Dev Game Club

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we continue our series on Psychonauts. We unravel more about what this game even *is*, while at the same time looking at things like level design, abilities and powers, and other topics, before turning to listener mail. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: Past Milla Vodello Issues covered: wait what is this?, inefficiencies in development, constant learning, a full brain, modifying your loadout, using abilities in the scavenger hunt, fitting everything in, multiple economies, the problems of a radial wheel, making a new genre from blending and having to rethink, a tradition of crunch, edge cases everywhere, making something realistic feel good, the multi-step process of sucking up a mental cobweb, iterating through multiple games, teaching you about the inventory, niche games that are bespoke, having troubles with certain aspects, level design, the cohesion of the level select