346: ‘Like Neo Dodging Bullets’, With Zach Gage
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
3.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2022
⏱️ 148 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm so excited to have you here. |
| 0:01.4 | You have a brand new game out called Not Words. |
| 0:03.8 | And I'll just say this once, because on a podcast, |
| 0:06.1 | it's often difficult. It's Knot Words. |
| 0:08.6 | Yes, with a K. |
| 0:10.4 | But you have made a slew of games over the years. |
| 0:15.1 | I think not entirely. |
| 0:16.4 | And I'll just say Not Words is also available from Mac and PC on Steam. |
| 0:20.7 | It is on iOS, of course, in the App Store. |
| 0:23.6 | And it's also on Android Play right there on day one launch last week. |
| 0:27.4 | But let's just talk. Let's run through some of the games that you have made over the years. |
| 0:33.1 | I'll just start with, I'll tell you, I'll just be up front. |
| 0:36.1 | My favorite, Zach Gage game is really bad chess. |
| 0:39.9 | Oh, thank you, which I want to talk about specifically later. |
| 0:43.5 | But tell me some of the other games. |
| 0:44.8 | Tell us some of the games that you've got. |
| 0:46.6 | Oh, gosh. There are a lot. |
| 0:48.1 | I tend to try to make games that are a twist on traditional game genres and |
| 0:54.2 | traditional game literacy so that they're more approachable to most human beings |
| 1:00.2 | and not just video game people. |
| 1:01.6 | So really bad chess. |
| 1:03.0 | I made a couple of solitaires, flip flops, solitaire, sage solitaire, |
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