8-4 Play 7/10/2020: ALT.GAMES.JAPAN

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🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 157 minutes

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Author, localizer, and (most importantly) long-time friend of the show Matt Alt joins us to discuss his new book, Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World. Plus the usual news and other nonsense you've come to expect from your favorite podcast about Japan, and games, and Japanese games.

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0:00.0	And welcome.
0:03.0	We're getting better at that.
0:17.0	And welcome.
0:18.0	We're getting better at that to another properly distanced remote Zoomcastic 84Play podcast.
0:26.5	I am your host, Marky, James, McDonald.
0:29.4	Coming at you from a very rainy Tokyo, rainy seasons, one might almost call it.
0:36.9	But with a good crew and a special guest coming
0:40.5	later. But starting off, let's see, pole position. That is one Mr. Roy, DiConn Blakely.
0:50.0	That's me. DiCon. Diicon artist, Dicon Sprite.
0:55.0	Dicon, master.
0:56.3	Yeah, yeah.
0:57.2	One might say almost.
0:58.8	You're back into making some games?
1:02.1	Yeah, actually, like, both my girlfriend and I are working on, like, our own projects right now.
1:08.7	Hers is, like, a bit of a platformer.
1:11.9	And she was kind of started to work on it over the weekend.
1:16.3	And she was throwing it together in Unity and wanted just some placeholder art.
1:21.1	So she was like, can you, why don't you draw me a dichon?
1:24.4	Because one of the mechanics is like pulling Dyacon out of the ground. It looked very
1:29.0	Mario 2. Super Mario 2, yeah. Yeah. I mean maybe.
1:33.9	I can't tell all the marios apart. That didn't come up
1:37.5	and you weren't like oh you mean like Mario 2.
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