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Null Point

A show about nothing…well, that and the creation and play of games.

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Is the Sportzball being influenced by the Video Games?

The intro song is Dusky Sky by Tom Atom, please find them on Soundcloud!
https://soundcloud.com/tom\_atom

The topics we talked about…looosely.

News:
- I went to St. Louis.
- F1 Manager from Frontier.
- Warframe….there’ a new game coming from the same dev.

Sportsball:
- Changes to ball and sticky stuff.. Possible changes to basepath, pitchclock.
- F1 allowing for under car downforce.
- This feels like video game adjustments, is it the same style?

Games you played?
- Atelier Sophie - Jaelights
- Learning to like crafting
- Modded Minecraft - Cejic
- Veg out game
- Frostpunk - Jaelights
- Strategy of attrition
- Stray - Cejic
- World is good buuuuuut…design. Chase sequences….are more difficult than chase sequences in a horror game.

enAugust 01, 2022

Don't Call it a Comeback!! (Because who knows really?)

The intro song is Dusky Sky by Tom Atom, please find them on Soundcloud!
https://soundcloud.com/tom_atom

The topics we talked about…looosely.

News (music and/or games and/or personal stuff)?
- Boyonette 3
- Nintendo Switch
- Skull and Bones.
- Sid Meiers Pirates
- Curse of the Obra Dinh
- The Day Before
- Watchdogs.
- CyberPunk 2077
- Elite Dangerous
- Unity CEO, John Riccitiello
- EA
- Microtransactions

What have you been listening to?
- Kroh
- Cosmo Sheldrake
- Tom Atom
- Also, Jaelights has a hapiNES L (Twisted Electrons) coming as of today!

Random Question:
- What two genres of music would Jaelights combine if they could combine any.

What have you been playing?
- Knockout City
- Fortnight
- Rocket League
- Nier Automata
- Steam Store Update
- Monster Hunter Rise
- Monster Hunter World
- FFXIV
- Lonely Wolf Treat
- Bad Ending Theater

enJuly 18, 2022

VTubers, Personal Identity, art and, oh yeah, video games

Music is Dusky Sky by tom_atom - Check them out on Sound Cloud! They are awesome! https://soundcloud.com/tom_atom/dusky-sky

Updates:
- Cejic
  - Working on the Game
  - Selling boardgames - Meta games used games shelves full
- Jaelights
  - Got a drum machine, help from Captain Pikant
  - Moving over to YouTube for Let's Plays, setup is always fun
  - Mechanical Smart Watches - Grayton Origin
What we did:
- Eternal Return Black Survival (Both)
  - Self Contained, 30 min experience
- Tabletop Simulator
  - [Brief] Stonehearth clone of Hearthstone from P3rdit1ous (Jaelights)
    - Now Everyone is confused
  - Bullet Heart Game (Cejic)
  - Massive digression into questions about personal identity
- FFXIV (Jaelights)
  - Press tour for Endwalker
  - Zepla
    - Have you told him about the free trial?
    - Asking if YoshiP has been to the moon.
  - Sage looks cool
  - Bun bois are KPop Stars
- Codevein (Cejic)
  - I tried to get back into it......balance is a problem
- Dark Souls III (Cejic)
  - The hunt continues for Dan, playframe
  - Costumes and Outfits and Builds and Shitty Thing
  - Discussions on FOMO
What we're looking forward to:
- Cejic
  - - Mostly working on games and such.
- Jaelights
  - - Metroid Dread, which just came out
  - - Sayonara Wild Hearts

enOctober 17, 2021

Perception is Most of the Problem

Music is Dusky Sky by tom_atom - Check them out on Sound Cloud! They are awesome! https://soundcloud.com/tom_atom/dusky-sky

Topics

How you doing?
- Door Monster covers No Man's Sky
- Got a drum machine, working on House Music - Jaelights
- Painter’s Pets Update - Cejic
Games we played
- Dirt 5 - They actually fixed it!
  - Hard is actually hard, Physics are much more consistent
  - ...but monetized more now
- Umurangi Generation
- Sumerians
  - Interesting idea, private v. public businesses
- Yoku’s Island Express
  - Metroidvania/Pinball
  - Difficult to get it to work
- Yakuza, like a Dragon.
  - Old School mechanics, Yakuza v. Mario RPG
  - Riding the line of silly v. serious in Japanese mafia dramas

Board Game Time! Playing Root
Excited About
- Gran Tourismo 7 and how I don’t want to buy a PS5 because I like my XBox Controller.
- TroubleShooters
  - Super competent game that really isn’t getting enough attention.
  - Jae loves the characters and should play it more (Cejic likes them too).
- Brilliant Diamond, Shining Pearl
Rambler: KSP, Goodwill and the dangers of selective perception.

enSeptember 19, 2021

Ramblings on the Meaning of Game Difficulty

Music is Dusky Sky by tom_atom - Check them out on Sound Cloud! They are awesome! https://soundcloud.com/tom_atom/dusky-sky

General

Finally set the darned podcast up entirely…

Music Stuff

Behringer died, buying cheap gear has its risks.

Tabletop/Cards

Magic The Gathering ends tournaments on software as well. Might bring it back later.
- Just cancelling them has a detrimental effect on local shops perhaps
Local Metagames is cool!?

Space

Star Citizen looks like a mess, issues with Kickstarter
- CJ got in on the ground floor, neven managed to log on
Why aren’t space games anything like space? Fer realz?
- Universal Sandbox
- KSP

Rpgs

Hiring modders to help with tools for Cyberpunk 2077
FFXIV, new controller like riding a bike with the bars backwards
FF VI and CrossCode and I’ve missed stories. *
- Story vs Tone vs Filler aka if the plot is about killing gods from the tutorial why am i gardening
  - Genshin
  - FFXIV
Jae likes Cross Code (and learning patience) **
- probably a rebuttal on design principles of rewarding patience vs enforcing tempo
  - This is related to difficulty and things like Dark Souls 3 or Celeste or Hades
  - Oh, dashing is broken
  - Designs based off of old ideas that...may or may not have sucked. Not thinking for yourself, etc.
    - If you’re not going to do it right, cut it. Block and Parry, for example.