Remap Interviews – Summer Game Fest Interviews (Part 1)

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Patrick spent a few days in Los Angeles at this year’s Summer Game Fest, and in-between equal parts beer and coffee, he found time to chat with a bunch of game developers at the show about their games (and fascism). First up, we’ve got interviews with the developers behind Sword of the Sea (the new game from the developers of The Pathless), Morsels (an intriguing roguelike from Annapurna), Relooted (a heist game about taking back stolen African artifacts), and Grave Seasons (a fascinating and hilarious mashup of horror and cozy farm sims).

Discussed: Sword of the Sea 6:52, Morsels 29:04, Relooted 43:15, Grave Seasons 58:37

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, it's Patrick Kleppick.
0:05.0	Every year when I get to go to a PACS or a summer game fest, Hey, everyone, it's Patrick Kleppick.
0:21.3	Every year when I get to go to a Pax or a summer game fest or wherever there are some game developers and I can smuggle in a microphone.
0:29.9	And eventually I'd like to bring a camera and have Cata with me so we can do some video stuff.
0:33.4	Anyway, anyway, anyway, I love to set aside time to talk to the people that make games. And these days,
0:39.7	it's never been more accessible to check out demos. I mean, Steam Nex Fest overlapped with summer
0:44.6	game fest. It's a point where there were times where I was playing a game, I'd finish my 15, 20
0:50.3	minutes, maybe in 10 minutes playing the demo of something, the set with Morsels and a few others.
0:55.1	They were like, well, if you enjoyed your time with the game, you can download a demo on Steam Next Fest.
0:59.7	And my thought is, well, why am I here if I could have just played this on my computer at home?
1:07.0	And the reality is, it's an opportunity to talk to people. You may be able to download a game like Morsels and play through that role.
1:14.6	You'll actually hear a conversation with one of the developers on Morsels next week.
1:20.0	But I get to actually turn to one of the creative people and ask them questions about their process and why they're here and are they struggling
1:28.6	with this current moment as we hear helicopters buzzing up ahead because there are anti-ice protests
1:34.6	going on just blocks from Summer Game Fest. The event is actually called Play Days, but it's just
1:40.1	easier to call it Summer Game Fest. The fact that there are raids, raids by ice that
1:45.8	occurred in the fashion district of Los Angeles just blocks away for where I'm wondering,
1:52.2	is Shinobi Age of Vengeance going to be one of my games of the year? Yes. Is it also a little
1:57.6	upsetting that the intro of the game has tanks rolling in while I'm wondering, am I going to get a push notification on my phone from the famously neutral New York Times telling me the tanks are rolling in to those protests?
2:12.7	When I actually flew into Los Angeles, the first thing I got is I flipped on my phone onto, like, the proper cell network was a notification that it was one from the American airline saying, welcome to Los Angeles.
2:27.4	And then one from the New York Times saying Trump has invoked the National Guard.
2:33.6	So again, welcome to Los Angeles. It was strange.
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