Easily one of my favorite episodes. This one is a choose your own adventure style video game creation questionnaire Darian put together in order for me to make my own video game in my mind palace. It was very fun. New show format?! WHO KNOWS!! Email us at: itsalmosttheweekendpod@gmail.com Episode Music by ViDEOGOMEZ @videogomez The track is https:/…

Are aliens real? Are there actual little green guys? What about if they were grey, though? What then? Well, Voices of the Void is a video game sort of about aliens, sort of not? Check it out for yourself https://mrdrnose.itch.io/votv Email us at: itsalmosttheweekendpod@gmail.com Episode Music by ViDEOGOMEZ @videogomez The track is https://www.youtu…

This weeks eppy is all hits and no misses. Prepare for one of the best podcast episodes your gamer ears have ever heard. But for real though, this was a fun one. Stick around for Joe's swish poem at the end. Email us at: itsalmosttheweekendpod@gmail.com Episode Music by ViDEOGOMEZ @videogomez The track is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMbili2tqDk…

You ever shot a zombie right in it's head?! Well, you will. If you play enough video games you're bound to end up doing that. It's pretty hard to avoid. This week, we delve into the history of zombies in games, and end up talking about a bunch of other way less related stuff. Enjoy! Email us at: itsalmosttheweekendpod@gmail.com Episode Music by ViD…

What makes a quest, good? What ingredients must you tip into the game cauldron, whilst cackling witchedly into the night? How come some quests are trash? And why is it you still remember that one character from that one DLC?? We attempt to reckon with these questions, and more! Email us at: itsalmosttheweekendpod@gmail.com Episode Music by ViDEOGOM…

Crawl in your warmest blanket. Brew your sleepiest tea. Crack open the gamer snacks. And solve some little puzzles with us, in this week game club episode. Cocoon! Email us at: itsalmosttheweekendpod@gmail.com Episode Music by ViDEOGOMEZ @videogomez The track is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMbili2tqDk…

Do YOU know the numbers of all the months!? Enjoy the episode !! Email us at: itsalmosttheweekendpod@gmail.com Episode Music by ViDEOGOMEZ @videogomez The track is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMbili2tqDkBy Joe and Daz

We're sorry Todd. Your game isn't good. And maybe non of them ever were? That part isn't up for discussion in this episode though. THIS is the Starfield episode. We each played a little bit of this gigantic game, and decided to talk about it extensively. Enjoy. And sorry again, Todd. Email us at: itsalmosttheweekendpod@gmail.com Episode Music by Vi…

This week, Joe was too lazy/jetlagged/late to come up with a topic, so we just had a big chill news heavy eppy, and he read some writing he did from when he was in Bali. Pretty chill, pretty fun. Have a listen. IF YOU DARE. Email us at: itsalmosttheweekendpod@gmail.com Episode Music by ViDEOGOMEZ @videogomez The track is https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I'm uploading this episode from my phone, on my way to my honeymoon because I left it up until the last minute. I'm so good at this. Enjoy this very good episode, about patting/petting dogs in games. Is it patting or petting? Write in. You won't. You coward. How good are dogs?! Anyway, have a great weekend. Email us at: itsalmosttheweekendpod@gmail…

Come on down, take a seat. It's time for our second games club eppy of the year. Did you play it? I bet you did. I bet you were REALLY good at it. You're a great gamer, good at games. I liked it!! Tell us your thoughts. Or else. Email us at: itsalmosttheweekendpod@gmail.com Episode Music by ViDEOGOMEZ @videogomez The track is https://www.youtube.co…

We made it. Episode 100 BABY!!! There's not much to say about this one. We hung out, and did some paintings. Then we gave away those paintings. Winners will receive an email asking about shipping details over the next little while. Email us at: itsalmosttheweekendpod@gmail.com Episode Music by ViDEOGOMEZ @videogomez The track is https://www.youtube…

You pull up at a cross roads... Gunfire can be heard behind you. Your pack is heavy with glorious loot. And your leg is bleeding. You have only three bullets left in your gun, and only one minute left to escape. You think the exit is this way, but you can't be sure. Limping you head forwards, into what you can only hope is a way out... EXTRACTION S…

Give a man a jump button, he'll jump for a while... Give a man a platform! Well, he's gonna try jump up there to get a reward. That's it. That's platformers. Goodnight everyone!! *Crowd applause and fade to black* EMAIL US for a chance to win the episode 100 painting. Email us at: itsalmosttheweekendpod@gmail.com Episode Music by ViDEOGOMEZ @videog…

The first Game Club eppy of 2024 and let me tell you, it's a banger. Strap on your roller skates. Reload your dual pistols. And listen to this pod, as you settle in to the weekend ahead. The Game Club game for February is Boomerang X! Email us at: itsalmosttheweekendpod@gmail.com Episode Music by ViDEOGOMEZ @videogomez The track is https://www.yout…

This episode is probably not what you think it is, unless you happen to know a thing or two about obscure 90's edugame devs? Then yes, it's exactly what you think it is! This week, Joe goes deep on a wiki-hole about a very specific and strange time in video game history. A time when Nintendo was loaning out their characters to weird unheard of stud…

Games these days. What with their DLC and Patches. Games these days. What with their day one downloads and pre order bonuses... GAMES THESE DAYS... What with their barely complete minimum viable product being sold at full price digitally or on a subscription model... GAMES THESE DAYS Email us at: itsalmosttheweekendpod@gmail.com Episode Music by Vi…

Sorry for the late upload. Podbean (the service we host our show on) was down. ANYWAY, here's the eppy. A nice simple one, just answering some listener questions and having a good old chat. Nice and easy to ease you in to the easiest new ease year easy ease wheeze Email us at: itsalmosttheweekendpod@gmail.com Episode Music by ViDEOGOMEZ @videogomez…

We didn't play the game. Forgive us, it's Christmas. Also, the game was not good... Email us at: itsalmosttheweekendpod@gmail.com Episode Music by ViDEOGOMEZ @videogomez The track is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMbili2tqDkBy Joe and Daz

You love it, we love it, it's our favorite time of year... top games we played this year the list episode! This is an in person eppy, and the vibes are pretty immaculate if I do say so myself. Not much to say about this one. It's a list of the games we loved this year. Not necessarily games that came out this year, but just games that we played thi…

AI. That ol' thing. I think it sucks. It doesn't really do a good job of anything, apart from ripping off artists. But that's a story for another time. This week, we talk about some practical uses from a list of suggestions Joe brought. I'd like to think all these things would be doable in the very near future... but only if we can get over deep fa…

This community Zoom discussion with Dr Edwin C May. I would like to thank Dr May for taking the time and effort to share his answers, experiences, and knowledge with the community and for answering a raft of questions. Dr Edwin C May: Edwin C. May spent the first part of his research career in his chosen Ph.D. discipline, Low Energy, Experimental N…

Indie games. Wah. Huh. What are they good for?! Absolutely many things. Say it with me now... INDIE GAMES. WAH.. HUH. What are they goood for... Wait. What is an indie game. Who ARE indie developers. There's a strict definition to this term. And despite the fact this topic was Joe's, Darian has BIG thoughts about it (thank goodness because Joe had …

How to listen to this podcast: Open Spotify. Use your finger to press the search button. Search for It's Almost The Weekend Podcast. Press our smiling faces with your gamer finger. Select the episode titled "89 - Tutorials". Listen. Enjoy. Share. Email us at: itsalmosttheweekendpod@gmail.com Episode Music by ViDEOGOMEZ @videogomez The track is http…

Join us this week, as Darian enjoys what is likely going to be one of his favorite video game experiences ever, and Joe has an emotional breakdown! Hop aboard this rickety vessel of podcasting, as we sail of into the waters of games club. So strap up your finest pirate boots, don whatever hat is best related to your rank aboard this ship with far t…

Coming in at what is easily our long episode, our very special guest Phoebe [REDACTED] joins us to talk Story and Story telling. To be frank, I can hardly remember what we spoke about. There was heaps of news, and the topic was gracefully guided by Darian. At one point I said that 2001 A Space Odyssey was "boring" and called the disc slot on the xb…

We got a fabulous email from dear listener Alexander. They left a bunch of cool questions for us to go through, and go through those questions we did! We haven't done a list-like eppy in a hot minute, so it was nice to just sit back and read through some answers, get into our usual screaming matches about whatever it is we normally scream about... …

This week the dynamic duo attempt to pick apart one of the very core aspects to video games; Movement. How does one move. When, and why?! Why even move at all. Isn't it far more comfortable on this tram? It's raining outside... the heater is on. There's barely anyone here. BUT WAIT. The tram is MOVING. It's inescapable. You cannot avoid movement. Y…

It's that time again. It is time to talk about a game we both played for the month. Did we love this classic? Or did we hate it's stinking guts? I'll never tell... EXCEPT I WILL. I will tell all in this episode (about my opinions of this video game). We miss you. We love you. Have a wonderful weekend ya'll <3 Email us at: itsalmosttheweekendpod@gma…

This game has a VICE GRIP on such a mind bending number of children across the globe, it is mind melting. Ask ANY child you come across, do they play Roblox, the answer will be inevitably: YES, or GET AWAY FROM ME OLD MAN. So in this eppy, we dive deep, head first, block headedly into the wide sort of gross world of Roblox. Strap in folks, if you l…

We WERE going to talk about Roblox, but Darian show's up and they say "Hey I got so much news. More news than you would believe. I'm gonna make this eppy all about me and my big news updates. Screw your topic you stink". They said it. They really said all of that. What is happening to this marriage!? Nah I am kidding of course. But please do enjoy …

What if you could simulate every aspect of your life virtually. Showering, simulated. Toast, simulated. Public transport, simulated. YOUR JOB, SIMuLAtED. Your ReLAtiONSHip>>> SIMULATED. DYING??S S)_S_)S0S_S There's a wealth of simulation games out there. And we aim to discuss a number of them on this podcast. Please enjoy. And simulate this episode…

We played Humanity. Not like, we played humanity. Humanity is definitively playing us. But we played the video game Humanity for the games club. So take a seat, follow the shiba inu dog and fall heedlessly off a cliff into the great beyond as you listen to this eppy. It was a chaotic one, and so big hats off to Daz for editing this. You're the REAL…

What a weird week huh? Maybe one of the weirdest in the last several years? It's not very often a company makes a move like this one. But here were are. I am of course talking about the Unity situation. Unity is a game engine used in a large percentage of the video games created these days, and they just dropped a phat new revenue model involving i…

For as long as there's been small slips of paper with symbols on them, there's been card games. The human urge to scribble little guys on bits of card, and assign rules to their usage is REAL and it is HERE, and that's NOT what we're talking about. We're here to talk about video game card games. Just those ones, specifically. So sit back, draw some…

Quick heads up, there's some slightly scuffed audio for the first 10mins of this eppy. It clears right up after that though, so no complaining ya heard?! This week we're talking about creativity. What even IS that. Where does it come from?! The worlds biggest brightest minds have tried and failed to describe it. But we're here to fix that. Episode …

We originally came here to talk about a topic... but what's that? Oh GOD a giant robot came crashing through our respective houses at precisely the same time!? That's right. We're talking about AC6 this week. NO, not Assassins Creed 6, the other AC. There's the usual news and jolly good chats, so hop in the big robot, 621, it's time for your listen…

Sometimes a game comes along and asks you "what if you were doing something else, instead of playing this game?" Sometimes a game asks you "if there were an ideal control scheme for movement in this game, what would the opposite of that look like? Sometimes the good things you've heard of an experience don't stack up against the way it feels for yo…

We thank you for replaying this podcast, over and over. Why would you feel compelled to do such a thing? Well, perhaps the answers to that kind of question can be gleaned from listening to this very episode? Perhaps you'll be stuck in a loop of listening to it over, and over... Perhaps not. We suggest you try that though, and find out what happens.…

The topic everyone says they love. But do they? Why are there so few cosmic horror video games? What even IS cosmic horror? Why are we drawn to it... what IF we kissed under the big eye in the sky? I dunno... but what if? Episode Music by ViDEOGOMEZ @videogomez The track is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMbili2tqDk Read the latest Borlap review a…

You ever got to the end of something, only for the way you think about it and feel about it to completely flippity floppity all over your eggs and bacon!? You ever peeped through the view finder or some other somewhat different point of view than your own and realized you're a giant baby in a big world of larger babies? You ever? WELL!? That's what…

The raw potential of a video game can be measured, science like, beaker-ishly, and with great accuracy simply by reading the title. TINY KIN. The battle ground of ideas that rises from the depths of our minds as such a title is uttered can only be tempered in the cool waters of the term "cozy", which we have discussed at (not at all) great lengths …

The streaming platform that seems to take as much as it gives. Twitch dot com It feels like it's been around forever, but has it? What happened before Twitch...? What wild and weird events may have transpired that led to the world and the internet at large being ready for such a thing. Well, that's what this eppy is all about. Video used as researc…

A VERY special episode. We have a wonderful guest (and the audio isn't cooked). This time we have the very talented, very wonderful Monday Sandwich joining us to talk about Interactive Fiction. Little known fact, Monday is my oldest friend!! Been good pals for going on what... nearly 20 years. Mind bending. This info is cursed, and has crippled me …

You gaze upwards into the wide, painted, mostly white 7ft tall canvas at the art gallery. A thought leaps across your mind. You recognize it, like you would recognize your high-chool best friend... slowly at first, then all at once. The thought says to you "I could have done this"... But you did not. And probably never will. The thought is scampers…

The Dungeons of Fear and Hunger call for you. An unnatural hunger lurks in the pit of your stomach. Shadows loom in every corner, sometimes they move on their own, sometimes they do not. That's right. We're FINALLY getting to it. This is the episode of games club we really could have done one and a half weeks in, and couldn't shut up about. It's ti…

Late is the hour in which I manage to upload the podcast. It's been a busy day. I could have done it last night, but I did not... I waited, procrastinated, and now the real life day night cycle has punished me. I sit here, wreathed in guilt and emotions I cannot express because of the way the day night cycle of our reality has shown my own folly. M…

The day dawns. Birds cry out, and flock together. The sun shines brightly through the cracks in the blinds... you're none the wiser because you're hard wired, jacked in, fully immersed in your VR world. Your VR EXPERIENCE!! Better than reality, more real, more tangible, more exciting than life could have ever hoped to be. The endless spectrum of po…

You see a strange man on the side of the road. He looks hungry, and a tiny "!" is hovering UI-ishly above his hooded cranium. You approach him. He utters something about needing apples, several of them. It's enough information for you. Your side quest BEGINS!!! This episode is all about side quests, the history, the good, the bad. What makes for qu…

We return, eyes hardened by the fires and trials of episodes past. The sinew of our muscles trained cel by cel, fiber by fiber to become more powerful at podcasting. The very first topic we ever did on this show, Open Worlds, screams up at us from the floor from whence we left it. Deformed and barely discussed with any critical thought or detail. "…