Scope Creepers - A Game Dev Podcast
Oct 9, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min · 13 segments
Aarimous and Payne kick of what I'm calling Season 3 of Scope Creepers. We chat about his new game Medium Rare, game dev YouTube, and the challenges of making games in this season of life. Watch on…
It, it feels like Medium Rare's gonna be a game that has a bunch of, like, little emergent story beat moments that you'll slowly uncover as you go deeper and deeper and deeper, all wrapped up into this...
I've always thought about, like, ARPGs and stuff like that have this really nice rogue-lite element.
It might not be the right exact word, but from my head it's like your meta-progression ends up being what you are able to get out.
And it's this soft meta-progression 'cause you can lose the stuff on the very next run.
It's 'cause it isn't a rogue-lite, but it's not a rogue-like, but it kinda feels like it is a little bit.
Rogue-lites are, are done, all right? We're moving on from rogue, rogue-lites.
But I think what so far it seems you've done really, really well is the, like, the narrative hook of it all.
It's medium rare, you eat food to, like, the world, like, the world development is what's gonna really, like, hook somebody into this game.
It, it feels like Medium Rare's gonna be a game that has a bunch of, like, little emergent story beat moments that you'll slowly uncover as you go deeper and deeper and deeper, all wrapped up into this...
I've always thought about, like, ARPGs and stuff like that have this really nice rogue-lite element.
It might not be the right exact word, but from my head it's like your meta-progression ends up being what you are able to get out.
And it's this soft meta-progression 'cause you can lose the stuff on the very next run.
It's 'cause it isn't a rogue-lite, but it's not a rogue-like, but it kinda feels like it is a little bit.
Rogue-lites are, are done, all right? We're moving on from rogue, rogue-lites.
But I think what so far it seems you've done really, really well is the, like, the narrative hook of it all.
It's medium rare, you eat food to, like, the world, like, the world development is what's gonna really, like, hook somebody into this game.
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