Total Playtime: Henry Rollins Pirate Accountant Simulator
Total Playtime is a Patreon-supported podcast about videogames, hosted by Alice Bell, Jon Hicks, Brendan Caldwell and Nate Crowley. Jank has partnered with them and we'll be posting new episodes each week.
Once again we find ourselves in a situation where I, Alice, was not there to record this episode, but am here to write the description for it. I can call Jonty a big smelly poohead and there's nothing he can do about it! Haha! You should have come up with a Podcast Post Editing Simulator, Jonty. That's the theme this week: coming up with pastimes to make simulation games about, but which have not already been simulated by ambitious and fast-moving developers. It turns out there are a lot of sim games.
Nevertheless, the lads were able to come up with several concepts, as follows:
- Philosophy Professor Simulator
- Henry Rollins Pirate Accountant Simulator
- Lin Manuel Miranda's Bin Man Hell Uganda
- Left Wing Roid Monster Olympics (not the name Nate actually gave it but I feel mine is more evocative and not open to a lawsuit from Andy Samburg)
- Local Election Sim
- Museum Attendant Simulator
- Pig Falling Out Of A Biplane Editing Suite
If you want to know anything about the proposed content of the games, you'll have to listen to the show!
They had enough time left over for Nate to sense check Brendy about the content of Fallout: New Vegas, which he has not played. He has watched the Fallout TV show, though, so he wanted to know how much was true to the game. A surprising amount! But Macaulay Culkin is not in the game. When he appears on the TV show the camera pauses as he stands with his back to the camera and takes his helmet off, like it's a big reveal, but it's not a big reveal because the character has been in the show before - it's a reveal because it's Macaulay Culkin, I guess? So it is predicated on the audience going 'Wow, it's Macaulay Culkin!', and the whole thing really annoyed me.
Anyway.
You can listen to the podcast right here on this page, and Total Playtime backers can also find it on Spotify and Patreon.
You can also email in with your own ideas for riveting simulation games at totalplaytimepod@gmail.com.
Music by God Ribbon, art by Marsh Davies and our entire existence care of you, our Patreon backers, and the lovely backers of Jank also. Thanks again for supporting the pod and the site, we very much appreciate it.
Games!
Some of the games discovered while trawling through sims include Tabletop Game Shop Simulator, Dragon Tax Return Simulator, Necromancer Accountant, and UK Politics Simulator.
Recommendations
The Oxfam online shop, animation channel vewn, and Muldoon's Logs by Ali Awada.
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