Mortified! The Friendship Quest

This week, we played Motvind Studios' 2021 point-and-click narrative mystery, "How We Know We're Alive!" We discuss making use of limited mechanics, the trope of sad indie games, and doing our level best to see others as three-dimensional people.
Links:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2216040/HOW_WE_KNOW_WERE_ALIVE/
https://www.tumblr.com/heart-forge
https://un-navigatable-game.neocities.org/Intro
---Our theme song is "Obsolete" by Keshco, from the album "Filmmaker's Reference Kit Volume 2."
Our other projects:Aaron's TTRPGs- https://aaronsxl.itch.io/Aaron's TTRPG Reviews- https://www.youtube.com/@aavoigthttps://aavoigt.com/

This week, Aaron and Leyla confront father hood fears of yesteryear in Shrek the Third! Join us for a weirdly timely Justin Timberlake mention, the pre-dadification, and the hosts lamenting the hot dragon going unsatisfied.
---Our theme song is "Obsolete" by Keshco, from the album "Filmmaker's Reference Kit Volume 2."
Our other projects:Aaron's TTRPGs- https://aaronsxl.itch.io/Aaron's TTRPG Reviews- https://www.youtube.com/@aavoigthttps://aavoigt.com/

In this impromptu, ill-advised episode, we suffer for gamers everywhere by drinking a MTN Dew flight and talking about the Summer Game Fest! Aaron sweats like Jesus in Gethsemane, Leyla brews up a brie Dew-duction, and we chat about the exciting possibilities teased in some upcoming games.
Links:
SW Outlaws GameplayAssassin's Creed ShadowsOutersloth InitiativeBuilding Relationships AvowedLarian Cinematics: A Top-Down Look at Our Bottom-Up Approach in 'Baldur's Gate 3'FlockAge of Mythology RetoldAstrobot South of MidnightCairn- Enotria: The Last Song
---Our theme song is "Obsolete" by Keshco, from the album "Filmmaker's Reference Kit Volume 2."
Our other projects:Aaron's TTRPGs- https://aaronsxl.itch.io/Aaron's TTRPG Reviews- https://www.youtube.com/@aavoigthttps://aavoigt.com/

This week, Aaron and Leyla continue their traversal through the Shrek-iverse in Shrek 2! Join us for a discussion of deadbeat donkeys, needing more Fiona, and Fairy Godmother being one of the villains of all time.
---Our theme song is "Obsolete" by Keshco, from the album "Filmmaker's Reference Kit Volume 2."
Our other projects:Aaron's TTRPGs- https://aaronsxl.itch.io/Aaron's TTRPG Reviews- https://www.youtube.com/@aavoigthttps://aavoigt.com/

This week, Aaron and Leyla crawl through a buggy double-feature of Antz and a Bug's Life! Join us for an unexpectedly good villain monologue, an offensively bad main character, and a reaffirming of this podcast's core ethos. 
---Our theme song is "Obsolete" by Keshco, from the album "Filmmaker's Reference Kit Volume 2."
Our other projects:Aaron's TTRPGs- https://aaronsxl.itch.io/Aaron's TTRPG Reviews- https://www.youtube.com/@aavoigthttps://aavoigt.com/

This episode, Leyla and Aaron discuss the class 2001 animated comedy, Shrek! We trace the lineage of 2010's meta-humor, find out what conservatives think indoctrination is, and Leyla finally gets to call out Aaron's "preferences."
---Our theme song is "Obsolete" by Keshco, from the album "Filmmaker's Reference Kit Volume 2."
Our other projects:Aaron's TTRPGs- https://aaronsxl.itch.io/Aaron's TTRPG Reviews- https://www.youtube.com/@aavoigthttps://aavoigt.com/

This episode, Aaron and Leyla check out the indie horror game "Iron Lung!" We discuss how playing together revealed our "proclivities," ways to incentivize exploration, and the benefits of limited scope.
The Atlantic article on the OceanGate sub- https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/06/missing-titanic-submarine-safety-catastrophe/674491/
IGN Article- https://www.ign.com/articles/dev-of-submarine-horror-game-iron-lung-says-sales-spike-feels-so-wrongFollowing the creature in Iron Lung- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGJCczo8zQQIron Lung Official Trailer- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8E8Ryx49soJay Dragon's- "A Dozen Fragments on Playground Theory" (I got the framing of the rules as a skeleton for play from this piece)- https://medium.com/@possumcreek/a-dozen-fragments-on-playground-theory-684104bcb4abGuardian article about cognitive test- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/21/donald-trump-cognitive-test-closer-look
---Our theme song is "Obsolete" by Keshco, from the album "Filmmaker's Reference Kit Volume 2."
Our other projects:Aaron's TTRPGs- https://aaronsxl.itch.io/Aaron's TTRPG Reviews- https://www.youtube.com/@aavoigthttps://aavoigt.com/

This week, Aaron and Leyla celebrate Easter and a bit of Tumblr history with a double feature of The Lorax and Rise of the Guardians. Join us for a movie in which very little happens, some mythological semantics, and Aaron shaming Leyla for their taste in men (again).
---Our theme song is "Obsolete" by Keshco, from the album "Filmmaker's Reference Kit Volume 2."
Our other projects:Aaron's TTRPGs- https://aaronsxl.itch.io/Aaron's TTRPG Reviews- https://www.youtube.com/@aavoigthttps://aavoigt.com/