Season 1
Episodes
1 How Gamers Killed Ultima Online's Virtual Ecology Jun 2, 2022 2 How Thief's Stealth System Almost Didn't Work Jun 2, 2022 3 How Stardock's Elemental: War of Magic Failed Feb 28, 2018 4 How Serious Sam's Demo Saved the Game From Extinction Oct 4, 2018 5 How Star Control II Was Almost TOO Realistic Oct 23, 2018 6 How Aliens versus Predator's Late Design Change Made It a Classic Nov 20, 2018 7 How Total War: Rome II's Ambition Was Almost Its Undoing Dec 18, 2018 8 How Dead Space's Scariest Scene Almost Killed the Game Jan 8, 2019 9 How Blade Runner Reinvented Adventure Games Feb 15, 2019 10 How Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Solved Pathfinding Feb 16, 2019 11 How MechWarrior 5's Team Fixed Their Player-Killing Level Generator Apr 3, 2019 12 How Amnesia: The Dark Descent Tricked Players Into Scaring Themselves Apr 16, 2019 13 How Slay the Spire’s Original Interface Almost Killed the Game May 2, 2019 14 How Localizing Return of the Obra Dinn Nearly Sunk the Game May 21, 2019 15 How This War of Mine Plays on Your Emotions May 30, 2019 16 How Subnautica Succeeded Without Weapons Jun 5, 2019 17 How Dead Cells Cheated to Make the Game More Fun Jul 17, 2019 18 How Sid Meier Almost Made Civilization a Real-Time Strategy Game Sep 23, 2019 19 How Mind Control Saved Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee Dec 3, 2019 20 How Myst Almost Couldn't Run on CD-ROM Jan 28, 2020 21 How Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation Feb 27, 2020 22 How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations Mar 17, 2020 23 How Homeworld Almost Got Lost in 3D Space Apr 7, 2020 24 How Netflix's "Extraction" Engineered a 12-Minute, One-Shot Action Scene Apr 28, 2020 25 How Alan Wake Was Rebuilt 3 Years Into Development May 14, 2020 26 How "Robert the Bruce" Continued the Story of "Braveheart" Under Brutal Conditions May 19, 2020 27 How NBA JAM Became A Billion-Dollar Slam Dunk Jun 16, 2020 28 How Amazon’s “Undone” Animates Dreams With Rotoscoping And Oil Paints Jul 14, 2020 29 How One Gameplay Decision Changed Diablo Forever Aug 18, 2020 30 How Forza's Racing AI Uses Neural Networks to Evolve Sep 13, 2020 31 How Deus Ex Blended Genres To Change Shooters Forever Dec 16, 2021 32 How Gears Of War Almost Didn't Have Multiplayer May 26, 2022