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Pure anticipation and speculation, and Space Jizz. Join us for a conversation about the 2024 games we're looking forward to the most.

In this episode, we share our thoughts about the games we think will hit the hardest in 2024. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is on Joseph and Willie's shortlist. The air-dashing looks tasty, and we're dying for more time-shift shenanigans—while we wait for the remake of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Willie breaks down the concept for Banishers: Ghosts of Eden, which sounds like a game of consequences, and promises to give an in-depth review of Rise of the Ronin if you buy him a PS5. Taylor (of course) brings up Light No Fire, a game scheduled for release in 2025 instead of 2024—because guidelines can't keep an AI-loving kid in check. Other games mentioned are Black Myth: Wu Kong, Star Wars: Outlaws, Tales of Kenzera: Zau, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, and Mariachi Legends. Also, Taylor thinks Darth Vader looks like a loser. Please direct your hate at him.

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The Next Gen cast gives Picard one last adventure, Obi-Wan gets pushed back, Ezra Miller is in deep trouble, Captain America sells for a high, plus we remember Nehemiah Persoff and Kathryn Hays. All that and more PLus an interview with Independent comics creatorMr. Fish Lee, on this edition of Multiverse Tonight!

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We hop into the DeLorean to discuss an iconic movie sequel from the late '80s, Back to the Future Part II.  We cover behind-the-scenes stories, pros, cons, and, of course, the sequel test.

My special episode guest is Alex Woytcke. He is a Minnesota-based filmmaker, having directed and edited short films for his YouTube channels White Key Productions and Wolf Pack Pictures. He has also appeared on the Two Dudes, One Double Feature podcast. You can find him on Twitter and Instagram under @AlexWoytcke.

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It's been a busy year, but we're not stopping just yet 😎 
This week we go over ALL the fresh news from The Game Awards, and cover our most anticipated announcements. From the crazy Alan Wake 2 announcement to the expansion of the Dune-iverse (see what I did there) with Dune Spicewars, we've got it all. We also cover the unsurprising announcement that Sony is now selling faceplates for the PS5, and our thoughts on Hawkeye Episode 4 (hint, its one of our favs).

Are those sleigh bells in the air? NO, IT'S A NEW EPISODE OF SCRIPT LOCK! After trudging through the hellacious year that was 2020, we're back with Cissy (actress whose voice you may have heard in such games as The Walking Dead, Life is Strange, Firewatch - for which she won a BAFTA - Horizon: Zero Dawn, and most recently Half-Life: Alyx and Call of the Sea) and Erika (actress, host, and producer whom you may have heard in such games as Dream Daddy, Destiny, 2, Fallout 76, Fortnite, Marvel's Avengers, and Cyberpunk 2077) to talk whether you need to live in Hollywood to be a VO actor, being recast, voice matching, auditions, secrecy around characters you’re auditioning for, the luxury of getting scripts before a session, how they like to receive direction, best and worst pieces of direction, vocal health and more!

Our Guests on the Internet

Cissy Twitter and Instagram

Erika Twitter and Instagram

Stuff We Talked About

Final Fantasy 7 Remake's Voice Cast Got Their Scripts As They Were Recording

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This week Nolan North sits down with the incredibly talented, the one-and-only, Ross Marquand, to discuss the Telltale Games 2012 classic, The Walking Dead! There might be a few tangents about Ross's array of Impressions and TV role as Aaron on The Walking Dead, and much, much more! Come watch Nolan fight off hordes of Zombies, then stay awhile and witness Drew gush over Puppy Mayors. Get ready! This is RETRO REPLAY.

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Andrew, Dylan, and Caleb take a deep dive into Telltale Game's Tales From The Borderlands game! This is a spoiler-filled conversation so just keep that in mind!

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Apologies to all for the slight delay, but the wait has TOTALLY been worth it because today we've got Nicole (Senior Narrative Designer at Crystal Dynamics, and before that a Creative Director on the unreleased The Wolf Among Us: Season 2, and a writer on season 2 of Minecraft: Story Mode, Guardians of the Galaxy, Batman, The Walking Dead: Michonne, Game of Thrones: Season 1, and The Wolf Among Us: Season 1) and Megan (Senior Narrative Designer Team Lead and Senior Writer on the recently-released Outer Worlds by Obsidian Entertainment, and before that she was a Senior Writer on Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire and Tyranny, and a Senior Game Designer and Content Zone Lead on Wildstar for Carbine Studios) joining us to talk writing/design tests, whether narrative design and game writing should be separate jobs, the hardest things to write and design, writers' rooms, rewriting processes, where they start with constructing branching narratives, what they look for in endings as creators and whether it's different than what they look for as consumers, meaningful choices, storytelling trends they'd like to see more of, NPCs, major influences, and a great deal more!

Our guests on the Internet

Nicole's Twitter.

Megan's Twitter, Website, and check out House of Ash and Brimstone (Gatewalkers Book 1)!

Stuff We Talked About

The Wolf Among Us

Bioshock

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter by Laurell K. Hamilton

Sabriel by Garth Nix

Untitled Goose Game

The Walking Dead Season 1

The Outer Worlds

More than Quest Givers: Why Good Characters Matter Konsoll 2019 Talk by Molly Maloney and Eric Stirpe

Pyre

God of War

Transistor

Brave Fencer Musashi

Apex Legends

Dota 2

The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen

The Twelve Dancing Princesses by the Brothers Grimm

Luigi's Mansion 3

Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons

Schitt's Creek

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Our theme music was composed by Isabella Ness, and our logo was created by Lily Nishita.

We're all avoiding our deadlines to bring you this episode with Olivia (writer, narrative designer, and editor and currently works at Failbetter Games where she’s worked on Fallen London, Sunless Sea, Sunless Sea: Zubmariner, and Sunless Skies. She’s also worked on Lethophobia, The Mystery of Kalkomey Isle, Cheaper Than Therapy, and Where the Water Tastes Like Wine) and Jessica (former Lead Writer at Telltale Games where she worked on Batman, The Walking Dead, Guardians of the Galaxy, and The Wolf Among Us: Season 2, and since then has written for WB Games San Francisco, and is currently working with Bad Robot Studios and Google Stadia), who are here to talk about writing meaningful choices, their personal favorite choices in games, what makes a good NPC, what takes you out of a game’s story, storytelling quagmires, getting through rewrite fatigue, when do you know you’re done with a script (apart from deadlines), maintaining a healthy work/life balance, time management, and what’s inspiring them outside of games.

Our Guests on the Internet
Olivia's Twitter.

Jessica's Twitter.

Stuff We Talked About

Heaven’s Vault

Gris

Transistor

A Burglar’s Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh

The Chrestomanci Series by Diana Wynne Jones

Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants by Brian McDonald

The Shades of Magic series by V.E. Schwab

Our theme music was composed by 2Mello, and our logo was created by Lily Nishita

Other talking points: What's on the PlayStation Classic, Does Kevin Really Love Chrono Cross, Studio Closures Suck, We Are Not Completionists, The Zach Rich ASMR Experience

Your Good Great Gang is Zach Rich, Andrew Orsie, and Kevin Ruiter.

Intro / Outro Song - "We Are Here For You" by The James Rocket (thejamesrocket.bandcamp.com)

Cover Art by Mitch Allison

Coming up next: Super Mario Party (10/17), Super Mario Odyssey (10/31), Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age (11/14)

On this week's episode of FFR, the gang discusses Searching, a new thriller starring John Cho which takes place entirely on computer screens. As David Kim, a father searching for his missing daughter, John Cho navigates Facebook, Tumblr, creates spreadsheets, makes phone calls using FaceTime, and otherwise employs technology in the ways that many of us do every day as just an ordinary part of our lives. Our conversation touches on the effectiveness of Searching as a thriller, the aspects of it that are traditional and those that are more experimental, how it depicts the way we sometimes seek connection online while avoiding it in the physical world, and the different things we allow and expect from fathers as opposed to mothers in movies.

We also talk about the collapse of Telltale games and the larger issue of labor in the games industry, the recent hubbub over Bert and Ernie, and lots more.

(Note that there have been new developments in the Telltale situation since the recording of this conversation on Monday morning, including the filing of a class action lawsuit against the company.)

Segment Timestamps

:00 A Quick Message from Anita and Ebony

:30 Intro, Weekend Confessions

2:10 Entertainment News: Telltale Games shuts down and labor practices in the industry; Why the conversation about Bert and Ernie matters

16:00 A quick message from Carolyn

16:15 Main Topic: Searching (no spoilers)

31:25 More Searching (spoiler warning issued)

47:20 What’s Your FREQ-Out?

Carolyn on Maya Rudolph in Forever

Ebony on Domestic Violence Awareness Month and the criminalization of DV survivors

Anita on the Elementary season finale (no spoilers)

58:55 wrap-up

Relevant Links:

Matt Zoller Seitz on Searching: https://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/30-minutes-on-searching

Elizabeth Simins on Bert and Ernie: https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/19/17879916/bert-ernie-gay-sesame-street-mark-saltzman-controversy

The Survived and Punished curriculum for Domestic Violence Awareness Month on the criminalization of survivors of domestic violence: https://survivedandpunished.org/2018/09/23/2018curriculum/

We're joined by Henry Pickavet, editorial director at TechCrunch and co-host of the CTRL+T podcast, to discuss the second season of Netflix's Queer Eye revival. We also look at the ramifications of AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner going through — and at whether or not Netflix is moving into gaming.

Links:

• [AT&T completes its acquisition of Time Warner][1]
• [Comcast bids $65B for Fox assets, setting the stage for a fight with Disney][2]
• [Netflix is adding an interactive ‘Minecraft’ story to its lineup, denies entry into gaming][3]
  [1]: https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/15/att-completes-its-acquisition-of-time-warner/
  [2]: https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/13/comcast-bids-65b-for-fox/
  [3]: https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/13/netflix-is-adding-an-interactive-minecraft-story-to-its-lineup-denies-entry-into-gaming/

Ash and Matt talk to actress Erin Yvette (Oxenfree, Wolf Among Us, Walking Dead, Firewatch, Tales from the Borderlands) at PAX: East 2018!

Michael (writer at Night School Studio, and previously a lead writer at Telltale Games on The Walking Dead - A New Frontier, Batman, Minecraft: Story Mode, and Tales from the Borderlands) and Laura (playwright, TV writer, and game writer, winner of several awards for her plays, including the Wasserstein Prize, writer on Get Shorty, Grace and Frankie, Season 3 of Telltale's The Walking Dead, and Minecraft: Story Mode) join us to talk about moving between theatre, TV, and video games, switching fonts and other strategies when you're narratively stuck, the best times to write, jumping from selling shoes to Telltale, player agency, approaching storytelling differently for different IP, Night School’s storytelling philosophy, story being an endlessly renewable resource, work-life balance, giving the illusion of choice to players, making choices feel big, responding to players while making episodic content, and the need for more character moments in AAA.

Our Guests on the Internet

Michael's Twitter.

Laura's Twitter and Website.

Stuff We Talked About

Dental Society Midwinter Meeting by Laura Jacqmin

Video Games Are Destroying the People Who Make Them by Jason Schreier

Tales from the Borderlands: The Oral History by Duncan Fyfe

Thimbleweed Park

Our theme music was composed by 2Mello, and our logo was created by Lily Nishita.