South of Midnight

The vinyl.

The vinyl of South of Midnight.

It came with this special box.

in the box was the vinyl in there too but uh the vinyl was color blue right in this one right um but man that vinyl that soundtrack soundtrack is amazing there's a song in that game that made me cry there's a song in that game that was like yo what the heck this is like really deep like i really really enjoy that uh that um that that that soundtrack so it was cool oh and this one is uh city project red they they they got together with like uh energy drink company sent us like a hoodie and

Absolute madness.

And at least 49 of them were playing South of Midnight.

yeah I checked before the show and it was like 47 and it's holding on it is

consistency that's the key neither the

Psychonauts 3 was good, but didn't, like, set the world on fire.

South of Midnight was kind of, like, fine, but, like, definitely wasn't, you know, didn't really have a lot of potential, future potential there.

Cameron says...

Yeah, but

So yeah, Gloomgate, a lot of fun.

The other one I'll talk about quickly is now that it's no longer making money for Microsoft, and I double and triple checked that we'd reached that point, I've been playing South of Midnight.

which was one of the first games that released after we started boycotting Microsoft a while back.

It is a linear narrative game.

And I don't think it helps the game's pacing at all.

or flow to have as much combat as it does, I think it's better as a shorter game with less combat.

So yeah, I'm enjoying South of Midnight even if the combat's really not adding to it.

Yeah, I played it a little bit when it first came out, just before the boycott shit happened and I sort of learned all the shit about Microsoft and its love of genocide.

... who set me up with Compulsion Games around 2011.

I wrote Contrast for them, um, then, uh, put together We Happy Few and its two DLCs, um, and then we did South of Midnight, um, which has won a Peabody.

Um, and since then I worked on, uh, FragPunk, a, an online shooter, um, that failed to unseat Valorant as the big online shooter, and I've been, uh, making independent video games.

Amazing.

... here's what I think.

I think that our version of that, of what you described, John, is some sort of narrative framing device that you can come back to over and over again, something that feels like a spine.

So, um, Alex, I'm not saying this just to, uh, [laughs] just to brown-nose, but I had a lovely time with South of Midnight.

Uh, and South of Midnight uses a framing di- a framing device, right? So you have the sense that you are kind of going through a storybook.

Let me pick at random.

Um, South of Midnight.

South-

Really?

South of Midnight was really, really cool because I think it was the first game I ever heard where the music was telling you a story.

So, like, every time you went to a new area, um-

Yeah