Game Designer and Broadway Producer Cliff “CliffyB” Bleszinski joins a very sensual episode to cover what makes good third person shooters, Avatar 2, and disrespecting Hitman. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, Brandon Sheffield, and Cliff Bleszinski. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

Questions this week:

1. From Brandon Sheffield: What makes a good third person shooter? (06:18)
2. Who has more power, a game director, or a game producer? (14:44)
3. Design a video game around the Aroma Shooter. (23:27)
4. Design a sequel to Frank Cifaldi’s Super Sherlock Holmes. (31:25)
5. Improv Zone: Guess the COG Squadron (37:04)
6. Seth asks: What is the best sound related to video games that is not from a video game? (43:26)
7. If you could design a level for an existing video game series, which would it be and what would you do? (49:58)
8. What was Fortnite supposed to be? (55:03)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Name Design – Gears of War Achievements (01:00:53)

Recommendations and Outro (01:07:14)

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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Time.is
• The Menu (2022)
• Jazz Jackrabbit series
• NFL 2K
• Assault
• Street Fighter series
• Unreal Tournament series
• Gears of War series
• Hadestown
• Robotron: 2084
• Tokyo Wars
• Phoenix
• Mindjack
• Resident Evil 4
• Lunar: The Silver Star
• Control
• Alan Wake
• High on Life
• Ori and the Blind Forest
• Donkey Kong Country
• Shigeru Miyamoto
• Hideo Kojima
• Rod Fergusson
• BioShock Infinite
• 3D Realms
• Jaws (1975)
• Duke Nukem 3D
• DOOM
• John Carmack
• John Romero