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Diving Deep in In Other Waters

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Show Notes

When you think about it the ocean is kind of like space.

Today we're talking about In Other Waters by Jump Over the Age! A game about the wonder and devastation of ecological science, and good menus.

Get In Other Waters on Steam, Humble, GoG, or Nintendo Switch!!! Follow Jump Over the Age's work on their website!

Discussed in the episode: Listen to Leaving the Party!!! In Other Waters is about exploring an alien ocean through an AI interface by Nicole Carpenter for Polygon In Other Waters, ft. Gareth Damian Martin by Bad End: A Videogame Podcast 'Citizen Sleeper' dev on how players’ bodies shape the story by Robin<3 for inverse How ecological adventure In Other Waters's planet-wide mystery gives players hope by Joel Couture for Game Developer ---

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Art by Tara Crawford

Theme music by _amaranthine

Additional sounds by Boqeh

Produced and edited by AJ Fillari ---

Timecodes:

(00:00) - Day dreams (dreams you have that are what your day is going to be)

(01:26) - Chase NAILS the intro

(01:54) - What is In Other Waters

(04:17) - High level thoughts

(09:55) - Cheering at the UI

(15:36) - The line to Citizen Sleeper

(19:42) - Early game spoilers

(21:33) - Shoutout to Amos Roddy

(22:09) - Where to begin spoiling...

(24:03) - Diving deeper

(30:16) - Graphics are environmental metaphor actually

(39:00) - In the end

(50:01) - Big Takeaways

(50:05) - Robin's Big Takeaway

(54:18) - Chase's Big Takeaway

(56:45) - We win!

(57:10) - Thanks for finding the ending of the episode

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