088: Kentucky Route Zero (Limits & Demonstrations)

We look at some art in Kentucky Route Zero: Limits & Demonstrations.

Developer: Cardboard Computer | Publisher: Annapurna Interactive | Initial Release: February 7, 2013

Jacob, Mike and special guest Adam Iannetta are stricken with sadness, play with cassette tape and think about visages. You can download this interlude for free!

Players: Jacob McCourt (@JacobMcCourt) & Mike Ruffolo (@ruffolom)

Special Guest: Adam Iannetta (@DMAIannetta) | Website: adamiannetta.ca

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SHOW NOTES:

• 2:15 How does Limits & Demonstrations begin?
• 6:55 So, what do you do in this interlude?
• 12:30 Our take on “Overdubbed Nam June Paik Installation in the style of Edward Packer”
• 14:20 We screwed up and thought this was Act 2
• 17:50 Mike compares this game to Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow” and David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest”
• 22:30 A description of “Visage”
• 25:55 A description of “Spinning Coin Suspended, Correcting for Angular Motion”
• 28:30 Wait… was this whole thing just a hardware test?

NEXT SHOWS:

• May 20, 2020 – Episode 89: Firewatch feat. Jacob, Mike, Moe and special guest Dan from the Greatest Story Ever Played Podcast
• June 3, 2020 – Episode 90: Kentucky Route Zero, Act 2 feat. Jacob, Mike and special guest Adam Iannetta
• June 10, 2020 – Episode 91: Kentucky Route Zero, The Entertainment feat. Jacob, Mike and special guest Adam Iannetta

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