Voice actor and game dev Jacob Burgess joins the pod to crack the exceptionally difficult line up of: musical, game within a game, twin stick shooter This off-off-off Broadway production company has suffered from more internal drama than is in the script for Les Rizz! And to make matters worse, a swarm of rats has descended on the premises. But as it turns out, a mass of agile, invested rodents might be just the thing this community theater needs to pull off the big show. Enjoy Jacob Burgess on ...
Apr 01, 2024•54 min•Ep. 24
Jacob Andrews, one of the talented artists of Drawfee, find the route through the prompts: obtuse parasite FPS with the help of Jenna Stoeber, a fellow soup and Dark Souls lover. Inspired by the Loathsome Dung Eater and some relatable soup catastrophes, Dark Soups sees the brew-bearer attempt to defeat monstrous gorge-vessels. But will you free them of their gorgers, or deepen their injestion infestation? See Jacob's work on Drawfee here , catch a livestream of Secret Sleepover Society , or watc...
Mar 25, 2024•52 min•Ep. 23
Giovanni Colantonio, journalist at Digital Trends, is the first participant in the Grant Howitt Dagger Dartboard, where a flip of the coin determines if a prompt is replaced by a newer, weirder prompt from a separate list. They ended up with: wholesome all grapple hooks all the time cooking While making several accidental grapple-based puns, Giovanni and Jenna craft a foraging and cooking game with madcap traversal mechanics, naturally in VR and requiring an intricate and expensive grapple-hook-...
Mar 18, 2024•57 min•Ep. 22
Grant Howitt, indie TTRPG creator of games like Honey Heist, joins the show and makes a surreal, pro-drug game using the prompts: ocean exploration last day at camp Lucas-Arts point-n-click. You wake up in a derelict oil rig and have to choose your intoxicant of choice. Where will you fall on the zooted scale, and how will that change your conversation options? And more importantly, how much FUN will you have on the way? Follow Grant's work on Twitter @RowanRookDecard or on his website RowanRook...
Mar 11, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 21
mom game racing o steal your neighbor's horse, and compete tooth-and-nail for the ultimate prize: the HORSE TIARA. Thank you for listening to Big Game Hunger! Email us at BigGameHungerPod@gmail.com . Big Game Hunger is part of the Multitude Collective of podcasts . Edited and mixed by the talented Mischa Stanton, and created and hosted by Jenna Stoeber. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Mar 04, 2024•54 min•Ep. 20
Kelsey Lewin, writer, podcaster, and co-owner of Pink Gorilla Games, joins the show to finally make a game that your aunt is going to love! She and Jenna turn the prompts: aunt games frogs myst-like into a game about kissing frogs to turn them into other animals, and then using those animals to solve PUZZLES. Kyst indulges all the things we liked about Myst: cool photo graphics, loneliness, and puzzles that we were too young to figure out. Pre-order Kelsey Lewin's Animal Crossing book here ! Nex...
Feb 26, 2024•58 min•Ep. 19
Allegra Frank, renowned journalist, critic, and oreo connoisseur, joins Jenna to craft an adorable, hard-hitting game with the prompts: squishy werewolves visual novel Eschewing the normal player-romance offerings of visual novels, they craft a game where you matchmake NPCs and solve a dark mystery of your own past, come back to haunt you. Also there are some non-branded Squishmallow integrations that give the game a bit of a texture . A squish texture . Turns out, love was the greatest mystery ...
Feb 19, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 18
Screenwriter, bookwriter, and criticwriter Karen Han has brought her Marvel's-Midnight-Sun and Pokemon-Cafe-Remix related complaints to the prompts: musical cafe sim character creator They brew a heady mix of adorable Pokemon bakers and super crunchy sim aspects like book-balancing and inventory sim. Every year, the Alcremie Awards pass out stars to the best cafes in the world - and you've set your sight on getting one! Require Pokemon employees, and serve up the best light cafe salads to discer...
Feb 12, 2024•56 min•Ep. 17
Brent Naylor lucked out with some primo prompts: parasite DnD mystery Then he immediately destroyed the format of this show by perfectly nailing a pitch for a hidden role game where you have to identify the social parasite in a DnD group! Thankfully these fools are pros at bullshitting, and they develop a game where you train yourself to detect AI but figuring out who on a video call isn't a real human. Learn the REAL TRUTH about Andalites at AndaliteTruth.org , l isten to Fandalites , a fully c...
Feb 05, 2024•52 min•Ep. 16
Illustrator Faith Schaffer brings her Lifetime movie expertise to Big Game Hunger, a Jenny Nicholson fancast! With the prompts: voyeurism holiday dungeon crawler ...she and Jenna make a Lifetime/Hallmark-inspired Christmas game about a big-city video game creator who discovers the true meaning of Christmas Romance back in her hometown, with either the local super-bachelor or her cousin. Play choices don't matter in this cult classic hit, but you'll love its earnest, FMV styling and point-and-cli...
Jan 29, 2024•56 min•Ep. 15
Alex Jaffe, co-host of Insert Credit and 52 Pickup , starts off strong with some word-play options based on the prompts: green shark godzilla-sim (rampage) After some great goofs on what "green" could imply, they settle on an anti-golf, pro-green-space game where you play as a shark terrorizing innocent putters. Swim through intricate mini-golf courses to herd golfers into clumps so you can eat as many at once as you can, and be sure to hit a cool flip in the air for bonus points! Play as differ...
Jan 22, 2024•46 min•Ep. 14
Listen to Exolore and Pale Blue Pod , and read The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy ! Follow her on Twitter @GoAstroMo , or visit her website at MoiyaMcTier.com . Thank you for listening to Big Game Hunger! Email us at BigGameHungerPod@gmail.com . Support this show, and submit your OWN random prompts, by subscribing at Patreon.com/TheJenna Big Game Hunger is part of the Multitude Collective of podcasts . Edited and mixed by the talented Mischa Stanton, and created and hosted by Jenna St...
Jan 16, 2024•51 min•Ep. 13
Bisexual fishing game Thank you for listening to Big Game Hunger! Follow BGH at BigGameHunger on Instagram . Email us at BigGameHungerPod@gmail.com . Big Game Hunger is part of the Multitude Collective of podcasts. Edited and mixed by the talented Mischa Stanton, and created and hosted by Jenna Stoeber. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jan 08, 2024•48 min•Ep. 12
Justin Green came here entirely focused on one goal: to make the most scattered and unhinged game premise possible. Thankfully Jenna totally tamed that impulse and they came up with a very normal game about being a good or bad therapist and a pokemon and navigating the American healthcare system and maybe evolving if you are fully cured of your trauma. And all just from the prompts: character creator boofy environment narrative/organizing Wow! Sounds like everyone was super focused and on-task t...
Jan 01, 2024•51 min•Ep. 11
Clay Murphy, writer on Control and Alan Wake 2, joins Jenna to create a character-driven story about coming to terms with your dreams when your dreams are determined by prophecy., using the prompts: a job that has never been made into a game good time party time! rpg Play as the Chosen One, still trying to make it big in Hollywood and finding that it isn't so easy, even if you are destined to be the greatest actor of all time. You still gotta eat! In the meantime, you work as a caterer, learning...
Dec 25, 2023•59 min•Ep. 10
gnarly We make a 4-player game that utilizes how absolutely insane and erotic wrestling is in real life. I was able to make one solid wrestling reference, to John Cena's beloved you don't see me meme, but mostly Anthony Burch breaks down the wild incredible tropes and culture of wrestling, and also stealth games! Thank you for listening to Big Game Hunger! Follow BGH at BigGameHunger on Instagram . Email us at BigGameHungerPod@gmail.com . Big Game Hunger is part of the Multitude Collective of po...
Dec 18, 2023•50 min•Ep. 9
Watch out, Spider-man! Voice actor Geoff Moonen joins Jenna to make a Central Park-roaming bird game with incredible transversal mechanics, thanks to the prompts: Owls moody Triple A action-adventure Invasive Species is inspired by famous New York birds like the iconic Flaco , who escaped Central Park Zoo to become a free bird, to Mandarin Patinkin the Hot Duck . This is the new Uncharted game you've been looking for. Also enjoy Jenna learning in real time that Geoff knows an insane amount of bi...
Dec 11, 2023•57 min•Ep. 8
Horror artist extraordinaire Eduardo Valdés-Hevia - also known as Valdevia - joins Jenna to make one of the most lucrative game genres: mascot horror! Watch out, Five Nights at Freddy's and Poppy Playtime, we're COMING FOR YOUR CROWN. With the prompts: Vampires vibrant pinball The result? Blacklight Arcade! You're a repair man at Transylgamia, the local movie-monster themed arcade, and you've got to make sure everything's working before you can leave for the night. But who's that spooky creep ha...
Dec 04, 2023•51 min•Ep. 7
America's Uncle himself, Brian Miller is here to help Jenna Stoeber make a game based on the prompts: Cake decorating Uncle game Party game The discuss the wonders of 'za and 'zagna (pizza and lasagna), what it takes to be an uncle game, and Chef Boyardee getting Anglicized. How is it we ended up talking about Garfield-related food entries two weeks in a row? Is it the title of the podcast?? Plus we spend a surprising amount of time mourning the loss of the cardboard Walmart retail DVD dumpsters...
Nov 27, 2023•52 min•Ep. 6
Xalavier Nelson Jr, game writer extraordinaire, joins Jenna to make a contemplative, meditation on God, faith, and filling one's days as we await our fate. There's also some stuff about shower food. Our prompts were: kitten cuddling contemplative roguelike Follow Xalavier Nelson Jr on Twitter @WritNelson , see more of his work with Strange Scaffold here , and go buy El Paso, Elsewhere on Steam! Thank you for listening to Big Game Hunger! Follow BGH at BigGameHunger on Instagram. Email us at BigG...
Nov 20, 2023•50 min•Ep. 5
Detective Frankenstein here. You didn't happen to see a Brooke Breit wandering around here, holding a basket of feets, have you? Not her own feet, to be clear. No, this is a basket full of stranger feets - and they aren't hers to sell. On this episode, Brooke Breit and Jenna make a body-swapping lost-romance game with the prompts: Frankensteins Poetic Detective Follow Brooke Breit on Twitter @brookebreit and on Twitch @brookebreit ! Thank you for listening to Big Game Hunger! Follow BGH at BigGa...
Nov 13, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 4
Podcast maven Eric Silver joins Jenna Stoeber to discuss some no-longer-timely news about card games, and leverage that into the next big MONEY MAKER. They are assisted by the prompts: train travel people who don't like to talk on the phone card game Big Game Hunger hasn't really been about turning a profit with our incredible game ideas so far, but how else are we going to keep this boat afloat? That's right, by cashing in and selling out! Time to get a chunk of that Agatha Christie estate. Fin...
Nov 06, 2023•52 min•Ep. 3
Phil Salvador, the Library Director of the Video Game History Foundation HIMSELF, joins Jenna Stoeber for this episode of Big Game Hunger! They tackle three totally normal words that would definitely appear on a list of game-terms that ANYONE MADE. The terms are: Cryptid flirty zeldalike They discuss classic cryptids like Mothman, explore emotional motivation behind crop circles, and talk a surprising amount about malls. Follow Phil Salvador on Twitter @itstheshadsy , and learn more about the Vi...
Oct 30, 2023•55 min•Ep. 2
In this INAUGURAL episode of Big Game Hunger, Janet Garcia joined Jenna Stoeber in making a video game based on three prompts: Video game attached to massive IP Childish WarioWare mini game collection. OBVIOUSLY they made a game based on the most massive car-and-family-based IP of all time, Fast & Furious. (Sorry about it, Disney's Cars). The WarioWare mini games are a little trickier to finesse - you need a particular balance of absurdity and cars, which a serious, down-to-earth franchise l...
Oct 23, 2023•58 min•Ep. 1
Coming this October, it's Big Game Hunger! Starting with a random genre, concept, and vibe, Jenna and the guest host will take a game all the way from pitch, to slightly more developed pitch. By the end of the episode, they’ll have honed an IP so irresistible, you’ll be ready to risk $25 for it on Steam. Get ready to laugh about games you love, learn about game trends, and yearn for titles that will surely never make their release date. New episodes every Monday. See Privacy Policy at https://ar...
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