Sean and Alon feel safe in the hands of game designer Lucas Pope and his whodunit ghostship of corpses and bones mystery game. You’re an insurance appraiser playing sudoku by time-traveling (sorta) and transforming (sorta) into a fly on the wall. Discover the stories of the dead crew and passengers through the intense moments of their deaths. It may not make sense now but it’s going to make sense by the end of this journey. Support us and help us pay for games and stuff at: https://www.patreon.com/wideflank Join the Wide Flank discord!!! https://discord.gg/ACbDjNhMpJ All Wide Flank links: https://linktr.ee/wideflank Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:18 - Admin stuff 00:01:48 - Game overview 00:03:16 - Beginning of the game 00:06:36 - Simple inputs, complex game 00:07:28 - More of the game’s beginning 00:10:46 - Fly on the wall effect 00:12:49 - Emotional moments of death 00:14:58 - Death snapshots 00:17:58 - The book 00:20:24 - Continuing chronologically 00:21:51 - On-rails in the mid-game 00:25:16 - It’s like a book 00:27:52 - How open or linear is this game? 00:32:06 - Fates and boat knowledge 00:34:37 - SPOILERS from here on 00:34:46 - Knowable vs unknowable information 00:37:03 - Whodunit logic & eureka moments 00:46:47 - Lucas Pope’s “data addiction” 00:53:42 - I’m the insurance appraiser and detachment 00:57:46 - Cascading puzzles & relationships 01:03:35 - Eureka moments outside the game 01:11:38 - Rolling credits before solving all of the fates 01:14:06 - Safe in Lucas Pope’s hands 01:21:16 - Game as a book + the art and aesthetic 01:25:54 - Uninvited and what is the game about? 01:35:38 - Tip of the iceberg game design 01:38:34 - A deluge of information 01:41:33 - “One guy” game design question Show notes: Immortality Game Club: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiGnIHFYmZQ New Cool episode (Amy Henning worked with Lucas Pope at Naughty Dog): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as4NQQPveNQ&t=8s Lucas Pope’s other games: https://dukope.com/ Uninvited: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninvited_(video_game) Picture of the boat map (”it’s simple you see”): https://i.imgur.com/FCE9Wnb.png Lucas Pope on the Noclip podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D81mTaU55MY Picross/Nonograms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonogram