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Pools: Unarchived, Season 3, Episode 6

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with Chelsea Russell (host), Andrew Bailey, Jason Boyd, Patrick R. Dolan Broadcast Date: 2 June 2025 Writer: Chelsea Russell (with Jason Boyd) Producer: Patrick R. Dolan Bonus Summer Episode! Inspired by liminal space aesthetics, Pools (2024) is a first-person exploration game set in a bewildering, seemingly endless complex of swimming pools. Pools is a minimalist game—there’s no heads-up display or status bar, no dialogue, no clear objectives, no monsters, no NPCs, no dialogue, no text, no soundtrack, no death, no puzzles, no resource gathering, no inventory, no tools, no quests. You can look around, walk (or run), crouch, swim, and … Continue reading Pools: Unarchived, Season 3, Episode 6

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Unarchived (Season 2, Episode 5)

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with Patrick R. Dolan (host), Kevin Ghouchandra, and Alexander Hurezeanu Broadcast Date: February 26, 2024 Writer: Patrick R. Dolan Producer: Jeremy Andriano “In this world, it’s kill or be killed.” So says the first character the player encounters in the Underground in the role-playing game, Undertale. But the player’s options turn out to be not so starkly simple. The Unarchived crew excavates thoughts and theories on narrative, compassion, genre, game mechanics, equity, and fandom that arise from exploring the depths of developer Toby Fox’s breakout title. All audio clips in the podcast quoted from Undertale. Sources and Resources: Continue reading Unarchived (Season 2, Episode 5)

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Unarchived (Season 2, Episode 4)

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Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games) with Jeremy Andriano (host), Jason Boyd, Kevin Ghouchandra, and Chelsea Russell Broadcast Date: January, 23, 2024 Writer: Jeremy Andriano Producer: Patrick R. Dolan Inscryption starts off as a rather creepy deck-building strategy game played in a log cabin, but becomes something much more strange and sinister as it progresses. Ultimately, the goal of playing Inscryption is to figure out what it truly is. Who is the player character? Who exactly is your opponent and why are some of your cards talking to you? Who made the game? What is the game’s real purpose? Sources and Resources: Continue reading Unarchived (Season 2, Episode 4)

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Unarchived (Season 1, Episode 2)

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Nier: Automata (Platinum Games) with Kevin Ghouchadra (Host), Jeremy Andriano, and Alexander Hurezeanu  Broadcast date: March 14th, 2023 Writer: Kevin Ghouchandra Producer: Patrick Dolan  The last of humanity has fled to the moon to avoid extinction. Androids 2B and 9S, on the frontline of humanity’s resistance, fight the 14th Machine War, aiming to take back the earth from a robot army of mindless destruction…or at least that’s what they think. Just as the robots and androids repeatedly fight the same endless war over and over again, Nier: Automata’s story seems to ask the player to replay the same game again … Continue reading Unarchived (Season 1, Episode 2)

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Unarchived (Season 1, Episode 1)

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Jonathan Blow’s The Witness with Jason Boyd (host), Jeremy Andriano, Patrick Dolan Broadcast date: 14 February, 2023 Writer: Jason Boyd Producer: Patrick Dolan In The Witness, the player wanders around a mysterious and gorgeous island solving increasingly complex line-drawing puzzles. But is that all there is to the game? What about the statues and audio logs that are to be found all over the island and the videos that can be watched in the theatre beneath the windmill? Is there a story or message in The Witness? All audio clips in the podcast quoted from The Witness (puzzle screens sound … Continue reading Unarchived (Season 1, Episode 1)