Episode 475 - Interview with NORCO Developer Yuts

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4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Ren has invited Yuts, writer and lead developer on NORCO, onto the pod today to talk about the origins of NORCO as a side-scroller, different literary styles, what we mean when we say "the american south" today, hope, and other equally fascinating and bummer topics.

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0:00.0	Hello and howdy gamers and welcome to this week's episode of Waypoint Radio.
0:22.2	This is a special episode where we're doing an interview with Yats, one of the lead developers
0:26.6	behind the recent release Norco, which we did a spoiler cast on last week and both Cameron,
0:33.8	Kato, myself and Patrick all absolutely loved.
0:37.7	Hello Yats.
0:38.7	Hey, how's it going?
0:40.3	It is going fine.
0:42.5	We definitely didn't have an extended conversation before this show about how we both live in
0:49.5	hell.
0:53.2	Speaking of the ways in which we're living and living in hell, how's the release going?
0:59.5	Releases.
1:00.5	Releases, okay.
1:01.5	Yeah, dredging up some comments from our previous conversation, I don't think I have the
1:07.6	right constitution for being online too much.
1:12.4	So post release, I've been doing a lot of running interference on Twitter and trying to help
1:18.2	people with bugs and things like that and it's made me slightly manic, but I'm doing just
1:23.5	fine otherwise.
1:25.6	It is very interesting to hear that you do not have the endurance for online because
1:31.1	I feel like you have Norco is a game that has such a great grasp of what online is and
1:37.8	what online does to people in ways that I think are really impressive.
1:41.6	I was actually curious about your like, I feel like the Garrett's and like other groups
1:46.3	of characters in this game are very representative of like particular online demographics and
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