In this episode game design professor Dr. Ada Wish, playwright Katie Coleman, and elite gamer Gia Szekeres discuss the design of 1990's Secret of Monkey Island, which was ranked #74 on the Polaris List.

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In this episode, game design professor Dr. Ada Wish, playwright Katie Coleman, and elite gamer Gia Szekeres discuss the design of 2018's The Return of the Obra Dinn, which was ranked #52 on the Polaris List.

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In this episode game design professor Dr. Ada Wish, playwright Katie Coleman, and elite gamer Gia Szekeres discuss the design of 2016's Inside, which was ranked #92 on the Polaris List.

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• Citations
  • The Playdead Unofficial Museum, created by TEN RAN 432
  • How Inside's levels were designed, by Alex Wiltshire at Rock, Paper, Shotgun
  • Three GDC talks given by the Playdead team including
    • Huddle Up! Making the [SPOILER] of 'INSIDE', 2017
    • Low Complexity, High Fidelity: 'INSIDE' Rendering, 2016
    • Temporal Reprojection Anti Aliasing in INSIDE, 2016

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In the new podcast Overworld, roboticist and game design professor Dr. Ada Wish, playwright Katie Coleman, and elite gamer Gia Szekeres discuss the design of great games.

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Citations:
Super Nintendo, by Keza Macdonald (2025)
Shigeru Miyamoto: Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda (Influential Video Game Designers), by Jennifer Dewinter (2015)

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In this first episode of Overworld, game design professor Dr. Ada Wish, playwright Katie Coleman, and elite gamer Gia Szekeres discuss the design of The Legend of Zelda (1986) and The Breath of the Wild (2017).

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Citations:
Super Nintendo, by Keza Macdonald (2025)
Shigeru Miyamoto: Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda (Influential Video Game Designers), by Jennifer Dewinter (2015)

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25. The Ending World/Do You Love Me?

26. The Beast That Shouted 'I' at the Heart of the World/ Take Care of Yourself

Katie, Gia and Ada walk about the last two episodes of Neon Gensis Evangelion, and try to figure out what exactly they just watched. We talk about Heated Rivalry, Twin Peaks, Lost, The Witness, and chicken stuff, too. Hope you've enjoyed the run, we've got one more episode on The End og Evangelion, and we really hope it ties things up better than this mess.

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Ada, Katie and Gia are almost done with Neon Genesis Evangelion and are kind of losing their minds at this point. Luckily, the next two episodes are normal.

Shinji gets a boyfriend, but the funtime yaoi hour ends all too quickly as a bunch of stuff happens and we kind of understand most of it. Also, this was recorded wayy back in early November, so references to current events that have now been ignored and or forgotten should just be par for the course at this point as our own world hurtles toward third impact or whatever.

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We're closing in on the end here, and things are getting wild, y'all. Gia, Ada and Katie talk Dr. Highheels descent into madness, penetrating worms and, the common trope introducing RegPreg before a finale.

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