Episode 171: No Man's Guy

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🗓️ 20 July 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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In today's Waypoint Radio, we talk about our extensive interview with Sean Murray of Hellop Games (the creators of No Man's Sky), about the game, PR and hype, its politics, and the controversy that the team dealt with at launch.

Discussed: No Man's Sky, Space Jam on the Sega Saturn, Dream Daddy, Joe Bernstein's piece 'Alt-Right Troll To Father Killer: The Unraveling Of Lane Davis'

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0:00.0	We've run these two ARGs, one of the lead up to Alice Rising and now this one, which
0:21.9	has been really popular, like 300,000 people playing the first one, 400,000 people playing
0:26.0	this one. And that's our way of communicating now with the community, or it has been, right?
0:30.3	And I used to joke when we started up the ARG that we ran these because we had basically
0:34.8	been banished to the astral plane. And we could only talk to the community through, like,
0:39.3	moving things on a table, or they would ask if a certain feature is in the game, and we
0:43.2	would, like, kick the door or something. Those are the words of Sean Murray in a piece
0:47.9	that went up today, on Waypoint called, we spent an hour talking to Hello Games about
0:52.5	everything, No Man's Sky. That was an interview conducted, of course, with the two other
0:57.4	people on this call. And of course, this is Waypoint Radio 171. Joining me today, of
1:03.0	course, is Austin Walker. Hi. And Patrick Klefik. Hi. How you guys doing? You did quite
1:10.0	an interview. It's Friday, so I'm doing okay. I'm finally, it's almost done. We've almost
1:15.6	survived the week, which is helpful. And it's good. And I figured, since we had a really
1:20.4	great feature this week, one really great sort of shining piece that we had go up on the
1:25.6	side of figured, that was probably a good topic for us to talk about. No man's sky. And
1:29.6	what happened with No Man's Sky, which is what you talked to Sean Murray about. Totally
1:34.1	it's a lot of jumping on Murray Murray Murray Murray Murray Murray Murray Murray Murray
1:43.5	Sean Murray. Sean Murray. Sean M. It's funny because I kept thinking his name. I kept seeing
1:54.4	his name being like, that's not right. Is that right? Really? It's like a weird block in
1:59.8	my head. It was like, it wasn't, it wasn't rolling off my tongue the right way. It was like,
2:04.0	of course, I know his name. It was super weird. But yeah, we have an interview up on the
2:08.6	side if you haven't seen it yet. As Daniel mentioned, we point out vice dot
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