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  • Tanked Up 329 – Bees and CAMRA BS

    Lucy tells us of her time with APICO, a beekeeping simulator with minecraft-like survival elements. Ben touches on his first impressions of Diablo Immortal. We then spend the rest of the episode talking about the open letter from CAMRA chairman Nik Antona to the Minister for Small Business lobbying...
  • Tanked Up – Photoging in Umurangi

    We start with a chat about Aadil’s PC problems, windows 11, and the scourge of computing that DUST is. Aadil takes a deep dive on the first-person photography game Umurangi Generation, now on GamesPass. Some nerding out on photography in general. We chat at length about the mechanics, UI,...
  • Tanked Up 327 – Moar Bit Rot Games

    Aadil continues his chat with Chad and Curtis of Bit Rot Games. We chat about the narrative focus of Recursive Ruin, demo design and testing, and the procedural techniques from music to visuals. We also chatted about how to make the perfect martini, the perils and pros of machine...
  • Tanked Up 326 – Recursive Ruin w/Bit Rot Games

    Aadil is solo-hosting but is joined by the return of Chad and Curtis from Bit Rot Games. We talk the development, features, and balance of designing a narrative puzzle game that is Recursive Ruin. With only Aadil at the helm we touch on Micro-brewing vs. Craft brewing (vs. Femto-brewing),...
  • Tanked Up 325 – FIFA? More like FAFFA 22

    Ben played FIFA 22, courtesy of PS+. It devolved into a general discussion of FIFA, football games and the (lack of) iteration over the years in sporting games. Ben had Arbor’s Space Hardware NEIPA, Lucy Cloudwater’s West Coast IPA, and Aadil had Arbor’s Texas Sunday Morning Hazy India Pale...
  • Tanked Up 324 – A Play Date with the Steam Deck

    Lucy makes us all jealous with her first impressions of the Play Date, and “Playtris”. That is until the Steam Deck arrived. She played Strange Horticulture, ElecHead, the Apeture Desk Job, Ynglet, Swallow the Sea and Raven’s Hike. We also chat briefly about Stadia and the steam platform.  ...
  • Tanked Up 323 – Trek to Bodyhorror

    Ben talks about his initial impression of the beautiful Trek to Yomi, along with a review roundup of (minor?) complaints. Aadil played the sometimes body-horror ‘family’ game Bugsnax!   Ben has the Maple Pancake Pale Ale from Fierce, also from his recent trip to Sainsbury’s. Aadil has Arbor’s Date...
  • Tanked Up 322 – Romantik on the Rift

    It’s Ben and Aadil chatting about the games they’ve been playing. Ben touches on his time with Dorfromantik, from early access to many hours played through release. Aadil talks about the now in kickstarter Remnants of the Rift. Ben went to Sainsbury’s and picked up Unity’s Hugh Pale ale,...
  • Tanked Up 321 – Star Wars LEGO, the bricks not the games, w/craftbeerpinup

    Special Guest Kimberley Owens (@creaftbeerpinup) joins us again for a more raucous episode than the last. We start with going through Kimberley’s Star Wars beers to pick one for the episode. We talk about Kimberley’s approach to gaming and unwinding. We talk Battlefront 2 (2) , retro games before...