Show Notes
This is a sports game! Well it's a game that centers around a sport... Er, it's a game that has a sport as a central narrative piece... uh...
Today we're talking about despelote by Julián Cordero and Sebastián Valbuena! A game about soccer and tuning out the adults in your life.
Get despelote on Steam, Switch, or Playstation!!! Follow Julian's work on his website! Follow Sebastián on his website! Follow Matt on his YouTube channel, Flow State!
Discussed in the episode: A Sportslike Manifesto by Grapefruit Games Despelote review: miraculous slice-of-life soccer game pulls a hat trick by Moises Taveras for Digital Trends Additional links: Despelote with Moises Taveras by Tales from the Backlog on YouTube ---
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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) - The sausage gets made
(00:19) - Babby's first intro
(01:34) - The Sports Corner
(04:20) - What is despelote?
(08:13) - Sportslike
(11:24) - Witholding the big stuff
(13:35) - Making it back to the bench
(14:36) - The first ten minutes
(18:39) - Standout moments
(26:07) - Being a child among adults
(31:24) - What happened...
(32:43) - Turn the game on!
(35:06) - Crossing narrative lines
(37:22) - The very end
(41:11) - Big Takeaways
(41:16) - Matt's Big Takeaway
(44:12) - Robin's Big Takeaway
(46:27) - Chase's Big Takeaway
(49:43) - Thank you Matt for coming on!
(49:53) - Chase attempts an outro
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