Extra Credits

Art, videos, announcements, and favorite things related to the YouTube channel!

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Revolution is in the air and once it starts, it'll be impossible to stop. And it all starts with a man named Copernicus. Join us as we rocket through revolutions scientific, political and industrial!

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It's that time of year again! We had a game jam in August and now we want to show off some of the Games You Can't Possibly Have Tried (Yet). This jam's theme: Passage! If you want to take a look at the full list of entries, check them out here: https://itch.io/jam/extra-credits-game-jam-5/entries

The Hallway by Ellie Samson https://toestee.itch.io/the-hallway

Momentary by Zack https://dipshitking.itch.io/momentary

Contest to Suggest by SRPent & OutOfCharacters https://srpent.itch.io/contest-to-suggest

Obolus, Please by Lei https://leiye1995.itch.io/obolus-please

Into the Bullet Hell by Hot Girls with Broken Legs https://hotgirlswithbrokenlegs.itch.io/into-the-bullet-hell

Moving Makes You Smaller by Moldoveanu Florin https://catlamp.itch.io/moving-makes-you-smaller

Doods: Radical Passage by Vandervas Generator https://vandervasgenerator.itch.io/doods-radical-passage

80 Days by Evan S. https://pyroan.itch.io/80-days

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Dragons are EVERYWHERE. Almost every single culture has some mythic creature that can be called a dragon. How did these flying scaly critters capture the human imagination, and why can they be seen all over the world?

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As the floodwater rises, the city of Angkor falls. The fall of Angkor was not a sudden collapse, but a slow decline into ruin, leaving us with one question: What happened here?

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Welcome one and all to the spookiest episode of the year! And this year, we've dug up an older episode and stitched a brand new face to it: What makes a great horror protagonist? Hope you all enjoy!

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Jayavarman VII rebuilt Angkor more splendid than it had ever been. Where Angkor Wat had 5 towers, the temple Bayon had 52. And healthcare was guaranteed to every citizen. But this king may have spelled out the end for Angkor.

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Everyone loves it when they get that natural twenty and their character gets to shine in the spotlight. But leaning into your failures can be just as fun through a little thing called reciprocity.

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Back with another Anansi story, this time about Jealousy, corn, and why Anansi is just the worst neighbor of all time.

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Let's take a little tour around Suryavarman II crowning achievement, the temple that took only 33 years to complete, while Europeans were taking centuries to build their cathedrals. With a two mile long wall, gates large enough to allow elephants to pass and steps so steep that the average person needed to climb them like a ladder, Angkor Wat's every feature was made to be impressive. But what lies at the heart might be surprising...

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You're level 50, you've killed the Lord of Malcontent in the Valley of Skulls & Bad Things, and saved the land of High Fantasy 100 times! So why are these rats still so gosh darn hard to kill?! Why does this happen? Let’s talk level scaling!

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Ah, the infamous Kobayashi Maru. The no-win Star Trek scenario is actually more common in video games than you might think. When games employ random elements, you increase the odds of creating a scenario where before the player even touches the controller, they have already lost. That must be a huge game design mistake, right? Well... It's not always so simple.

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Sit down and let us weave you a tale of the Amazing Anansi. We tell the story of how Anansi purchased all of the stories of the world by catching three of the most dangerous creatures in the world; how his son convinced Anansi to share his wisdom with the world; and how his friendship with Nothing ends very very poorly.

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Lies for the Inca Empire! We talk about the side stories that didn't quite fit into the episodes, more on the quipu, and how fast can a person actually run?

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User-generated content is one of the top ways to engage players and adds a lot of replayability to a game but it comes with some interesting challenges. What are your thoughts?

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There can be a tension between hearing old stories in the modern age, dealing with simplified retellings and understanding older cultural values through a modern lens. We discuss writing Samson and Delilah and where we think the story is coming from. What are your thoughts?

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Known as the father of Modern Biology, Charles Darwin changed the way we think about our world and science. But that wasn't the path he started out on...

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Dentistry slowly moved from mystic to medic as time marched on, but the next great leap in dentistry came not from the lab, but from the traveling showmen of the 19th century: the start of anesthesia.