Is crunch in the video games industry a real problem or not? What do you use a test kit for? What is a debug menu, and why does your game need one? — All this and more, on this week’s episode of House of Games!<br /><br />Your Hosts and Their Games<br />https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/knifeboy-rebooted-switch/ — The Nintendo Switch store page for KnifeBoy Rebooted.<br />https://store.steampowered.com/app/1799590/Red_Colony_3_Uncensored/ — The Steam store page for Red Colony 3 Uncensored.<br />https://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=RunicCodes&ndl=1&ignore_preferences=1 — Rune’s Steam page.<br />https://theeliteinstitute.net/2022/12/26/the-elite-goty-awards-2022/ — The Elite Institute’s GOTY Awards 2022, where KnifeBoy Rebooted won the “Biggest Improvement Over a Previous Title” award.<br />https://ottowretling.medium.com/list/our-first-game-175f8c8b7ce1 — Otto’s blog about the development of “Tulip Craze”.<br />https://discord.gg/mYM72SQ9CP — The discord server for Game Hub Umeå.<br /><br />Other Games<br />https://www.minecraft.net/en-us — The homepage for the game Minecraft.<br />https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/xenoblade-chronicles-definitive-edition-switch/ — The Nintendo store page for Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition.<br />https://store.steampowered.com/app/214510/LEGO_The_Lord_of_the_Rings/ — The Steam store page for LEGO Lord of the Rings.<br />https://store.steampowered.com/sub/53403/ — The Steam store page for the LEGO Batman Trilogy.<br /><br />Articles, and Other Links<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania — The Wikipedia page for the phenomenon “Tulip Mania”.<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_generation — The Wikipedia page for procedural generation.<br />https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2017-life-of-black-tiger-is-the-worst-ps4-game-weve-ever-played — An article detailing the issues with the game “Life of Black Tiger”.<br />https://spoti.fi/JoeRoganExperience — The Spotify page for “The Joe Rogan Experience”.
