Sep 5, 2021

Scott sits down with Erica, Gil, and Sen to debate the design
and making of his latest recreation, Alien:
Fate of the Nostromo. We additionally talk about designing to an IP, and
make a horror recreation.

SHOW NOTES

0m58s: The unique Alien movie

1m31s: The different board
recreation primarily based on the movie Alien. Scott is just not counting board video games
influenced by the movie with out the official license, like Nemesis or

The Awful Green Things From Outer Space. He’s additionally solely
counting video games primarily based particularly on the unique movie, so board
video games primarily based on any of the sequels, like Aliens, or
Alien
vs. Predator, don’t rely.

1m38s: The “Optimus Prime Conundrum” is a time period coined
by the legendary and fantastic podcast Flip the Table. It
describes a state of affairs the place a recreation breaks the IP it’s primarily based on by
permitting a number of copies of 1 character. This was coined of their
very first episode, through which they reviewed the
Transformers Adventure Game, the place every participant will get to play a
separate model of Optimus Prime. 

2m00s: The writer Ravensburger. Note
that Scott pronounces it “Ray-vensburger”, whereas the opposite hosts
pronounce it “Rah-vensburger”.

3m34s: The movies Elf, Home Alone, and
Gremlins, and
the animated collection Gargoyles.

8h25m: The Topps
Alien buying and selling card set.

11m15s: The
Betrayal video games.

14m11s:
Back to the Future: Dice via Time.

16m06s: The movie
Ten Little Indians, often known as And Then There Were
None. There have been a number of variations of this movie, all primarily based
on an Agatha Christie novel.

28m59s: Scott is right in that Alien is the primary
movie to supply a real “cat scare” – that’s, a soar scare that
seems to simply be a innocent cat. The so-called “cat scare,” in
which the supply of a soar scare seems to be one thing
atypical, appeared 35 years earlier than Alien. TV Tropes
credit it to producer Val Lewton, in his 1942 movie Cat
People.  However, regardless of the movie’s title, the supply of the
scare was a bus, not a cat. Note that one month after Alien’s huge
launch within the US, The Amityville
Horror got here out; it additionally featured a cat-powered “cat scare.”
Perhaps between these two movies, the cliche was
solidified. 

34m15s: The Horrified video games: Horrified
and
Horrified: American Monsters. A brief checklists of cryptids:
Bigfoot,
Mothman,
Windigo, and
the Jersey
Devil. 

36m39s: Camp
Grizzly

37m17s: Clue/Cluedo,
1313
Dead End Drive

39m19s: Dread

39m51s: Kingdom:
Death Monster

41m03s: Peter Jackson’s “splatstick” movie Braindead
(launched in North America as Dead Alive)

42m49s: Dixit,
Weird
Stories, Unspeakable
Words

44m03s: Final
Girl

45m05s:
Mansions of Madness

47m47s: Geoff’s e-book
Achievement Relocked, Ico, Death
Stranding, Brothers:
A Tale of Two Sons, Aerith from
Final
Fantasy VII

49m15s: Nyctophobia,
Ten Candles,
Vampire
Hunter, Waldschattenspiel/Shadows
within the Forest

51m39s:
Apocrypha, the World of
Darkness collection of video games (together with Vampire:
The Masquerade)

53m33s: Erica’s information: Disney
Sidekicks, Rat
Queens: To the Slaughter

54m29s: Sen’s information: Avatar Legends RPG

55m16s: Gil’s information: GameTek
on the worldwide transport snarl, Weird
Stories