Video games are getting smaller and easier to make every day, and if we can do it, anyone can. Join the developers of Cat President, Internet Court, The Beard in the Mirror and more as we talk about the games we're making, the games we're playing, and how aspiring developers don't have to be "aspiri… read more
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- How do you buy movie tickets?
- The D&D and Super Mario movies
- Michael and Paul's experiences as DMs
- When your …
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- Is AI going to write Cat President 3?
- AI-generated titles for our games
- Evil blobby aliens
- Distractions
- The Idle Miner Tycoon community
- The back part of Spencer's Gifts
- What are show …
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- Our favorite games that we made
- Lame-duck Congresses
- Quick updates on Cat President 3 and the Moms Game
- Michael's live …
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- The death of Chief Justice Goober
- Trying to remember our own jokes and storylines
- Which months are dead-er than others
- …
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- The ways we indent our code!
- Beating up your computer
- Sales breakdowns between PC, Switch, PlayStation and Xbox
- Our outline for Cat President 3
- Broadway musicals
- Cat genders
- Bitter giant …
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- Twitter holidays
- The winner of the Cat President 3 purresidential election!
- Is Earl Grey dead?
- Potential Cat President 3 …
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- "You gotta monetize your friendships, bro!"
- AI art vs. actual real drawings
- Having art vs. not having art
- Michael should …
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- Time does not exist
- Cats: The Musical (The Dating Sim)
- Adapting works from the public domain (into dating sims)
- "Does everything have to be a dating sim?"
- Naming the characters you date in …
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- Paul's problems with level(s) design
- We try to pick our next project: mommies, supervillains, or creepy kids?
- Writing …
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- Michael is a sleepy boy.
- GameCola's 20th anniversary? 10-year? 50th?
- The 2022 Nancy Drew Mega Marathon
- Oh, a Rock! …
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- John Cena's Peacemaker
- Is social media getting better or worse?
- The ice-cream business
- The Pizza Delivery Boy Who Saved the World is now on Switch, PlayStation and Xbox!!
- Changes we made …
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- WE KNOW WHAT TUPLES ARE NOW.
- Burger King hacks
- Updates to the credits sequence in Too Many Santas! (and why)
- Getting your kids to scream
- Authentic elevator sounds
- Redoing art assets for …
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- Visual;Conference (aka VNConf) 2022
- Nose picking and armpit-hair removal
- Accidental flirting
- …Are we making an adventure …
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- TOO MANY SANTAS IS OUT NOW, somehow!
- Things we cut from the game in order to finish it in time
- "His eyelids are …
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- Why is there that weird pause in the middle of every intro?
- The canceled DLC for Cat President
- Our favorite Santa Claus memes
- Murder mystery recipes
- "Be the Christmas you want to see in the …
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- Warrior Cats is officially banned from the podcast.
- Oregon colleges
- Paul tries to cast Michael's mom in another game
- …
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- Michael should go to jail for programming crimes
- The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
- Repetitive dialogue
- Can bicycles go …
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- How long have we been podcasting.
- Hitting on moms at funerals
- How Michael (almost) appeared on All Things Considered
- Oregon City's municipal elevator
- Good dogs
- How easy is it to get sued, …
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- Nature doesn't grow in a hallway
- Movement controls in Deja Vu
- Trying to cheat our own puzzles
- Ancient Photoshop
- TUPLES
- …
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- Santa Claus costumes
- Fiverr fails
- Paul's canceled FMV dating sim
- Murder at Singles University
- Melissa & Dog
- How to …
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- Oh, a (large) rock!
- How to cheat at slider puzzles
- Internet Court and Cat President 2 sales figures
- Steam's new beta-testing program
- Dressing up our friends as Santa Claus
- Blinking
- …
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- Internet Court is coming out on April 6th!!
- Huw Miller and Timothy Mark join us to talk about their characters in the game
- Casting decisions (or: "Hey, that's a nice hoodie!")
- Improv in …
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- We’ve been doing this for FIVE YEARS HOLY [censored]
- The Muppets Take Manhattan
- Michael’s Life in the Dorms livestream
- …
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- The SpongeBob musical
- Michael's haircut
- Michael's "kid friends"
- Signing up for COVID vaccine trials
- Laughing at jokes you don't remember writing
- Dubs
- Internet Court's menu design
- Adding …
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- Glitter
- NaNoWriMo hacks
- How not to confuse your future self
- Background animations in VNs
- Jenny LeClue
- Naughty and nice decisions
- How many Santas is enough Santas?
- Joey Joey and the Good …
In this special edition of Oh, a Podcast!:
- We have three guests in the (virtual) studio: Anne Sullivan, Abigael Williams, and Rin J—aka the owners …
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- Beard care tips
- Cat President 2 is coming out this month!
- Composting pyramid schemes
- Mountain Dew VooDew
- Why aren't …
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- We're using Discord now!
- We're too old for Discord.
- What is the end of Minecraft?
- Paul just wants to impress the fourth …
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- Making games is fun(?)
- Cat President's word count
- What's next after a game is "finished"?
- How cats wear jackets
- Do cats have goatees?
- Cats with tats
- Testing text-based games
- Games with …
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- Pride and Prejudice and Murder
- Managing continuity with multiple writers
- Politicians licking themselves
- Filming FMV …
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- Ice-cream!
- COVID-19's impact on our work
- Cancer-themed romance novels
- Hooking up with the vice principal
- Rooftop …
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- Testing Nancy Drew: Midnight in Salem
- The Kidnapped Prom Queen is out now! Buy it!
- How to end games
- Making it look like you put effort into your game
- Pudd'nhead Wilson
- Writing jokes that …
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- Are babies really that interesting
- Singing
- How voting is like fast food
- Superior Tuesday
- The qualified business income deduction
- Ace Attorney news!! (There isn't any.)
- Making gross sound …
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- Paul is sad; Michael is fired.
- Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge in Disney World!!
- Everything wrong with Midnight in Salem
- How to …
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- Is Nancy Drew: Midnight in Salem...good?
- Michael's new career as a tester
- How much dialogue is too much?
- First-person navigation
- Achievements for dying
- PIZZA BOY IS A REAL GAME
- …
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- More writing tips from Michael!
- Designing puzzles in the shower
- Comic Sans
- Coding in Notepad.exe
- Kid directors
- How real companies do voice acting, probably
- Native Latin speakers
- How we …
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- Paul's brief career as a school janitor
- *BLEEP!*
- Bad football teams
- Making achievements for games with no gameplay
- Is …
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- Are steak fries even French fries?
- Why you shouldn't work with other people
- 46-minute mysteries
- Outtakes
- Pride and …
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- Michael has a new game out!
- Messing with text parsers
- What would a mystery RPG look like?
- Putting kids to work
- All the …
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- Warrior Cats
- Pun names for Tinder
- Political twinsies
- How we're teaching kids to code
- Is game development getting easier …
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- Unruly mermaids
- Participation playoffs for hockey teams who try their best
- Japanese high school clubs
- Participating in …
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- Can we replace Michael with potatoes.
- Michael's mom reacts to Internet Court
- Potty training
- Do people still use README files?
- Costumes for cats
- The cartoony era of adventure games
- How …
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- References in our games that we don't understand
- Disney princesses
- Designing puzzles for text-only games
- "Wikipedia …
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- I hope you like Harry Potter!
- Shifty wizards
- Wizards with guns
- "Flipendo"???
- Dating 80-year-old Supreme Court Justices
- …
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- Snow!
- Michael explains marginal tax rates
- Designing inventory interfaces
- "Forget YOU, YouTubers!"
- We try to find …
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- Pizza bartering
- Round two of Internet Court alpha testing
- AOL Instant Messenger
- Watching yourself act
- Bad video quality as a feature
- Leaving self-deprecating comments in our code
- Args and …
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- Politics and pro-wrestling
- Ren'py woes
- "YES! YES! YES!"
- Love, Guitars, and the Nashville Skyline
- The like four …
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- Is Buckingham Palace a real place?
- Sherlock Holmes Versus Arsene Lupin
- "Met-a-Critic?"
- Puzzles that are secretly homework
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- Do the kids these days know what Harry Potter is?
- Michael accidentally mentions theme parks.
- Why the default name in Cat …
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- Our new game is coming out soon!!
- Michael's pizza disaster
- Why Internet Court is taking so long to code
- Bug-sorting puzzles
- What happens when the programmer isn't a programmer
- How to tell …
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- We have a special guest: Victoria Budkey, one of the stars of Pizza Boy!
- ...Uh, what's our game called again?
- Victoria's background in the entertainment biz
- ** MEETING THE ROCK ON THE SET OF …
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- Neither of us has seen the new Star Wars movie, so let's talk about it!
- Luke and Leia hooking up in the books
- Comparing Star Wars to The Odyssey
- Michael (accidentally) releasing two games in …
In this month's episode!
- Cracker Barrel trivia
- Streaming old adventure games for young Nancy Drew fans
- Heroes who are actually terrible people
- …
This month on the pod!
- When is it okay to remake your old game? One week after release? Two?
- How Michael ended up as a student in a Nancy Drew game
…
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- Why are GUIs so hard to code??
- And captions?! Jeez!
- Image editing isn't so great, either.
- Removing background noise from videos—now THERE'S a challenge
- Coming up with subtitles isn't so bad …
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- Michael's Michael shirt he had printed up for Internet Court
- How to drink soda without getting sued
- Casting our moms in our games
- What it's like to have more than two people test your game
- …
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- Special guest Diana Gray (aka the voice of Francy Droo) is here!!
- How do you pronounce a question mark?
- Recording dialogue on the fly through Skype
- Which cat in Cat President is "the weird …
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- Paul's trip report from RetroGameCon!
- Michael isn't 100% sure what Undertale is.
- Michael isn't 100% sure what Steam is, …
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- Francy Droo & Friends is coming very soon!
- Finding bugs in My Nigerian Prince, three years later
- It's pronounced "Ren'py".
- Mermaid Mission Titanic, a new visual novel that Michael's …
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- The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and live theatrical shipping!
- Letting Twitch dictate your life (literally)
- Text parsers vs. …
We're celebrating one whole year of "Oh, a Podcast!" ...Quietly. In our own ways. It's almost like we didn't mention it at all on the podcast itself, …
It's podcast season, everyone! What? That's not a thing. Anyway, here's what we're talking about this month!
- Paul and Michael are each other's boss.
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Well, we did it! Another podcast in the books. The pod-books. The book of pod. Casts. Podcasts! ...Here's what we're talking about this month:
- The …
It's crunch time on Don't Turn Your Back on the Ocean, the long-awaited sequel to Awkward Steve! The game will be coming out in the next few months, and—oh. We forgot to talk about that on the podcast. Here's what we …
It's bright and early on a Monday morning! ...But it doesn't have to be. Take this podcast journey with Paul and Michael, and forget all about that …
It's Oh, a Podcast! #7! Michael ran out of games to write and Paul's been doing hush-hush contract work, but here's what we can and did talk about:
- …
Steam Greenlight is on its way out! What does that mean for us? Well, it's, uhhh...it's not great. Here's what we're talking about this month:
- What if we just did a podcast about A Goofy Movie.
- Production has started …
Welcome back to "Oh, a Podcast!", literally the only thing on the Internet that isn't talking about politics this month! Here's what's on the docket:
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Michael's got a new job and a new baby on the way, and Paul is...also busy (*wipes Cheeto dust off shirt*), but we're still making games and casting …
Happy Turkey Week, everyone! Stuck at the grown-ups table with your weird uncle and your cousins who voted for [person you didn't want to win]? Pop in your ear-buds and drown them out with your favorite indie devs, …
We're back!! (A Dinosaur's Story.) (Sorry, force of habit.) Here's some of the stuff we talk about in this fine episode:
- The FMV legal thriller we've been trying to get started for like four years
- A brutal takedown of …
HELL-OH, FELLOW ROCK STARS! And welcome to this brand-new Internet podcast, brought to you by the good folks at Oh, a Rock! Studios! Join me (Paul …
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