Into the Depths: Kentucky Route Zero - Part 1

In the first installment of our Kentucky Route Zero miniseries, we meet our guest co-hosts, with whom we put Act I's opening scene under a microscope, discuss the game's novel dialogue system, and dive deep into the first batch of its many intertextual references. Show notes: Stephanie Boluk Patrick Lemieux Kentucky Route Zero Cardboard Computer A House in California Metagaming book Mutazione Designing for Mystery in KRZ GDC talk Dear Esther Fluxus Grapefruit Successful Reflective Choices in Interactive Narrative Colossal Cave Adventure Where the Water Tastes Like Wine Recoding Gender: Women’s Changing Participation in Computing Playing with Feelings: Video Games and Affect Game of Life Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave One Hundred Years of Solitude A Pedestal, A Table, A Love Letter: Archaeologies of Gender in Videogame History Hundred Thousand Billion Poems 1976: Adventure Mathematical Theory of Communication New Media Reader