Indieventure
#65. Liam Made a Whole Game?! The 3rd Annual Indieventure Sleepover
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Indieventure
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It's that time of year again when your host trio take some time to get together in person and natter until we all lose our voices – luckily, a lot of the time we at least remember to be around our microphones while we do so! We recorded a couple of episodes (this one and a Side Quest you can look out for in a couple of weeks' time), so expect us to be extra crisp and way, way more unhinged than usual – because, despite now having a combined age upwards of 100, we're always just super excited to hang out with our besties. In true sleepover club fashion, we recorded this episode in our jammies, and what better way to pass an evening among friends pretending to still be teenagers than by playing a party game? And not just any party game: our very own Liam only went and designed a whole app to facilitate this idea! Inspired by the tabletop card game FunEmployed, Pitch Deck sees the three of us alternating in the role of indie developers pitching our game ideas to studio heads, using a series of wild card (emphasis on the wild) improv prompts that we need to adapt to as we go. It uh… goes some places, let's say. I don't want to spoil anything for you because this really is just one yo