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Here we delve into the concept of the follow up title, and propose our own ideas on what constitutes different types of follow ups, in preparation for our next talk on the concept of the graceful sequel 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 Cliff Notes: 00:03 Introduction 01:09 Restating Previous Definitions 02:50 The Narrative Sequel and Prequel 03:15 The Uncharted Series 03:32 The Narrative and Temporal Link 04:43 The Mechanical Sequel 05:09 The Legend of Zelda series 06:46 Direct Sequels within The Zelda Series 07:27 Spiritual Successors 07:54 Freedom Planet 08:33 Carrying the Legacy 08:49 Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 09:42 Spin-Off 10:41 Metal Gear and Metal Gear Revengence 11:20 Mario and Luigi games 11:40 The Full Sequel 12:28 The Cousin 14:34 The Reboot 15:21 Examples 16:06 The Remake 16:32 Re-Imagining 16:41 Salt and Sanctuary and Dark Souls 17:31 Inspired By 18:35 F-zero 19:10 A personal example 20:46 Wrap-up 21:16 Next Cast 21:51 Sign Off

In this cast we talk about the concept of building games with different player considerations in mind and various ways to try and understand players that are different from yourself. 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 Vernacademia S1:E38 Rumble Link 00:06 Introduction 00:27 How can you learn what others like 00:54 The Bartle Taxonomy of player types 01:29 Magic the GartheringPlayer Psychographic 01:54 Timmy type Players 02:55 Johnny type Players 03:27 Spike type Players 03:58 Timmy and Storytelling 04:48 Uncharted and Timmy 05:26 Johnny and Self-Expression 06:09 MVC3 and Johnny 06:44 Role-play overlap Timmy/Johnny 07:23 Speed Running and the Play Personas 08:43 The MTG psychograpic is one of many tools 09:56 Fanfiction and the Play Personas 10:41 The importance of learning what others like 11:15 Transformers Devastation and Play Personas 13:30 Player playstyles and facilitation 14:41 Dark Souls series and applied play persona theory 18:10 Niche design expansion and play dilution 19:50 Optimize toward a target audience 20:38 Red Coat Wrap up 21:40 Sientir Wrap up 22:16 For Broad Audiences, individualize elements of play 23:21 Next Podcast 23:12 Sign Off

A brief look at the numbers at current on the Indiegogo and an explanation of where you can find the game. Wanna back it? Check the link below: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/legends-of-mathmatica/x/23532732#/

A brief look at the team behind Legends of Mathmatica². Check out the Indiegogo at the link below!: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/legends-of-mathmatica/x/23532732#/

To continue our exploration (and explanation) of Legends of Mathmatica, I shall now give you a taste of the puzzles that appear in the game. You're welcome. If you'd like to back the project, head on over to our Gogo page by clicking the link below: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/legends-of-mathmatica/coming_soon/x/23532732

As per standard Gogo procedure, we have a few rewards prepared for those who commit to backing the project. I'll be going over them in the video above! If'n ya wanna back the project, you can click the link below to go to our Gogo page: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/legends-of-mathmatica/coming_soon/x/23532732

With the Indiegogo rolling forward it seemed like a good idea to inform our prospective players about how combat works in Legends of Mathmatica. Wanna back the game? Check out our Gogo page: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/legends-of-mathmatica/coming_soon/x/23532732

An introduction to the Indiegogo page for Legends of Mathmatica and an initial description of the game. Follow the link to go to our Indiegogo page: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/legends-of-mathmatica/coming_soon/x/23532732

A further examination of storytelling in games, this time exploring the concept of Interactivity's effect on storytelling and narrative in games through scales of interactivity, and game variability. 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 00:21 Intro 00:58 One can be in many communities at once 01:51 A note on the Silent Majority 04:04 Modes of Play Communities 05:26 Element Focused Communities 07:02 Personality Based Communities 08:08 Locales where Communities Form 09:35 Community Rivalries 10:36 Gate Keepers 11:12 Determining elements for individual players 12:44 The element of Investment 13:09 The Pros of Investment based members 13:42 The Negatives of Investment based members 14:31 Examples of negative Investment based response 15:40 Investment Wrap Up 16:16 The element of Experience 16:31 The Pros of Experience based members 16:50 The Negatives of Experience based members 17:23 The FGC and Experience Based Engagement 18:45 The element of Knowledge 19:08 The Pros of Knowledge based members 20:03 The Negatives of Knowledge based members 20:59 The Importance of Humility 21:40 The effect of a well running community 23:26 Examples of well running game communities 24:16 What does this mean to Developers? 25:10 Magic The Gathering and Multiple Communities 27:30 The Importance of Community Engagement 28:27 Sign Off

We complete our investigation of build systems in video games, using the lens of Guild Wars 1 and 2 to help inform our position and continue into our hypotheses about what it means to make a "good" build system 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 Cliff Notes 00:00 Intro 00:28 Guild Wars Build Systems 01:16 The Concept of Meaningful Choice 01:57 What is Sufficiently Different? 02:20 Red Coat's Sufficiently Different 02:51 The Dark Souls Example 04:06 The Armored Core Example 05:22 Sientir's Sufficiently Different 05:38 The Dark Souls Example 07:28 The Pokemon Example 08:08 Guild Wars 1 09:05 Guild Wars 2 10:11 Shadow of Morder and Batman Arkham City 12:10 The Point of a Build System 12:31 Bayonetta and weapon difference 13:34 Wrap Up 14:15 Next Week Preview 14:37 Sign Off

A continuation of our examination of character build systems in games, using Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 as examples. Here we look at the changes made to the build system between two games and the overall effects on the player experience. 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 Cliff Notes: 00:05 Introduction of Subject 00:51 Guild Wars 1 flaws 02:26 Arenanet's Response 03:04 Lowering Complexity 04:18 Guild Wars 2 Professions 05:06 Reduced Skill Options 06:44 Addressing Builds 08:27 Addressiong Build Elitism 09:10 Simplifying Defensive Play 10:36 Consequences of the Changes 10:42 Consequence of Energy Removal 12:42 Homogenized Play 14:00 Role Reduction 15:26 Lost Sight of Original's Strengths 16:34 Next Cast 16:55 Where you can find our casts 17:49 Sign Off

Part 1 of a 3 part series investigating concepts relating the development and design of good character build systems. Here we examine the intricacies of Guild Wars 1's build system as an example of a custom character building system. Cliff Notes 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 Cliff Notes 00:06 Statement of Subject 00:51 Overview of Builds in Guild Wars 1 04:09 Guild Wars' Team Roles 06:31 Professions (Classes) in Detail 07:06 Warrior, Monk, Mesmer 08:09 Elementalist, Necromancer 09:29 Ranger, Assassin, 10:34 Ritualist, 11:15 Dervish, Paragon 12:08 Profession Combinations 16:39 Profession Combinations effect on build creativity 18:18 Flaws of the Guild Wars 1 Build System 18:20 Very Complex System 18:50 Easy to make "Bad Builds" but not understand why. 19:54 Build Elitism 21:16 Preview of Next Week's Cast

In this podcast, we examine the difficulties of developing and designing MMOs. In particular, the elements of player experience, design focus and the general environment of the MMO market at large, that make building these games to provide enjoyable experiences to the most people effectively difficult. Cliff Notes 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 Vernacademia S1:E33 Rumble Link 00:05 Intro to Subject 00:29 Three Design Pressure Points 00:59 Community Management 02:25 Scale of Player Engagement Method: Role Play to Mechanical 04:21 Time Investment Scale: from Casual to Hardcore 06:01 The PVP divide 09:01 Keeping players playing your games 12:44 Encounter Design 16:05 Latency's impact on play experience 17:15 Game Economy and Rewards 20:47 Recap on Subject Matter 21:53 Final Statement 22:21 Wrap-up and Preview

This podcast examines the concept of in game economies and how hard they can be to manage, as well as examining various concepts of how they are created and how they generally function. 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 Cliff Notes 00:06 Statement of Subject 00:30 Game Economies and Supply/Demand 02:41 Why Do Game Economies Break? 03:33 Loot Management in Game Economies 06:56 Positive and Negative Money Sinks 10:00 Money/Resource Sinks and Immersion 14:27 Consumables as Money Sinks 18:39 Convenience Costs as Money Sinks 21:14 Cost and Intention of Design 21:48 Consumables and Back Tracking 25:32 The Difficulties of MMO Game Economies 29:12 Game Economies that Worked Well: Pokemon 33:20 Game Economies that Worked Well: Dark Souls 36:04 Wrap Up 36:20 Ask Yourself, Do I want an Economy? 37:41 Sign Off

In this track, we go over the concept of character progression and posit our own theories about how to make it interesting to players. 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 Cliff notes 00:06 Introduction of Subject 00:40 Redefinition of NarVisAud 01:35 3 Largely Used Methods of Character Progression 03:20 Character Regression 04:15 Character Progression Triggers 04:21 Leveling Up 04:47 Form Change 05:54 Quests, Quest Rewards, Equipment 07:05 Plot Progression 08:10 Stat Increases Alone May Not Be Enough 11:06 Stats in Context to Progression Goals 12:23 Dark Souls and Stat Progression 14:44 Non-standard Character Progression in Pokemon 16:23 Character Progression in Devil May Cry 18:31 Character Progression in Guild Wars 1 23:14 Agency, Investment and Meaningful Change Breed Interest 24:02 Limitation do as much as Freedoms for Interesting Play 26:04 Wrap Up

A further examination of storytelling in games, this time exploring the concept of Interactivity's effect on storytelling and narrative in games through scales of interactivity, and game variability. 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 Cliff notes 00:06 Statement of Subject 00:43 The Scales of Interactivity 01:39 The Predestined Scale -- Seeds Only to Fully Known -- 02:34 Seeds Only Game Examples 05:19 Fully Known Game Examples 06:36 Games in the middle of the scale 10:09 The Player Influence Scale -- Open to Closed -- 10:57 Open Influence Game Examples 13:23 Closed Influence Game Examples 15:34 The System Influence Scale -- Living to Rote -- 17:31 Living System Game Examples 19:06 Rote System Game Examples 20:26 Exploring the concept of Living System Games 24:27 Wrap Up and Preview

Another examination of storytelling in games, this time examining the various methods employed to convey or construct narrative in games. 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 Cliff Notes 00:05 Statement of Subject 01:23 Cut-Scenes and Cinematics 02:43 Dialogue Sequences (Parallel and Sequential) 07:00 Strengths of Voice and Strengths of Text 07:45 Dossiers or Blurbs and the Narrative 10:57 Storytelling through Environmental Details 13:53 Guild Wars Factions and poor use of Environmental Details 18:16 Character Exposition with Character Design and Animation 22:36 Using the Tools in Concert 23:55 Wrap Up and Preview

A podcast talking about the intricacies of Kickstarter, with an emphasis on the roles and actions developers and backers (or venture capitalists) take on when using it. 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 Cliff Notes 00:06 Intro to the Subject 00:25 Backers as Venture Capitalists 03:58 Project Owners and Kickstarter 04:58 Kickstarters and Stretch Goals 06:57 Project Evolution 09:02 The Difficuties of Goal Estimation 10:40 An Approach to Estimation 12:29 Estimates are "Best Guesses" 13:37 Stretch Goals and Preplanning 16:11 The Dangers of Early Exposure 19:28 Being a Venture Capitalist on Kickstarter 21:02 Wrap Up

In this cast, we talk about the different development roles (or hats) that members of a game team can take on, and the complications inherent to developing a game product. 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 Vernacademia S1:E27 Rumble Link Cliff Notes: 00:05 Intro to Subject 00:37 The Designer Hats 04:09 The Art Hats 06:20 Making 3D Models 08:00 The Programming Hats 14:13 The Production Hats 16:34 Promoting Communication 18:40 Integration of Disciplines 21:19 Schedule Management 23:04 Marketing and Schedules 25:49 Money Management 26:54 Salary vs. Wage 27:52 Low Work/High Work and Scheduling 31:04 Skillsets and Scheduling Complications 32:05 Polish

Here we talk about the stages of game development and what all they entail from the development team. 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 Cliff Notes 00:08 Statement of Subject 01:16 Pre-Production 02:38 Components of Pre-Production 04:15 Prototyping 05:08 Narbacular Drop (Portal Predecessor) 06:17 First Playable 07:19 The Vertical Slice 08:47 Alpha 10:08 Darksouls 2 Network Test 11:18 Beta 13:17 Gold 16:46 The Problem of Incomplete Mechanics 17:28 Valve and Gun Presentation 18:20 Stages of Development Recap 20:18 Wrap-up 20:38 Preview of next subject 20:57 Sign Off

In this cast, we discuss the concept of product or piece analysis from an artistic standpoint and the difference that analysis approach from that of a consumer review. 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 Vernacademia S1:E25 Rumble Link Cliff Notes 00:05 Statement of Subject 00:56 Critiquing Games as Art 01:26 Consumer Critique vs Art Critique 01:57 Overview of Subject Points 03:39 What makes good or bad art 06:04 Pompadu Display: 3 White Canvases 08:01 Success of Artistic Intention 10:33 Artistic Opinion 11:13 Batman Vs. Superman Dawn of Justice 12:38 The Amazing Spiderman 2 13:48 Self Evaluation through Artistic Opinion 14:42 Technique and Originality 17:03 The Need of Artistic Analysis Tools for Games 19:21 Try using Composite Experience Framework 19:56 History and Context Analysis 21:37 Wrap Up 22:09 Preview and Sign Off

We continue to explore the gaming histories of our hosts, today focusing on Red Coat and the games that have greatly influenced his design sense. 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 Cliff Notes: 00:12 Intro 00:40 Overview 01:42 Megaman series 03:11 Devil May Cry series 04:39 Armored Core 3 06:40 Rogue Squadron series 10:05 Ikaruga 11:05 The Importance of Sound/Music 12:03 Fighting Games 12:51 Soul Calibur series 14:21 Importance of Self Expression 15:55 Radiata Stories 18:56 Shin Megami Tensei series 20:56 Tales of series 23:11 Dark Souls 25:21 Zone of the Enders 26:12 Virtual On 27:07 Personal Design Rhetoric 28:07 Sientir and Red Coat Divergences 29:56 Look for your Throughline 30:45 Wrap Up

We take a break from examination and analysis of gaming concepts to look at what games have influenced Sientir as a game designer and why. 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 Cliff Notes 00:03 Intro to Sientir's Game Influences 01:32 Doom -- Gameplay and Level Design 03:10 Hexen -- Narvisaud execution 05:34 Mech Warrior 4: Vengeance -- Customization 06:24 Guild Wars 1 -- Meaningful Customization 09:52 Guild Wars 2 -- Impetus to Analyze Design 10:55 Magic The Gathering -- Customization and Design Analysis 11:33 Dark Souls Series -- Gameplay and Design 11:59 Starcraft Brood War -- Modding and Design Exploration 12:27 Super Smash Brothers -- Fighting Game Design 13:01 Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker -- World Presentation 13:59 Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask -- Complex World and NPC Design 15:00 Pokemon -- Competitive Environment Design 17:20 Shadows of Morder -- Story Telling in Games 19:34 Warcraft 3 -- The Power of Tools 20:40 Overview -- Sientir's identity as a Designer 21:33 Importance of a Designer's Identity 22:33 Sign Off

Here we get into the concept of world arrangement. Specifically the idea of how you present the various segments of your game's levels, areas, and content. 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 Cliff Notes 00:05 Statement of Subject: World Arrangement 01:05 The Staged Arrangement Method 01:51 Why is World Arrangement Important? 02:26 World Arrangement in The Megaman series 03:50 The Staged Arrangement Method in detail 04:57 The Segregated Open World 07:16 The Open World 08:16 The Instanced Open World 09:41 The Gated Open World 10:26 The Guided Open World 12:20 Guiding the player experience 12:38 The Dark Souls series and World Arrangement 15:58 The Effect of How You Guide Your Player 16:41 Managing Player Freedoms Through World Arrangement 17:54 Closing Statements

Here we examine concepts surrounding the defining of game genres using our previous definitions of Foundational, Framing and Refining mechanics, as well as the NarVisAud to seek a better way of identifying the differentiating elements of games. 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 Cliff Notes 00:05 Statement of Subject and Intent 01:40 Composite Experience Definition 02:26 The 3-major definers of Genre 05:36 Examples of Striking NarVisAud 07:30 Mechanical Identity Recap 08:18 Examples of Identity Elements 10:30 Genre type: Upgrade Hunter 11:31 Examples of different Upgrade Hunters 12:28 The Framing Mechanics that differ in our 4 examples 18:02 Restatement of each example as Foundation then Framing 19:00 Theming in relation to genre as 19:51 Some examples of game themes 21:16 Approaching genre as multiple elements packaged together 22:10 Figuring out core elements through element removal 24:26 The intent of genres for the consumer 25:04 Failed genre names 27:25 Invitation to explore genre name redefinition 27:45 Preview for next week's cast and Sign off