House of Games #8 - Crunch & Stats

Is crunch in the video games industry a real problem or not? What do you use a test kit for? What is a debug menu, and why does your game need one? — All this and more, on this week’s episode of House of Games!

Your Hosts and Their Games
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/knifeboy-rebooted-switch/ — The Nintendo Switch store page for KnifeBoy Rebooted.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1799590/Red_Colony_3_Uncensored/ — The Steam store page for Red Colony 3 Uncensored.
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=RunicCodes&ndl=1&ignore_preferences=1 — Rune’s Steam page.
https://theeliteinstitute.net/2022/12/26/the-elite-goty-awards-2022/ — The Elite Institute’s GOTY Awards 2022, where KnifeBoy Rebooted won the “Biggest Improvement Over a Previous Title” award.
https://ottowretling.medium.com/list/our-first-game-175f8c8b7ce1 — Otto’s blog about the development of “Tulip Craze”.
https://discord.gg/mYM72SQ9CP — The discord server for Game Hub Umeå.

Other Games
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us — The homepage for the game Minecraft.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/xenoblade-chronicles-definitive-edition-switch/ — The Nintendo store page for Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/214510/LEGO_The_Lord_of_the_Rings/ — The Steam store page for LEGO Lord of the Rings.
https://store.steampowered.com/sub/53403/ — The Steam store page for the LEGO Batman Trilogy.

Articles, and Other Links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania — The Wikipedia page for the phenomenon “Tulip Mania”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_generation — The Wikipedia page for procedural generation.
https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2017-life-of-black-tiger-is-the-worst-ps4-game-weve-ever-played — An article detailing the issues with the game “Life of Black Tiger”.
https://spoti.fi/JoeRoganExperience — The Spotify page for “The Joe Rogan Experience”.