This week, we meet the winners of the 2012 Activision Independent Games Competition — Chris Hui and Michael Stanton, who shared the $250,000 prize pool. We talk about what they’ve created, what they’re going to do with all that money, and what took so damn long for them to be crowned the winners in the first place. The rest of the show is the usual nonsense with Kat and Hugh, barking about The Amazing Spider-Man, Transformers syntax, Skylanders e-books, Q from Star Trek: TNG, Atari history, Wreck-It Ralph, NASCAR drivers, Megan Fox’s thumb, Crazy Climber, and fighting on the moon. Also, live kittens.
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Special Guests: Iron Dragon creator Chris Hui and Planet Smashers creator Mike Stanton
Co-host: Katrin Auch, photographer, light gun enthusiast, bassist, Jedi Sage, Demon Hunter, and inventor of Headshotmas
Co-host: Hugh Sterbakov, author, comic creator, and Emmy-nominated writer/toy wrangler for Robot Chicken
Soundtrack: Yameen - available on iTunes, Amazon MP3, and finer online music stores
Relevant show links:
- You choose this week’s Playing With Swords on PS3
- Skylanders: The Machine of Doom
- Wreck-It Ralph (with movie trailer)
- Vote for your favorite driver for NASCAR The Game: Inside Line
- Atari’s 40th anniversary
- Kat’s photography Facebook page needs some
loveLikes - Live kitten cam
- iOS games Plague Inc. and Magic 2013
- Once Upon Atari
- Kat and Hugh and Dan on Twitter
- Dan’s book: Critical Path: How to Review Videogames for a Living
- Hugh’s book: City Under the Moon
- Hugh’s Extra Life gaming marathon
- Enter your own question for Hugh Don’t Know Jack/Stick It To The Dan
- Write to the show’s Megamailbag
