How is it April? The episodes have been so long lately it feels like it should be more than two months since the hiatus ended. As a countermeasure, the Nice Hosts have another set of roundtable topics to break up your week and retune the time dilation. Stephen tries hard not to talk about fighting games, Lydia ponders the nature of instructions, and everyone talks a lot more about Mario than they thought they would. 

0:01:41
Characterization Through Mechanics
We talked about characterization in Smash on a previous episode.
0:29:24
Tutorials vs. Instructions
Five step instructions to play a game. Notably, NOT a tutorial.
The "tutorial" Lydia encountered at work that inspired this topic.

Podden och tillhörande omslagsbild på den här sidan tillhör Lydia, Stephen, and Mark. Innehållet i podden är skapat av Lydia, Stephen, and Mark och inte av, eller tillsammans med, Poddtoppen.