Wide Flank: Happy Gaming

Wide Flank: Happy Gaming
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Explore the ways games are made and played with Sean, Alon, and a constellation of guests. Happy Gaming! Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/wideflank

  1. JUL 1 · BONUS

    [GLHF] Wide Flank on Hiatus (preview)

    That’s all folks. Wide Flank has gone on an indefinite hiatus. For your pleasure, here's a sneak peek of Sean and Alon letting it all hang out on the latest episode of GLHF.

    6 min

  2. JUN 27

    [Dev Talk] Nubby's Number Factory with Ethan Anderson

    Sean and Alon welcome game designer and artistic soul Ethan Anderson to discuss his pachinko-esque number-go-up 'em up, Nubby's Number Factory! Clock into the number factory to hear how Ethan designs to encourage player intent and how he balances said intent with chance. Plus! Drop the ball and discover the game's inspirations, from Rube Goldberg to Kid Pix to quotas in a bagel shop. And finally, what makes a game evergreen? Follow Ethan at: Discord: https://discord.com/invite/KygdTUKTvETikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mogdogblogBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mogdogblog.bsky.socialYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mogdogblog— TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:32 - Numbers guys 00:03:05 - “The next Balatro” 00:08:43 - Randomness, chance, intent, and viability of runs 00:19:07 - When do you stop? And evergreen games 00:27:01 - The juice 00:31:58 - Circle of trust 00:35:13 - Growth of the game 00:39:56 - Visual aesthetic 00:47:32 - Pulling from real life 00:50:16 - The music and being territorial 00:58:13 - How to stay focused and how to rest — SHOW NOTES Nubby's Number Factory: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3191030/Nubbys_Number_Factory/[Now Playing] Nubby's Number Factory & Luck be a Landlord: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkvbL3JnLlwAngelFire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AngelfireBalatro: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2379780/Balatro/The Binding of Isaac: https://store.steampowered.com/app/250900/The_Binding_of_Isaac_Rebirth/Cookie Clicker: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1454400/Cookie_Clicker/Counter-Strike 2: https://store.steampowered.com/app/730/CounterStrike_2/GeoCities: https://www.cameronsworld.net/Kid Pix: https://kidpix.app/Luck be a Landlord: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1404850/Luck_be_a_Landlord/Slay the Spire: https://store.steampowered.com/app/646570/Slay_the_Spire/— WIDE FLANK LINKS Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/ACbDjNhMpJSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/wideflankThe rest: https://linktr.ee/wideflank

    1h 3m

  3. JUN 18

    [mini Club] 80 Days, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Tux and Fanny, F-Zero GX, DELTARUNE

    It's time to decide our next Game Club! Shall we race against the clock in a voyage around the globe in 80 Days, or against thirty gaudy characters designed by SEGA for Nintendo in 2003's F-Zero GX? It's safe to say our Shadows will Die a lot more than Twice in FromSoftware's Sekiro, but maybe we want to LIVE twice with Tux and Fanny! And then there's the oxymoronically ubiquitous cult classic DELTARUNE: will Alon be able to get the game's window to display properly? Come on down to the Wide Flank Discord NOW to vote on the next Game Club game: https://discord.gg/ACbDjNhMpJ Sign up for the Patreon and join the ranks of the High Council to submit games for future mini Clubs: https://www.patreon.com/wideflank Happy Gaming! — TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00 - Cold open 00:00:35 - Intro and veto discussion 00:04:44 - Sean’s ranking game 00:07:16 - 80 Days 00:21:19 - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice 00:35:12 - Tux and Fanny 00:48:16 - F-Zero GX 01:01:31 - DELTARUNE 01:15:26 - More veto discussion — SHOW NOTES Anamanaguchi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamanaguchi Around the World in Eighty Days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Days Bloodborne: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodborne Dark Souls: https://store.steampowered.com/app/570940/DARK_SOULS_REMASTERED/ Days of Thunder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Thunder Djent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djent EarthBound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EarthBound F-Zero (1990): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Zero_(video_game) Forza: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forza Jules Verne: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne Klax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klax_(video_game) Mario Kart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Kart A Minecraft Movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Minecraft_Movie Mischief Makers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischief_Makers Moby-Dick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick Napoleon Dynamite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Dynamite Need for Speed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_Speed Pearl Jam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Jam The Prodigy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prodigy "Rubbing Is Racing": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2yOmw781hc Smite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smite_(video_game) The Oregon Trail (game series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(series) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Thousand_Leagues_Under_the_Seas Undertale: https://store.steampowered.com/app/391540/Undertale/ Wipeout: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipeout_(video_game_series) — [Game Club] Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4WLp8EEeFM [Game Club] Kirby's Dream Course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOf1K6ArZtA [Game Club] Wave Race 64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE9AC9oeSqw [mini Club] Eternal Darkness, Mischief Makers, Killer7, Hylics 2, and Star of Providence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HySfv-jHPg0 — WIDE FLANK LINKS Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/ACbDjNhMpJ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/wideflank The rest: https://linktr.ee/wideflank

    1h 21m

  4. JUN 11

    [Game Club] Kirby's Dream Course

    This month's Game Club is, was, and shall forever be: HAL Laboratory's 1994 Kirby-soaked golf-em-up, Kirby's Dream Course! Sean and Alon go for the pin and dive deep into a studio's long-gestating exploration of the mechanics of golf, discovering what happens when that pink puffball we all know and love floats onto the green. Is Kirby's Dream Course a hole in FUN? Fore! — TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00 - Cold open 00:00:31 - Admin stuff 00:01:11 - Where do we start? 00:02:33 - Is this golf? 00:09:33 - What’s Kirby's Dream Course? 00:11:22 - The punishment for messing around and how do players learn (and get better) 00:24:39 - Tension building 00:26:57 - Not chilling and playful learning 00:27:59 - Adaptation of golf or Kirby or… Special Tee Shot 00:41:06 - Overdesigned? 00:45:53 - Golf caddie 00:47:26 - The power and the guide 00:50:38 - Multiplayer 00:54:27 - What it sounds like 00:56:33 - Information in HAL golf games 01:01:55 - What’s a Kirby Nintendo game? 01:11:43 - ROM hacks 01:13:36 - Outro — SHOW NOTES [Dev Talk] Axyz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYt-bpBG570 [Dev Talk] Once Upon A Galaxy with Andrew Parnell https://youtu.be/Is9l9kDa_lI?si=m09BfXMaiu0xWG4L Telemelt https://telemelt.com/ The Jeff Gerstmann Show https://www.youtube.com/c/TheJeffGerstmannShow Hal's Hole in One Golf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal's_Hole_in_One_Golf Earthbound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EarthBound Golf (NES/Famicom) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_(1984_video_game) Jumbo Ozaki no Hole in One Professional https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Jumbo_Ozaki_no_Hole_in_One_Professional Kula World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kula_World Marble Madness https://archive.org/details/arcade_marble Mario Golf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Golf_(video_game) Mario Tennis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Tennis Special Tee Shot https://snescentral.com/article.php?id=0037 Super Billiards https://www.myabandonware.com/game/super-billiards-mxo — LINKS Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/ACbDjNhMpJ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/wideflank The rest: https://linktr.ee/wideflank

    1h 15m

  5. JUN 4 · BONUS

    [GLHF] Movies, Comedy, Making Games, blahblahbalh (preview)

    For your pleasure, here's a sneak peek of Sean and Alon letting it all hang out on the latest episode of GLHF. Subscribe to Wide Flank on Patreon for the full episode! https://www.patreon.com/wideflank Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/ACbDjNhMpJ The rest: https://linktr.ee/wideflank

    6 min

  6. MAY 28

    [Dev Talk] Dust Bunny with Adam Saltsman

    Sean and Alon are joined by Adam Saltsman, co-founder of Finji, designer of Canabalt, and creator of Flixel. On today's episode, we're discussing Dust Bunny – Adam's 12.5th PICO-8 release since last October! Hopping off from Dust Bunny, we explore the immediacy of the PICO-8 development environment, designing by playing, and the intimate relationship between designers and players. Find Adam at: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/adamatomic.bsky.social itch.io: https://adamatomic.itch.io/ Finji: https://finji.co/ — TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:06 - Describe PICO-8 and designing with PICO-8 00:10:15 - Adam’s design process (for Dust Bunny specifically) 00:18:40 - A curve of discovery and the designer player relationship 00:34:00 - 12.5th PICO game (a quarter of the way to a full UFO50) 00:40:04 - 90% bad ideas 00:46:45 - What do you do to rest? 00:50:05 - Outro and Adam’s links — SHOW NOTES Dust Bunny: https://adamatomic.itch.io/dust-bunny PICO-8: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php Cave of Cards: https://adamatomic.itch.io/caveofcards Celeste: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=11722 Dark Souls: https://store.steampowered.com/app/570940/DARK_SOULS_REMASTERED/ Desktop Dungeons: https://store.steampowered.com/app/226620/Desktop_Dungeons/ Doom: https://archive.org/details/doom-play Dungeon Synth album that Adam mentioned: https://cthulugans.bandcamp.com/album/stay-false Elden Ring: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1245620/ELDEN_RING/ Mirror's Edge: https://store.steampowered.com/app/17410/Mirrors_Edge/ Mole Mole: https://adamatomic.itch.io/mole-mole Prince of Persia: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Prince_of_Persia_1990 PuzzleScript: https://itch.io/games/made-with-puzzlescript Quake: https://freebie.games/games/quake/play/ Rat Dreams: https://adamatomic.itch.io/rat-dreams Sokoban: https://www.sokobanonline.com/ Super Mario Maker: https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/super-mario-maker-2-switch/ Tetris: https://play.tetris.com/ UFO 50: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1147860/UFO_50/ Wipeout: https://retroonline.net/DOS/Wipeout Zachtronics: https://www.zachtronics.com/ — WIDE FLANK LINKS Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/ACbDjNhMpJ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/wideflank The rest: https://linktr.ee/wideflank

    51 min

  7. MAY 21

    [Now Playing] Nubby's Number Factory & Luck be a Landlord

    Number go up. Deckbuilding and Bagbuilding. Menu games and Parkour games. — TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00 - Intro and number go up (Balatro) 00:04:55 - Describe Nubby's Number Factory and Pachinko 00:11:15 - How does number go up differ from any good roguelike run? 00:15:03 - What do you love about deckbuilding games (bagbuilding, push your luck)? 00:18:56 - One thing that’s holding up Sean 00:20:53 - Describe Luck be a Landlord and what’s inferable 00:32:29 - Aesthetics 00:37:58 - Consistency and skill (and defining bagbuilders) 00:45:13 - Art’s subjective, right? 00:46:52 - What drew Alon to Luck be a Landlord 00:52:44 - Is Nubby’s a menu game or a parkour game? 00:58:28 - Real life anxieties and anti-capitalism 01:00:34 - What Sean likes about these games (number games) 01:07:27 - Outro — SHOW NOTES Nubby's Number Factory + Luck be a Landlord Bundle https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/51462/Nubbys_Number_Factory__Luck_be_a_Landlord/[Now Playing] Slay the Spire & Balatro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwl9TyquyeMBalatro https://store.steampowered.com/app/2379780/Balatro/Slay the Spire https://store.steampowered.com/app/646570/Slay_the_Spire/Angry Birds https://www.angrybirds.com/Pachinko: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pachinko?variant=zh-cnThe Binding of Isaac https://store.steampowered.com/app/250900/The_Binding_of_Isaac_Rebirth/Star of Providence https://store.steampowered.com/app/603960/Star_of_Providence/Rube Goldberg Machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machineZaga-33 https://smestorp.itch.io/zaga-33Party House (UFO 50) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1147860/UFO_50/Counter-Strike https://store.steampowered.com/app/730/CounterStrike_2/Apex Legends https://store.steampowered.com/app/1172470/Apex_Legends/League of Legends https://www.leagueoflegends.com/Cookie Clicker https://cookieclicker.eu/cookieclicker/Number Munchers https://archive.org/details/msdos_Number_Munchers_1990Gizmos and Gadgets https://archive.org/details/msdos_Super_Solvers_Gizmos_and_Gadgets_1993Holedown https://holedown.com/Breakout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout_(video_game)The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_in_the_DunesVampire Survivors https://poncle.itch.io/vampire-survivors — LINKS Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/ACbDjNhMpJSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/wideflankThe rest: https://linktr.ee/wideflank

    1h 10m

  8. MAY 14

    [Reel Rap Crossover] From Russia With Love with Reel Rap

    It's the crossover event of the century! Book-to-film adaptation freaks Shane and Bennett from the Reel Rap podcast join Sean and Alon for a triple header of mediums. Book... Movie... Game... M... Q... EA... Bond... James Bond... That's right, we're talking about Ian Fleming's 1957 novel, its 1963 film adaptation, and *its* 2005 game adaptation: *From Russia With Love*. — Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Reel Rap Intro 00:01:15 - Wide Flank Intro 00:02:58 - Start with the book 00:04:43 - What’s Ian Fleming into? 00:09:52 - The book to movie to game 00:20:48 - Different Bonds for different mediums 00:26:54 - Are we gonna talk about the videogame? 00:41:31 - I wanna be Bond 00:45:32 - The casting / Klebb and Kerim 00:50:10 - Misogyny 00:54:21 - Not knowing what’s going on 01:01:04 - The movie is kinda trash too 01:11:24 - More misogyny 01:14:25 - The prose 01:20:05 - Ratings lol 01:30:04 - Outro — Show Notes: Canyon Passage (ft. Hoagy Carmichael) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canyon_Passage Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_Tailor_Soldier_Spy — REEL RAP LINKS Listen to Reel Rap: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reel-rap/id1792646198 Follow Shane: https://x.com/crealoya — WIDE FLANK LINKS Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/ACbDjNhMpJ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/wideflank The rest: https://linktr.ee/wideflank

    1h 32m
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Explore the ways games are made and played with Sean, Alon, and a constellation of guests. Happy Gaming! Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/wideflank

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  • Creator
    Wide Flank: Happy Gaming
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2025
  • Episodes
    70
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