23. How Not to Doom Yourself - a podcast by Allen Pike and Nigel Brooke

Curtis Lassam joins us to discuss the great failures in video games. We kick things off with Jurassic Park: Trespasser, then learn about Curtis’ Three Rules to Not Doom Yourself. We follow the rocky career of Tim Schafer, then Nigel tells us all about Daikatana. Afterwards, we bat around a bad idea for a video game, and talk couch co-op games.

• Research Indicates Let’s Play Trespasser


• Physics Bugs in Trespasser


• Gamasutra’s post-mortem of Trespasser


• Poor Tim Schafer


• Grim Fandango and Old Man Murray’s Death of Adventure Games


• Psyhonauts and Brütal Legend


• Big Rigs Over the Road Racing on the Angry Video Game Nerd


• Daikatana, one of the canonical disappointments in video gaming


• The Game Idea Generator


• Crawl

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