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The Halfbrick Show.
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As usual, I'm Aiden and I'm joined in our
incredibly detailed virtual studio,
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as always by Carmen. Hey Carmen,
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how's it going? Hey everyone. ~ it's going
good here in the virtual studio.
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The sun has just set up, set down,
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or whatever you guys say. And we have a
very special episode today,
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because it's a Raskulls one. I know there's
some people on the Discord
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who are going to be very, very excited
about that.
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And yeah, not naming anyone, not naming
anyone,
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but you know that longtime listeners might
also remember Josh.
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Yes. Naming anyone.
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Sorry, sorry. Yes, okay. Yeah.
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I don't know. Going back to that,
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some people might might remember Josh
talking about the Unity Remaster,
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I think all the way back in episode eight,
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which feels like an eternity ago.
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Yeah. Well, this is episode forty-five,
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right? So it's been a while.
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Shout out to anyone still with us on,
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you know, episode forty-five from episode
eight.
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Yeah, since then, not much talk talk of
the Raskulls Remaster,
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which means the team's been cooking a
little bit.
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There's still cooking to do. You know,
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we're not here to make any grand reveals,
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but we do want to just check in with a new
member.
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we're gonna go straight to the person
who's leading that team this time.
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And we'll get maybe we'll get more
information,
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maybe we'll get some lore. Who knows?
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Probably not, but you never know.
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We haven't recorded the next part yet.
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~ yeah. Sorry, yeah. We're gonna find out
the secrets of the Raskulls universe,
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everybody. Let's ~ get into it.
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Who the brick are you?
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Welcome to the show, Noah. How are you
feeling?
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How are you? Good. my AC is not working
right now,
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so I'm a little hot, but I'm good.
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Yeah, welcome, welcome. How how hot is it?
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It's not too bad. It's like mid seventies
in here right now.
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Outside.
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Yeah. is that just me? Wait. Okay.
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I shouldn't have brought that up.
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No, don't worry. Aiden just made an
introduction that was super chill.
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He downplayed the whole thing a bit,
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so or a lot. So it shouldn't be shouldn't
be too bad.
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I think that you can start by telling us who
the brick are you or who
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the brick you are. We always feel like a
free freak.
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No even has to say. Well yeah,
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I'm I'm Noah. I I am the lead on the
Raskulls Remaster project.
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I
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Started out as a designer here at Halfbrick
and then just slowly morphed into
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a programmer and then team lead.
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So yeah, that's who I am. So okay.
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So you're currently team lead at
Halfbrick on the Raskulls project.
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Were you always team lead on that project?
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Yes. Wow. Okay. Huge. Yeah.
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I feel like we should have started with
your interview back in the day.
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I mean Josh's episode was amazing.
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And shout out him for all the voice lines
in between the episode as well.
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yeah, Josh, the personality. Yeah.
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Yeah. But that's really cool. So what's
what's the day to day on that
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at at Halfbrick, I guess, as a team lead,
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if you could. Yeah, I mean, helping out
the team,
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obviously, then planning out sprints and
work for the team
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and communicating with stakeholders and
other teams.
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Like right now, like we're working with
art and Yeah,
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I mean, whenever team lead it.
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Halfbrick is definitely more all
encompassing than you'd be at like another
company,
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like a project manager. Another company
only does like sprint planning
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and stuff usually, right? But so here here
you're kinda hands hands on with
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all of it, which is which is fun.
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It's cool. Yeah. Yeah, at least you still
get to be like in the weeds of
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the game as well. Not just yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah. Very cool.
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I I I can't say I relate to it,
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but I am technically a team lead,
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so I can vouch. Would love to be in the
games.
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In the game leads. Well you know we have a
few projects lined up,
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Aiden, that you can perfectly lead on.
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Which which games were you in Noah before
going to Raskulls?
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Just out of curiosity. Yeah, so I started
at on Fruit Ninja,
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on Fruit Ninja Classic. And that's where I
was all the way up until I
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got moved to Raskulls. So I was there for I
think it was
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Two maybe three years, like two and a
half.
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Yeah, I was on Fruit Ninja Classic.
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Yeah. Yeah, like I said started as a
designer and then just ~ well one,
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the way Halfbrick works is like designers are
programmers
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and programmers are designers,
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but then also a lot of our programmers
left,
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so I had to start picking up the
programmer work and then the only other
programmer
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left and so then I was the programmer and
then that's when I got moved
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to to Raskulls. When
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As a graphic designer, I really hope I
don't get turned into a programmer.
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But ~ mental programmer. No no ~ no
disrespect
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to any programmer. I I feel like the joke
that art people can't do math
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is very bad and it's very stereotypical
and we can do math.
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You guys should see me play Slay the Spire.
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I I'm very good at that, but I really,
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really, really don't want to program.
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But it's it's interesting that you started
at Fruit Ninja because I feel like that's
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one of our biggest IPs, right?
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So that must have given you a lot of
experience.
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And definitely it paid off since you are
now a team lead.
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And Raskulls is a very, very fun project.
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But before we talk in a bit more in depth
about Raskulls,
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I want to ask you what's your favourite
game of all time?
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It can be Halfbrick or it can not be
Halfbrick.
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Usually people tell us both, I think.
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Okay. Well, so
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Favourite game of all time, unfortunately,
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is not a Halfbrick game. It's Doom Eternal.
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It's maybe the complete opposite of a
Halfbrick game.
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But but yeah, that's my favourite game all
time.
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I like ~ I like it 'cause it's it's fun,
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it's like juicy, like the combat and
everything.
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~ like so it's really easy to just like
get into immediately.
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But then there's it goes very in depth
with like the mechanics and strategy
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of it all. So it satisfies like both
itches,
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you know. Is that the difference compared
to Doom twenty sixteen for you?
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Puts Eternal over it? Eternal is over it
because of how fast paced it is,
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I think. And I like I like games where you
have to think really quickly.
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But with twenty sixteen it felt a lot
slower,
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I'll say. Yeah. Fair. I I've only played
twenty sixteen,
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so I can't Okay. I might have to play
Eternal now.
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I do try to play the games that people
recommend,
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yeah. Yeah, so definitely gonna check it
out.
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Yeah. Put it on the list. yeah,
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favourite Halfbrick game. ~ Jet.
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Jetpack Joyride. Yeah. Yeah. Classic.
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There's guns in both. That's close enough.
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Yeah. Yeah. That would be an interesting
crossover.
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I feel like that could happen.
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Yeah. Well, I can actually see.
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Yeah. ~ you can even have the jetpack from
Jetpack Joyride in Doom if
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you want to go both ways. Yeah.
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Yeah. I mean, a Doomslayer outfit for
Barry is kind of That'd be crazy.
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That'd be that'd be sick. Yeah.
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Okay. Yeah, we have lots of corn syrup,
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lots of green goo. Yeah.
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We can get that aura. ~ what what what gun
would Barry
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use from Doom? definitely the the sawed-off
double barrel that
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he has. Yeah, yeah, of course.
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With the hook. Yeah. Yeah. That could
work.
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Okay. All right, we'll pitch that later.
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~ come back to this in two years once
that's in Jetpack Joyride.
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okay, so what inspired you to get into the
games industry then?
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Was there much before Halfbrick or yeah?
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Yeah, so well that's kind of that's a kind
of a long question.
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But basically, so whenever I was little,
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my mom would always ask me, she'd be like,
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If like think about what you want to do,
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if you could do anything, and put like
money and prestige aside.
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And so I I thought about that a lot
whenever I was younger.
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And then I remember one time I was in the
locker room and I was like
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I would I'd make games. And I had that
thought and then I got
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sidetracked with other stuff in life and
went down different paths
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and then eventually I I came back to to it
and I was like,
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okay, I think I'm gonna actually try to do
that.
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And then I went back to school for a
degree in game design and then right after
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I graduated, applied to Halfbrick and
been here since straight from graduation.
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Wow. Mm-hmm. That's awesome. was that part
of like the graduate intake
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at Halfbrick or I guess. Yeah.
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That's really cool. So if you want to tell
us you don't have to
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What'd you do before games? Was it
adjacent?
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Or was it completely s yeah, yeah.
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Well, so ~ I did I did quite a few things.
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Like I I went to college. I tried college
quite a few times.
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I moved around, like I went and I lived in
Hawaii and just worked at GNC,
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which is like a supplement like gym
supplement store.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I ~ did some
backpacking in Europe and then yeah,
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I then I came back, tried school for like
engineering.
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That didn't work out. And then ~ and then
I did I was doing like door
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to door sales for a little bit.
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Whoa. Yeah, and yeah,
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a couple other things here and there.
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Just and then I went to ~ this thing
called it's called Hack Reactor,
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which is like a web development like boot
camp thing.
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Graduated from that and then I was just
like,
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I really don't like web development.
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But I do like programming. That was kind
of like my intro into programming.
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I wouldn't even say it was like really
programming,
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though it was you know
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web development. It's little bit more like
scripting.
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But I was like, how can I combine like my
love for games and do some programming?
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And so then I went to school for game
design.
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Unfortunately the the design program had
no programming.
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So that's where I like lost all my
programming ability.
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And then got the job at Halfbrick,
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learned how to program in C sharp and
using Unity and but then I went back
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to school for another degree for
programming.
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And yeah. So that's that's my entire like
life planned up for you.
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That's that's like a whole arc many arcs
in the wow.
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That's awesome. Yeah. You were doing
school and Halfbrick at the same time.
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Yes, that was at one point. Yeah.
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Mm-hmm. Wow. I mean it paid off.
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My hero. Yeah, yeah. Honestly.
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Honestly, that you found the time and and
the courage to to just combine those
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two two things at once and do them.
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Wow. Good for you. Yeah, well,
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I'm like I'm very lucky that Halfbrick was
understanding.
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that I was doing both at the same time
'cause I I do think that,
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you know, my attention was split between
the two,
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so Right. We could not give a hundred
percent to either one really.
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I mean it kinda has to be, right?
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. So and I'm a
big believer of like focusing
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on one thing at a time, although I have a
natural tendency to not do it.
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So constantly fighting that grain.
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Yeah. Yeah. So that backpacking sounds
great as well.
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Yeah. Yeah. Good time. Yeah, where did you
go?
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What did you research?
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Yeah, Spain, Italy, France were the three
countries.
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And I I have stories that probably tell
you after off the podcast.
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But yeah. Those ~ just those three
countries.
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Yeah. Yeah. Well I do love a good tourist
anecdote about Spain.
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People in the comments if you visit or if
you have visited,
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leave your stories there or just ask for
recommendations.
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I probably have a few.
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And in return I'll be taking some
recommendations on Australia,
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probably. That's where I want to go next.
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So yeah, you it seem like it seems like
you've done and gone on a lot of
adventures,
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but now we're going to bring it back to
Halfbrick for a bit.
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And we want to know what are you working
on for Raskulls at the moment?
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And please be as juicy and detailed as we
w as you want.
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Because at the Halfbrick Show we love a
leak.
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If there's something we like, it's a leak,
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it's an exclusive. We like
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Secrets, we love it. Well, so we just got
done with ~
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the character like fine like identifying
the character's visual identity
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and kind of pushing the characters
remastered visuals as far as we can.
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And now we're moving on to the world map.
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So we are thinking about redesigning the
world map,
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not just visually, but maybe interactively
as well.
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So that's that's where we're at.
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I'm not sure how much I'm allowed to say.
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No, that's not all that but yeah,
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that's I think what you said sounds good.
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For the for the character design,
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I I've seen it in Discord already.
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So can we pop a little visual on the
screen for the viewers on YouTube as well?
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Just a quick, yep. Nice. Let's pretend
we're looking at this right now.
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Ooh, that's cool. I mean I have them in my
mind.
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They look amazing. Yeah, it looks really
good.
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They look like candy in a good way.
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It makes me want to eat them. And I think
that's a great vibe.
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Again, it's it's very late here.
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Please don't put my descriptions into
account.
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I'm I still have like ~ flashbacks from
the Cedar episode in which d
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we discuss what Jeto sounds like,
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so maybe I'm just driving that synesthesia
wave or something.
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I wanted to ask if you had played the
original Raskulls game.
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'Cause I think that's an Aiden question.
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Have I? Yeah, did you play it?
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Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. Yeah,
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we all we all played the game.
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Yeah, the original game. Yeah.
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Nice. But did you play it before ever
coming into the project?
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~ no, no, no. No, not before Halfbrick.
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Yeah. I didn't even know it was a thing
before Halfbrick to be honest.
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Wow. It's good that you played it but
before getting to work on the remake
though,
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of course. Yeah. I'm assuming start to
finish like multiple times before yeah,
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yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I did play it back
on the Xbox three sixty days.
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I am one of the it's really good.
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One of one of the Halfbrick OGs.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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You should be leading this project.
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Nah. I'd I'd I'd cook it and then turn
into some customer support project somehow
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'cause it's more no not. And then King
Raskull says,
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How would you rate this map one to five?
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No. Yeah,
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no, no. You're doing a fantastic job.
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I'm I'm keen to just help support it.
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Okay. So back in episode eight with Josh,
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he told us that ~
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I think we discussed how Raskulls is being
rebuilt from the old Mortar engine,
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which is what the games used to be built
on from Halfbrick.
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That was an in house onto Unity for the
remake,
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remaster. I actually don't know what what
the distinction is on either of those.
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It's really something and it's looking
great.
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That's for Unity aimed at mobile again
mobile,
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sorry, not again. Mobile consoles and
possibly Steam.
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That was all discussed or teased.
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where does that stand? Is that still the
goal at some point?
14:51.483 --> 14:53.614
Can we say? Yeah, yeah.
14:54.270 --> 14:57.232
Mobile is the priority, but yeah,
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we are still definitely looking at other
platforms for release.
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Nice. Yeah, so but and we we've taken that
into account when developing.
15:06.607 --> 15:10.739
Like we have some controller support in
there already and that's what
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I was gonna ask next. Yeah, we've temper
or like we occasionally tested build
15:15.032 --> 15:16.913
on other platforms as well. So yeah,
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it's very much still in the plan.
15:19.104 --> 15:21.806
Nice. What's your platform of choice?
15:23.062 --> 15:26.685
Mine is PC now. But growing up it was
console.
15:26.685 --> 15:30.698
It was it would go back and forth between
Xbox and PlayStation,
15:30.698 --> 15:35.893
but yeah. Hmm. I feel like the three sixty
like I feel like yeah,
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even just in memory of it's gotta go to an
Xbox platform if possible.
15:40.016 --> 15:42.018
Obviously I don't make this decision,
15:42.018 --> 15:43.279
but it was on the three sixty,
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that was its home. Yeah. And that was
that's iconic,
15:46.962 --> 15:51.904
I think. 'Cause you can have that old
skull avatar picture on
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On your Xbox profile. I don't even think
it was from Raskulls,
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but I always used to associate the two as
a kid.
15:56.823 --> 15:58.416
Yeah, yeah, I know what you're talking
about.
15:58.416 --> 16:00.328
Yeah. Yeah. So I think it's just inherent.
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Yeah, and pretend I know what you guys are
talking about.
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Don't delay. No,
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no, I'll see if I can send you a
PlayStation.
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Playstation Kid. Right. But if you can I
actually was too.
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Ratchet & Clank. You were lucky.
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Nice. It's a good one. Yeah. I was on the
PlayStation,
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but I I went to friends' houses and we
played Raskulls.
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That's how I got
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Raskulls. I didn't actually have a three
sixty.
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We're all fake fans. But that's the beauty
of it,
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right? Because I feel like that's
something that ~ this is going to make
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me sound so old, but that's something that
maybe after COVID isn't as common.
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Like for kids to just meet up in front of
a console and go to a a friend's house
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and just play together. And I think that
yeah,
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right? Because I have a lot of memories.
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I played game the GameCube.
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At one of my friends' houses. Yeah.
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Retro I never I never saw GameCubes.
16:55.551 --> 16:58.952
I it's yeah. Not like I don't know like I
did eventually,
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but I had to get one myself when I was in
my twenties.
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So you know, but yeah. I won't go down
that rabbit hole.
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I could talk about old that era of gaming
for multiple episodes.
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But Raskulls is heading that way.
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We're bringing that back, I think.
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean I guess that people
nowadays will play it on Discord.
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I guess that when you guys do your
playtest sessions,
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you are all together in your little
Discord call and maybe that's this year's
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version of going to your friend's house to
play the co console.
17:30.155 --> 17:35.150
So that's nice. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's
replaced the going over
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the friends' house. But yeah, y'all are
right.
17:36.658 --> 17:38.329
Like going over the friend's house was the
best.
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Like all couch co op and stuff,
17:40.340 --> 17:42.561
or just playing each other on the same T
V.
17:42.561 --> 17:44.241
Yeah, screen reading and yeah.
17:44.241 --> 17:45.602
Yeah. Okay.
17:45.996 --> 17:50.430
Well, more recently we had another
American guest in the podcast,
17:50.430 --> 17:53.512
which is our beloved boss, Eli,
17:53.512 --> 17:55.694
who we compared to Batman that time.
17:55.694 --> 18:00.598
So if you want, you can be Robin or Green
Lantern or whomever superhero you choose,
18:00.598 --> 18:03.841
but he mentioned that the remake was still
pretty far out.
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And I think that we would be doing the
community on Discord again,
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not naming names, a disservice if we
didn't ask how or if that has changed at
all.
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I'm not sh I well, no, it I don't think it
has changed.
18:19.366 --> 18:23.849
I think I think ~ we yeah, we still have a
lot to do in terms of
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the visuals like not just like discovering
the new visual identity
18:28.723 --> 18:30.034
for everything that's in the game,
18:30.034 --> 18:34.288
but then also after we d discover that
initial identity,
18:34.288 --> 18:37.481
then applying it to the rest of everything
the assets.
18:37.481 --> 18:43.366
That and then also like optimization and
SDK support and all that.
18:44.082 --> 18:49.065
I mean the core functionality is in
multiplayers and we we just need to
18:49.065 --> 18:50.366
get it to that shippable state.
18:50.366 --> 18:54.990
~ and that's gonna take a little bit
longer considering that we are remastering
it.
18:54.990 --> 18:59.057
Yeah. Don't they say something like the
man,
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there's like an eighty twenty or something
like that.
19:00.744 --> 19:03.202
Like it's really easy to get the first
eighty percent or something,
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which is probably like the visuals and all
that,
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right? And then maybe that final twenty
push is bringing it all together.
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So Yeah. That makes sense.
19:11.201 --> 19:12.752
But the visuals are looking sick.
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I
19:13.420 --> 19:18.331
I guess to to to like answer from when
when Eli last mentioned,
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there is a lot more to look at now if you
compare to where it was months ago.
19:24.073 --> 19:27.304
Yeah. So okay. That's cool.
19:27.304 --> 19:29.955
Yeah. And for the people listening,
19:29.955 --> 19:32.525
you have said something very interesting
with it,
19:32.525 --> 19:36.466
she which is SDK. And maybe some people
who are listening don't know what that
19:36.466 --> 19:40.117
means, but that means connectivity with
Halfbrick Plus,
19:40.117 --> 19:41.978
right? So
19:42.370 --> 19:47.744
Pulling on that thread, do you think we
could do a Raskulls card collection?
19:47.744 --> 19:51.057
Because I've been having very bad luck
pulling Colossatron,
19:51.057 --> 19:55.341
but maybe, maybe I could pull like the
little dragon.
19:55.341 --> 19:58.423
The dragon, which he's he's the next best
thing,
19:58.423 --> 20:01.326
I feel. Yeah, I think I think that's very
possible.
20:01.326 --> 20:06.910
Definitely. Okay. And there's other is it
there's there's other SDKs
20:06.910 --> 20:10.273
in game development, right? Like forgive
my common man question.
20:10.273 --> 20:11.474
I don't know if it's
20:11.756 --> 20:12.917
Yeah, there's probably a lot, right?
20:12.917 --> 20:16.308
Mm-hmm. Yeah. but yeah, I was talking
about the Halfbrick one.
20:16.308 --> 20:20.438
Right. Yeah. Actually I think our support
stuff also has its own SDK.
20:20.438 --> 20:22.031
I'll have to talk to you about that at
some point.
20:22.031 --> 20:25.142
There we go. Yeah. Little little insider's
secret right here.
20:25.142 --> 20:27.373
That's this is the type of conversation
we'd have.
20:27.373 --> 20:29.994
No, no programmer stuff, please.
20:29.994 --> 20:32.935
Let's let's stick it to cards.
20:32.935 --> 20:35.616
Let's stick it to cards. Cause I feel like
those are nice.
20:35.616 --> 20:37.347
Well we'll move on to the next question.
20:37.347 --> 20:38.898
That's that's fine.
20:39.346 --> 20:40.947
We can see where that all heads up.
20:40.947 --> 20:42.687
Back in that episode eight with Josh,
20:42.687 --> 20:46.837
he joked that and I I can't even remember
if this is like a throwaway question
20:46.837 --> 20:51.271
or not. I'm just recalling that he said
King Raskull throws bricks because
20:51.271 --> 20:55.113
a dishonest supplier once split his entire
order of bricks in half,
20:55.113 --> 20:57.794
hence the Halfbrick and he has a
stockpile of half bricks.
20:57.794 --> 21:00.975
I don't know, really know how well that
holds up.
21:00.975 --> 21:05.757
But do you have any other official or non
official Raskulls lore to drop on us?
21:05.757 --> 21:06.868
I think
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I think if Josh said it, I mean it has it
has to be canon.
21:10.559 --> 21:12.459
You reckon that's canon? Wow. Yeah,
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it has to be. It has to be canon.
21:14.241 --> 21:20.625
but I think I think one interesting piece
I'm not sure if it's considered lore,
21:20.625 --> 21:22.216
I I guess you could turn it into lore.
21:22.216 --> 21:26.668
is that in the original assets that
there's a Master Chief Raskull.
21:26.668 --> 21:30.290
Yeah. What? So yeah. And y yeah,
21:30.290 --> 21:34.332
I actually rigged him up and got him
playable before we started doing all art
stuff.
21:34.332 --> 21:37.114
And yeah, so that that was
21:37.442 --> 21:41.576
That was cool. ~ but so cool. I'm guessing
that didn't make it to I
21:41.576 --> 21:43.615
I can't remember all the outfits in the
three sixty.
21:43.615 --> 21:45.649
Yeah, I d I don't it never got released.
21:45.649 --> 21:49.573
Dang. I guess he yeah, Master Chief just
didn't want to be part
21:49.573 --> 21:53.256
of the Raskulls universe. Huh? Do we have
pictures?
21:53.256 --> 21:54.908
I don't have any pictures right now.
21:54.908 --> 21:58.381
Dang. I should have I should have. My
bad.
21:58.381 --> 21:59.822
That's alright. That's alright.
21:59.822 --> 22:04.384
I man. I'm gonna this you have me want to
go the
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the new Xbox CEO's door and be like,
22:07.614 --> 22:10.086
hey, we have this asset ready.
22:10.086 --> 22:15.049
Can we use it? No. ~ but I'm a massive
Halo fan.
22:15.049 --> 22:17.491
You can't see it in the podcast edit,
22:17.491 --> 22:19.572
but there's a Needler in my background
here.
22:19.572 --> 22:21.754
So just yes, I can see it. Yeah.
22:21.754 --> 22:25.206
Yeah. Yeah. I think on the actual podcast
I'm trimmed in a bit so you don't see it.
22:25.206 --> 22:27.358
But yeah. Raskulls cross Halo,
22:27.358 --> 22:30.240
that would have been huge. That's that's
fantastic.
22:30.240 --> 22:33.482
Coming up with a lot of good ideas.
22:33.976 --> 22:35.787
For the crossovers in this episode.
22:35.787 --> 22:40.648
Plus yeah, Doom. They're all they're all
IPs owned by Xbox now,
22:40.648 --> 22:43.231
that's crazy. A lot of these Doom cross
jetpack.
22:43.231 --> 22:47.794
Yeah. What else could you do? Fish out of
water cross Gears of War.
22:47.794 --> 22:51.616
Some area. Yeah,
22:51.616 --> 22:54.517
Olympus can take it. I trust Yeah.
22:54.517 --> 22:58.069
Yeah. Locusts don't stand a chance against
Olympus,
22:58.069 --> 23:02.251
man. Alright, alright. So I'll I'll drop
I'll yeah,
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thank you for the lore drop.
23:03.798 --> 23:09.060
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Great lore though and
great I think that was the leak
23:09.120 --> 23:11.361
we were we were searching for.
23:11.361 --> 23:15.443
So I'm very very It makes sense given the
the time that the original came out,
23:15.443 --> 23:17.274
it makes sense that that would have been
experimented with.
23:17.274 --> 23:20.505
Yeah, yeah. But if he's not playable,
23:20.505 --> 23:23.437
who's your go to character in a
multiplayer matchup,
23:23.437 --> 23:26.788
Noah? So I th I feel like that will say a
lot about you.
23:26.788 --> 23:29.389
So think if you think it through.
23:29.389 --> 23:30.690
Well I think
23:31.416 --> 23:33.887
Well recently it's just been King 'cause
we've been you know,
23:33.887 --> 23:38.259
remastering him. But but like if I if I
had to choose like my like if I
23:38.259 --> 23:43.451
was going to choose one I'd probably be
pirate because of I just I think
23:43.451 --> 23:48.953
his his eye patch is silly. Just just why
do you have an eye patch?
23:48.953 --> 23:52.334
You don't even have eyes. I respect that.
23:52.334 --> 23:55.626
I think I would actually have to go king.
23:55.626 --> 23:57.086
Mm. Mm. What about you, Carmen?
23:57.086 --> 24:00.678
You got a choice? I think dragon
probably.
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No, he reminds me of my beloved.
24:04.725 --> 24:09.278
He looks nice. Yeah. Yeah. Still hasn't
come home.
24:09.278 --> 24:12.271
Episode 45. I can't believe that.
24:12.271 --> 24:15.194
I feel like somebody should make a meme.
24:15.194 --> 24:17.275
Yeah. I'm opening the daily packs.
24:17.275 --> 24:18.977
I'm completing the season pass.
24:18.977 --> 24:21.479
I am doing everything that one should be
doing.
24:21.479 --> 24:24.231
I have three legendary Dan the Mans.
24:24.231 --> 24:29.486
I have my first holo card. I have two
shiny cards and still drums.
24:30.982 --> 24:34.045
Yeah, I'm not Yeah,
24:34.045 --> 24:37.949
maybe maybe I should ask someone in the
Halfbrick Plus team.
24:37.949 --> 24:40.050
Who'd have been on that thought?
24:40.050 --> 24:43.513
And I will I will go down. I will
investigate that.
24:43.513 --> 24:46.896
All right. All right then. Let's get into
our little extras.
24:46.896 --> 24:50.019
We have a couple of little more fun
questions and games.
24:50.019 --> 24:52.071
If you've seen a couple of episodes,
24:52.071 --> 24:55.714
Noah, you probably know that we do a
little segment where we guess
24:55.714 --> 24:58.026
the community comment. Right.
24:58.882 --> 25:00.623
I'll read out one comment. There's only
one.
25:00.623 --> 25:04.686
And you gotta tell us if it's real from
the community on our socials,
25:04.686 --> 25:08.469
or if Carmen and I made it up to try and
sound like we're from the community.
25:08.469 --> 25:10.500
I think we're getting pretty good at
making fake ones,
25:10.500 --> 25:11.971
so it's really hard to tell these days.
25:11.971 --> 25:18.455
But I'll read this one and forgive the
lack of energy in my reading this
25:18.455 --> 25:21.057
at seven o'clock in the morning in
Australian time.
25:21.057 --> 25:28.012
~ but here it is quote I loved Raskulls so
much as a kid.
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Exclamation mark. Exclamation mark.
25:29.993 --> 25:33.986
Exclamation mark. Three heart emojis after
each other.
25:33.986 --> 25:37.169
I'd do anything to have it on Steam,
25:37.169 --> 25:38.810
and especially with multiplayer.
25:38.810 --> 25:41.332
I'm so sorry looking forward to it.
25:41.332 --> 25:43.433
Exclamation mark. Exclamation mark.
25:43.433 --> 25:46.946
Another heart emoji. End quote.
25:46.946 --> 25:50.489
Community. Wow, that was quick.
25:50.489 --> 25:53.861
Final answer? Welcome in. Welcome in
community?
25:53.861 --> 25:54.861
Okay, okay.
25:55.426 --> 25:56.757
We still have a drum roll sound effects,
25:56.757 --> 25:58.198
so let's pretend there's some tension.
25:58.198 --> 26:01.319
And yeah, no, it's community.
26:01.319 --> 26:04.331
Congratulations. That's it. I mean you
know your community.
26:04.331 --> 26:05.972
You do know the community. Yeah.
26:05.972 --> 26:11.755
It could have been me, I could have said
that.
26:11.755 --> 26:15.497
Yeah.
26:15.497 --> 26:18.869
Yeah, that's true. I thought it could have
been so specific that
26:18.869 --> 26:21.591
you would have like, Yeah, that could be
made up made up.
26:21.591 --> 26:23.992
Yeah. Yeah. Well, congratulations.
26:24.494 --> 26:28.336
I do check it on Discord, so I feel like
you can see how people talk of Yeah.
26:28.336 --> 26:31.356
Yeah. Well, I think this one was actually
if I remember correctly,
26:31.356 --> 26:33.059
it was back from the Josh episode.
26:33.059 --> 26:35.480
I went I went and got that from there.
26:35.480 --> 26:37.031
But that's how people talk about Raskulls,
26:37.031 --> 26:39.943
so it's really cool. I think it's I think
it's cool.
26:39.943 --> 26:43.375
~ no a trophy of no value is not coming to
your house.
26:43.375 --> 26:45.876
Congratulations. Nice. Thank you.
26:45.876 --> 26:48.167
Well you got bragging rights, not so bad.
26:48.167 --> 26:52.440
Now you can feel morally superior for the
rest of the day.
26:52.642 --> 26:54.973
Congratulations, courtesy of the Halfbrick
Show.
26:54.973 --> 27:00.505
Our next question, though, might be a
little more difficult and might take away
that
27:00.505 --> 27:05.147
feeling of superiority. You know,
27:05.147 --> 27:11.970
I think I think every time somebody asks
that question
27:12.410 --> 27:14.801
No the devs have to add a new level.
27:14.801 --> 27:17.592
No. So Carmen, what have we done?
27:17.592 --> 27:21.134
We've added forty five levels.
27:21.420 --> 27:23.481
Yeah, the devs are super busy right now.
27:23.481 --> 27:26.533
They they hate us now. We need to stop the
show,
27:26.533 --> 27:30.535
guys. We gotta stop the show. It needs to
kind of like a fairy,
27:30.535 --> 27:32.697
you know? every time you say eggs,
27:32.697 --> 27:36.450
a fairy dies. Yeah. Well every time you
ask for it,
27:36.450 --> 27:38.760
they add a new level and a dev dies.
27:38.760 --> 27:41.032
We need to stop. Wow. Comments,
27:41.032 --> 27:45.134
please. The devs are making ten million
levels based on every comment.
27:45.134 --> 27:47.185
Okay. That's fair. Thank you.
27:48.344 --> 27:49.714
To wrap up the kind interview part,
27:49.714 --> 27:51.436
we've got a final thought question for
you.
27:51.436 --> 27:56.168
We ask everyone this one. But if there's
one thing in the games industry that
you've
27:56.168 --> 27:58.399
learned which wasn't in the job
description,
27:58.399 --> 28:04.263
what would that be? I think I think that
like how like how important finding
28:04.263 --> 28:06.854
the fun in a game is. Like I think that's
a you know,
28:06.854 --> 28:10.036
it's a very popular adage. And the obvious
part of that is like whenever you're
28:10.036 --> 28:12.867
creating the game, like you need to find
the fun and like the mechanics need
28:12.867 --> 28:17.230
to be fun and engaging and responsive and
juicy and all that good stuff.
28:17.230 --> 28:18.230
But I think that
28:18.082 --> 28:20.783
There I think there's a second part that
I've learned to that is that like
28:20.783 --> 28:23.105
the team needs to have fun in making the
game.
28:23.105 --> 28:27.207
Like I think that if the team making the
game is having fun,
28:27.207 --> 28:30.599
that that extends itself to the game.
28:30.599 --> 28:34.340
And then you find that, you know you find
that relationship between them
28:34.340 --> 28:35.832
and the game. Not not literally,
28:35.832 --> 28:37.403
obviously, but like through yeah,
28:37.403 --> 28:40.254
you know, little little tidbits here and
there that they add.
28:40.254 --> 28:44.667
So I I I do think that finding the fun is
just as important when creating
28:44.667 --> 28:47.158
the game as it is like when working with
28:47.436 --> 28:50.588
with people. So nice. Yeah,
28:50.588 --> 28:53.220
I mean I think we can see that with your
team.
28:53.220 --> 28:55.231
To give a little insight into the
internals.
28:55.231 --> 29:00.255
We do company wide presentations every
couple of weeks to show how everyone's
going.
29:00.255 --> 29:02.877
The Raskulls guys, they l they have the
energy man.
29:02.877 --> 29:05.058
There's some good there's some good jokes
and energy.
29:05.058 --> 29:09.502
I feel like I almost feel like part of the
team when we get those updates from from
29:09.502 --> 29:11.903
Josh and you guys. You are you are part of
the team.
29:11.903 --> 29:14.025
See me in the Master Chief Raskulls outfit.
29:14.025 --> 29:15.616
Day one. Nice.
29:16.150 --> 29:19.393
And then rating and getting King Raskull
reviews.
29:19.393 --> 29:21.725
I'll be the first five star review.
29:21.725 --> 29:24.347
Yeah. Okay. That's it. That's it for the
questions.
29:24.347 --> 29:27.719
Yeah. Yeah. You you survived.
Congratulations.
29:27.719 --> 29:33.164
Honestly. We don't want to know.
29:33.164 --> 29:36.857
Well, in all truth,
29:36.857 --> 29:38.799
thank you so much for for joining us,
29:38.799 --> 29:44.193
Noah, and for giving us a little bit of
your time that could be spent ~ you know,
29:44.193 --> 29:45.234
working or
29:45.752 --> 29:48.883
Playing. Which would be way nicer.
29:48.883 --> 29:51.084
So yeah, thank you so much. No,
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of course, thank you guys. It was fun.
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I I enjoyed it. I appreciate it.
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Nice. And we'll check back in for whatever
season two of Raskulls,
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I'm sure. Not sorry, of the show,
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not Raskulls. I'd imagine that.
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That'd be a huge drop. Just like,
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Raskulls has seasons of content,
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there's hundreds. No. ~ just a drop at the
end of the episode.
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but no, thank you so much, man.
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Really do appreciate it. Yeah,
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of course.
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I think that's pretty much it.
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to the listeners, just remember that we're
always taking in ideas,
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feedback, suggestions, travel guide tips,
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cookbook recipes, apparently, all this
kind of stuff now.
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You can email anything to us at theshow@halfbrick.com.
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Asterisk, please, not anything.
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just whatever relates to the show.
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That's pretty much it. Thank you.
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You missed ~ game recommendations.
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We do take those. And we do. We do take
those.
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Yes. Sorry. There's so many things that
that email is for.
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Please. Yeah. One thing we're not taking
though is I don't want to see
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any of you guys' cards collections.
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If you have managed to pull Colossatron,
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it's for my mental health and my
well-being.
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No, please don't do it. Well, in any case,
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~ we hope that this has been an episode
that you can look back on with nostalgia.
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And thank you so much for joining us for
this week's episode of the Halfbrick Show.
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See you next week. Thank you.
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The Halfbrick Show.
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~
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As usual, I'm Aiden and I'm joined in our
incredibly detailed virtual studio,
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as always by Carmen. Hey Carmen,
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how's it going? Hey everyone. ~ it's going
good here in the virtual studio.
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The sun has just set up, set down,
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or whatever you guys say. And we have a
very special episode today,
00:31.016 --> 00:34.768
because it's a Raskulls one. I know there's
some people on the Discord
00:34.768 --> 00:37.750
who are going to be very, very excited
about that.
00:38.292 --> 00:42.125
And yeah, not naming anyone, not naming
anyone,
00:42.125 --> 00:45.868
but you know that longtime listeners might
also remember Josh.
00:45.868 --> 00:49.471
Yes. Naming anyone.
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Sorry, sorry. Yes, okay. Yeah.
00:51.793 --> 00:53.474
I don't know. Going back to that,
00:53.474 --> 00:57.828
some people might might remember Josh
talking about the Unity Remaster,
00:57.828 --> 01:00.380
I think all the way back in episode eight,
01:00.380 --> 01:03.102
which feels like an eternity ago.
01:03.102 --> 01:05.054
Yeah. Well, this is episode forty-five,
01:05.054 --> 01:07.436
right? So it's been a while.
01:07.778 --> 01:09.299
Shout out to anyone still with us on,
01:09.299 --> 01:12.240
you know, episode forty-five from episode
eight.
01:12.240 --> 01:16.292
Yeah, since then, not much talk talk of
the Raskulls Remaster,
01:16.292 --> 01:18.083
which means the team's been cooking a
little bit.
01:18.083 --> 01:19.864
There's still cooking to do. You know,
01:19.864 --> 01:21.454
we're not here to make any grand reveals,
01:21.454 --> 01:24.342
but we do want to just check in with a new
member.
01:24.342 --> 01:28.178
we're gonna go straight to the person
who's leading that team this time.
01:28.178 --> 01:30.819
And we'll get maybe we'll get more
information,
01:30.819 --> 01:33.110
maybe we'll get some lore. Who knows?
01:33.432 --> 01:34.823
Probably not, but you never know.
01:34.823 --> 01:39.801
We haven't recorded the next part yet.
01:39.801 --> 01:44.337
~ yeah. Sorry, yeah. We're gonna find out
the secrets of the Raskulls universe,
01:44.337 --> 01:46.180
everybody. Let's ~ get into it.
01:46.180 --> 01:47.582
Who the brick are you?
01:50.306 --> 01:52.928
Welcome to the show, Noah. How are you
feeling?
01:52.928 --> 01:56.166
How are you? Good. my AC is not working
right now,
01:56.166 --> 01:57.951
so I'm a little hot, but I'm good.
01:57.951 --> 02:01.013
Yeah, welcome, welcome. How how hot is it?
02:01.013 --> 02:05.156
It's not too bad. It's like mid seventies
in here right now.
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Outside.
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Yeah. is that just me? Wait. Okay.
02:10.255 --> 02:11.255
I shouldn't have brought that up.
02:11.206 --> 02:14.920
No, don't worry. Aiden just made an
introduction that was super chill.
02:14.920 --> 02:16.701
He downplayed the whole thing a bit,
02:16.701 --> 02:20.605
so or a lot. So it shouldn't be shouldn't
be too bad.
02:20.605 --> 02:24.728
I think that you can start by telling us who
the brick are you or who
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the brick you are. We always feel like a
free freak.
02:27.474 --> 02:29.383
No even has to say. Well yeah,
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I'm I'm Noah. I I am the lead on the
Raskulls Remaster project.
02:34.137 --> 02:35.137
I
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Started out as a designer here at Halfbrick
and then just slowly morphed into
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a programmer and then team lead.
02:42.310 --> 02:46.502
So yeah, that's who I am. So okay.
02:46.502 --> 02:49.533
So you're currently team lead at
Halfbrick on the Raskulls project.
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Were you always team lead on that project?
02:51.783 --> 02:54.904
Yes. Wow. Okay. Huge. Yeah.
02:54.904 --> 02:58.498
I feel like we should have started with
your interview back in the day.
02:58.498 --> 03:00.326
I mean Josh's episode was amazing.
03:01.078 --> 03:05.060
And shout out him for all the voice lines
in between the episode as well.
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yeah, Josh, the personality. Yeah.
03:08.221 --> 03:11.473
Yeah. But that's really cool. So what's
what's the day to day on that
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at at Halfbrick, I guess, as a team lead,
03:13.183 --> 03:16.685
if you could. Yeah, I mean, helping out
the team,
03:16.685 --> 03:20.406
obviously, then planning out sprints and
work for the team
03:20.406 --> 03:23.918
and communicating with stakeholders and
other teams.
03:23.918 --> 03:26.939
Like right now, like we're working with
art and Yeah,
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I mean, whenever team lead it.
03:28.990 --> 03:33.835
Halfbrick is definitely more all
encompassing than you'd be at like another
company,
03:33.835 --> 03:37.749
like a project manager. Another company
only does like sprint planning
03:37.749 --> 03:42.003
and stuff usually, right? But so here here
you're kinda hands hands on with
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all of it, which is which is fun.
03:43.765 --> 03:47.659
It's cool. Yeah. Yeah, at least you still
get to be like in the weeds of
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the game as well. Not just yeah.
03:49.471 --> 03:52.204
Yeah. Yeah. Very cool.
03:52.458 --> 03:54.769
I I I can't say I relate to it,
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but I am technically a team lead,
03:56.289 --> 03:58.300
so I can vouch. Would love to be in the
games.
03:58.300 --> 04:01.681
In the game leads. Well you know we have a
few projects lined up,
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Aiden, that you can perfectly lead on.
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Which which games were you in Noah before
going to Raskulls?
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Just out of curiosity. Yeah, so I started
at on Fruit Ninja,
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on Fruit Ninja Classic. And that's where I
was all the way up until I
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got moved to Raskulls. So I was there for I
think it was
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Two maybe three years, like two and a
half.
04:24.079 --> 04:25.980
Yeah, I was on Fruit Ninja Classic.
04:25.980 --> 04:31.703
Yeah. Yeah, like I said started as a
designer and then just ~ well one,
04:31.703 --> 04:34.115
the way Halfbrick works is like designers are
programmers
04:34.115 --> 04:35.246
and programmers are designers,
04:35.246 --> 04:37.307
but then also a lot of our programmers
left,
04:37.307 --> 04:42.460
so I had to start picking up the
programmer work and then the only other
programmer
04:42.460 --> 04:45.782
left and so then I was the programmer and
then that's when I got moved
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to to Raskulls. When
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As a graphic designer, I really hope I
don't get turned into a programmer.
04:52.193 --> 04:57.758
But ~ mental programmer. No no ~ no
disrespect
04:57.839 --> 05:02.543
to any programmer. I I feel like the joke
that art people can't do math
05:02.703 --> 05:06.957
is very bad and it's very stereotypical
and we can do math.
05:06.957 --> 05:08.969
You guys should see me play Slay the Spire.
05:08.969 --> 05:11.711
I I'm very good at that, but I really,
05:11.711 --> 05:13.173
really, really don't want to program.
05:14.434 --> 05:18.727
But it's it's interesting that you started
at Fruit Ninja because I feel like that's
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one of our biggest IPs, right?
05:20.229 --> 05:23.131
So that must have given you a lot of
experience.
05:23.131 --> 05:26.243
And definitely it paid off since you are
now a team lead.
05:26.243 --> 05:29.876
And Raskulls is a very, very fun project.
05:29.876 --> 05:33.750
But before we talk in a bit more in depth
about Raskulls,
05:33.750 --> 05:36.752
I want to ask you what's your favourite
game of all time?
05:36.752 --> 05:39.814
It can be Halfbrick or it can not be
Halfbrick.
05:39.814 --> 05:41.856
Usually people tell us both, I think.
05:41.856 --> 05:43.978
Okay. Well, so
05:44.342 --> 05:46.244
Favourite game of all time, unfortunately,
05:46.244 --> 05:48.836
is not a Halfbrick game. It's Doom Eternal.
05:48.836 --> 05:52.068
It's maybe the complete opposite of a
Halfbrick game.
05:52.068 --> 05:54.310
But but yeah, that's my favourite game all
time.
05:54.310 --> 05:57.493
I like ~ I like it 'cause it's it's fun,
05:57.493 --> 05:59.404
it's like juicy, like the combat and
everything.
05:59.404 --> 06:02.697
~ like so it's really easy to just like
get into immediately.
06:02.697 --> 06:06.930
But then there's it goes very in depth
with like the mechanics and strategy
06:06.930 --> 06:10.003
of it all. So it satisfies like both
itches,
06:10.003 --> 06:13.025
you know. Is that the difference compared
to Doom twenty sixteen for you?
06:13.816 --> 06:19.468
Puts Eternal over it? Eternal is over it
because of how fast paced it is,
06:19.468 --> 06:22.580
I think. And I like I like games where you
have to think really quickly.
06:22.580 --> 06:26.951
But with twenty sixteen it felt a lot
slower,
06:26.951 --> 06:30.653
I'll say. Yeah. Fair. I I've only played
twenty sixteen,
06:30.653 --> 06:33.614
so I can't Okay. I might have to play
Eternal now.
06:33.614 --> 06:35.555
I do try to play the games that people
recommend,
06:35.555 --> 06:37.736
yeah. Yeah, so definitely gonna check it
out.
06:37.736 --> 06:39.707
Yeah. Put it on the list. yeah,
06:39.707 --> 06:42.946
favourite Halfbrick game. ~ Jet.
06:43.158 --> 06:46.060
Jetpack Joyride. Yeah. Yeah. Classic.
06:46.060 --> 06:47.500
There's guns in both. That's close enough.
06:47.500 --> 06:51.783
Yeah. Yeah. That would be an interesting
crossover.
06:51.783 --> 06:53.844
I feel like that could happen.
06:53.844 --> 06:57.876
Yeah. Well, I can actually see.
06:57.876 --> 07:03.249
Yeah. ~ you can even have the jetpack from
Jetpack Joyride in Doom if
07:03.310 --> 07:05.150
you want to go both ways. Yeah.
07:05.150 --> 07:09.733
Yeah. I mean, a Doomslayer outfit for
Barry is kind of That'd be crazy.
07:09.733 --> 07:11.244
That'd be that'd be sick. Yeah.
07:11.712 --> 07:14.084
Okay. Yeah, we have lots of corn syrup,
07:14.084 --> 07:17.607
lots of green goo. Yeah.
07:17.607 --> 07:23.451
We can get that aura. ~ what what what gun
would Barry
07:23.451 --> 07:29.937
use from Doom? definitely the the sawed-off
double barrel that
07:29.937 --> 07:32.138
he has. Yeah, yeah, of course.
07:32.138 --> 07:35.531
With the hook. Yeah. Yeah. That could
work.
07:35.531 --> 07:38.113
Okay. All right, we'll pitch that later.
07:38.113 --> 07:41.326
~ come back to this in two years once
that's in Jetpack Joyride.
07:43.507 --> 07:46.148
okay, so what inspired you to get into the
games industry then?
07:46.148 --> 07:48.769
Was there much before Halfbrick or yeah?
07:48.769 --> 07:51.991
Yeah, so well that's kind of that's a kind
of a long question.
07:51.991 --> 07:54.062
But basically, so whenever I was little,
07:54.062 --> 07:55.553
my mom would always ask me, she'd be like,
07:55.553 --> 07:57.774
If like think about what you want to do,
07:57.774 --> 08:01.096
if you could do anything, and put like
money and prestige aside.
08:01.096 --> 08:04.148
And so I I thought about that a lot
whenever I was younger.
08:04.148 --> 08:07.853
And then I remember one time I was in the
locker room and I was like
08:07.853 --> 08:11.852
I would I'd make games. And I had that
thought and then I got
08:12.350 --> 08:15.833
sidetracked with other stuff in life and
went down different paths
08:15.833 --> 08:19.496
and then eventually I I came back to to it
and I was like,
08:19.496 --> 08:21.868
okay, I think I'm gonna actually try to do
that.
08:21.868 --> 08:27.182
And then I went back to school for a
degree in game design and then right after
08:27.370 --> 08:32.285
I graduated, applied to Halfbrick and
been here since straight from graduation.
08:32.285 --> 08:36.009
Wow. Mm-hmm. That's awesome. was that part
of like the graduate intake
08:36.009 --> 08:37.669
at Halfbrick or I guess. Yeah.
08:37.669 --> 08:40.813
That's really cool. So if you want to tell
us you don't have to
08:41.154 --> 08:43.456
What'd you do before games? Was it
adjacent?
08:43.456 --> 08:46.418
Or was it completely s yeah, yeah.
08:46.418 --> 08:48.927
Well, so ~ I did I did quite a few things.
08:48.927 --> 08:51.803
Like I I went to college. I tried college
quite a few times.
08:51.803 --> 08:56.927
I moved around, like I went and I lived in
Hawaii and just worked at GNC,
08:56.927 --> 08:59.689
which is like a supplement like gym
supplement store.
08:59.689 --> 09:06.555
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I ~ did some
backpacking in Europe and then yeah,
09:06.555 --> 09:09.698
I then I came back, tried school for like
engineering.
09:10.274 --> 09:15.168
That didn't work out. And then ~ and then
I did I was doing like door
09:15.168 --> 09:16.558
to door sales for a little bit.
09:16.558 --> 09:20.594
Whoa. Yeah, and yeah,
09:20.594 --> 09:21.922
a couple other things here and there.
09:21.922 --> 09:26.035
Just and then I went to ~ this thing
called it's called Hack Reactor,
09:26.035 --> 09:28.327
which is like a web development like boot
camp thing.
09:28.327 --> 09:30.519
Graduated from that and then I was just
like,
09:30.519 --> 09:31.990
I really don't like web development.
09:31.990 --> 09:35.313
But I do like programming. That was kind
of like my intro into programming.
09:35.313 --> 09:37.133
I wouldn't even say it was like really
programming,
09:37.133 --> 09:38.133
though it was you know
09:38.776 --> 09:40.827
web development. It's little bit more like
scripting.
09:40.827 --> 09:46.370
But I was like, how can I combine like my
love for games and do some programming?
09:46.370 --> 09:48.131
And so then I went to school for game
design.
09:48.131 --> 09:51.083
Unfortunately the the design program had
no programming.
09:51.083 --> 09:53.234
So that's where I like lost all my
programming ability.
09:53.234 --> 09:55.336
And then got the job at Halfbrick,
09:55.336 --> 09:59.638
learned how to program in C sharp and
using Unity and but then I went back
09:59.638 --> 10:01.739
to school for another degree for
programming.
10:01.739 --> 10:06.102
And yeah. So that's that's my entire like
life planned up for you.
10:06.936 --> 10:10.088
That's that's like a whole arc many arcs
in the wow.
10:10.088 --> 10:14.030
That's awesome. Yeah. You were doing
school and Halfbrick at the same time.
10:14.030 --> 10:15.871
Yes, that was at one point. Yeah.
10:15.871 --> 10:18.953
Mm-hmm. Wow. I mean it paid off.
10:18.953 --> 10:21.374
My hero. Yeah, yeah. Honestly.
10:21.374 --> 10:26.958
Honestly, that you found the time and and
the courage to to just combine those
10:26.958 --> 10:28.819
two two things at once and do them.
10:28.819 --> 10:31.440
Wow. Good for you. Yeah, well,
10:31.440 --> 10:34.572
I'm like I'm very lucky that Halfbrick was
understanding.
10:35.074 --> 10:37.536
that I was doing both at the same time
'cause I I do think that,
10:37.536 --> 10:40.247
you know, my attention was split between
the two,
10:40.247 --> 10:43.499
so Right. We could not give a hundred
percent to either one really.
10:43.499 --> 10:45.050
I mean it kinda has to be, right?
10:45.050 --> 10:49.282
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. So and I'm a
big believer of like focusing
10:49.282 --> 10:52.684
on one thing at a time, although I have a
natural tendency to not do it.
10:52.684 --> 10:55.065
So constantly fighting that grain.
10:55.065 --> 10:59.147
Yeah. Yeah. So that backpacking sounds
great as well.
10:59.147 --> 11:02.689
Yeah. Yeah. Good time. Yeah, where did you
go?
11:02.689 --> 11:04.050
What did you research?
11:04.640 --> 11:07.912
Yeah, Spain, Italy, France were the three
countries.
11:07.912 --> 11:14.616
And I I have stories that probably tell
you after off the podcast.
11:14.616 --> 11:19.479
But yeah. Those ~ just those three
countries.
11:19.479 --> 11:23.411
Yeah. Yeah. Well I do love a good tourist
anecdote about Spain.
11:23.411 --> 11:26.633
People in the comments if you visit or if
you have visited,
11:26.633 --> 11:30.135
leave your stories there or just ask for
recommendations.
11:30.135 --> 11:31.246
I probably have a few.
11:31.744 --> 11:34.746
And in return I'll be taking some
recommendations on Australia,
11:34.746 --> 11:38.238
probably. That's where I want to go next.
11:38.238 --> 11:44.292
So yeah, you it seem like it seems like
you've done and gone on a lot of
adventures,
11:44.292 --> 11:47.665
but now we're going to bring it back to
Halfbrick for a bit.
11:47.665 --> 11:51.567
And we want to know what are you working
on for Raskulls at the moment?
11:51.567 --> 11:54.950
And please be as juicy and detailed as we
w as you want.
11:54.950 --> 11:57.211
Because at the Halfbrick Show we love a
leak.
11:57.211 --> 11:59.563
If there's something we like, it's a leak,
11:59.563 --> 12:01.314
it's an exclusive. We like
12:01.580 --> 12:06.331
Secrets, we love it. Well, so we just got
done with ~
12:06.331 --> 12:11.633
the character like fine like identifying
the character's visual identity
12:11.633 --> 12:16.734
and kind of pushing the characters
remastered visuals as far as we can.
12:16.734 --> 12:19.485
And now we're moving on to the world map.
12:19.485 --> 12:22.896
So we are thinking about redesigning the
world map,
12:22.896 --> 12:25.777
not just visually, but maybe interactively
as well.
12:25.777 --> 12:29.268
So that's that's where we're at.
12:29.268 --> 12:30.778
I'm not sure how much I'm allowed to say.
12:31.094 --> 12:32.695
No, that's not all that but yeah,
12:32.695 --> 12:35.418
that's I think what you said sounds good.
12:35.418 --> 12:36.979
For the for the character design,
12:36.979 --> 12:38.620
I I've seen it in Discord already.
12:38.620 --> 12:42.183
So can we pop a little visual on the
screen for the viewers on YouTube as well?
12:42.183 --> 12:45.736
Just a quick, yep. Nice. Let's pretend
we're looking at this right now.
12:45.736 --> 12:49.670
Ooh, that's cool. I mean I have them in my
mind.
12:49.670 --> 12:52.472
They look amazing. Yeah, it looks really
good.
12:52.472 --> 12:55.134
They look like candy in a good way.
12:55.134 --> 12:59.148
It makes me want to eat them. And I think
that's a great vibe.
12:59.828 --> 13:01.739
Again, it's it's very late here.
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Please don't put my descriptions into
account.
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I'm I still have like ~ flashbacks from
the Cedar episode in which d
13:09.765 --> 13:11.626
we discuss what Jeto sounds like,
13:11.626 --> 13:15.609
so maybe I'm just driving that synesthesia
wave or something.
13:15.609 --> 13:19.222
I wanted to ask if you had played the
original Raskulls game.
13:19.222 --> 13:21.213
'Cause I think that's an Aiden question.
13:21.213 --> 13:23.775
Have I? Yeah, did you play it?
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Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. Yeah,
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we all we all played the game.
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Yeah, the original game. Yeah.
13:27.938 --> 13:32.080
Nice. But did you play it before ever
coming into the project?
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~ no, no, no. No, not before Halfbrick.
13:35.504 --> 13:38.787
Yeah. I didn't even know it was a thing
before Halfbrick to be honest.
13:38.787 --> 13:43.430
Wow. It's good that you played it but
before getting to work on the remake
though,
13:43.430 --> 13:47.954
of course. Yeah. I'm assuming start to
finish like multiple times before yeah,
13:47.954 --> 13:52.087
yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I did play it back
on the Xbox three sixty days.
13:52.087 --> 13:54.700
I am one of the it's really good.
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One of one of the Halfbrick OGs.
13:56.451 --> 13:57.612
Yeah. Yeah.
13:58.200 --> 13:59.571
You should be leading this project.
13:59.571 --> 14:04.193
Nah. I'd I'd I'd cook it and then turn
into some customer support project somehow
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'cause it's more no not. And then King
Raskull says,
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How would you rate this map one to five?
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No. Yeah,
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no, no. You're doing a fantastic job.
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I'm I'm keen to just help support it.
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Okay. So back in episode eight with Josh,
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he told us that ~
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I think we discussed how Raskulls is being
rebuilt from the old Mortar engine,
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which is what the games used to be built
on from Halfbrick.
14:30.158 --> 14:32.527
That was an in house onto Unity for the
remake,
14:32.527 --> 14:36.809
remaster. I actually don't know what what
the distinction is on either of those.
14:36.809 --> 14:38.530
It's really something and it's looking
great.
14:38.530 --> 14:42.201
That's for Unity aimed at mobile again
mobile,
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sorry, not again. Mobile consoles and
possibly Steam.
14:45.892 --> 14:47.972
That was all discussed or teased.
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where does that stand? Is that still the
goal at some point?
14:51.483 --> 14:53.614
Can we say? Yeah, yeah.
14:54.270 --> 14:57.232
Mobile is the priority, but yeah,
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we are still definitely looking at other
platforms for release.
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Nice. Yeah, so but and we we've taken that
into account when developing.
15:06.607 --> 15:10.739
Like we have some controller support in
there already and that's what
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I was gonna ask next. Yeah, we've temper
or like we occasionally tested build
15:15.032 --> 15:16.913
on other platforms as well. So yeah,
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it's very much still in the plan.
15:19.104 --> 15:21.806
Nice. What's your platform of choice?
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Mine is PC now. But growing up it was
console.
15:26.685 --> 15:30.698
It was it would go back and forth between
Xbox and PlayStation,
15:30.698 --> 15:35.893
but yeah. Hmm. I feel like the three sixty
like I feel like yeah,
15:35.893 --> 15:40.016
even just in memory of it's gotta go to an
Xbox platform if possible.
15:40.016 --> 15:42.018
Obviously I don't make this decision,
15:42.018 --> 15:43.279
but it was on the three sixty,
15:43.279 --> 15:46.962
that was its home. Yeah. And that was
that's iconic,
15:46.962 --> 15:51.904
I think. 'Cause you can have that old
skull avatar picture on
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On your Xbox profile. I don't even think
it was from Raskulls,
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but I always used to associate the two as
a kid.
15:56.823 --> 15:58.416
Yeah, yeah, I know what you're talking
about.
15:58.416 --> 16:00.328
Yeah. Yeah. So I think it's just inherent.
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Yeah, and pretend I know what you guys are
talking about.
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Don't delay. No,
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no, I'll see if I can send you a
PlayStation.
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Playstation Kid. Right. But if you can I
actually was too.
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Ratchet & Clank. You were lucky.
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Nice. It's a good one. Yeah. I was on the
PlayStation,
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but I I went to friends' houses and we
played Raskulls.
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That's how I got
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Raskulls. I didn't actually have a three
sixty.
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We're all fake fans. But that's the beauty
of it,
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right? Because I feel like that's
something that ~ this is going to make
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me sound so old, but that's something that
maybe after COVID isn't as common.
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Like for kids to just meet up in front of
a console and go to a a friend's house
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and just play together. And I think that
yeah,
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right? Because I have a lot of memories.
16:48.541 --> 16:49.952
I played game the GameCube.
16:50.550 --> 16:52.631
At one of my friends' houses. Yeah.
16:52.631 --> 16:55.551
Retro I never I never saw GameCubes.
16:55.551 --> 16:58.952
I it's yeah. Not like I don't know like I
did eventually,
16:58.952 --> 17:01.253
but I had to get one myself when I was in
my twenties.
17:01.253 --> 17:05.294
So you know, but yeah. I won't go down
that rabbit hole.
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I could talk about old that era of gaming
for multiple episodes.
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But Raskulls is heading that way.
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We're bringing that back, I think.
17:13.376 --> 17:18.337
Yeah. Yeah. I mean I guess that people
nowadays will play it on Discord.
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I guess that when you guys do your
playtest sessions,
17:21.941 --> 17:27.194
you are all together in your little
Discord call and maybe that's this year's
17:27.414 --> 17:30.155
version of going to your friend's house to
play the co console.
17:30.155 --> 17:35.150
So that's nice. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's
replaced the going over
17:35.150 --> 17:36.658
the friends' house. But yeah, y'all are
right.
17:36.658 --> 17:38.329
Like going over the friend's house was the
best.
17:38.329 --> 17:40.340
Like all couch co op and stuff,
17:40.340 --> 17:42.561
or just playing each other on the same T
V.
17:42.561 --> 17:44.241
Yeah, screen reading and yeah.
17:44.241 --> 17:45.602
Yeah. Okay.
17:45.996 --> 17:50.430
Well, more recently we had another
American guest in the podcast,
17:50.430 --> 17:53.512
which is our beloved boss, Eli,
17:53.512 --> 17:55.694
who we compared to Batman that time.
17:55.694 --> 18:00.598
So if you want, you can be Robin or Green
Lantern or whomever superhero you choose,
18:00.598 --> 18:03.841
but he mentioned that the remake was still
pretty far out.
18:03.841 --> 18:08.605
And I think that we would be doing the
community on Discord again,
18:08.605 --> 18:14.670
not naming names, a disservice if we
didn't ask how or if that has changed at
all.
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I'm not sh I well, no, it I don't think it
has changed.
18:19.366 --> 18:23.849
I think I think ~ we yeah, we still have a
lot to do in terms of
18:24.410 --> 18:28.723
the visuals like not just like discovering
the new visual identity
18:28.723 --> 18:30.034
for everything that's in the game,
18:30.034 --> 18:34.288
but then also after we d discover that
initial identity,
18:34.288 --> 18:37.481
then applying it to the rest of everything
the assets.
18:37.481 --> 18:43.366
That and then also like optimization and
SDK support and all that.
18:44.082 --> 18:49.065
I mean the core functionality is in
multiplayers and we we just need to
18:49.065 --> 18:50.366
get it to that shippable state.
18:50.366 --> 18:54.990
~ and that's gonna take a little bit
longer considering that we are remastering
it.
18:54.990 --> 18:59.057
Yeah. Don't they say something like the
man,
18:59.057 --> 19:00.744
there's like an eighty twenty or something
like that.
19:00.744 --> 19:03.202
Like it's really easy to get the first
eighty percent or something,
19:03.202 --> 19:04.716
which is probably like the visuals and all
that,
19:04.716 --> 19:08.079
right? And then maybe that final twenty
push is bringing it all together.
19:08.079 --> 19:11.201
So Yeah. That makes sense.
19:11.201 --> 19:12.752
But the visuals are looking sick.
19:12.752 --> 19:13.752
I
19:13.420 --> 19:18.331
I guess to to to like answer from when
when Eli last mentioned,
19:18.331 --> 19:24.073
there is a lot more to look at now if you
compare to where it was months ago.
19:24.073 --> 19:27.304
Yeah. So okay. That's cool.
19:27.304 --> 19:29.955
Yeah. And for the people listening,
19:29.955 --> 19:32.525
you have said something very interesting
with it,
19:32.525 --> 19:36.466
she which is SDK. And maybe some people
who are listening don't know what that
19:36.466 --> 19:40.117
means, but that means connectivity with
Halfbrick Plus,
19:40.117 --> 19:41.978
right? So
19:42.370 --> 19:47.744
Pulling on that thread, do you think we
could do a Raskulls card collection?
19:47.744 --> 19:51.057
Because I've been having very bad luck
pulling Colossatron,
19:51.057 --> 19:55.341
but maybe, maybe I could pull like the
little dragon.
19:55.341 --> 19:58.423
The dragon, which he's he's the next best
thing,
19:58.423 --> 20:01.326
I feel. Yeah, I think I think that's very
possible.
20:01.326 --> 20:06.910
Definitely. Okay. And there's other is it
there's there's other SDKs
20:06.910 --> 20:10.273
in game development, right? Like forgive
my common man question.
20:10.273 --> 20:11.474
I don't know if it's
20:11.756 --> 20:12.917
Yeah, there's probably a lot, right?
20:12.917 --> 20:16.308
Mm-hmm. Yeah. but yeah, I was talking
about the Halfbrick one.
20:16.308 --> 20:20.438
Right. Yeah. Actually I think our support
stuff also has its own SDK.
20:20.438 --> 20:22.031
I'll have to talk to you about that at
some point.
20:22.031 --> 20:25.142
There we go. Yeah. Little little insider's
secret right here.
20:25.142 --> 20:27.373
That's this is the type of conversation
we'd have.
20:27.373 --> 20:29.994
No, no programmer stuff, please.
20:29.994 --> 20:32.935
Let's let's stick it to cards.
20:32.935 --> 20:35.616
Let's stick it to cards. Cause I feel like
those are nice.
20:35.616 --> 20:37.347
Well we'll move on to the next question.
20:37.347 --> 20:38.898
That's that's fine.
20:39.346 --> 20:40.947
We can see where that all heads up.
20:40.947 --> 20:42.687
Back in that episode eight with Josh,
20:42.687 --> 20:46.837
he joked that and I I can't even remember
if this is like a throwaway question
20:46.837 --> 20:51.271
or not. I'm just recalling that he said
King Raskull throws bricks because
20:51.271 --> 20:55.113
a dishonest supplier once split his entire
order of bricks in half,
20:55.113 --> 20:57.794
hence the Halfbrick and he has a
stockpile of half bricks.
20:57.794 --> 21:00.975
I don't know, really know how well that
holds up.
21:00.975 --> 21:05.757
But do you have any other official or non
official Raskulls lore to drop on us?
21:05.757 --> 21:06.868
I think
21:07.788 --> 21:10.559
I think if Josh said it, I mean it has it
has to be canon.
21:10.559 --> 21:12.459
You reckon that's canon? Wow. Yeah,
21:12.459 --> 21:14.241
it has to be. It has to be canon.
21:14.241 --> 21:20.625
but I think I think one interesting piece
I'm not sure if it's considered lore,
21:20.625 --> 21:22.216
I I guess you could turn it into lore.
21:22.216 --> 21:26.668
is that in the original assets that
there's a Master Chief Raskull.
21:26.668 --> 21:30.290
Yeah. What? So yeah. And y yeah,
21:30.290 --> 21:34.332
I actually rigged him up and got him
playable before we started doing all art
stuff.
21:34.332 --> 21:37.114
And yeah, so that that was
21:37.442 --> 21:41.576
That was cool. ~ but so cool. I'm guessing
that didn't make it to I
21:41.576 --> 21:43.615
I can't remember all the outfits in the
three sixty.
21:43.615 --> 21:45.649
Yeah, I d I don't it never got released.
21:45.649 --> 21:49.573
Dang. I guess he yeah, Master Chief just
didn't want to be part
21:49.573 --> 21:53.256
of the Raskulls universe. Huh? Do we have
pictures?
21:53.256 --> 21:54.908
I don't have any pictures right now.
21:54.908 --> 21:58.381
Dang. I should have I should have. My
bad.
21:58.381 --> 21:59.822
That's alright. That's alright.
21:59.822 --> 22:04.384
I man. I'm gonna this you have me want to
go the
22:04.992 --> 22:07.614
the new Xbox CEO's door and be like,
22:07.614 --> 22:10.086
hey, we have this asset ready.
22:10.086 --> 22:15.049
Can we use it? No. ~ but I'm a massive
Halo fan.
22:15.049 --> 22:17.491
You can't see it in the podcast edit,
22:17.491 --> 22:19.572
but there's a Needler in my background
here.
22:19.572 --> 22:21.754
So just yes, I can see it. Yeah.
22:21.754 --> 22:25.206
Yeah. Yeah. I think on the actual podcast
I'm trimmed in a bit so you don't see it.
22:25.206 --> 22:27.358
But yeah. Raskulls cross Halo,
22:27.358 --> 22:30.240
that would have been huge. That's that's
fantastic.
22:30.240 --> 22:33.482
Coming up with a lot of good ideas.
22:33.976 --> 22:35.787
For the crossovers in this episode.
22:35.787 --> 22:40.648
Plus yeah, Doom. They're all they're all
IPs owned by Xbox now,
22:40.648 --> 22:43.231
that's crazy. A lot of these Doom cross
jetpack.
22:43.231 --> 22:47.794
Yeah. What else could you do? Fish out of
water cross Gears of War.
22:47.794 --> 22:51.616
Some area. Yeah,
22:51.616 --> 22:54.517
Olympus can take it. I trust Yeah.
22:54.517 --> 22:58.069
Yeah. Locusts don't stand a chance against
Olympus,
22:58.069 --> 23:02.251
man. Alright, alright. So I'll I'll drop
I'll yeah,
23:02.251 --> 23:03.251
thank you for the lore drop.
23:03.798 --> 23:09.060
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Great lore though and
great I think that was the leak
23:09.120 --> 23:11.361
we were we were searching for.
23:11.361 --> 23:15.443
So I'm very very It makes sense given the
the time that the original came out,
23:15.443 --> 23:17.274
it makes sense that that would have been
experimented with.
23:17.274 --> 23:20.505
Yeah, yeah. But if he's not playable,
23:20.505 --> 23:23.437
who's your go to character in a
multiplayer matchup,
23:23.437 --> 23:26.788
Noah? So I th I feel like that will say a
lot about you.
23:26.788 --> 23:29.389
So think if you think it through.
23:29.389 --> 23:30.690
Well I think
23:31.416 --> 23:33.887
Well recently it's just been King 'cause
we've been you know,
23:33.887 --> 23:38.259
remastering him. But but like if I if I
had to choose like my like if I
23:38.259 --> 23:43.451
was going to choose one I'd probably be
pirate because of I just I think
23:43.451 --> 23:48.953
his his eye patch is silly. Just just why
do you have an eye patch?
23:48.953 --> 23:52.334
You don't even have eyes. I respect that.
23:52.334 --> 23:55.626
I think I would actually have to go king.
23:55.626 --> 23:57.086
Mm. Mm. What about you, Carmen?
23:57.086 --> 24:00.678
You got a choice? I think dragon
probably.
24:02.063 --> 24:04.725
No, he reminds me of my beloved.
24:04.725 --> 24:09.278
He looks nice. Yeah. Yeah. Still hasn't
come home.
24:09.278 --> 24:12.271
Episode 45. I can't believe that.
24:12.271 --> 24:15.194
I feel like somebody should make a meme.
24:15.194 --> 24:17.275
Yeah. I'm opening the daily packs.
24:17.275 --> 24:18.977
I'm completing the season pass.
24:18.977 --> 24:21.479
I am doing everything that one should be
doing.
24:21.479 --> 24:24.231
I have three legendary Dan the Mans.
24:24.231 --> 24:29.486
I have my first holo card. I have two
shiny cards and still drums.
24:30.982 --> 24:34.045
Yeah, I'm not Yeah,
24:34.045 --> 24:37.949
maybe maybe I should ask someone in the
Halfbrick Plus team.
24:37.949 --> 24:40.050
Who'd have been on that thought?
24:40.050 --> 24:43.513
And I will I will go down. I will
investigate that.
24:43.513 --> 24:46.896
All right. All right then. Let's get into
our little extras.
24:46.896 --> 24:50.019
We have a couple of little more fun
questions and games.
24:50.019 --> 24:52.071
If you've seen a couple of episodes,
24:52.071 --> 24:55.714
Noah, you probably know that we do a
little segment where we guess
24:55.714 --> 24:58.026
the community comment. Right.
24:58.882 --> 25:00.623
I'll read out one comment. There's only
one.
25:00.623 --> 25:04.686
And you gotta tell us if it's real from
the community on our socials,
25:04.686 --> 25:08.469
or if Carmen and I made it up to try and
sound like we're from the community.
25:08.469 --> 25:10.500
I think we're getting pretty good at
making fake ones,
25:10.500 --> 25:11.971
so it's really hard to tell these days.
25:11.971 --> 25:18.455
But I'll read this one and forgive the
lack of energy in my reading this
25:18.455 --> 25:21.057
at seven o'clock in the morning in
Australian time.
25:21.057 --> 25:28.012
~ but here it is quote I loved Raskulls so
much as a kid.
25:28.202 --> 25:29.993
Exclamation mark. Exclamation mark.
25:29.993 --> 25:33.986
Exclamation mark. Three heart emojis after
each other.
25:33.986 --> 25:37.169
I'd do anything to have it on Steam,
25:37.169 --> 25:38.810
and especially with multiplayer.
25:38.810 --> 25:41.332
I'm so sorry looking forward to it.
25:41.332 --> 25:43.433
Exclamation mark. Exclamation mark.
25:43.433 --> 25:46.946
Another heart emoji. End quote.
25:46.946 --> 25:50.489
Community. Wow, that was quick.
25:50.489 --> 25:53.861
Final answer? Welcome in. Welcome in
community?
25:53.861 --> 25:54.861
Okay, okay.
25:55.426 --> 25:56.757
We still have a drum roll sound effects,
25:56.757 --> 25:58.198
so let's pretend there's some tension.
25:58.198 --> 26:01.319
And yeah, no, it's community.
26:01.319 --> 26:04.331
Congratulations. That's it. I mean you
know your community.
26:04.331 --> 26:05.972
You do know the community. Yeah.
26:05.972 --> 26:11.755
It could have been me, I could have said
that.
26:11.755 --> 26:15.497
Yeah.
26:15.497 --> 26:18.869
Yeah, that's true. I thought it could have
been so specific that
26:18.869 --> 26:21.591
you would have like, Yeah, that could be
made up made up.
26:21.591 --> 26:23.992
Yeah. Yeah. Well, congratulations.
26:24.494 --> 26:28.336
I do check it on Discord, so I feel like
you can see how people talk of Yeah.
26:28.336 --> 26:31.356
Yeah. Well, I think this one was actually
if I remember correctly,
26:31.356 --> 26:33.059
it was back from the Josh episode.
26:33.059 --> 26:35.480
I went I went and got that from there.
26:35.480 --> 26:37.031
But that's how people talk about Raskulls,
26:37.031 --> 26:39.943
so it's really cool. I think it's I think
it's cool.
26:39.943 --> 26:43.375
~ no a trophy of no value is not coming to
your house.
26:43.375 --> 26:45.876
Congratulations. Nice. Thank you.
26:45.876 --> 26:48.167
Well you got bragging rights, not so bad.
26:48.167 --> 26:52.440
Now you can feel morally superior for the
rest of the day.
26:52.642 --> 26:54.973
Congratulations, courtesy of the Halfbrick
Show.
26:54.973 --> 27:00.505
Our next question, though, might be a
little more difficult and might take away
that
27:00.505 --> 27:05.147
feeling of superiority. You know,
27:05.147 --> 27:11.970
I think I think every time somebody asks
that question
27:12.410 --> 27:14.801
No the devs have to add a new level.
27:14.801 --> 27:17.592
No. So Carmen, what have we done?
27:17.592 --> 27:21.134
We've added forty five levels.
27:21.420 --> 27:23.481
Yeah, the devs are super busy right now.
27:23.481 --> 27:26.533
They they hate us now. We need to stop the
show,
27:26.533 --> 27:30.535
guys. We gotta stop the show. It needs to
kind of like a fairy,
27:30.535 --> 27:32.697
you know? every time you say eggs,
27:32.697 --> 27:36.450
a fairy dies. Yeah. Well every time you
ask for it,
27:36.450 --> 27:38.760
they add a new level and a dev dies.
27:38.760 --> 27:41.032
We need to stop. Wow. Comments,
27:41.032 --> 27:45.134
please. The devs are making ten million
levels based on every comment.
27:45.134 --> 27:47.185
Okay. That's fair. Thank you.
27:48.344 --> 27:49.714
To wrap up the kind interview part,
27:49.714 --> 27:51.436
we've got a final thought question for
you.
27:51.436 --> 27:56.168
We ask everyone this one. But if there's
one thing in the games industry that
you've
27:56.168 --> 27:58.399
learned which wasn't in the job
description,
27:58.399 --> 28:04.263
what would that be? I think I think that
like how like how important finding
28:04.263 --> 28:06.854
the fun in a game is. Like I think that's
a you know,
28:06.854 --> 28:10.036
it's a very popular adage. And the obvious
part of that is like whenever you're
28:10.036 --> 28:12.867
creating the game, like you need to find
the fun and like the mechanics need
28:12.867 --> 28:17.230
to be fun and engaging and responsive and
juicy and all that good stuff.
28:17.230 --> 28:18.230
But I think that
28:18.082 --> 28:20.783
There I think there's a second part that
I've learned to that is that like
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the team needs to have fun in making the
game.
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Like I think that if the team making the
game is having fun,
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that that extends itself to the game.
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And then you find that, you know you find
that relationship between them
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and the game. Not not literally,
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obviously, but like through yeah,
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you know, little little tidbits here and
there that they add.
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So I I I do think that finding the fun is
just as important when creating
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the game as it is like when working with
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with people. So nice. Yeah,
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I mean I think we can see that with your
team.
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To give a little insight into the
internals.
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We do company wide presentations every
couple of weeks to show how everyone's
going.
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The Raskulls guys, they l they have the
energy man.
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There's some good there's some good jokes
and energy.
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I feel like I almost feel like part of the
team when we get those updates from from
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Josh and you guys. You are you are part of
the team.
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See me in the Master Chief Raskulls outfit.
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Day one. Nice.
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And then rating and getting King Raskull
reviews.
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I'll be the first five star review.
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Yeah. Okay. That's it. That's it for the
questions.
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Yeah. Yeah. You you survived.
Congratulations.
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Honestly. We don't want to know.
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Well, in all truth,
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thank you so much for for joining us,
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Noah, and for giving us a little bit of
your time that could be spent ~ you know,
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working or
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Playing. Which would be way nicer.
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So yeah, thank you so much. No,
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of course, thank you guys. It was fun.
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I I enjoyed it. I appreciate it.
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Nice. And we'll check back in for whatever
season two of Raskulls,
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I'm sure. Not sorry, of the show,
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not Raskulls. I'd imagine that.
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That'd be a huge drop. Just like,
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Raskulls has seasons of content,
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there's hundreds. No. ~ just a drop at the
end of the episode.
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but no, thank you so much, man.
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Really do appreciate it. Yeah,
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of course.
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I think that's pretty much it.
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to the listeners, just remember that we're
always taking in ideas,
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feedback, suggestions, travel guide tips,
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cookbook recipes, apparently, all this
kind of stuff now.
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You can email anything to us at theshow@halfbrick.com.
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Asterisk, please, not anything.
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just whatever relates to the show.
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That's pretty much it. Thank you.
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You missed ~ game recommendations.
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We do take those. And we do. We do take
those.
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Yes. Sorry. There's so many things that
that email is for.
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Please. Yeah. One thing we're not taking
though is I don't want to see
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any of you guys' cards collections.
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If you have managed to pull Colossatron,
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it's for my mental health and my
well-being.
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No, please don't do it. Well, in any case,
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~ we hope that this has been an episode
that you can look back on with nostalgia.
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And thank you so much for joining us for
this week's episode of the Halfbrick Show.
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See you next week. Thank you.
