149: Making A Meal Of It with Jenny Jiao Hsia and AP Thomson (Consume Me)

Rob, Sarah, and Doug chat with Jenny Jiao Hsia and AP Thomson about Consume Me, an award-winning autobiographical resource-management RPG about the pressure cooker of young adulthood. We discuss the game's ten-year development cycle, balancing dynamic difficulty in a game about overachievement, the complex dynamics of mining your own story, and more!
Heads up: This episode includes discussion of disordered eating and religious upbringing.
Audio edited by Dylan Shumway.
Mentioned in this episode:
Consume Me hexecutable.itch.io/consume-me store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/Consume_Me
Prototyping Personal Experience – Jenny's talk at A MAZE 2017 youtu.be/iQ-PaGTr-iI?si=RIAWQMFZfMWCVCsN
Papers Please by Lucas Pope papersplea.se
Nina Freeman's games on itch.io starmaidgames.itch.io
Triad by Anna Anthropy w.itch.io/triad
Reigns by Nerial reignsgame.com/reigns
Long Live the Queen by Hanako Games hanakogames.itch.io/long-live-the-queen
Perfect Tides by Meredith Gran granulac.itch.io/perfect-tides
Look Back (movie) amazon.com/Look-Back-Kiyotaka-Oshiyama/dp/B0DH…
Look Back (manga) viz.com/look-back
Jenny's TikTok tiktok.com/@q_dork
AP's Instagram instagram.com/bad_tetris

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