Welcome to the first EVER episode of Into the Aether: X-Strike Summer! We kick of the series with games industry pros (and TWG community members) Kyle Labriola, Murray Cameron-Smith and NBZ!

This week's episode is REQUIRED to be listened to at .75 speed to make up for all the times you were listening at 3x, you sickos.
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Kyle's Links
Blog: https://blueberrylemonade.pika.page/
Indie Games of Cohost: https://cohost.org/IndieGamesOfCohost
Rhythm Doctor: https://store.steampowered.com/app/774181/Rhythm_Doctor/
A Dance of Fire and Ice: https://store.steampowered.com/app/977950/A_Dance_of_Fire_and_Ice/

Murray's Link
A Shell In The Pit: https://ashellinthepit.com/

NBZ's Links
This Nintendo Life: https://open.spotify.com/show/1P4WI8rVRpAMjDIxJLqJUn
Threads: https://www.threads.net/@lordnbz
Playstack Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/Playstack

Discussed: X-Strike Summer!, podcast listening speeds, Adam Sandler’s opus: Click, the competitive value of Shuckle, the slow boil of becoming an indie game dev, watching a game blow up, separating work brain and regular brain, how to work from home, Dadish 3D, Sokpop Collective, short experiences, Toree 3D, Cavern of Dreams, Pseudoregalia, Persona 3 Portable, Beyond the Beyond, Lufia 2: Rise of the Sinistrals, Rhythm Sprout, this Rhythm Heaven tiktok, maimai, searching for tighter experiences.
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Season 6 Cover Art by Scout Wilkinson: https://scoutwilkinson.myportfolio.com/
Theme song by Will LaPorte: https://instagram.com/ghostdownphoto
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Timecodes:

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:14) - Welcome to X-Strike Summer!
• (02:27) - Histories with ITA and TWG
• (06:59) - Getting in to the industry
• (18:34) - What it's like to watch a game blow up
• (24:12) - Getting brought into the fold
• (29:07) - Creative Broken Brain(tm)
• (41:27) - A surprise guest! (It's Crash Bandicoot)
• (41:54) - Dadish 3D | The latest installment in the Dadish Cinematic Universe
• (48:25) - Toree 3D | A lil bird that jumps :-)
• (52:41) - Persona 3 Portable | Another condensed game with a 3 in the title
• (01:02:09) - Beyond the Beyond | On the Retroid QWERTY123FFXIV Pro
• (01:05:34) - Lufia 2 | A game that forces you to use your items
• (01:18:02) - Rhythm Sprout | More little guys!
• (01:29:08) - Are people looking for more focused experiences?
• (01:43:30) - Check the links in the show notes!
• (01:45:25) - Wrapping up

You've traveled far and faced trials that would demoralize most... or worse.

But here you emerge, into the sun, holding in your hands the thing you've been searching for so long: The Uncharted bonus episode of Into the Aether.
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Season 6 Cover Art by Scout Wilkinson: https://scoutwilkinson.myportfolio.com/
Theme song by Will LaPorte: https://instagram.com/ghostdownphoto
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Timecodes:

• (00:00) - It's Uncharted time BABY
• (02:18) - NaughtyDog's influence and the state of crunch
• (09:06) - Histories with the series
• (39:18) - Nate's Theme by Greg Edmonson
• (39:44) - Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
• (01:05:00) - Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
• (01:20:32) - Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
• (01:33:23) - Uncharted: Golden Abyss
• (01:41:08) - A Thief's End by Henry Jackman
• (01:41:39) - Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
• (02:13:24) - Uncharted: Lost Legacy
• (02:28:34) - A Thief's End by Henry Jackman
• (02:28:58) - Nathan Drake (said in the cadence of "Donkey Kong")
• (02:29:27) - Uncharted losing the supernatural | From Rebecca
• (02:34:46) - What if instead of combat... anything else? | From GJ
• (02:37:47) - Nathan Drake loves SUBS | From Cameron
• (02:40:20) - Uncharted: Drake's CInematic Adaptation | From Matt
• (02:43:20) - Drake's Fancast | From Ponk
• (02:47:12) - THE Uncharted game | From saiklex
• (02:48:56) - The sibling reveal | From Christian Spicer
• (02:51:03) - Ludonarrative dissonance | From Lady Borkington's Biggest Fan
• (02:52:37) - Twodonarrative dissonance | From Chase
• (02:55:33) - Uncharted's influence | From Brittlemoon
• (03:02:35) - Wrapping up
• (03:05:36) - Nate's Theme

iO, eat your heart out.

See you on July 17th!

Discussed: XStrike Summer, Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, Myst, Animal Well, Brendon solving the final puzzle of The Witness, Brendon's number 16 Game of the Year, Zero Stranger, Void Ranger, Burnout Paradise, the PSP, Soma Bringer, the Xeno series, Diablo, have a good Summer (to our Northern hemisphere pals)!
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Produced by AJ Fillari: https://bsky.app/profile/ajfillari.bsky.social
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Season 6 Cover Art by Scout Wilkinson: https://scoutwilkinson.myportfolio.com/
Theme song by Will LaPorte: https://instagram.com/ghostdownphoto
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Timecodes:

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:46) - Announcing some more stuff!
• (05:47) - The cool theme song for when we talk about games
• (06:12) - Lorelei and the Laser Eyes | Very clever, Signorina
• (24:58) - Zero Stranger and Void Ranger | Two Sky Ballets
• (49:41) - Burnout Paradise | Peeling out to senior prom
• (01:11:26) - Soma Bringer | Finding the throughline
• (01:31:56) - Wrapping up