Synopsis
Join Griffin McElroy and Nick Robinson as they create a new video game every week -- with your help.
Episodes
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Breeding Amiibles (with SoftHard™ Technology)
28/07/2017 Duration: 01h06sLink's CrossFit Training, a Taken roguelike based with randomized "particular sets of skills," a game where the goal is not to rhyme, and toys-to-life but for marbles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Barry Bertical's Uphill Jam
22/07/2017 Duration: 57minThis time around, the boys get all hung up on the idea of a multiplayer cooperative mountain-scaling game — complete with a shaky alliances, werewolf-style lying, and Mountain Justice™. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Business and Pleasure (featuring Marina from the Splatoon™ series)
07/07/2017 Duration: 54minThis week, we make DDR Go, a game about adding new bones to your skeleton, and a 4X strategy game about dating world leaders. Also, Marina from Splatoon 2 is there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Lexiconquest
01/07/2017 Duration: 51minAfter a few false starts with an anti-tycoon game concept and a Miitomo + Tinder hybrid, we settle into what might be our greatest idea yet: a marriage of Scribblenauts and Bookworm Adventures that redefines what edutainment can be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Exquisite Corpse
24/06/2017 Duration: 54minWe return from E3 chock-full of inspiration, which leads us to design a DDR game for horses, Call of Duty's new wizard class, and a video game loosely inspired by the parlour game Exquisite Corpse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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PoolGames Inc 2.0
17/06/2017 Duration: 26minIt's E3 time, which means we're once again, despite our better judgment, getting in a hot tub with some friends and some alcohol and recording a wet and wild hot tub episode, featuring just about every friend we could get our hands on. (For the video version of this episode, head to youtube.com/polygon!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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MorphCorps
26/05/2017 Duration: 51minWe return from our week of absence to explore Mario & Sonic at the Eurovision Song Contest, Bad Dad Redemption, a competitive news chopper piloting game, and a PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds mod that adds a shapeshifting companion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Angels in the Paint
13/05/2017 Duration: 01h04minWe take a deep dive in Sonic lore, make a game about One Weird Trick, a Weekend at Bernie's-style Splinter Cell game, and a game about celestial b-ball interference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Property Brothers in Arms: Global Front Door
06/05/2017 Duration: 58minAfter kicking things off with an 8-almond challenge, we dust ourselves off and develop some games — including Breath of the Wile E. Coyote, Adjustin' Timberlake and Shrekken. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Prestige Goose
29/04/2017 Duration: 01h02minThis week, we design a game about a fake zoo, a Spider vs. Man Paragon/Renegade system, an Applebee's based fighting game, and a movie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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CoolGames Inc in the City
23/04/2017 Duration: 18minIn this special video episode of CoolGames Inc (available on youtube.com/polygon), Griffin and Nick lay out their plans for Taste Buds, a friends-only cooperative VR food experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Gary Potter and the Iguana's Curse Online
14/04/2017 Duration: 01h03min🅱otions class. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Silhouette of the Big One: Takedown
08/04/2017 Duration: 54minThis week, we set aside some time to address #Cheetogate, introduce the first in our three-part "algorithmically-generated video games" segment, and then do what we do best: make video games inspired by Burnout 3. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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CGI Jr: Vitality Egg
31/03/2017 Duration: 37minWith Griffin all souped up and Nick reporting in from the South, we've produced a baby-sized episode centered mostly around creating the ultimate proprietary Nintendo peripheral: the Nintendo Vitality Egg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mr. Bucket's Stroke Wars
25/03/2017 Duration: 55minThis week sees us barrelling headfirst into Easter as we reminisce about our favorite holiday traditions — before making a monstrous classic movie / anime hybrid, designing a Shadow the Hedgehog ending-based birthday quiz, figuring out what S.E.X. Tricky would be, and ultimately designing the ultimate minigolf MMO featuring everyone's favorite discontinued 90's tabletop toy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Munchlax Analysis
18/03/2017 Duration: 01h04minWe briefly set aside the video games while Griffin pitches us on his new app that's taking SXSW by storm — and then hop back into our game developer chairs to make games about Borrowers in a snack machine, a cover-based shooter where you're invincible but VERY shy, and a game about being an aging film critic trying to review Pokemon: The First Movie in the year 1999. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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CGI Jr: Oops! All Baileys
10/03/2017 Duration: 31minNick is dying of a mysterious GDC ailment that renders his brain non-functional, so we're doing a half-length episode about bear mascots, a sweetlip emperor-based successor to Dolphin Olympics, and a world full of Cash Cabs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Crew: Wet Country
04/03/2017 Duration: 54minIt's Nintendo Switch launch day, a day that we here on CoolGames Inc treat as a federal holiday. To celebrate, we treat ourselves to a big ol' batch of good, stupid video game ideas, including a game about going to heaven, another about buying a Vita in Reggie Fils-Aime's body, and a alternate history prohibition game so elaborate we don't have time to summarize it in this podcast description text. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
25/02/2017 Duration: 59minThe boys set a new landspeed record for crime confessions in a video game podcast, before diving into a Mario Party 6 microphone reboot, a Santana-driven baseball game, and a Skyrim toilet game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices