Documenting The End in Umurangi Generation (+ Macro DLC)

I'm having a hard time getting the Cheerwine and the portrait of the personification of existential dread in the same shot with the telephoto lens. Today we're talking about ***Umurangi Generatoin*** by ORIGAME DIGITAL! A game about taking photos and choosing how to live. Get Umurangi Generation on Steam or Switch!!! Follow ORIGAME DIGITAL's work on their website! **Discussed in the episode:** - The Cheerwine Official Store - The Article Where I Talk About Umurangi Generation In Full Detail (Total F\*ckin Spoilers Ahead), Part One by Kaile Hultner on No Escape - Interview: Naphtali Faulkner on developing indie smash 'Umurangi Generation' by Jonathan Peltz on inverse - 5 Years Ago, One Of The Most Brilliant Photography Games Perfectly Captured The Present Moment by Robin Bea on inverse **Additional links:** - The Umurangi Generation is Asking You To Care by Celia Lewis for Vista Magazine on Medium - What a video game about a futuristic Tauranga can tell us about our present by Dan Taipua for The Spinoff \--- Support us on Ko-fi! Visit our website! Follow us on YouTube! Follow the show on Bluesky! Check out The Worst Garbage Online! \--- Art by Tara Crawford Theme music by \_amaranthine Additional sounds by Boqeh Produced and edited by AJ Fillari \--- Timecodes: - (00:00) - Picklesburgh and Kielbasafest - (01:21) - Welcome back to penn.dot - (02:17) - What is Unmurangi Generation? - (03:50) - This game is About Stuff - (05:12) - The photography is fun - (15:51) - The way the mechanics aid the story - (17:41) - All photography has a bias! - (21:35) - The soundtrack!!! The art!!! - (24:02) - Spoilers! - (25:08) - Speeding through the narrative - (30:07) - What the Macro DLC focuses on - (39:59) - Big Takeaways - (40:26) - Robin's Big Takeaway - (43:42) - AJ's Big Takeaway - (45:51) - The game is amazing!!!!!! - (46:52) - Thanks for listening! [**★ Support this podcast ★**](https://ko-fi.com/dotzip "★ Support this podcast ★")