Indie World Showcase Special with Hades Developer Interview!

Nintendo Power Podcast

Chris Slate

Video Games, Leisure

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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The August Indie World Showcase just revealed some of the coolest games coming to the Nintendo Switch™ system, like Hades, the next epic action title from fan-favorite developer Supergiant Games! Host Chris Slate sits down with Supergiant’s Creative Director Greg Kasavin to get all the juicy details. Chris is also joined by Nintendo of America’s Kristen Lynch from the Publisher & Developer Relations team and Michael Grimm from the social media team to dig into all the other new indie games and pick their favorites. The group also discusses Supergiant’s Transistor in Nintendo Power Game Club, takes the Warp Zone Quiz, names their top upcoming titles for Nintendo Switch and decides whether Pikachu or Yoshi would make the best pet! 00:30 – Hades developer discussion 31:22 – Indie World Showcase 39:23 – Player’s Pulse 44:01 – Nintendo Power Game Club: Transistor 1:00:25 – Warp Zone Quiz 01:05:06 – Game Forecast Ending music is from Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. Games discussed have been rated RATING PENDING to MATURE by the ESRB. If you would like to share any feedback or ideas for the podcast, or submit a question to possibly be answered in a future episode, please email us at [email protected]. Follow Nintendo on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Nintendo/ Follow Nintendo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica Subscribe to Nintendo on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nintendo

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0:00.0	Games rated RP to M. Welcome to Nintendo Power Podcast. This episode we dive into some of the biggest
0:18.8	indie games coming to Nintendo Switch and talk to the creative director of
0:22.2	Super Giant Games about their epic new action game, Hades.
0:30.0	My name is Chris Slate and joining me today are Kristen Lynch from the publisher and developer relations team at Nintendo of America.
0:37.0	Hi Kristen.
0:38.0	Hi, and Michael, from the social media team at Nintendo of America, hi Michael.
0:42.0	Hey Chris. And to discuss Haydn Social Media Team at Nintendo of America. Hi Michael.
0:42.5	Hey Chris.
0:44.0	And to discuss Hades, we are very happy to have Greg Kasauvin,
0:47.1	the creative director from Super Giant Games.
0:49.2	Hi, Greg.
0:50.2	Hey, how's it going?
0:51.2	Great.
0:51.6	Thanks so much for coming on the show and you know a lot of people just saw the
0:55.1	Indie World Showcase and learned that Hades is coming to Nintendo Switch, but many Nintendo Switch
0:59.6	fans already know Super Giant from Transistor and Bastionion both of which have been available on
1:04.4	Nintendo e Shop for a couple of years now so before we talk about Hades first I'd
1:08.8	love to hear a little bit about the company and your approach to making games.
1:16.6	Oh yeah, so we've been around a good amount of time now. We celebrated our 10th anniversary last year and we say about Super Giant that we want to make games that spark your imagination like the games you played as a kid which to us
1:27.3	actually refers to a pretty specific point in time and I consider kind of the 90s, the age of the super Nintendo entertainment system, kind of the golden age. That's my golden age.
1:40.0	So we make games that are kind of inspired by classic traditions but feel modern as well have like a modern
1:47.6	sensibility approaches to storytelling and things like that. We really look for interesting ways to intersect gameplay and
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