PlayWitch Listen is a game development podcast hosted by game developers.

It features game director and Mike Biffel composer Austin Wintery who was not here for this episode. And me, Alana Pierce, video game writer. This podcast is entirely supported by Patreon. And people on Patreon actually got the episode a few days early and an unedited version. But whether you support the show on Patreon or not, we appreciate you being here. And we hope you enjoyed the episode. So, Alani, you were just saying that... The industry needs to rename.

The thing that we call early access, well, all you do is play a game two days early.

Early access is when something is out for a long time and people give feedback on a pre-release

version of the game.

That's early access.

We haven't yet landed on what we call the you paid $30 to pay something.

You got lightly scammed to play the game that's already done, yeah.

Don't say lightly scammed there because at some point we might do this business model.

This is amazing opportunity.

Well, it'll be the light scam deal presented by us. It's not scamming when an indie does it. When an indie does it, it's a misguided experiment. Mm-hmm. That's what we call it. Or a bold, a bold risk-taking move. That's it. Entrepreneurial. Yes. Yeah. Where AAA does it.

Scam. Yeah. And we can't get behind that. Entrepreneurs never scam you, famous. Not even one time. Name one. You can't. That's right. Anyway, you may notice that we have a new person joining us today. Everybody, Nick, welcome. Who are you and why are you here? I am doing well. I am here because I work for Mike.

And I'm also releasing a game,

which I think when this comes out,

I've been told will be a couple days ago.

Yeah, this is out on the egg.

Perfect.

It's called Amber Spire.

It's a city builder.

And I would like people to know about it and to buy it.

Tell us about it.

I've obviously, Mike's spoken about it a couple of times.

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