Podcast: The weird, wild and wonderful of EGX Rezzed
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It’s a podcast special! Astrid Johnson takes us through the halls of London game show EGX Rezzed, on a search for oddities and weirdness. And she finds plenty of both. There’s Stereopolis, a game projected onto a disc of frosted glass, or Wobble Garden, which is played entirely by twanging a bunch of springy door stoppers (pictured above).
It’s an overview of the show for those who couldn't make it this year. We also learn about the plane tinkering of Above, two-player sausage-dog cooperation in Phogs, and Disco Elysium, an isometric RPG featuring an alcoholic detective having an unconscious argument with his lizard brain. And then there's the tale of Fernando's chicken...
You can listen above, or go straight to Soundcloud where you can download it for later.
You can also get the RSS feed here or find it on iTunes, Stitcher or Pocket Casts. The music was provided by yer man Kevin MacLeod. All photos courtesy of our brothers and sisters of at EGX.
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Links:
Eurogamer’s roundup of the best games from the show floor
Wobble Garden, with a controller made of door stopper springs
The saga of Fernando’s chicken shop
Phogs, the two player game of controlling a single sausage-bodied dog