Why do we make games? Every designer has a different and very personal answer to that question. Soren Johnson, founder of Mohawk Games, sits down with noted designers to find out by examining their careers as a whole.
Categories: Uncategorised
Tags: designer notes, development, Game Development, Idle Thumbs, idlethumbs, mohawk games, soren johnson, video games, videogames
Something True brings you incredible and bizarre true stories from the footnotes of history. A dog in the United States Cabinet? A leading rocket scientist who quit his job to make a moonchild? Virginia Woolf donning blackface to prank a navy? They’re all true. They’re all Something True.
Categories: Arts, Comedy, Society & Culture
Tags: Comedy, Duncan Fyfe, facts, History, humor, Humour, Idle Thumbs, Short stories, storytelling, trivia
Join us as we discuss each of the final seven remaining episodes of Matthew Weiner’s outstanding 60s-era drama.
Categories: TV & Film
Tags: amc, Idle Thumbs, Mad Men, Matthew Weiner
Join us as we revisit David Lynch and Mark Frost’s unsettling murder mystery serial, Twin Peaks. Each week we’ll watch and discuss one episode—send questions and comments on the current episode to twinpeaks@idlethumbs.net to be part of the conversation!
Categories: TV & Film
Tags: david lynch, Idle Thumbs, mark frost, recap, rewatch, twin peaks
Idle Thumbs is a video game podcast full of in-depth discussion and absurdity. Between overly-enthusiastic dissections of their latest media experiences and baffling phonological explorations of Jeff Goldblum’s name, the cast has managed to find a regular audience of dedicated readers. Scoop up the latest episode and hear us extol the virtues of whatever we’ve just watched, played, or read—then attempt to answer reader mail before getting sidetracked about robots.
Tags: console games, Idle Thumbs, idlethumbs, indie games, pc games, video games, videogames