Oh, A Podcast!

In this month's episode! - Ice-cream! - COVID-19's impact on our work - Cancer-themed romance novels - Hooking up with the vice principal - Rooftop minigolf - Internet Court is real life now. - BoardGameArena.com (add Paul as a friend—paulmeetsworld!) - Quarantining with kids - Updates that make games worse - The oppressive sadness of Life is Strange 2 All this, plus we talk about Michael's canceled Disney World trip! There's nothing super-sad about that—you'll definitely want to listen. If you have questions about game development or any of our games, e-mail them to podcast@oharock.com, and we'll answer them on the show! You can also follow us on Twitter; I'm @PaulMFranzen, and Michael is @arglefumph.

In this month's episode! - 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 we don't understand - Internet Court is real life now - Who would we cast in Cat President: The Movie? - ...And why is it Adam Sandler. - HUMANS: The Musical All this, plus we reveal Thunderpaw's secret original name! We haven't revealed that already, have we? Anyway, LISTEN. If you have questions about game development or any of our games, e-mail them to podcast@oharock.com, and we'll answer them on the show! You can also follow us on Twitter; I'm @PaulMFranzen, and Michael is @arglefumph.

In this month's episode! - 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 effects - Naked people wearing towels! - The Arglefumph jingle - BRING ME A CAT PRESIDENT ANIME OR MANGA All this, plus...I cut out a lot of the stuff where we talked about politics. You're welcome!! If you have questions about game development or any of our games, e-mail them to podcast@oharock.com, and we'll answer them on the show! You can also follow us on Twitter; I'm @PaulMFranzen, and Michael is @arglefumph.

In this month's episode! - Paul is sad; Michael is fired. - Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge in Disney World!! - Everything wrong with Midnight in Salem - How to spell "um" - Boogers in Harry Potter - Speedruns - Public domain kidnapping photos - Diversity in Oh, a Rock! games - Iconography - Nabbit from New Super Mario Bros. U All this, plus a primer on what we're looking for when we cast human models! You won't want to miss it. If you have questions about game development or any of our games, e-mail them to podcast@oharock.com, and we'll answer them on the show! You can also follow us on Twitter; I'm @PaulMFranzen, and Michael is @arglefumph.

In this month's episode! - 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 - Promotional art across different platforms - Harem scenes in visual novels - Michael's face - Dating Santa Claus All this, plus Michael has to explain bitcoin to a boomer! You won't want to miss THAT. If you have questions about game development or any of our games, e-mail them to podcast@oharock.com, and we'll answer them on the show! You can also follow us on Twitter; I'm @PaulMFranzen, and Michael is @arglefumph.

In this month's episode! - 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 feel about your fifth-grade teacher - The thing that's finally gonna put us out of business - The FTC and COPPA All this, plus we call out GameCola.net! FIGHT ME, GAMECOLA!! You won't want to miss that. If you have questions about game development or any of our games, e-mail them to podcast@oharock.com, and we'll answer them on the show! You can also follow us on Twitter; I'm @PaulMFranzen, and Michael is @arglefumph.

In this month's episode! - Paul's brief career as a school janitor - *BLEEP!* - Bad football teams - Making achievements for games with no gameplay - Is stabbing people "violent"? - Gooigi and Wagooigi - Sunny from "The View" - Hot guys - Can babies play videogames? - Color-a-Dinosaur All this, plus fresh tips on how to cheat at NaNoWriMo! You won't want to miss it!!! If you have questions about game development or any of our games, e-mail them to podcast@oharock.com, and we'll answer them on the show! You can also follow us on Twitter; I'm @PaulMFranzen, and Michael is @arglefumph.

In this month's episode! - Are steak fries even French fries? - Why you shouldn't work with other people - 46-minute mysteries - Outtakes - Pride and Prejudice (and Murder) - Candidates for Cat President 3 - Voting in Oregon and New York - Francy Droo: 12 O'Clock in Boston - Games you shouldn't play after oral surgery - The tragedy of Mario Kart on the Wii U All this, plus Michael dunks on the DS! You won't want to miss that, probably. If you have questions about game development or any of our games, e-mail them to podcast@oharock.com, and we'll answer them on the show! You can also follow us on Twitter; I'm @PaulMFranzen, and Michael is @arglefumph.

In this month's episode! - Michael has a new game out! - Messing with text parsers - What would a mystery RPG look like? - Putting kids to work - All the latest on Midnight in Salem! - Adapting murder mystery dinner parties into visual novels - Steam's underground Trading Card cartel - Casting cats and humans for Cat President 2 - Shipping Waluigi - Oregon Trail as an FMV road trip game All this, plus Michael's critical thoughts on To All the Boys I've Loved Before. You won't want to miss it!! If you have questions about game development or any of our games, e-mail them to podcast@oharock.com, and we'll answer them on the show! You can also follow us on Twitter; I'm @PaulMFranzen, and Michael is @arglefumph.

In this month's episode! - Warrior Cats - Pun names for Tinder - Political twinsies - How we're teaching kids to code - Is game development getting easier or harder over time? - How to draw squares - Post-apocalyptic Nancy Drew - Photoshopping in public - Our dating sim can beat up your dating sim - Coming to terms with being a Hufflepuff All this, plus several bonus minutes of grammar tips! You weren't want to miss tht!! If you have questions about game development or any of our games, e-mail them to podcast@oharock.com, and we'll answer them on the show! You can also follow us on Twitter; I'm @PaulMFranzen, and Michael is @arglefumph.

In this month's episode! - Unruly mermaids - Participation playoffs for hockey teams who try their best - Japanese high school clubs - Participating in Steam seasonal sales - The "new" "Harry Potter" "books" - Doc Brown's Chicken - Finding public domain books to turn into games - The original version of Mermaid Mission: Titanic - Playing Toobin' at the doctor's office - Who first introduced us to gaming? All this, plus Michael's trip report from Universal Studios Hollywood! You won't want to miss it!! If you have questions about game development or any of our games, e-mail them to podcast@oharock.com, and we'll answer them on the show! You can also follow us on Twitter; I'm @PaulMFranzen, and Michael is @arglefumph.

In this month's episode! - 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 videogames can help you see new perspectives - Tipping should be a thing on Steam. - Cat President: The Anime - VN fans don't really like our VNs. All this, plus Michael gets sad because Paul keeps rewriting his scripts. You won't want to miss it!! If you have questions about game development or any of our games, e-mail them to podcast@oharock.com, and we'll answer them on the show! You can also follow us on Twitter; I'm @PaulMFranzen, and Michael is @arglefumph.

In this month's episode! - References in our games that we don't understand - Disney princesses - Designing puzzles for text-only games - "Wikipedia Brown" - How to recharge old batteries - The locks at Yale University - Selling our games for embarrassingly low prices - How to demo visual novels at conventions - The dangers of videogames - Where does the name "Oh, a Rock!" come from? All this, plus spoilers for The Wizard of Oz! You probably SHOULD miss it, if you haven't read the book yet. If you have questions about game development or any of our games, e-mail them to podcast@oharock.com, and we'll answer them on the show! You can also follow us on Twitter; I'm @PaulMFranzen, and Michael is @arglefumph.

In this month's episode: - I hope you like Harry Potter! - Shifty wizards - Wizards with guns - "Flipendo"??? - Dating 80-year-old Supreme Court Justices - Bulletproof skin - Hogwarts' suspect hiring practices - Percy Weasley fanfiction - We talk a little about game development. - How does anyone find niche games in 2019? All this, plus how to play the little-known Francy Droo spin-off game, Carlton Droo and the Power Stock Scheme! Yes, it's real, and yes—you won't want to miss it. If you have questions about game development or any of our games, e-mail them to podcast@oharock.com, and we'll answer them on the show! You can also follow us on Twitter; I'm @PaulMFranzen, and Michael is @arglefumph.

In this month's episode! - Snow! - Michael explains marginal tax rates - Designing inventory interfaces - "Forget YOU, YouTubers!" - We try to find something happy to talk about. - Visual;Conference 2019 - Michael's old blog (RIP) - The Oh, a Rock! Extended Universe™ - Games we're looking forward to in 2019 - How to play Kingdom Hearts 3 without knowing anything about the story All this, plus Michael dumps on Smash Bros.! You won't want to miss it. If you have questions about game development or any of our games, e-mail them to podcast@oharock.com, and we'll answer them on the show! You can also follow us on Twitter; I'm @PaulMFranzen, and Michael is @arglefumph.

In this month's episode! - 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 kwargs - Saying goodbye to sunrises - "It's the Paulcast now." - Christmas traditions All this, plus technical difficulties! (Thanks, Frontier!) You won't want to miss it. If you have questions about game development or any of our games, e-mail them to podcast@oharock.com, and we'll answer them on the show! You can also follow us on Twitter; I'm @PaulMFranzen, and Michael is @arglefumph.

In this month's episode! - Politics and pro-wrestling - Ren'py woes - "YES! YES! YES!" - Love, Guitars, and the Nashville Skyline - The like four Christmas games that exist - Songs about cookies - "Everything's stupid, and I hate it." - Telltale Games (R.I.P.) - Ogden, Utah - How do drug dealers pay their taxes? All this, plus a detailed explanation of frivolous tax returns! I can tell already—you won't want to miss it. If you have questions about game development or any of our games, e-mail them to podcast@oharock.com, and we'll answer them on the show! You can also follow us on Twitter; I'm @PaulMFranzen, and Michael is @arglefumph.

In this month's episode! - Is Buckingham Palace a real place? - Sherlock Holmes Versus Arsene Lupin - "Met-a-Critic?" - Puzzles that are secretly homework - The NPC meme - Tester feedback on Internet Court - Sending Michael's mom back for reshoots - Inventing a pause function for Ren'py - Carson Drew or Phoenix Wright? - How great it would be to have a budget All this, plus math. ...Wait, seriously? Math?? Well, I'm sure you won't want to miss that. I guess. If you have questions about game development or any of our games, e-mail them to podcast@oharock.com, and we'll answer them on the show! You can also follow us on Twitter; I'm @PaulMFranzen, and Michael is @arglefumph.

In this month's episode! - Do the kids these days know what Harry Potter is? - Michael accidentally mentions theme parks. - Why the default name in Cat President is "Abigail" - Achievements for being bad at games - Trying to make any money off Steam - Watching "Finley" stream Pizza Boy - Which characters in Pizza Boy were supposed to be naked? - How to make yourself look old - "Tangled is better than Frozen." - (Coco is actually better than Frozen.) All this, plus we try not to get sad when people say mean stuff about our games. You won't want to miss that. If you have questions about game development or any of our games, e-mail them to podcast@oharock.com, and we'll answer them on the show! You can also follow us on Twitter; I'm @PaulMFranzen, and Michael is @arglefumph.

In this month's episode! - 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 who's a cat and who's a human - Life in the Dorms is FINALLY out on Steam, kind of - Burritos are basically tacos - Why don't we make apps? - Murder, She Baked and Garage Sale Mystery All this, plus we try to figure out if you can preorder a pizza. You won't want to miss it! If you have questions about game development or any of our games, e-mail them to podcast@oharock.com, and we'll answer them on the show! You can also follow us on Twitter; I'm @PaulMFranzen, and Michael is @arglefumph.