Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers is now available for PC, Mac, and all the consoles. And I had to reach out now that the sequel is out just two or three weeks ago on May 27th.
The story, the characters, the dialogue, it was all just so phenomenal. It was this amazing game set in an alternate timeline, where the video game crash of 1983 never happened, which I guess means that my Alamogordo E.T. Ken: So, when it was included in itch.io bundle a few years ago, I finally picked it up and wow, I saw what the big deal was. My friends were playing it on Twitch and I was like, "What's the big deal?" When this game first came out a few years ago, I saw it getting a lot of hype at PAX. I haven't played too many games in that genre, but the ones I've played have totally hit it out of the park, most significantly, Arcade Spirits. So, it makes sense, of course, that I would love the mashup of the two, the visual novel. Ken Gagne: Hello, and welcome to the Polygamer podcast, episode number 126, for Wednesday, June 15, 2022. Join us as we expand the boundaries of the gaming community. Voiceover: Welcome to the Polygamer podcast, where gaming is for everyone.
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In this podcast interview, Aenne and I chat about how they and Arcade Spirits director Stefan Gagne divvied up the script weaving social justice into game narrative the storytelling options introduced by the Fist of Discomfort 2 minigame how to know when it's time to end a podcast deciding what games to stream to Twitch and which to host on YouTube juggling multiple jobs when living with ADHD and an alternative history for full-motion video (FMV) games. When not writing games or speaking on convention panels about romance in games, Aenne is a streamer for Stumptgamers and Rainbow Arcade and works by day as a licensed veterinary technician. Both games feature a diverse cast of characters to meet and, optionally, romance, while telling stories of personal discovery and social justice.
Aenne Schumann is one of the narrative designers of Arcade Spirits and Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers, a pair of visual novels set in a fictional timeline where arcades still reign supreme.