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Episode 32 – Give Me What I Want!
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We're back with a new episode of Make Me A Gamer! Sorry for the day delay, but it's a good episode worth the wait! We start off with HarveyZ's most difficult snap yet before answering our first ever e-mail from the Make Me A Gamer inbox! Then we have a spoiler-filled discussion about our thoughts on Avengers: Endgame (from 20:00 – 48:05 for those who haven't seen it yet and want to skip spoilers)! We wrap up the episode by talking about last week's State of Play from Sony, Mortal Kombat 11, and our adventures as a farmer in Stardew Valley! Enjoy! (This episode was recorded May 9th, 2019.)
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tmanwrites	Make Me a Gamer Podcast	 May 15, 2019 May 15, 2019
The New At Games Experience
Recently with my Nintendo Switch I've been showing a few games here and there to my girlfriend and teaching her how to play them. Now I've played video games since I was about six years old, while my girlfriend has not played many video games at all. Outside of a few tries at games here and there and some mobile games she plays on her phone, her experiences with video games were non existent. She enjoys playing games like the Jackbox Games (Drawful, Quiplash, etc.) and other party-style games but hadn't ever played anything else on consoles.
I figured I would get a few different kinds of games that might be of interest to her and start slow to try and find some things that she liked and go from there. The games I've downloaded so far are Stardew Valley, Snake Pass, and The Bridge from the Nintendo Switch e-shop. Stardew Valley is a Harvest Moon-esque farming simulator, Snake Pass is a 3D physics-based puzzle game where you control a snake and he collects…things, and The Bridge is a 2D physics-based puzzle game where you have to guide a little dude through some weird, MC Escher-esque levels. And after showing her each of these games, I started to observe something I hadn't really thought about before.
Video games are not designed for people who have never played video games before.
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tmanwrites	Opinions	 February 12, 2018 February 12, 2018