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What We’re Playing Immortals of Aveum (https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/immortals-of-aveum/) Satisfactory (https://www.satisfactorygame.com) MTG Play Boosters (https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/making-magic/what-are-play-boosters) Find Daniel at https://daniel.melzaks.com Find Alice at Alice.Dev (https://alice.dev) Find Path of Titans at Path of Titans (https://pathoftitans.com/blog)

What we’re playing this week: Eric: Streets of Rage 4 https://www.streets4rage.com/ Assassin’s Creed III Remastered Sonic Frontiers Sega buys Rovio, the company behind Angry Birds: https://gamerant.com/sega-rovio-acquisition-explained-mobile-game-revenue-angry-birds-sonic-investor-relations/ * https://www.gamesindustry.biz/why-did-sega-buy-rovio * It's as if we have the vintage Sega vs Nintendo battle once again, but now waged over mobile * Sonic Superstars

(Original Post) https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates Unity Personal and Unity Plus: Those that have made $200,000 USD or more in the last 12 months AND have at least 200,000 lifetime game installs. Unity Pro and Unity Enterprise: Those that have made $1,000,000 USD or more in the last 12 months AND have at least 1,000,000 lifetime game installs. (Apology Tour) https://blog.unity.com/news/open-letter-on-runtime-fee The Runtime Fee policy will only apply beginning with the next LTS version of Unity shipping in 2024 and beyond. For games that are subject to the runtime fee, we are giving you a choice of either a 2.5% revenue share or the calculated amount based on the number of new people engaging with your game each month. Both of these numbers are self-reported from data you already have available. You will always be billed the lesser amount. Unity Create President answers 24 Questions | Q&A w/ Marc Whitten https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hCb5K6gskw INTENSE Reaction to New Unity Change! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB90Cse3aaM Garry Newman (Rust) - What Unity Is Getting Wrong https://garry.net/posts/unity-2020 Alderon Games (https://alderongames.com) Alice (https://Alice.dev) Path of Titans (https://alderongames.com/store/path-of-titans) Mike on Weapon X (https://twitter.com/dominucco)

Star Wards Jedi Survivor Mortal Kombat 1 MTG: WOE Dis-Unity Mike on X (https://twitter.com/dominucco) Alice (https://Alice.dev)

What We Are Playing This Week Megaman X-2. I conquered the first entry in the X series as a kid many times, but never gave the sequels much of a chance. Now I’m changing that, and already discovering what I’ve missed. Steamdeck as a retro gaming paradise https://retrogamecorps.com/2022/10/16/steam-deck-emulation-starter-guide/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs9jDHIDKkU https://linuxgamingcentral.com/posts/metroid-prime-trilogy-on-deck/ Dreamcast Defense Force Analogy: Imagine a supremely talented athlete being drafted by a franchise that is clueless how to surround the player with talent and is saddled with a front office who are utterly incompetent. That’s what happened to the Dreamcast! In the end, the athlete never sniffs a championship and never gets the full recognition they deserve. Shenmue: The open-world genre owes a huge debt of gratitude to Shenmue. Truly ahead of its time. https://www.thegamer.com/things-super-fans-sega-dreamcast-do/ https://gamerant.com/dreamcast-development-facts-trivia/ https://www.eurogamer.net/dreamcast-a-forensic-retrospective-article Eric on Twitter (https://twitter.com/thercast?lang=en) RPodcast (https://r-podcast.org)

Red Deck Always Wins Yes, Red is the best color Red Wins by turn four

Dan's Site https://daniel.melzaks.com Dan's Youtube of Metro ROM hacks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwF4IMOO9vs Game Genie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Genie

What We’re Playing this Week MTG Arena - All Will Be One Sealed Nintendo Online GBA (https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/game-boy-advance-nintendo-switch-online-switch/) Pokemon TCG About Dan All Time favorite video game series: Metroid All Time favorite video game: Super Metroid Other favorite video games: Final Fantasy Tactics Final Fantasy VII (series) Monster Hunter World Disgaea 4 (series) Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 (series) Super Mario World (series) Sonic Mania (series) Gran Turismo series Super Smash Bro. Melee (series) Armored Core series My favorite MMO to play (back in the day): Final Fantasy XI Trading Card Game: Magic: The Gathering Capture hardware: Magewell USB Capture HDMI Plus - 32040 https://a.co/d/4eKYyEg HDMI Splitter 1 in 2 Out - 4K Aluminum Ver1.4 HDCP, Powered HDMI Splitter Supports 3D 4K@30HZ Full HD1080P for Xbox PS4 PS3 Fire Stick Roku Blu-Ray Player Apple TV HDTV - Cable Included, Grey https://a.co/d/aqNmpoZ Logitech Brio 4K Webcam, Ultra 4K HD Video Calling, Noise-Canceling mic, HD Auto Light Correction, Wide Field of View, Works with Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Voice, PC/Mac/Laptop/Macbook/Tablet https://a.co/d/69ATIEL Weilisi 6.5'' Ring Light for Computer with Adjustable Tripod,3 Light Modes Video Conference Lighting,Mini Ring Light for Laptop,Webcam Light,Zoom Light,Desk Ring Light,Selfie Ring Light https://a.co/d/bTp4bEY Capture software: OBS for Windows (Virtual Webcam) https://obsproject.com/download Discord for Windows https://discord.com/download Discord (https://discord.gg/k8e7gKUpEp) Mike on Twitter (https://twitter.com/dominucco) Alice (https://alice.dev) The Mad Botter (https://themadbotter.com) Daniel’s Blog (https://daniel.melzaks.com)

Dragon's Apprentice (https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.endlessnetwork.dragonsapprentice) Aqueducts (https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.endlessnetwork.aqueducts) Whitehouse (https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.endlessnetwork.whitehouse) Scratch Programming (https://scratch.mit.edu) Discord (https://discord.gg/k8e7gKUpEp) Mike on Twitter (https://twitter.com/dominucco) The Mad Botter on Twitter (https://twitter.com/themadbotterINC) The Mad Botter on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/themadbotter/) Ask Noah Show (https://asknoahshow.com) Steve on Social (https://twitter.com/linuxovens)

What We’re Playing This Week MTGArena Brawl Super Mario Three Triangle Strategy (https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/triangle-strategy-switch/) Discord (https://discord.gg/k8e7gKUpEp) Mike on Twitter (https://twitter.com/dominucco) The Mad Botter on Twitter (https://twitter.com/themadbotterINC) The Mad Botter on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/themadbotter/) Jay’s links: Main site: https://learnlinux.tv https://www.learnlinux.tv/running-classic-ms-dos-games-on-the-pi-400/ https://studio.youtube.com/video/fsc3gYIYwV8/edit (warning, those are older videos with terrible production quality but still useful if people look past that) Console game manuals: https://archive.org/details/consolemanuals Best classic console cables under $50 or so each (only HDMI modding, scan converters, and FPGA are better): https://retrogamingcables.co.uk/ RetroPie site: https://retropie.org.uk/ Analogue consoles (FPGA, expensive, but best picture possible): https://www.analogue.co/

Life of an Indie Game Studio Managing Large Teams 30-40+ per game What the hiring process is like Things that are common to industry hiring like whiteboard tests are broken Difference in getting hired could be your microphone quality Having backup equipment and reliability Open Source as it relates to hiring Accountability and mistakes in hiring Accountability for software vendors / solutions / third party vendors Shipping game updates / testing Game Engines, Unity and Unreal Alderon Games (https://alderongames.com) Path of Titasn (https://pathoftitans.com) Discord (https://discord.gg/k8e7gKUpEp) Mike on Twitter (https://twitter.com/dominucco) The Mad Botter on Twitter (https://twitter.com/themadbotterINC) The Mad Botter on Instagr##am (https://www.instagram.com/themadbotter/)

What We’re Playing this week Marvel Midnight Sun (https://midnightsuns.2k.com/) Metroid II: Return of Samus (https://metroid.fandom.com/wiki/Metroid_II:_Return_of_Samus) Easily one of my favorite franchises and I never beat this one in my younger years. That is getting solved this week! A brief look at Nintendo V SEGA NES V Master System Some might say Master System had superior hardware to the NES Master System was big in Europe, but NES dominated Japan & America Fun fact: Processor (Z80) of the SMS is actually embedded in the Genesis, paving the way for the Power Base Convertor add-on Games Streets of Rage (oh the music is fantastic, composer Yuzo Koshiro) SMS gems: Phantasy Star, Alex Kidd series , Choplifter, Fantasy Zone, Ys Vanishing Genesis: First gen classics: Revenge of Shinobi, Golden Axe, Phantasy Star II Pushing the hardware envelope: Gunstar Heroes, Vectorman, SFII Special Champion Edition, Earthworm Jim, Aladdin Great shmups: Thunderforce III, Gaiares, MUSHA Sega CD classics: Sonic CD, Lunar Series, Silpheed, Dark Wizard, Shining Force CD 32X actually had a few decent games: Virtua Racing Deluxe, After Burner (perfect arcade port), Knuckles Chaotix, Star Wars Arcade Discord (https://discord.gg/k8e7gKUpEp) Mike on Twitter (https://twitter.com/dominucco) The Mad Botter on Twitter (https://twitter.com/themadbotterINC) The Mad Botter on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/themadbotter/) R-Weekly Podcast and Site (https://rweekly.org) Shiny Developer Series (https://shinydevseries.com) Eric on Twitter (https://twitter.com/theRcast) Eric on Mastodon (https://podcastindex.social/@rpodcast) Links about steamdeck emulation (we may touch on this in the episode) Steamdeck Emulation Starter Guide (https://retrogamecorps.com/2022/10/16/steam-deck-emulation-starter-guide/) Video version of guide (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs9jDHIDKkU) THEME CREDIT The Distant Night (Final Fantasy VI) [Wiesty, The OC Jazz Collective]

Kid Friendly Dragomino (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/300010/dragomino) Kingdomino (https://blueorangegames.eu/en/games/kingdomino/) MLP Deckbuilding Game (https://renegadegamestudios.com/my-little-pony-adventures-in-equestria-deck-building-game/) Pokemon VBattle Decks Mario Strikers (https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/mario-strikers-battle-league-switch/) Less Kid Friendly Marvel’s Midnight Suns (https://midnightsuns.2k.com/) Mansions of Madness (https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/mansions-of-madness-second-edition/) Discord (https://discord.gg/tnxqgrSE) Mike on Twitter (https://twitter.com/dominucco) The Mad Botter on Twitter (https://twitter.com/themadbotterINC) The Mad Botter on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/themadbotter/)

Mike is Joined by Jupiter Broadcasting's Chris Fisher for this Pilot Episode of Gamer Radio. They discuss their gaming pedigree and some of the recent games both physical and digital that they've been playing.