The Best Games From Each Studio and Our History With Pets
Janet and Isaiah talk about Janet maybe starting Monster Train? Having Slay the Spire experience under her belt, they touch on if they think it’s a good time to pick up something new. They then pick a handful of games studios and try to find out what’s the best game from each one, touching on their history with the studio, its franchises, and more (GAMES). Then they talk about their past, present, and future with pets. Going over what pets they had growing up, sharing some fun and not so fun stories with pets from their childhood, and dream about what animal friends they may have in the future (NOT GAMES).
Poll of the Show:
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Timestamps:
Poll of the Show:
https://gamesandnotgames.com/poll
Timestamps:
- 00:00 Intro
- 00:18 Catching Up
- 05:12 Games / Janet starts Monster Train?
- 11:48 Best games from each studio
- 01:03:02 Not Games / Pets (our past, present, and future)
- 01:54:31 Poll of the Show
- 02:11:16 Outro
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Creators and Guests

Host
Isaiah Smith
Making and breaking things online | web + game dev | co-host @GamesAndNot | dev @PhotomodeApp & @PenToPixels | 📧 [email protected]

Host
Janet Garcia
Host & Video Game Consultant 💫| Head of @PenToPixels 🖊 | @MinnMaxShow cohort ↘↗| @IndieCouncil_ cohost👩🏽⚖️| @GamesAndNot cohost🎮 | 📧[email protected]
