Andy tells Keith about a couple of new games he’s working on, including a dexterity game for Looney Pyramids currently called Verticality. They also talk about how they test games, including the use of stuffed animals as players before a game is ready for human testing.
Keith and Andy mostly discuss media, including the season finale of Last Man on Earth, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. WARNING: SPOILERS APLENTY.
The guys mostly talk about their game design work: Keith’s Phoenix Kickstarter just finished, Andy just got back from a trade show in Canada, and name design is often the biggest challenge of them all. They also discuss two of their special areas of interest, Andy’s fondness for time travel vs. Keith’s fascination with the dream world.
This week Andy and Keith’s topics include Cthulhu Fluxx, Daredevil, the Booth at the End, and that moment when you wake up in a strange place and a bad situation and no idea of how you got there or what just happened.
Andy and Keith discuss numerous nerdy topics including dolphins in space, meddling lawyers, dreamy characters, and ideas for sci-fi sitcoms.
Keith talks about the launch of the Kickstarter he’s running for his new diceless role-playing system, Phoenix. Of course, Andy and Keith yammer about lots of other stuff, too.
Keith and Andy talk about how difficult it can be to figure out how something, like a TV show in particular, should end. They also discuss the new end of the world show, Last Man on Earth.
In this episode Andy tells Keith about his recent trip to Vegas for the GAMA Trade Show, and reveals a few details about the newest Fluxx decks Looney Labs will soon be announcing. They also talk about some of the mundane problems superheroes must have, specifically the downsides of being superfast like the Flash.
Keith and Andy talk about PAX East, post-apocalyptic media and, of course, games.
Andy tells Keith about his recent trip to Florida and they geek out at length about Harry Potter stuff. They also do a memory lane thing where they talk about their memories of meeting each other.