Episode 523 - The Year of the Narrative Banger Continues with 'Pentiment'
Waypoint Radio
VICE
4.6 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2022
⏱️ 146 minutes
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Summary
One podcast, extra large, coming right up! It’s Pentiment release week and we’ve got a hankering for some 16th century murder mysteries! First up Rob talks to Obsidian’s Josh Sawyer and Adam Brennecke about working at Obsidian, dealing with crunch, and of course Pentiment. Then Rob and Ren go deep on their experience with the game so far, and just how deep they’ve been hooked. Patrick and Cado join in for a dip in the Question Bucket that has us imagining a different world, one where maybe open world design didn’t follow its current trajectory. Finally, Patrick and Rob couldn’t wait until next week, so enjoy a mini-Sports! Update as the Bears are, maybe, possibly, actually back.
Discussed: Interview with Josh Sawyer and Adam Brennecke 1:23, Pentiment 36:35, Question Bucket 1:38:44, Sports! 2:05:29
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| 0:00.0 | What's good internet it's November 15th and you are listening to Waypoint Radio |
| 0:21.3 | episode 523 I think it's 23 yeah we have a bit of an unusual show for you here |
| 0:29.0 | first up we have a conversation with obsidian's Josh sloyer and Adam brinecki |
| 0:34.8 | who are the directors on pentamant and grounded respectively a chat with them |
| 0:38.5 | last week about life at the studio under Microsoft and how that has changed |
| 0:42.8 | approaches and metrics for success and I also had one of the strangest moments of |
| 0:48.4 | my career talking to Josh about pentamant so stick around for that afterwards |
| 0:54.6 | red and I are going to be talking about pentamant which you may have seen |
| 0:57.8 | getting some rave reviews this week from us included and then Patrick and I |
| 1:03.0 | will join cato for a quick dip into the mailbag and that will do it for today's |
| 1:09.6 | show but first up what you're in here next is me chatting with Josh sloyer |
| 1:14.1 | and Adam brinecki so stick around |
| 1:17.8 | today I'm joined by Josh sloyer game director on pentamant Josh welcome to |
| 1:28.6 | show thank you very much glad to be here and I just realized I made a point I |
| 1:35.6 | made a note to myself to ask whether it's Adam brineck or brinecki |
| 1:40.9 | Adam brinecki actually okay brinecki there's a neck and brinecki |
| 1:47.9 | so you and you are game director on grounded as yes I'm the game director and producer |
| 1:55.4 | on grounded so first I'm always curious about this you know a lot of times on |
| 2:01.0 | the show we we talk about you know what we've been playing lately what new |
| 2:03.9 | games were into and I'm curious as people actively developing games do you |
| 2:09.5 | have time to do that like like what is what does the gaming hobby look like for |
| 2:15.8 | somebody doing it professionally especially with in an era of like live games |
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