Everybody's Talking At Once

Everybody's Talking At Once

Drew Messinger-Michaels

Episodes 185
Avg. Duration 1h 14m
Activity Sporadic
Apple Rating 5.0 (6)
Since Aug 2013
Latest Episode Dec 2025

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Every 2 Weeks
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A longform interview podcast where we talk about everything, by talking about games. We gather insights and stories from game developers, designers, composers, writers, artists, directors, producers, and everyone else who makes games what they are.

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Recent Episodes

S6E185 Something That Sticks With You, with Matthew Seiji Burns

Dec 16, 2025 1h 10m

Process is Matthew Seiji Burns' first novel, in some ways following directly from his work on Eliza (and the under-appreciated rest of his narratives for the Zachtronics/Coincidence catalog) but in…

S6E184 Who Could Want Gameplay? with Alexander Clair Tseu Martin (a.k.a. droqen)

May 12, 2025 1h 38m

The one and only droqen puzzle-platforms on over to discuss his latest game The End of Gameplay, and how it responds to the stubbornly present, all-too-alive gameplay in his game Starseed Pilgrim.…

S6E183 The Utility of Contrarianism, with Barney Oram

Jan 28, 2025 1h 8m

Barney Oram gets into different patterns of sound design, in all sorts of different roles and at all sorts of different scales—plus his love of film in general and Billy Wilder in particular, the…

S6E182 If We Can’t Do This, Then What Are We Doing? with Rasheed Abueideh and Rami Ismail

Jan 06, 2025 1h 6m

Rasheed Abueideh and Rami Ismail talk about Dreams on a Pillow. We talk about how the game combines layered, poetic audiovisuals and gameplay with history and folklore in order to create an account…

S6E181 This Nightmare Will Never End! Hell Yeag! with Lilith Walther

Apr 16, 2024 1h 5m

Lilith Walther aetherboosts her way on over to talk about Nightmare Kart, its previously life as Bloodborne KART, its demake predecessor Bloodborne PSX, and the relationship between retro aesthetics,…

S6E180 Dragon’s Dogma II, Chaos, and Dogs

Apr 02, 2024 41m

Dragon's Dogma II is full of inventive, quirky flourishes, meaningful frictions, and... shameless micro-transactions that capitalize on those exact quirks and frictions. We can, of course, get…

S6E179 Helldivers II and Making Art about Fascism without Making Fascist Art

Mar 19, 2024 42m

Helldivers II is a wildly popular co-op shooter. It's also extremely funny. It's also very much about fascism, both in the sense that its satirical lens is aimed at fascist tendencies in moribund…

S6E178 Palworld: A Ludic Reading and a Luddite Reading

Mar 05, 2024 26m

While the show was taking a break, Drew started putting together some essays on the growing list of recent recent surprise hits—games that, for whatever reason, have been doing vastly better than…

S5E177 Some of What We Played in 2023

Dec 26, 2023 1h 1m

Lucio and Drew talk about some of the games they've enjoyed gaming at this year, from KarmaZoo, Pizza Tower, Wobbly Life, and The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog, to Remnant II, Spider-Man 2, Street…

S5E176 You Should Be Free, with Glen Henry and Chase Bethea

Dec 12, 2023 1h 3m

Glen Henry and Chase Bethea drop achor awhile and talk about Sunken Stones, why pirates mean freedom, and why the Golden Age of Piracy was a lot more Caribbean than Pirates of the Caribbean would…

S5E175 Setting the Stakes, with Ezra Szanton

Nov 28, 2023 1h 25m

Ezra Szanton painstakingly platforms his way over to talk about To The Flame, the first in his new studio's forthcoming kinda-trilogy of horror games. He also talks about how to effective horror,…

S5E174 Devs, Uh, Find a Way, with Eric Peterson (a.k.a. Baja the Frog)

Nov 14, 2023 1h 2m

Eric Peterson hops on over to talk about the joys of hobbyist game development, the things that need to change in professional game development (even when compared to other parts of tech), and the…

S5E173 Reality, Augmented and Otherwise, with Ryan Canuel

Oct 31, 2023 1h 16m

Ryan Canuel of Petricore stops by for a mostly-not-especially-spooky conversation about augmented reality, what bootstrapping actually means, and?alright, some stuff about horror movies right at the…

S5E172 That’s the Point of the Thing, with Jerry Belich

Oct 17, 2023 1h 47m

Jerry Belich talks about his wild work in the Alt.ctrl milieu, his boundary-redefining escape rooms (for lack of a better term), and his digital game work, from Recommendation Dog and Reel Steal on…

S5E171 Ambitions and Ascensions, with Des Gayle

Oct 03, 2023 59m

Des Gayle ascends to the sky island of podcastery to discuss his storied career as a producer, the difficulty of enjoying art when you know how it's made?experiencing it with kids can help?and the…

S5E170 Chance, Curation, Providence, with Matthew Brelsford

Sep 19, 2023 1h 9m

Matt Brelsford opens his hundred eyes and talks about the "loose collective" that is Tiny Mass Games, the spiritual dimension of game development, and (of course) Ophanim. You can find Tiny Mass…

S5E169 Baldur’s Gate 3, as Rolled by Two D&D Neophytes

Sep 05, 2023 46m

Drew and L talk about their time so far with Baldur's Gate 3, which works beautifully as a sprawling computer RPG, and as a unique intersection of free play and complex game rules—but how does it…

S5E168 On Sequels, with Bryant Cannon

Aug 22, 2023 1h 7m

Bryant Cannon tunes into our frequency to talk a bit about OXENFREE II: Lost Signals (which it's too early to spoil), and a whole lot about The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (which it's high…

S5E167 A True History Turnip Exchange, with Jaku

Aug 08, 2023 1h 7m

Jaku is a security expert, a speedrunner, and a longtime builder of tools that expand how we interact with games online—from Crowd Control, which empowers streamers' audiences to alter the state of…

S5E166 Drama, Not Trauma, with Jessica Antenorcruz

Jul 25, 2023 1h 3m

Jessica Antenorcruz has a unique, and also uniquely appropriate role on the upcoming drag queen fighting game Drag Her! She's in charge of the game's writing, from spoken lines to character concepts…

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