Episode 3: Intent to Kill

(Watch on Youtube)

We rave about Until You Fall and investigate why its take on melee combat is so much more compelling than those in Blade and Sorcery and Boneworks. The physics-based simulationism of Boneworks seems super popular on Twitch, Twitter, and Reddit. Why are we championing a cartoony, abstract approach and saying it is more realistic and immersive? Listen to find out!

Timestamps:

• 0:00 - Topic Introduction

• 4:07 - Until You Fall overview

• 19:38 - GORN and Boneworks

• 23:41 - Pros and Cons to each approach

• 34:45 - Physics in Combat vs World Interaction

Game Link:

• Until You Fall

Other things we mention:

• “Flow”

• Mike Tyson’s Punchout

• Blade and Sorcery

• Saints and Sinners

• GORN 

• Boneworks 

• They Live fight scene

• Half Life: Alyx

Music:

Furious Freak by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3791-furious-freak

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Inspired by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Welcome to the post-show notes! This was a fun one. We rag on Boneworks all the time, so it was very cathartic to put that into podcast form.