119. Papa’s Pocket Pizzeria

On this episode of Total Pebble Knockdown:

May 9 saw the release of at least 10 noteworthy indie games, at a time when AAA publishers are shuttering studios. We discuss whether the major releases are even interesting anymore and what smaller games we have been playing lately.

A thread on new indie games - Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 on X: "There may never have been a day as big as today for indie games. On the back of mass layoffs of major AAA studios, today more high-profile and under-the-radar gems are releasing on May 9th than any other day in recent memory. They need your support. Here's a thread of 'em! 🧵 https://t.co/8vOMvS0BVc" / X (twitter.com)

Sometimes you don't want to play a game, you just want to watch them be played. There's a whole industry around let's play videos. We talk about which games lend themselves to this kind of media consumption and which ones really won't.

May 17 is Pizza Party Day, but I didn't need to tell YOU that. Anyway, we celebrate by building a whole tabletop RPG around a pizza parlor... and the apocalypse.