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Save Your Game

Save Your Game Podcast

A podcast about narrative video games hosted by internet bon vivant PushingUpRoses and special boy Matt Aukamp.

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96:14

Episode 30 - Audience Recommendations Vol. 3

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2024/09/18

Welcome in!PushingUpRoses and Matt Aukamp take your recommendations seriously! And they prove it by playing four of them and reviewing them in this episode: There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension, The Journey Down, Voodoo Detective, and Life is Strange.We also bring back some SPECIAL GUESTS for our RANKING EVERY ADVENTURE GAME segment.Email Us! mattandroses@gmail.comGames Mentioned: Muppets: Chaos at the Carnival or something Fallout: New Vegas The Abandoned Planet Myst Mars After Midnight

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103:43

Episode 29 - Nostalgia and Dani and Bill from Escape...

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2024/09/11

We're not here to fuck spiders, we're here to talk about Adventure Games with our brilliant and charming friends Dani and Bill from Escape This Podcast and the upcoming Rise of the Golden Idol!We talk about nostalgia and the way it colors – or does not color – our views of games, and just goof the hell around.So, I guess we were here to fuck spiders, after all.Find Escape This Podcast and Solve This Murder at https://www.consumethismedia.com/The episode with Roses and Matt is here:

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94:33

Episode 28 - Strange Horticulture

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2024/09/04

This week we talk about a spooky cozy casual mystery plant game called Strange Horticulture that rules. Also, Matt raves about Fallout: New Vegas, Roses has a stylish mystery game to talk about and we rank a bunch of adventure games, ridiculously.Email us! mattandroses@gmail.comGames Mentioned: A Case of Mistrust Fallout: New Vegas Zelda: Breath of the Wild Strange Horticulture Botany Manor Assemble With Care Unpacking Return to the Obra Dinn Case of the Golden Idol Papers, Please In

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99:22

Episode 27 - Dialogue: What Makes it Good?

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2024/08/28

PushingUpRoses and Matt Aukamp talk about dialogue trees in adventure games; What makes them good? What makes them bad? Do you skip them? Matt says some stuff that's likely to get him cancelled by Sierra-heads. Plus, PlayDate with Matt and RANKING EVERY ADVENTURE GAME EVER.We don't know. Whatever makes sense.Email us! mattandroses@gmail.comGames Mentioned: The Crimson Diamond King’s Quest IV Fallout: New Vegas The Keyper Mars After Midnight Papers, Please Grim Fandango Disco Elysium The

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92:56

Episode 26 - Non-Adventure Games

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2024/08/21

Stay hydrated, everyone! No matter the cost.Matt and Roses talk about their favorite non-adventure games, plus PlayDate with Matt!, ranking every adventure game ever, and other silliness. Matt also pitches a weird game idea he had about Machiavelli and he's sorry (but also don't steal it!)Email us! mattandroses@gmail.comGames Mentioned: The Crimson Diamond Lamplight City ToeJam & Earl Life's Too Short Life's Too Short: On Reflection Tetris Banjo Kazooey Dr. Mario Wave Race Jet Moto

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100:59

Episode 25 – New Segments! and the Adventure Game...

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2024/08/14

Hey everyone, we're so sorry about the two-week break, but we're back with ENERGY! Matt has two new segments to present. One that's very normal, and one that's utterly bizarre. Roses went to England and played some arcade games. Matt went to the Adventure Game Fan Fair and we talk about a bunch of demos.The rest, you're just gonna have to hear for yourself.Email us! mattandroses@gmail.comGames Mentioned: Die Hard: The Arcade Game “Dynamo Cops or something” Mario Kart House of the Dead Typing of

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111:35

Episode 24 - Dreams in the Witch House

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2024/07/24

IT'S BAKING TIME! Matt makes bad cookies and then Roses and Matt plan some really cool Stardew-themed Macarons. We briefly revisit the Detective Grimoire series and talk about Rise of the Golden Idol. Then we do a deep-dive into a game that captured the hell out of our imaginations: Dreams in the Witch House!PLUS A RETURN OF A BELOVED SEGMENT!!!Email us! mattandroses@gmail.comGames Mentioned: Tangle Tower Detective Grimoire (THE ORIGINAL FLASH GAME) Rise of the Golden Idol Quest For Glory

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94:58

Episode 23 - Tangle Tower

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2024/07/17

Lets talk about guinea pigs for a while then too many Lorelais before we DEEP DIVE into TANGLE TOWER - a fun mystery game! And we talk about its predecessor Detective Grimoire and the demo for the third game in the series, The Mermaid Mask. It's, honestly?, just a good episode.Email us! mattandroses@gmail.comGames Mentioned: Lorelai Lorelei and the Laser Eyes Detective Grimoire The Mermaid Mask Tangle Tower The Dagger of Amon Ra Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon The

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93:09

Episode 22 - Q & A: New Teeth Edition

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2024/07/10

Roses has new teeth and can't eat no potatoes, but she DID learn about a lot of games with an overwhelming number of cats. We take your questions about achievements, non-adventure game mechanics, console gaming, genre distinctions, Andrew Plotkin's Cruelty Scale, and much more!Email us! mattandroses@gmail.comGames Mentioned: Lorelei and the Laser Eyes A Castle Full of Cats (and the others in the series) The Blue Cat Tunic Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers/The Beast Within Dropsy Laura Bow:

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116:01

Episode 21 - The Dagger of Amon Ra

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2024/07/03

Healthcare! World Hunger! Capitalism! Unfinished Games! Get ready for some R-A-N-T-S!"Aw, Man..." coming soon to NBCAlso, we talk about Laura Bow: The Dagger of Amon Ra for an hour.Email us! mattandroses@gmail.comGames Mentioned: A Space for the Unbound Stardew Valley The Haunted Chocolatier Lorelai Lorelei and the Laser Eyes Journeyman Project The Sexy Brutale Mystery House The Colonel’s Bequest The Dagger of Amon Ra

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103:20

Episode 20 - Audience Recommendations Vol. 2

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2024/06/26

After a week off, Matt and Roses are back fresh as... roses, I guess. After the contractually obligated Stardew Valley talk, we discuss four of YOUR AUDIENCE RECCOMENDATIONS! A Space for the Unbound, The Invincible, The Journeyman Project, and The Cat Lady! This leads to a deep discussion of the entire Harvester Games catalogue.YOUR TAKEAWAYS: 1) If you recommend us a game, guess which one of us it will appeal to more! 2) Email us your opinions on Harvester Games games. 3) Games: They're not just

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25:42

Episode 19.5 - THERE IS NO EPISODE

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2024/06/19

Hey everyone, we're not doing an episode this week, so we just thought we'd throw you a quick episode to tell you how we're not doing an episode. So, sorry there is no episode, but here's an episode about that.And, while we were here, we thought, to apologize for not having an episode, we'd answer a few listener questions.In conclusion, there is no episode. So here is your episode about how there is, in fact, not an episode this week.Episode.

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106:48

Episode 19 - Nightmare Frames and An English Haunting

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2024/06/12

First, you should know: It's not Matt's fault. Second, you should know: PushingUpRoses is a chaotic force. Third, you should listen to us talk about video games. We talk a lot about games we WANT to play, but haven't, then we DEEP DIVE into both of the major releases from Postmodern Adventures.Email us! mattandroses@gmail.comGames Mentioned: Duck Detective: The Secret Salami Strange Horticulture Strange Antiquities Billy Masters was Right Urban Witch Story Lorelei and the Laser Eyes Animal

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114:04

Episode 18 - Duck Detective and Harvester

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2024/06/05

We all knew it was coming eventually. THE BIG TWO! Such a natural pairing of two pieces of media we probably don't even need to mention it. But we will. Matt and Roses play and talk about Duck Detective: The Secret Salami and Harvester. The 1996 FMV video game Harvester. The episode basically records itself.We also say goodbye to a dear, dear, dear, dear friend.Email us! mattandroses@gmail.comGames Mentioned: Kings Quest V (R.I.P.) Duck Detective: The Secret Salami An English Haunting Gabriel

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76:54

Episode 17 - Moon Logic and Ashens

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2024/05/29

PushingUpRoses and Matt Aukamp talk to Stuart Ashen (Ashens, of YouTube fame,) about moon logic and weird, unfair, bizarre, beautiful adventure game puzzles. Also, Matt played Lil' Guardsman.Ashens' talk on moon logic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7nk_Apf35AEmail us! mattandroses@gmail.comGames Mentioned: The Adventures of Mad Dog Williams in the Dungeons of Diridion Kings Quest 6 Heaven's Dawn Baldur's Gate 3 Aladdin Lil' Guardsman Papers Please Disco Elysium Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle

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83:21

Episode 16 - Animal Well, The Quarry, Stardew Valley,...

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2024/05/22

We went into this one with NO PLAN, folks. It's free-style nerding today on the old podcast. Matt played some cool games and finally hit up that Stardew Valley update. Roses talks about Home of the Underdogs and some of retro games we really didn't enjoy. Plus, some ranting about game preservation.Flashpoint: Infinity: https://flashpointarchive.org/downloads/ScummVM: https://www.scummvm.org/Email us! mattandroses@gmail.comGames Discussed: Norco Callahan's Crosstime Saloon Eagle Eye Mysteries

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121:48

Episode 15 - Disco Elysium, The Thaumaturge, and...

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2024/05/15

Special guest Francisco González stops by and tells us a wild story about his new role playing hobby. Matt thinks Indika is weird and incredible. We talk for over an hour about how great Disco Elysium is, and then like 15 minutes about The Thaumaturge.Email us! mattandroses@gmail.comGames Mentioned: Rosewater Grand Theft Auto Online Indika Disco Elysium Planescape: Torment The Thaumaturge Lamplight City

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101:34

Episode 14 - Q&A: Pollen Count Edition

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2024/05/08

Roses falls in love with Disco Elysium and Matt goes frickin' ham discussing Marvel Midnight Suns. We take a ton of audience questions and discuss a variety of topics. Text Adventures, games that we hated after we loved but thought we'd hate, "That doesn't work!", genre distinctions in games, "The Power of Cheese", and an EXHAUSTIVE dissection of Detective Games.Michael's amazing fan art: https://imgur.com/a/KnLj7WgEmail us! mattandroses@gmail.comGames Mentioned: Disco Elysium Midnight Marvel Suns

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80:00

Episode 13 - Streaming Narrative Games and Cressup

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2024/05/01

The charming and insightful Cressup joins Matt and PushingUpRoses to talk about the ethics and complexities of streaming narrative games. We talk about the finger puzzle in Monkey Island 2 a lot, a weird Greek FMV game, the creeping date range of “retro games” and just have a blast.Email us! mattandroses@gmail.comGames Mentioned: Grim Fandango Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge Nick Delios - Conspiracies Phantasmagoria Black Dhalia Kings Quest 8 Escape From Monkey Island Quest for Glory

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97:54

Episode 12 - Return to Monkey Island

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2024/04/24

The album of the year is finally out, and let us be the first to tell you that T.S. did NOT disappoint with her newest release, 3D MARIO. Best Nintendo-themed, 3-D album yet.We did not play Harold Halibut yet, but Matt did play an Adventure/RPG set in 1905 Poland and Roses played with her cat. We talk about Return to Monkey Island so much that we get kind of emotional?We also forgot to mention that we are part of the Adventure Game Hotspot Network, which you can find here:

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