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Big Game Hunger is a weekly comedy show where Jenna Stoeber and friends craft the big next game every episode. Starting with a random genre, concept, and vibe, Jenna and a friend will take a game all the way from pitch, to slightly more developed pitch. By the end of the episode, they’ll have honed an IP so irresistible, you’ll be ready to risk $25 for it on Steam. Get ready to laugh about games you love, learn about game trends, and yearn for titles that will surely never make their release ...
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You are marooned a desert island with a few books and records. Fast forward three years. You now rule the island with an iron fist. But what laws will you enact? What will you ban? Each week, comedian Jacob Hatton interviews a new castaway from the worlds of science, journalism, politics and entertainment and asks them about their own personal island. Will it be a utopia or a nightmare?
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Part game show and part chat show. Your host, London Welsh comedian Vix Leyton, holds an ever-changing numbered list of 30 possible subjects - from everyday to current affairs - and invites three comics to compete to take the mic with stories, anecdotes, jokes or even songs, like a parlour game at the best fantasy dinner party you could ever imagine. The game - fun. The rules - highly convoluted. The laughs - constant. Guests to play the arcade so far have included Sara Barron, Sikisa, Tiern ...
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Voice actor and game dev Jacob Burgess joins the pod to crack the exceptionally difficult line up of: musical, game within a game, twin stick shooter This off-off-off Broadway production company has suffered from more internal drama than is in the script for Les Rizz! And to make matters worse, a swarm of rats has descended on the premises. But as …
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Jacob Geller, a writer who happens to be known for his video essays, joins Jenna to craft up a game based on the prompts: sloppy, Ides of March, fortunetelling The resulting game is, as you might expect given the sources, a really thought-provoking interrogation of game structures and player-interaction, while also being a hilarious game where you …
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Jacob Andrews, one of the talented artists of Drawfee, find the route through the prompts: obtuse parasite FPS with the help of Jenna Stoeber, a fellow soup and Dark Souls lover. Inspired by the Loathsome Dung Eater and some relatable soup catastrophes, Dark Soups sees the brew-bearer attempt to defeat monstrous gorge-vessels. But will you free the…
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Giovanni Colantonio, journalist at Digital Trends, is the first participant in the Grant Howitt Dagger Dartboard, where a flip of the coin determines if a prompt is replaced by a newer, weirder prompt from a separate list. They ended up with: wholesome all grapple hooks all the time cooking While making several accidental grapple-based puns, Giovan…
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Grant Howitt, indie TTRPG creator of games like Honey Heist, joins the show and makes a surreal, pro-drug game using the prompts: ocean exploration last day at camp Lucas-Arts point-n-click. You wake up in a derelict oil rig and have to choose your intoxicant of choice. Where will you fall on the zooted scale, and how will that change your conversa…
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mom game racing o steal your neighbor's horse, and compete tooth-and-nail for the ultimate prize: the HORSE TIARA. Thank you for listening to Big Game Hunger! Email us at BigGameHungerPod@gmail.com. Big Game Hunger is part of the Multitude Collective of podcasts. Edited and mixed by the talented Mischa Stanton, and created and hosted by Jenna Stoeb…
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Kelsey Lewin, writer, podcaster, and co-owner of Pink Gorilla Games, joins the show to finally make a game that your aunt is going to love! She and Jenna turn the prompts: aunt games frogs myst-like into a game about kissing frogs to turn them into other animals, and then using those animals to solve PUZZLES. Kyst indulges all the things we liked a…
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Allegra Frank, renowned journalist, critic, and oreo connoisseur, joins Jenna to craft an adorable, hard-hitting game with the prompts: squishy werewolves visual novel Eschewing the normal player-romance offerings of visual novels, they craft a game where you matchmake NPCs and solve a dark mystery of your own past, come back to haunt you. Also the…
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Screenwriter, bookwriter, and criticwriter Karen Han has brought her Marvel's-Midnight-Sun and Pokemon-Cafe-Remix related complaints to the prompts: musical cafe sim character creator They brew a heady mix of adorable Pokemon bakers and super crunchy sim aspects like book-balancing and inventory sim. Every year, the Alcremie Awards pass out stars t…
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Brent Naylor lucked out with some primo prompts: parasite DnD mystery Then he immediately destroyed the format of this show by perfectly nailing a pitch for a hidden role game where you have to identify the social parasite in a DnD group! Thankfully these fools are pros at bullshitting, and they develop a game where you train yourself to detect AI …
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Illustrator Faith Schaffer brings her Lifetime movie expertise to Big Game Hunger, a Jenny Nicholson fancast! With the prompts: voyeurism holiday dungeon crawler ...she and Jenna make a Lifetime/Hallmark-inspired Christmas game about a big-city video game creator who discovers the true meaning of Christmas Romance back in her hometown, with either …
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Alex Jaffe, co-host of Insert Credit and 52 Pickup, starts off strong with some word-play options based on the prompts: green shark godzilla-sim (rampage) After some great goofs on what "green" could imply, they settle on an anti-golf, pro-green-space game where you play as a shark terrorizing innocent putters. Swim through intricate mini-golf cour…
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Listen to Exolore and Pale Blue Pod, and read The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy! Follow her on Twitter @GoAstroMo, or visit her website at MoiyaMcTier.com. Thank you for listening to Big Game Hunger! Email us at BigGameHungerPod@gmail.com. Support this show, and submit your OWN random prompts, by subscribing at Patreon.com/TheJenna Big …
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Justin Green came here entirely focused on one goal: to make the most scattered and unhinged game premise possible. Thankfully Jenna totally tamed that impulse and they came up with a very normal game about being a good or bad therapist and a pokemon and navigating the American healthcare system and maybe evolving if you are fully cured of your tra…
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Clay Murphy, writer on Control and Alan Wake 2, joins Jenna to create a character-driven story about coming to terms with your dreams when your dreams are determined by prophecy., using the prompts: a job that has never been made into a game good time party time! rpg Play as the Chosen One, still trying to make it big in Hollywood and finding that …
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gnarly We make a 4-player game that utilizes how absolutely insane and erotic wrestling is in real life. I was able to make one solid wrestling reference, to John Cena's beloved you don't see me meme, but mostly Anthony Burch breaks down the wild incredible tropes and culture of wrestling, and also stealth games! Thank you for listening to Big Game…
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Watch out, Spider-man! Voice actor Geoff Moonen joins Jenna to make a Central Park-roaming bird game with incredible transversal mechanics, thanks to the prompts: Owls moody Triple A action-adventure Invasive Species is inspired by famous New York birds like the iconic Flaco, who escaped Central Park Zoo to become a free bird, to Mandarin Patinkin …
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Horror artist extraordinaire Eduardo Valdés-Hevia - also known as Valdevia - joins Jenna to make one of the most lucrative game genres: mascot horror! Watch out, Five Nights at Freddy's and Poppy Playtime, we're COMING FOR YOUR CROWN. With the prompts: Vampires vibrant pinball The result? Blacklight Arcade! You're a repair man at Transylgamia, the …
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America's Uncle himself, Brian Miller is here to help Jenna Stoeber make a game based on the prompts: Cake decorating Uncle game Party game The discuss the wonders of 'za and 'zagna (pizza and lasagna), what it takes to be an uncle game, and Chef Boyardee getting Anglicized. How is it we ended up talking about Garfield-related food entries two week…
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Xalavier Nelson Jr, game writer extraordinaire, joins Jenna to make a contemplative, meditation on God, faith, and filling one's days as we await our fate. There's also some stuff about shower food. Our prompts were: kitten cuddling contemplative roguelike Follow Xalavier Nelson Jr on Twitter @WritNelson, see more of his work with Strange Scaffold …
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Detective Frankenstein here. You didn't happen to see a Brooke Breit wandering around here, holding a basket of feets, have you? Not her own feet, to be clear. No, this is a basket full of stranger feets - and they aren't hers to sell. On this episode, Brooke Breit and Jenna make a body-swapping lost-romance game with the prompts: Frankensteins Poe…
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Podcast maven Eric Silver joins Jenna Stoeber to discuss some no-longer-timely news about card games, and leverage that into the next big MONEY MAKER. They are assisted by the prompts: train travel people who don't like to talk on the phone card game Big Game Hunger hasn't really been about turning a profit with our incredible game ideas so far, bu…
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Phil Salvador, the Library Director of the Video Game History Foundation HIMSELF, joins Jenna Stoeber for this episode of Big Game Hunger! They tackle three totally normal words that would definitely appear on a list of game-terms that ANYONE MADE. The terms are: Cryptid flirty zeldalike They discuss classic cryptids like Mothman, explore emotional…
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In this INAUGURAL episode of Big Game Hunger, Janet Garcia joined Jenna Stoeber in making a video game based on three prompts: Video game attached to massive IP Childish WarioWare mini game collection. OBVIOUSLY they made a game based on the most massive car-and-family-based IP of all time, Fast & Furious. (Sorry about it, Disney's Cars). The Wario…
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Coming this October, it's Big Game Hunger! Starting with a random genre, concept, and vibe, Jenna and the guest host will take a game all the way from pitch, to slightly more developed pitch. By the end of the episode, they’ll have honed an IP so irresistible, you’ll be ready to risk $25 for it on Steam. Get ready to laugh about games you love, lea…
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We return once again to the vaults to bring you this live show from The Comedy Arcade at Edinburgh Fringe 2022! Featuring Alison Spittle, John Robertson, Jenny Ryan & Rich Wilson. You can now pick up tickets for The Comedy Arcade live from The Stand at Edinburgh Fringe 2023! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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We return once again to the vaults to bring you this live show from The Comedy Arcade at Edinburgh Fringe 2022! Featuring Rich Wilson, Sooz Kempner, Daman Bamrah & Kate McGann. You can now pick up tickets for The Comedy Arcade live from The Stand at Edinburgh Fringe 2023! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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We've dragged one from the vaults to bring you a live from Edinburgh 2022 special recording! Featuring Jacob Hatton, Jenny Ryan, Bec Hill & Rich Wilson. The Comedy Arcade is back at Edinburgh Fringe 2023! Live at The Stand at 16.40. Grab your tickets here: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/comedy-arcade Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo…
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This week a return to the Arcade after Edinburgh Fringe. Recorded live at the Cheerful Earful podcast festival in partnership with Next Up, Vix welcomes returning favourites Thom Tuck & Leslie Ewing-Burgesse alongside Paul Watson & Arcade virgin Runi Talwar. Hear about the panel's worst jobs, the weirdest DMs they received and how you can't trust p…
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The Comedy Arcade is coming at you LIVE from Edinburgh Fringe! Run live, chaotically, and exclusively at Underbelly Bristo Square, Vix, house players Rich Wilson and Jenny Ryan welcome Sikisa & Matt Adlington. (Re)live the magic of late night Edinburgh Fringe 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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The Comedy Arcade is coming at you LIVE from Edinburgh Fringe! Run live, chaotically, and exclusively at Underbelly Bristo Square, Vix, house players Rich Wilson and Jenny Ryan welcome Bilal Zafar & Leslie Ewing-Burgesse. (Re)live the magic of late night Edinburgh Fringe 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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The Comedy Arcade is coming at you LIVE from Edinburgh Fringe! Run live, chaotically, and exclusively at Underbelly Bristo Square, Vix, house players Rich Wilson and Jenny Ryan welcome Mark Watson, Scott Bennett & Andrew O'Neill to the Arcade, and also the lovely people at Next Up Comedy to stream it live. We hear about hair braiding on the Royal M…
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The Comedy Arcade is coming at you LIVE from Edinburgh Fringe! Run live, chaotically, and exclusively at Underbelly Bristo Square, Vix, house players Rich Wilson and Jenny Ryan welcome Lily Phillips, Kate Martin & Sheraz Yousaf to the Arcade. We hear about Tom Cruise and his dried apricots, why peanut butter is bad, and being sick near Orlando Bloo…
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The Comedy Arcade is coming at you LIVE from Edinburgh Fringe! The opening night of the Edinburgh Fringe run at Underbelly Bristo Square, Vix welcomes Rich Wilson, Lucy Porter, Charlie George & Will Duggan. You can find Rich on Twitter & Instagram You can find Lucy on Twitter & Instagram You can find Charlie on Twitter & Instagram You can find Will…
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The Comedy Arcade is coming at you LIVE from Edinburgh Fringe! The opening night of the Edinburgh Fringe run at Underbelly Bristo Square, Vix welcomes Rich Wilson, Sarah Keyworth, Garrett Millerick and the semi-elusive John Robertson to the stage. You can find Rich on Twitter & Instagram You can find Sarah on Twitter & Instagram You can find Garret…
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The Comedy Arcade is coming at you LIVE from Edinburgh Fringe! The opening night of the Edinburgh Fringe run at Underbelly Bristo Square, Vix welcomes Rich Wilson, Alice Fraser, Stuart Laws and Thom Tuck to the stage. You can find Rich on Twitter & Instagram You can find Alice on Twitter & Instagram You can find Thom on Twitter & Instagram You can …
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The Comedy Arcade is coming at you LIVE this week in partnership with Next Up! Recorded LIVE at King's Place in London. Why Rich Wilson will never be Bond, Jenny Ryan’s inside knowledge about Ryan Giggs' film rental habits, Jordan Gray’s strong views on smoke alarms, and a foursome that didn’t happen because of Gelato. Also Kate Martin tells you wh…
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Easily the most chaotic episode since records began. Returning queen Sally Hodgkiss joins Rufus Hound in a caravan at the circus, Rich Wilson can't see anyone on the Zoom and Vix Leyton tries to remember why she does this in the first place. Covering everything from the rights of the Royal family to chicken namesakes, this takes you on quite the jo…
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Back and WEEKLY! And the first episode, due to a scheduling cock up, is a DUEL between amazing returning player Marc Burrows and Arcade first timer, podcaster Amy Bullman. In a whirlwind of new and old categories, we cover everything from what it's like to be the social media voice of Lee from Blue to how to not impress at an interview. You can fin…
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Back and WEEKLY! And the first episode, due to a scheduling cock up, is a DUEL between amazing returning player Marc Burrows and Arcade first timer, podcaster Amy Bullman. In a whirlwind of new and old categories, we cover everything from what it's like to be the social media voice of Lee from Blue to how to not impress at an interview. You can fin…
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The second of our two part LIVE extravaganza direct from the big, camp Above The Stag cabaret room. Jenny Ryan, Myra Dubois, Sooz Kempner and James O'Donoghue return for the second half of the live show. Who was the winner? Was the real winner actually just the friends we met along the way? Definitely not. There can be only one. And we are back at …
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A chaotic live extravaganza direct from the big, camp Above The Stag cabaret room. Jenny Ryan, Myra Dubois, Sooz Kempner and James O'Donoghue tread the glittery boards covering everything from the Cypriot Mafia to the correct storage for a homemade s3x machine in a singing, dancing, sniping show. Wish you were there? Catch Comedy Arcade LIVE at Bri…
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It gets a little bit political on this one as Ashish, dialled in from India, represents all men against a very saucy Sally Hodgkiss and explains why the TV is locked in a cover, whilst Pauline Eyre joins Vix in trying to keep order. You can find Sally on Twitter and on Instagram You can find Ashish on Twitter and on Instagram You can find Pauline o…
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A dark and twisty episode with confessions, touching moments and big laughs as Paul Mccaffrey, Julian Deane and Aimee Cooper talk everything from petty crimes to the bright lights of Tunbridge Wells. You can find Paul on Twitter and on Instagram You can find Julian on Twitter and on Instagram You can find Aimee on Instagram Hosted on Acast. See aca…
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Ahead of our live show at Leicester Comedy Festival on 19th February at Peter Pizzeria (tickets here! https://comedy-festival.co.uk/event/comedy-arcade-live/) Vix pulls another episode from the vaults featuring King of the balls and stage star Thom Tuck, a triumphant returning Joz Norris and brilliant new addition Rob Kemp. Joz Norris reveals a nes…
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The first recorded episode of 2022. Tim Fitzhigham tells us about his best ever night out including - but not limited to - Sir Ian Mckellen and Denise Van Outen. Returning player Kelly Welles makes a fantastic case for why you should never leave her alone with an axe, and Rachel Creeger might have been there or it might have all been an elaborate i…
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One from the archives of 2021. The Founding father of comedy podcasting, Stu Goldsmith, faces off against The Voice, the legend Jordan Gray and comedian-podcaster and petty justice seeker Si Deaves in an Essex Comedy Special. The one with all the callbacks. We cover everything from vigilante responses to parking infractions to what happens when a d…
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In this festive Comedy Arcade Christmas Special, Vix hosts The Chase legend Jenny Ryan, Live At The Apollo smash hit Esther Manito, and the one and only, incomparable, Riggs. We hear about a £10,000 art piece, why Dean Gaffney should clean Esther's house, and try to unravel the mystery of why Riggs doesn't own a coat. You can find Jen on Twitter an…
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