The Secret Lives of Games

All Systems Brough - Vertex Dispenser

Freitag, 30. Januar 2026 · 1 h 52

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We're joined by droqen (The End of Gameplay, Starseed Pilgrim), Darius Kazemi (Tiny Subversions, Harvard Applied Social Media Lab), and Tara Macalister (mathematician, composer) to discuss Vertex Dispenser, the second game in our year-long exploration of the work of Michael Brough.
Next Month: Kompendium
Audio edited by Dylan Shumway.
Discussed in this episode:
Vertex Dispenser store.steampowered.com/app/102400/Vertex_Dispe…
Michael Brough's Website smestorp.com
Four color theorem en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem
Graph coloring en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_coloring
Starcraft II starcraft2.blizzard.com/en-us
Splatoon splatoon.nintendo.com Dota 2 dota2.com/home Droqen's rare color graph/explanation discord.com/channels/690388280767807518/144255…
lots of michael brough games smestorp.itch.io/lots-of-michael-brough-games
The Sense of Connectedness forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=16151.0
Kompendium mightyvision.blogspot.com/2012/06/kompendium.h…
The End of Gameplay droqen.itch.io/the-end-of-gameplay
Utopia Clicker tinysubversions.com/game/utopia
A Jackpot of Skulls brainfruit.studio/games/jackpot
_update() Jam adamatomic.itch.io/update-jam

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