Ep. 436 - Shiny Finding Instinct, with Mathew Kumar

Writer and Game Developer Mathew Kumar joins an episode hosted by Esper Quinn, covering live service games, personalized Silent Hills, and the Kentucky Loan Ranger.

Hosted by Esper Quinn, with Frank Cifaldi, Brandon Sheffield, and Mathew Kumar. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Sensible Soccer: European Champions
• ZX Spectrum
• Batman
• “All I need are tasty waves, and total carnage.”
• Captain Planet
• PC Engine

1: What would it take to get you into a live service game today? (03:57)

• Marathon
• Whose Line Is It Anyway?
• Fortnite
• Steam Deck
• PSP
• Helldivers II
• Left 4 Dead

2: Has a video game ever led to you taking up a non-video game hobby? (10:56)

• Death Stranding
• Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series
• BioShock Infinite
• Sonic the Hedgehog series
• Magic: the Gathering
• Crimson Desert
• Pokémon Pokopia
• PowerWash Simulator
• Wanderstop
• Ivy Road Closes its Doors
• Demonschool

3: Brandon Sheffield asks, have you ever found a piece of media you didn’t realize was based on a video game, then played the video game? (17:24)

• Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
• Gnosia (anime)
• Gnosia
• Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm
• Mortal Kombat series
• Street Fighter (1994)
• Street Fighter series
• Pac-Man cartoon
• Pac-Man
• The Crow (1994)
• Worlds of Power
• Pokemon series
• Dennō Senshi Porygon
• The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026)
• Super Mario Galaxy

4: If you had access to the most advanced 3D graphics rendering capabilities available today, what would you make? (24:19)

• Cyberpunk 2077
• Afrika
• Yakuza series

5: Alex Jaffe asks, what would your Silent Hill be like? (30:20)

• Silent Hill 2
• Silent Hill f
• Silent Hill
• Pyramid Head
• Winnie The Poohing
• Hudson News

6: What’s the most work you ever put into a video game doing something