5 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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It’s been a few weeks since Patrick bested Nextlander’s Brad Shoemaker in a classic setup: who can beat the purposely difficult and arcane Volgarr the Viking and Volgarr the Viking II first, when played back-to-back while streaming? In its wake, Patrick chatted with Kris Dürrschmidt, CEO and creative director at Volgarr the Viking developer Crazy Viking Studios. You’ll do fine listening if you haven’t played Volgarr the Viking, as they spend most of their time discussing the nature of challenge, gotcha design, and the evolution of gaming’s relationship with difficulty.
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone. Welcome to another remap interview. |
0:22.7 | If you're listening to this, we've just finished up three days of streaming in New York City. |
0:27.7 | Hopefully you enjoyed those streams. |
0:30.1 | And as everyone travels back and we regroup, I thought it would be fun to release this interview that I had a chance to record recently, |
0:37.5 | where if you've watched Remap or if you watch Nextlander, then I have to imagine you have heard |
0:42.7 | or watched me and Brad Schumacher go up against one another playing Volgar the Viking and |
0:48.4 | Volgaar the Viking too. |
0:51.1 | And if you watch that, you know that I kicked Brad's ass. |
0:54.1 | I beat him in the first one, beat him in the second one, and I'm very proud of it. |
0:58.0 | It was going to happen all along. |
1:00.0 | But over the course of playing those games, I was actually in contact during those streams. |
1:06.6 | It took place over a number of months as we kind of spread out our time with both of the games, |
1:11.6 | with the CEO and creative director over at Crazy Viking Studios, who is the developer behind |
1:16.2 | Volga the Viking 1 and Volgaar the Viking 2. And thankfully, today, I am joined by that CEO |
1:22.0 | and creative director. Christopher, now Christopher, I was trying to do my research how to pronounce people's last names. And I noticed a very funny thing as I went through many interviews with you. One, either people tried to pronounce it and then asked you how they did. Or two, they just said, and were joined by Christopher and then just left your last name out of it without |
1:45.0 | attempt you to try it. |
1:47.0 | So rather than bumbling it, can you please help me? |
1:49.6 | What is the proper pronunciation of your last name? |
1:52.3 | It's just Dershmit. |
1:54.2 | Dershmet. |
1:54.7 | Okay. |
1:55.0 | I think people, like, I was like, I think a people, okay, wow. All right. Well, not as complicated as it seems, but |
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