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After a short review of Cybertext, by Espen Aarseth, we traverse the desert and discover the apartment-dwellers' secret. That secret proceeds to kick us in the face. Join the discussion, watch the playthrough, or find a torn book or two, plus other crafting/reading material, at videogameacademia.org. Music this time comes from the OST. Thanks for listening. 

We explore the spaceship Bunker, then touch down quite a ways from the Resistance Camp and run through the city ruins. Join the discussion, watch the playthrough, or find a torn book or two, plus other crafting material, at videogameacademia.org. Music this time comes from the OST. Thanks for listening. 

We discuss the opening sequence of NieR: Automata and eye some of the game's paradoxes. Additional audio this time comes from the first boss battle, taken from a video embedded in Jennifer Smith's medium article "A Beautiful Song - The Adaptive Music of NieR: Automata."  Join the discussion, watch the playthrough, or find a torn book or two, plus other crafting material, at videogameacademia.org. Thanks for listening. 

From the abyss to the platform: on ch 26-27 of The Amber Spyglass, by Philip Pullman. 

Steve, Wes, Quorey, and Ben (asynchronously, but thank goodness for time travel) respond to the new Majora's Mask title from Boss Fight Books.  Music clipped from the Keaton Quiz.  We invite you to join us for future discussions. 

Steve takes the lead opening our investigation of the visual novel form. See the course page for more resources.  We invite you to join us for future discussions.  Music this time comes from two productions of Maeterlinck's Blue Bird, the first a clip of incidental music from the 1909 Theatre Royal run (performed by Fiona Cox and recorded in 2006), the second from a 1980 anime. 

On ch 24-25 of The Amber Spyglass, by Philip Pullman.  Please see the course page to learn more and ask questions. Thanks for listening, sharing, or lending your support. 

Ben, Steve, and I bid farewell to a perfidious year and discuss what we've been playing to help us make it through.  We invite you to join us for future discussions.  EarthBound music comes courtesy of the trove at starmen.net. 

Remembering the lives and work of Millicent Lenz, Antonia Syson,  and William Gray.  Please see the course page to learn more and ask questions. Thanks for listening, sharing, or lending your support. 

On ch 22-23 of Pullman's The Amber Spyglass. See the course page to learn more and ask questions. Thanks for listening, sharing, or lending your support. 

Sarah and Steph, The Video Game Academy's resident AC experts, are here to discuss the unfolding phenomenon. We invite you to join us for future discussions, wishing you happy holidays!

We delve once more into the strange afterlife of The Hex, seeking some unifying understanding among its multiple mysteries, and are punished for our hubris. Forgive us.

On Walk, Lionel's magnum opus, and its references to each of the previous game segments in The Hex. See the course page for more info and join us for future discussions. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

Apologies for the audio gaps on this one. At about the ten minute mark, Craigbot, our discord recording device, decided to go for a walk. Maybe he had a date on the dating simulator. All that gets lost there is a bit of summarizing: how we get from the bar, via the backroom armory and Vicious Galaxy, to the Gameworks HQ. Fortunately, Ben came through with the backup audio from that point. See the course page for more info and join us for future discussions. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

Ben, Steve, and I tactically survive our way through the mods and hallucinations of Wasteworld. See the course page for more info and join us for future discussions. It's gonna get weird.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

We glitch our way through Secrets of Legendaria with the apparently un-renameable Chandrelle and her sidekick, Lazarus. Lots more interesting names, references, and study topics await on the course page, and you can also join us for future discussions.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

Ben and I follow the barkeep's orders and fight our way through the memories of Bryce the cook. See the course page for more info and join us for future discussions. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

Ben, Steven, and Craigbot join me for our introductory discussion of The Hex. This is Daniel Mullins' follow-up to Pony Island, and it's equally if not more bizarre. So we start with some leftovers and secrets and connections there, before getting into the murder-mystery frame and the Super Weasel Kid memory sequence. See the course page for more info and join us for future discussions.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

Ben and I outfox a daemon, escape the arcade, and maybe beat the game...?  See the course page for more info and join us for future discussions. Up next: The Hex.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

Ben and I hack ourselves some wings and revisit Baphomet for another glimpse in Pony Island's Adventure Mode.  See the course page for more info and join us for future discussions.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support