Infinite Cities

Infinite Cities
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Four friends who met over the shared love of a video game, now meet weekly to play through some of the best games, book club style, and then talk about them.

  1. 1D AGO

    Despelote (2025): Do You Care About Your Country?

    In 2002, Ecuador qualified for the world cup for the first time. This moment was so affecting, (future) game designer Julián Cordero became consious. This is a semi-autobiographical telling of those six wild months, and it works near flawlessly, transporting us back in time and across place. It's a wonder - but we've all kicked a ball around, and in this all humans are more alike than different. In this episode: liking sports, being eight, nationalistic pride, drone scans, google maps, very specific parks, baseball, California is the best country on earth. 2001 ALCS Game Four: Bernie's homer in eighth ties game Pinstripe Alley: Ranking All Time John Sterling Home Run Calls Sight-In Games Review – Despelote There are several parks in Despelote; the main one appears to be fictional but resembles Plaza Republica de Nicaragua, and the major park we discuss is La Carolina Park. The latter gets a shoutout in the ep. Somehow, GOD Factory: Wingmen ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp! Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord! You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

    1h 15m

  2. MAR 26

    Dread Delusion (2024): What's Wrong With These Islands?

    Karp gets to indulge himself in his favourite type of game: exploring weird-ass spaces. Join us in turning over every rock and checking behind every mushroom in this immersive sim-like retro-throwback. In this episode: don't pick Charmander, neuron stars, setting the setting, money sink, lockpicking minigames, first-world problems, drawing a map. ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp! Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord! You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

    50 min

  3. MAR 19

    Scott Pilgrim EX (2026): Are Beat-Em-Ups The Original Friendslop?

    CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER: Feather: loud and flighty. Special move: a take so bad all enemies on screen have to engage. Karp: stable and strong. Special move: has already beaten the game, so he can skip ahead to when he already won the fight. Will: fast and has bonus reach. Special move: crashes a bike into enemies for massive damage, hurting them as well as himself (but not the bike!) Gary: fun and supportive. Special move: cooks bomb-ass pasta, healing everyone on screen. Enemies get healed, but also stunned as they try to schedule a new podcast (the more enemies, the longer the stun!) In this episode: fresh game, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (The Movie), Ready Player One, sprites, favorite combos, beat-em-up genre conventions, empty stories, not so evil exes, the spirit of whimsy compels you, better than being stung by scorpions for an hour. ~shoutouts zone~ Dueling Genre patreon presents Scott Pilgrim Minute Paul Robertson (I can't find a good portfolio or anything so have a twenty minute animated pixel short) ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp! Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord! You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

    1h 18m

  4. MAR 14

    Slay the Spire (2019) - Are You Ready For The Sweat Zone?

    For a game that is credited with popularizing the roguelike deckbuilder genre, Slay the Spire is surprisingly stripped down compared to everything that came after it. You build your deck, you fight monsters, you keep pushing onward. After our time with Inscryption and and Wildfrost, it almost feels strange going backwards to a game most of us have played, and half of us have beaten, before. This ep is a little all over the place, thanks daylight savings, because we're all sleepy and doing our best. Stick around for the post pod where Feather tells us about Marathon for nearly half an hour!   in this episode: roguelike deckbuilders, sway the spire,  sweaty games, the first work, art, adventure quest, orb shit, this game is chess, get sweaty with it  ~shoutout zone~ Dream Quest Adventure Quest ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp! Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord! You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

    1h 38m

  5. MAR 6

    Redout (2016): Is The Native American Style Chanting Bagpipe Dubstep Racist?

    Gary's on the move so we take the chance to play something they absolutely loathe (/j): racing games. This is like an oasis in a WipEout-less world. In this episode: why did WipEout die, podracers, racing line, braking game, "one-and-a-half good games", ancient fox girl, "nightcar dubstep". ~Shoutout zone~ Redout OST - Pipe Down ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp! Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord! You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

    57 min

  6. FEB 27

    UNBEATABLE (2025): How Many Cars Do These Cops Have?

    This is the best worst game we have played so far. What a glorious mess. In this episode: jank jank jank, ska, categorizing rhythm games, legibility issues, mapping left and right to up and down, peak, the sewer level, poco and apoco are here! posters, petty band drama, incoherence, conspiracies, homestuck. ~shoutouts zone~ The best trailer of all time Two Tone Army 2 Mello - Twist Sound ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp! Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord! You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

    1h 23m

  7. FEB 20

    Kentucky Route Zero (2013*) Part 2: Should You Go?

    It's a mark of praise that KRZ so frequently ends up compared with our favorite narrative games -it it's in the same space as Disco Elysium, Citizen Sleeper, Night in the Woods. Just because it frequently comes off worse in those comparisons doesn't mean it's not secretly great. It's just tired, and all out of answers - and maybe that's the only way this story could be honest. In this episode: no bits, aging games, literally figuratively literally robots, midpoints and looking back, Xanadu is butts, getting to the point, getting off the boat, being irrational about animals, giant f*****g bird, addiction, garbage ghosts, museums, something is taken from you in the night. ~shoutouts zone~ PDP-1 Computer White Nose Syndrome WEVP-TV Laver (Ghost Town) Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp! Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord! You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

    2h 13m

  8. FEB 13

    Kentucky Route Zero (2013*) Part 1: If You Were Dead, How Would You Prove It?

    Kentucky Route Zero wants to be art so badly, and it genuinely succeeds - this is a beautiful game, both visually and artistically. But a game that is art is less revolutionary in 2013, and our relationships to rural Appalachia have changed as well. Is this game a ghost of the past? Is that the intended outcome, from the very beginning? There are no answers but the ones in your heart. In this episode: ten years, silhouette, dogs and names of dogs, maps (fictional and otherwise), lighting, debt, blame, caves (Plato's and otherwise). ~shoutouts zone~ Friends at the Table's Bluff City Glasgow, Kentucky Mee-maw Can't Work at the Big Asbestos Factory No More This Little Berlin art exhibit is part video-game, part real-life Any reason to shout out Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp! Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord! You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

    1h 36m
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Four friends who met over the shared love of a video game, now meet weekly to play through some of the best games, book club style, and then talk about them.

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  • Creator
    Infinite Cities
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    138
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2023
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    Infinite Cities