Oh, A Podcast!

In this month's episode! - We have a special guest: Victoria Budkey, one of the stars of Pizza Boy! - ...Uh, what's our game called again? - Victoria's background in the entertainment biz - ** MEETING THE ROCK ON THE SET OF BAYWATCH ** - Charleston, NC - Everyone's favorite Nancy Drew games - How improv and acting skills helped with modeling for Pizza Boy - Paul's lifetime supply of Michael photos - Who is Finley? - Disneyland (boo) vs. Disney World (YES) All this, plus Paul gets VERY worked up about the Secret of Mana remake. 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, Michael is @arglefumph, and Victoria is @vbudkey.

In this month's episode! - Neither of us has seen the new Star Wars movie, so let's talk about it! - Luke and Leia hooking up in the books - Comparing Star Wars to The Odyssey - Michael (accidentally) releasing two games in the same week - What's next in the piper? What's next-next? - "Pride & Prejudice & Murder" - Playing through Pizza Boy as Michael Jordan - What even is a depot???? - CAT. PRESIDENT. 2. - How to avoid dating your dating sims All this, plus Paul's theories on whether Ted Cruz is secretly a dog. You definitely 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! - Cracker Barrel trivia - Streaming old adventure games for young Nancy Drew fans - Heroes who are actually terrible people - Characters, backgrounds and items that do nothing and serve no purpose - "Where are the marshmallows?!" - Inventory overload - Pro-tips for Windows Movie Maker - The [censored] [censored] puzzle from Tales of Monkey Island that Paul hates so much - Balancing difficulty and fun - Asking developers to "just" add something to a game All this, plus updates on Internet Court, The Pizza Delivery Boy Who Saved the World, and Mermaid Mission: Titanic. 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.

This month on the pod! - When is it okay to remake your old game? One week after release? Two? - How Michael ended up as a student in a Nancy Drew game - How Paul ended up as a finger model for Curiosity: What's Inside the Cube? - Paul's month from hell - How DBZ can help you write better dialogue - Letting NPCs solve puzzles so the players don't have to - Testing your testers - Why it's embarrassing when other people look at your code - Games that make us scream - Making time for games as a grown-up All this, plus Michael makes a really good pun about a hammer. 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! - Why are GUIs so hard to code?? - And captions?! Jeez! - Image editing isn't so great, either. - Removing background noise from videos—now THERE'S a challenge - Coming up with subtitles isn't so bad though. - DLC vs. a full sequel for Cat President - Games that disturbed us so much we had to stop playing All this, plus our ideas for remaking the calendar. 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! - Michael's Michael shirt he had printed up for Internet Court - How to drink soda without getting sued - Casting our moms in our games - What it's like to have more than two people test your game - Oxford commas - Why do we have websites? - Designing and implementing pizza-based puzzles - Naked speed-runs - What tastes better, Tide Pods or Switch cartridges? - We dump on the new Mario and Zelda games for like 15 minutes. All this, plus Michael pronounces "Chopin" kinda funny. You won't wanna 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! - Special guest Diana Gray (aka the voice of Francy Droo) is here!! - How do you pronounce a question mark? - Recording dialogue on the fly through Skype - Which cat in Cat President is "the weird one"? - HOW ARE THEIR SO MANY TYBOS IN THESE GAMES - Paul reveals that you can date him in a mobile game - One of the models in Pizza Boy is a legit, actual actress - Why and how Miles Edgeworth is canonically a My Little Pony fan - Michael's bachelor party (which you can watch on YouTube!) - Ace Attorney shipping All this, plus hot tips on how to get authentic confusion from your voice actors (by not telling them anything about their characters, their motivations, or what's happening in the story). 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, Michael is @arglefumph, and Diana is @acefangirl.

In this month's episode! - Paul's trip report from RetroGameCon! - Michael isn't 100% sure what Undertale is. - Michael isn't 100% sure what Steam is, either. - Francy Droo & Friends is coming out on December 5th!! - Is breakfast a verb? - How to deal with conflicting tester reports (can somebody please tell us?) - Filming babies - Rewriting Pride and Prejudice with alternative love interests - Cat President's "very positive" reviews on Steam - The murder of Professor Layton All this, plus.........anything? 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! - Francy Droo & Friends is coming very soon! - Finding bugs in My Nigerian Prince, three years later - It's pronounced "Ren'py". - Mermaid Mission Titanic, a new visual novel that Michael's writing, coding, and arting - Michael's impossible dialogue - We completely invent the idea of "pre-alpha". Copyright; that's ours now. - Do mops look anything like hair? - The lost Latin translation of My Nigerian Prince - Paul's twitter text adventure, and how he tried to kill all our fans - Decorating for the holidays All this, plus Michael's big plans for a game based on Bastille Day! 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! - The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and live theatrical shipping! - Letting Twitch dictate your life (literally) - Text parsers vs. verb menus vs. cursors - Paul's really going to start writing Basically a Cow soon; he means it! - How we (try to) promote our games - What even are GUIs? - Paul and Michael's let's play of Willy Beamish from 2011. - IT'S PRONOUNCED "SUPER NINTENDO" - Is it time for listener questions yet?? - Come hang out with Paul at RetroGameCon in Syracuse in November! All this, plus Michael spends like 10 minutes trying to convince Paul to publish his game about mermaids. 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.

We're celebrating one whole year of "Oh, a Podcast!" ...Quietly. In our own ways. It's almost like we didn't mention it at all on the podcast itself, which would be crazy; but if you listen closely, you might hear us talking about things like: - YouTube is putting LPers out of business. - Michael Gray, the swim dad - Pride and Prejudice as an interactive dating sim - How Paul finds contract proofreading gigs - Michael and Paul's story pitches, like "Forever a Clone" and "Love on the Oregon Trail" - Craft store romance - Should Michael write a game about his time in the seminary? - Mermaids are definitely the Next Big Thing. - Working out a personality for Judge Doodles in Internet Court - Paul's experience showing off Awkward Steve at the Smithsonian! All this, plus we try to re-imagine A Christmas Carol as high-fantasy interactive fiction. 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

It's podcast season, everyone! What? That's not a thing. Anyway, here's what we're talking about this month! - Paul and Michael are each other's boss. - Angry Man Bun, and other fun nicknames for co-workers - Awkward Steve is going to be showcased at the Smithsonian!!! - No, SERIOUSLY!! - Making death sequences fun, rather than frustrating - An update on Sherlock Holmes' copyright status - Weird Moms are the new Cool Dads. - We definitely know what the Game Grumps are. - Animorphs, Baby-Sitters Club, and Boxcar Children (because of course) - Michael taking art inspiration from his middle school self All this, plus Paul gets basic facts about Star Trek totally, utterly wrong. If you like being angry, 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.

Well, we did it! Another podcast in the books. The pod-books. The book of pod. Casts. Podcasts! ...Here's what we're talking about this month: - The Awkward Steve Duology is coming out next month! (And Paul has no idea how to sell it.) - Also, E3 is happening! ...We haven't been keeping up with it, though. - R.I.P. Steam Greenlight, and our bank accounts - Are boring trailers better or worse than wacky trailers? - All the Metroids - We're having trouble figuring out the artwork for REAL Real-Life Room Escape: The Escape - Michael's Sherlock Holmes interactive text game - itch.io, and how we wish it had a bigger user base - YouTubers react to Rover's unusual meow! - "Has a game ever made you cry?" All this, plus we learn about how Paul backs up his files!! You definitely 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

It's crunch time on Don't Turn Your Back on the Ocean, the long-awaited sequel to Awkward Steve! The game will be coming out in the next few months, and—oh. We forgot to talk about that on the podcast. Here's what we talked about instead! - Paul's ill-fated prototype about a cross-country typo hunt - Little-known franchises we'd like to make games based on, like Animorphs and Harry Potter - Michael's new "artistic method" - Emergency Ketchup. - Which letters of the alphabet are hardest to draw? - Paul wants to add FMV to everything - All of the changes we're making to Cat President for the new update - Trying to differentiate our games from other visual novels - What are our favorite pathways in Cat President? - "Help, I've Switched Bodies With President Crazypants!" All this, plus...hey, whatever happened to Michael's webcomic, Pug's Adventures? Hmm. Happy listening!! 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! Yo

It's bright and early on a Monday morning! ...But it doesn't have to be. Take this podcast journey with Paul and Michael, and forget all about that pile of work that's threatening to take over your entire life. Here's what's on tap this month: - We're making Michael figure out how to do pixel-art - Point-and-click verb interfaces! - What even is "full-screen"? - Updates on Francy Droo 2, Awkward Steve 2, and Who Am I? - PLEASE VOTE FOR OUR GAMES ON STEAM GREENLIGHT!!! - Dealing with footage that's too awkward for Awkward Steve - Very special editions of Sweet Valley High - What would a procedurally generated visual novel be like? - Michael spills the beans on The Worst High School Reunion Ever - The two times Michael and Paul have actually met in person All this, plus absolutely no tax talk! We promise! Please enjoy our podcast. 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 @Pau

It's Oh, a Podcast! #7! Michael ran out of games to write and Paul's been doing hush-hush contract work, but here's what we can and did talk about: - How Paul picks up contract proofreading work for games - The mistakes hidden object games were making ten years ago - More about estimated tax payments!! - We're working on an FMV legal thriller (tentatively) called "Internet Court"! - Localizing noodles into hamburgers - Cat President's value as an educational tool - Michael is performing science experiments on his beard. - Paul has a LOT of thoughts about save features in games. - The unexpected and frustrating things that happen right before you release a game - PLEASE VOTE FOR OUR GAMES ON STEAM GREENLIGHT. All this, plus NO SERIOUSLY, PLEASE VOTE FOR OUR GAMES ON STEAM GREENLIGHT! 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.

Steam Greenlight is on its way out! What does that mean for us? Well, it's, uhhh...it's not great. Here's what we're talking about this month: - What if we just did a podcast about A Goofy Movie. - Production has started on our new full-length visual novel, The Pizza Delivery Boy Who Saved the World! - The death of Steam Greenlight - PLEASE VOTE YES ON THE FRANCY DROO & FRIENDS COLLECTION - Pizza boy modeling - Baby Rosie's exploding belly button - The majesty of the "magnetic lasso" tool - Trying to make a realistic soap opera parody - Bug-testing through watching people's LP's of our games - Our favorite game developers All this, plus we answer the age-old question: "Pizza?" You absolutely will not 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.

Welcome back to "Oh, a Podcast!", literally the only thing on the Internet that isn't talking about politics this month! Here's what's on the docket: - We finally thought of a dating sim too uncomfortable for even us to make. - Paul's dream adventure game, Basically a Cow - Balancing having a newborn and getting anything done ever - Game puzzles involving dirty diapers - Taking inspiration from games we found at yardsales - We don't really know what Thumbelina is. - Michael's old man make-up - Designing game design docs - The pedantic math puzzle in Francy Two that everybody is going to hate - How to avoid animating your game All this, plus Michael briefly explains how self-employment taxes work*! 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. * THIS IS PURELY FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES. DO NOT MAKE ANY FINA

Michael's got a new job and a new baby on the way, and Paul is...also busy (*wipes Cheeto dust off shirt*), but we're still making games and casting pods! Here's what we're talking about this month: - Lyndon B. Johnson - Flippin' artwork! (No wait, sorry, that should be "flipping artwork".) - Gamifying soap opera storylines - Best practices for using photography in visual novels - Selecting "the most racist-looking cats" for Cat President - Stunning revelations about Thunderpaw's hair (and DJ Nibbles' legs) - Snark vs. sincerity - Character names in Little Orphan Annie - Sexism in Ace Attorney and French novels from the 1800s - What would we like to see more of in games? All this, plus a like 20-minute discussion of Case 3 from the new Phoenix Wright game! It's like we recorded an episode of The GameCola Podcast by mistake. Happy listening!! 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 Twit

Happy Turkey Week, everyone! Stuck at the grown-ups table with your weird uncle and your cousins who voted for [person you didn't want to win]? Pop in your ear-buds and drown them out with your favorite indie devs, Michael and Paul. This month, we're talking about: - Frogs and frog butts - Using NaNoWriMo to write all the games we'll be working on in the coming year - Designing games through Twitter and podcasts, just like Sid Meier used to do - How to slice tomatoes the wrong way - Explaining our job to actual adults - Rover from Cat President, and how he used to be way more racist - Logic puzzles vs. inventory puzzles - Michael's detailed plan to make himself look like an old person - Should games have more musical numbers? (YES.) - Our earliest memories of playing videogames All this, plus Paul lists some of the worst pizza-related pun names anyone could ever come up with. LISTEN. LISTEN NOW. If you have questions about game development or any of our games, e-mail them to podcast@oharock.com, and we'll