Season of the Lost, Week 6

Update: 2021-10-07

Description

Bungie made a public relations push last week via their official website and interviews with wider games journalism media outlets. Kit and Mike discuss! Also, the penultimate Season of the Lost story beat dropped, and you could say your co-hosts were "of two minds" about it. No? OK, fine. Look, I don't need this job.

Things discussed: Shaders correction, Accessibility at Bungie, Bungie's Diversity and Inclusion Learnings and Updates post, Pete Parsons: Bungie CEO, interviews with the narrative team, Destiny Anxiety piece by Yusef Cole, Wayfinder's Voyage VI (spoilers starting 23:10 ), the contrast between Shattered Realm and Expunge missions, Shattered Realm as a remix, Petra's data caches, the Dreaming City, the curse on the Dreaming City, the "Broken Courier" mission, Petra Venj, Destiny 1's House of Wolves and The Taken King expansions, the Taken War, Xivu Arath and the Ascendant Plane, level design in the Ruins of Wrath and the Witch Queen, the Warbringer's Tower and its Undercroft, Scoroboth: Son of Xivu Arath, Dul Incaru, the Truth to Power book, Crow, Savathun, on perspectives in cutscenes and dialogue, "Nothing Left to Say" mission, Crow's voice acting (Brandon O'Neill), Mara Sov, Ripples book entry: IV - Art, narrative dissonance, suspention of disbelief, Wayfinder's Voyage III, Hive magic, 4th wall breaking, The Vanguard Crow and the player character's relationship, on episodic storytelling and "binge watching", Crow's design, Kit's "Dreaming City Mondays" project

Intro Music: Unfunky UFO by Parliament

Outro Music: Space Song by Beach House

Cover Art by Jez Winters @jez_winters

Podcast Name by Michael Moldovan

Email us: sometimetoexplain@gmail.com

Mike's contact info: @macclubbin, www.michaelmaccubbin.com

Kit's contact info: @kit_boyote

References:

Accessibility at Bungie affinity group announcement

Diversity and Inclusion Learnings and Updates

Axios.com article

GamesRadar article