23. How Not to Doom Yourself

Curtis Lassam joins us to discuss the great failures in video games. We kick things off with Jurassic Park: Trespasser, then learn about Curtis’ Three Rules to Not Doom Yourself. We follow the rocky career of Tim Schafer, then Nigel tells us all about Daikatana. Afterwards, we bat around a bad idea for a video game, and talk couch co-op games.

• Research Indicates Let’s Play Trespasser
• Physics Bugs in Trespasser
• Gamasutra’s post-mortem of Trespasser
• Poor Tim Schafer
• Grim Fandango and Old Man Murray’s Death of Adventure Games
• Psyhonauts and Brütal Legend
• Big Rigs Over the Road Racing on the Angry Video Game Nerd
• Daikatana, one of the canonical disappointments in video gaming
• The Game Idea Generator
• Crawl