This is the Gameres with Jobs conference call for Wednesday, September 11th, 2024. I am shocked to discover

that September is already one-third of the way done. If September is a movie, we are now at the

scene where we pivot from Act 1 to Act 2. There's been a change in the status quo, and there's

some clarity about the direction

that the story is going. And boy, is there some fun clarity about the direction that this story is

going because I'm going to be joined by Daryl and Amanda. Hello.

Hello.

And we're going to talk some games. For our topic, though, we have a really fun interview with the creator, with two of the

four lead creators of the game, Arco.

We've been talking about Arco for a couple of weeks on the show.

I have wrapped the game and I think it's just a tremendous work.

I particularly responded to the structure of how the game scaffolds the way you learn its mechanics. Because Arco has this neat simultaneous real-time combat where you're you're sort of inputting your moves and then you see

everything unfold at the same time. But there's also complications like you're literally haunted

by ghosts in real time while you're doing your turn-based

tactic stuff so you you don't necessarily always have the time to just lovingly think um and the game

does a terrific job introducing you with a character in like in the opening acts of the game who's

relatively simple to control then the next act gives you a more complicated

character that has more to do.

Act 4 gives you two characters, so suddenly you're kind of shuffling that.

So there's a lot of like really fun stuff.

By the time you get to the end, when you've brought the team together, you kind of, you have

the flow of it and it's really

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