealth Sequence for Complexity 22:24 Complexity as a function of Learning and Wrap up 23:55 Next Cast 24:23 Sign Off

The first part of our exploration of Complexity. Here we dig into the concept of Barrier of Entry and how it interacts with Level of Depth Our Website: https://www.vernaculargames.com/ Our Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/vernaculargames Our Minds: https://www.minds.com/vernaculargames/ Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VernacularGames/ Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/VernacularGames?lang=en Our Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac Our Audius: https://audius.co/vernaculargames Cliff Notes: 00:06 Introduction 00:28 What is Complexity 01:24 The Four Types of Complexity 02:12 Comprehension Complexity 02:56 Situational Complexity 03:41 Three parts of Situational Complexity 04:04 Strategic Complexity 04:24 Strategic Complexity in Pokemon 05:49 Executional Complexity 06:31 What does Complexity do for Games? 06:59 Barrier of Entry 07:32 Barrier of Entry in Chess 08:10 Depth as Positive Complexity 09:19 Managing Complexity 09:58 Barriers of entry as Doors 10:19 How to identify your Barriers of Entry 11:05 Keep new players in mind 11:54 Depth in Depth 12:08 Depth as rooms in a building 13:27 Barrier of Entry ratio to Level of Depth 14:02 Mark Rosewater and Lenticular Design 14:36 Wrap Up 14:54 Sign Off

A brief update on the things of Vernacular Games. The cliffies: We're moving into Kansas Legends of Mathmatica may get its release date pushed back to March Christoph Jakobs OST for Legends of Mathmatica will be live soon Check the video for more details.

Sientir speaks a bit on his experience with ID's earlier first person shooter games and other tangentially related things Our Website: https://www.vernaculargames.com/ Our Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/vernaculargames Our Minds: https://www.minds.com/vernaculargames/ Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VernacularGames/ Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/VernacularGames?lang=en Our Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac Our Audius: https://audius.co/vernaculargames Cliff Notes: 00:03 Introduction 00:52 What did Sientir like about FPS games? 01:37 How do you compare current FPS to old school FPS? 02:33 What pushes him away from current FPS games? 03:39 How did FPS impact Sientir's design sensibilities? 04:22 Impact of Player Speed 04:57 Old school color compared to new school 05:57 Worlds designed for fun rather than to imitate reality 06:38 Opinions on Doom 2016 07:04 Graphical Stylization vs. Realism 08:16 GI-Joe style 08:39 ID and Arcade play 09:51 Weapon Limitations and unreality 10:41 Demon Souls to Dark Souls and Encomberance 11:27 Weapon Selection and the weapon dial 12:04 Environment Exploration, Speed to world size 13:55 Interesting Traversal in games 15:05 Alternative Movement, Ocarina of Time 15:42 Quake and Environment Design 16:02 Hexen and Environment Design 16:32 Dark Souls 2 and area resonance and implementation 18:59 The dying creepy forest aesthetic 19:40 The Aesthetic feelings that stuck with Sientir 21:33 Projectile Design that allows the player to interact with it 22:44 Encapsulating Thoughts 24:31 Sign Off

Here we explore the concept of transitions in games and why they are important to the overall experience Our Website: https://www.vernaculargames.com/ Our Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/vernaculargames Our Minds: https://www.minds.com/vernaculargames/ Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VernacularGames/ Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/VernacularGames?lang=en Our Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac Our Audius: https://audius.co/vernaculargames Cliff Notes: 00:05 Introduction 01:19 What roles can music play? 01:43 Mood and Ambiance Management 02:02 Hyrule Field in the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 02:54 The Courtyard in Super Mario 64 04:11 Sound Choice in the Souls Series 04:31 Guild Wars 1 and Musical Contrast 04:54 Emotional control through Music 05:23 Musical Alerts 06:20 Musical Alerts in Legend of Zelda 06:43 Sonic and the Drowning Alert 06:58 Creating Emotional Continuity Through Anthems 07:56 Songs Influence Player perception of characters 08:15 Captain Falcon and F-Zero GX 08:39 Musical Selection and Pokemon 09:22 Fighting Games and Anthems 10:13 How to use music? 10:53 Dynamic in game music 11:55 Minamalist Dynamic Music 12:26 Reactive Compositions 12:39 Randomized Compositions 13:29 Transitioning between Musical Elements 14:23 Transitions and Fire Emblem 15:43 Silence as a musical choice 16:14 An example of Audio Mixing 17:14 Megaman X3 and Sound Management 18:29 Benefits of Effective Music Usage 19:37 Song types to pay particular attention to 20:39 Make sure to communicate with your composer 21:31 Wrap Up and Next Cast 21:54 Sign Off

Here we explore the concept of transitions in games and why they are important to the overall experience Our Website: https://www.vernaculargames.com/ Our Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/vernaculargames Our Minds: https://www.minds.com/vernaculargames/ Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VernacularGames/ Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/VernacularGames?lang=en Our Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac Our Audius: https://audius.co/vernaculargames Cliff Notes: 00:04 Introduction 00:20 What are Transitions 00:58 Why are they important? 02:08 Why use them in games? 02:46 Data Management 03:18 Ways to Manage Memory 03:53 Transitions to Manage Pacing 04:51 Increasing Impact of Events 05:22 Methods of doing Transitions 05:41 Cut Transitions 06:08 Masked Transitions 06:50 Super Metroid vs Metroid Prime 07:46 Other styles of Cut and Masked Transitions 08:47 What to keep in mind 08:53 Establish Transition Rules 09:42 What do your Transitions say? 09:57 Dark Souls 2 and Transitions 10:50 Ocarina of Time and Cut Abstraction 11:19 Ocarina of Time Beta Quest 11:50 Zonal Transitions 12:12 Sonic the Hedgehog Zonal Transitions 13:13 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Zonal Transitions 14:03 Sonic The Hedgehog 3 Zonal Transitions 14:45 Overview and Wrap up 15:17 Next Cast and Sign Off

Red Talks about and Defines his concept of Run and Gun games Our Website: https://www.vernaculargames.com/ Our Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/vernaculargames Our Minds: https://www.minds.com/vernaculargames/ Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VernacularGames/ Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/VernacularGames?lang=en Our Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac Our Audius: https://audius.co/vernaculargames Cliff Notes: 00:04 Introduction 00:20 What is a Run and Game 00:35 Reflexive versus Contemplative 01:02 What are Run and Gun Games like 02:30 Enemies as the focus 02:51 Guns n' projectiles 03:35 Pacing in Run and Guns 04:27 Difference between Shmup and Run and Gun 05:49 Shadow the Hedgehog - Run and Gunner? 06:35 The Flowering of Skill 09:30 Design Philosophy of Tough Love 11:05 Mechanical Media Res 11:20 Where to start the learning curve

An examination of the dissonance that can occur when the Mechanical and Narvisaudal Identity of a game are at odds with each other Our Website: https://www.vernaculargames.com/ Our Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/vernaculargames Our Minds: https://www.minds.com/vernaculargames/ Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VernacularGames/ Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/VernacularGames?lang=en Our Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac Our Audius: https://audius.co/vernaculargames Cliff Notes: 00:08 Introduction 00:24 What are Mechanics 00:33 Developer Intention 00:51 Dissonanace Overview 01:27 Non-Harmonious Alignment Overview 01:45 Mechanical Dissonance in Pokemon 04:44 How could we solve this? 05:31 Narvisaudal Dissonance 05:57 Cut-Scene Guns 07:38 Accepted Narvisaudal Dissonance 09:04 Non-Harmonious Alignment 10:11 Sonic R and Non-Harmonious Alignment 12:23 Cast Summary

The First podcast of Season 2. Here we do a brief recap of the things we went over in Season 1 Our Website: https://www.vernaculargames.com/ Our Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/vernaculargames Our Minds: https://www.minds.com/vernaculargames/ Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VernacularGames/ Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/VernacularGames?lang=en Our Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac Our Audius: https://audius.co/vernaculargames Cliff Notes 00:06 Changes for this Season 00:27 Recap Start 00:44 The Composite Experience 01:11 Narvisaud 02:17 Mechanical Layers 03:07 Game Balance 05:09 Terminology 05:36 Game Object 05:41 Player Object 05:53 Non-Player Object 06:11 Objectives 06:26 Obstacles 06:35 Tense Obstacles 06:51 Relaxed Obstacles 07:08 Traps 07:23 Agency 07:39 Agents 08:01 Foes 08:23 Assets 08:42 Resource 08:50 Currency 09:11 Consumables 09:21 Tools 09:36 Collectibles 09:55 Collectible Parts 10:12 Wrap Up 10:58 Sign Off

The final cast for season 1 of our podcast series. Here we talk about our favorite casts from the previous season and some of the things we've been doing over the course of the year. Our Website: https://www.vernaculargames.com/ Our Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/vernaculargames Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/VernacularGames Our Minds: https://www.minds.com/vernaculargames/ Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VernacularGames/ Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/VernacularGames?lang=en Our Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac Our Audius: https://audius.co/vernaculargames Cliffnotes 00:04 Introduction 01:00 Who is Vernacular Games 03:11 What the name means 04:45 What the word means 05:42 Tenets of operation 06:12 Red: Make games we want to play 08:13 White: Make opportunities for others 10:11 The problem with 5 years of experience at entry level 14:01 Gold: Operate ethically and efficiently 16:43 Highlights of Season 1 16:53 Podcast 20, the Composite Experience 17:40 The Game Fountain 18:46 The creation of the term Narvisaud 19:40 Podcast 32, Video Game Economies 21:32 How one looks at a tree 22:55 Podcast 2, Hard vs. Challenging 23:44 Difficulty as a success to failure ratio 25:58 Podcast 12, Vernacular's Vernacular 28:01 Podcast 19, Visceral and Cerebral Engagement 29:35 Betrayel of Experience 30:23 13, 14, 15, Reset, Reload, Resume 31:45 What have we been up to? 32:26 Project Vari 35:41 what is SCRUM 38:04 Back loaded information systems 39:05 Lessons in communication 40:09 Wrap Up 40:56 Sign Off

Here we take some time to talk about some of the pitfalls and reasons to make sequels as well as methods that are employed to make sequels feel like justified entries in their franchises. Our Website: https://www.vernaculargames.com/ Our Minds: https://www.minds.com/vernaculargames/ Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VernacularGames/ Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/VernacularGames?lang=en Our Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac Our Audius: https://audius.co/vernaculargames Cliff Notes: 00:04 Introduction 00:49 Capture Narvisaud and Mechanical Identity 01:43 Capture the Audience 02:16 Doom Movie and Taking the wrong lessons 04:52 How do Franchises continue forward? 05:51 Rogue One and the Star Wars Franchise 06:41 Franchise Derivation 07:43 Why Devs dig into Franchises 08:04 Implications of Carrying the Narvisaud 09:17 Sonic Spinball 09:49 Most Common Followup Types 10:33 Archetypal Story/Narvisaud And Nintendo 11:45 3D Sonic vs 2D Sonic 12:08 Megaman and Archetypal Mechanics/Narvisaud 14:10 Other Media that Follow Archetypal Structure 14:22 Naruto 16:14 Carrying the Narvisaud specifically 16:45 The Wind Waker Style Shift 17:52 Star Wars and Archetypal/Legacy Audio 19:09 Pokemon and Legacy Audio 20:34 Pokemon Yellow 21:27 Carrying the Mechanics 21:44 The Legend of Zelda 22:16 The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword 24:15 The Effect of the general purpose crafting system 26:26 The Effect of understanding a game's identity 27:40 The Transition from 2D to 3D 28:22 Sonic 2D to 3D 29:06 The Original 2D Sonic 29:59 Sonic as a Character and game feel 31:24 Adhering to Mechanics or Narvisaud only in a series 32:00 Final Fantasy and Element Carryover 34:16 The importance of learning what defines a franchise 35:08 Dark Souls 2 and Dodge Roll 38:05 The important question to ask for follow ups 39:08 The question to ask for mimicked mechanics 40:13 Prince of Persia to Prince of Persia Warrior Within 41:56 Devil May Cry 2 as an unsuccessful sequel 43:30 Wrap Up 44:14 Extended Sign-off

With the Indiegogo reaching its end, now I'll speak a bit on the future of Vernacular Games as well as Legends of Mathmatica You can wishlist the game on Steam!: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1638690/Legends_of_Mathmatica_Under_the_Shadow_of_Certainty/

With only a few days left on the Gogo, we close the book on this chapter of Legends of Mathmatica's development. - Link Below https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/legends-of-mathmatica/x/23532732#/