Tag: Kentucky Route Zero

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The Moving Pixels Podcast Explores Act IV of ‘Kentucky Route Zero’

The long-awaited Act IV of Kentucky Route Zero has been released and now so has our discussion about it. It’s a game about being lost. With each new episode KR0 seems to find a new way to express this both thematically and structurally. While Act IV may be the most constrained episode geographically, it also feels like it is also the most expansive with narrative crafting options. It strange coming back to continue a game after letting it lie two years fallow. | more

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Even More Mines, Maps and Madness

In Xanadu, did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree: so, begins this episode of the Moving Pixels podcast on Kentucky Route Zero Act 3. Ever since this episode was recorded back in May (good lord, are we ahead of the curve) I’ve been anticipating this podcast’s release. I really like this game and that definitely comes across in our discussion, but after recording it I felt like we had managed to do better than our usual fare, if I may be a braggart for a moment. | more

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The Indifference of ‘Kentucky Route Zero’ to the Platonic Ideal of Video Games

My last post of the year went up on PopMatters today. This is one of those posts that started from a kernal of an idea and in the process of writing it sort of blossomed out as I was writing. I wanted to end the year on a post of Kentucky Route Zero and was trying to figure out a way to approach it. The game just does things so differently than any other game I’ve ever played and not in obvious ways either. Its differences are subtle and spawn from a more fundamental place. | more

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Kentucky Route Zero: A Game of Mines, Maps and Madness

And so, we continue our unofficial, accidental series on indie games in this week’s episode of the Moving Pixels Podcast with Kentucky Route Zero. It was noted in the preshow talk that apparently the recordings have gotten quite longer since I started appearing on the show. That continues here with almost two hours of talk. So, note the length just in case. As for the sound quality on my end, this is becoming a real pain, I tried a new set up for this episode that managed to get the mic right in front of my face the whole time. | more