PEL Presents PMP#148: Resource Management Video Games
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Mark, Al, our editor Tyler Hislop, and Dr. Jamie Madigan of the Psychology of Video Games podcast talk about a wide range crafting and building games from Minecraft to Starcraft to Sim City to Civilization to Rimworld to Subnautica. Given what a time commitment these typically require, what makes some of them worthwhile?
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| 0:00.0 | This is pretty much pop, a culture of podcasts still subsisting on basic rations and trying |
| 0:12.4 | to build a hut before 9 fall. |
| 0:14.2 | Today we return to video games. |
| 0:16.2 | Looking at the genre of resource management games, including survival crafting games, |
| 0:20.3 | colony simulators, real-time strategy games, and more, this is Mark Linsomire, I strongly |
| 0:24.8 | prefer playing God over being stuck in a first person perspective poisons swamp. |
| 0:29.0 | This is Albaika speaking with the UK currently at 1600 hours in rim world having never |
| 0:34.2 | actually finished a game. |
| 0:37.1 | This is Tyler Hislatt in Frederick, Maryland. |
| 0:40.1 | I would be outside punching this tree with my fists since I don't have enough wood to |
| 0:44.4 | make an axe. |
| 0:45.4 | You know, returning. |
| 0:46.4 | Very special guest. |
| 0:47.4 | Hi, I'm Jamie Madigan from psychologyofgames.com where I look at the intersection of psychology |
| 0:52.4 | and games and I'm still trying to automate coal production in factorial. |
| 0:56.9 | All right, this is the world's most occasional video game podcast. |
| 1:01.4 | It has been the greater part of a year since we did any video game coverage and it was |
| 1:05.8 | with this exact group that we last talked about. |
| 1:09.8 | The Hades and Roguelikes. |
| 1:13.1 | And the Roguelikes. |
| 1:14.5 | I don't remember which of those was more recent, but they were both last year. |
| 1:18.1 | I have known about this. |
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