Episode 12: Listener Mailbag #1

Let's be honest with you, dear listeners: the Indieventure trio are making this podcast in our spare time around our full-time day jobs and, sometimes, we simply can't find the time or just don't feel like writing a detailed script. Which is why, on this occasion (and at random intervals going forward) we've crowd-sourced our theme for this episode! We asked and you lovely people answered, throwing out some great questions that we were only too delighted to respond to in the form of our trademark lengthy rambles.

Ever wondered what everyone's first indie game was? Which indie characters we'd love to see in Smash Bros.? The indie game we'd most like to see get a movie adaptation? If we have any secretly shameful indie faves? Or whether we have any opinions on tabletop games? (Spoiler alert for that last one: turns out, we do.)

I mean, obviously there's a high chance you did wonder about all this, because we don't have that many listeners, so there's good odds that the person reading this right now did submit some of these questions. In which case: hi! And thank you! It's been a pleasure, and I can assure you that all these queries and more become the subject of lively discussions (if not yielding actual answers) by the end of the episode.

We finish as ever with our latest hyperfixations, and while this isn't a competitive section, Liam definitely wins by becoming absolutely obsessed with Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy of New Weird sci-fi/horror novels, a preoccupation that Rachel and Rebecca are only too happy to encourage since it turns out we're all big fans of the series. Rebecca, meanwhile, has a lot of good things to say about Re/Member, a Japanese teen horror film featuring not one but two time-loops that got absolutely slated in reviews when it came out on Netflix, but which in her opinion was close to 5-star quality (but then again, it is an extremely Rebecca-coded film). And Rachel has been playing a short but sweet (and surprisingly queer) indie mystery game: This Bed We Made, which sadly got a bit lost in the shuffle when it launched towards the end of last year despite great reviews.

And finally: you might have noticed that our music is back at long last! With huge thanks to Ollie Newbury for composing a bespoke theme for Indieventure that we can call our very own. Check out Ollie's work on Instagram if you want to hear more of his stuff, because he's very talented and cool.