Episode 16.10: Interview with Massive Monster‘s James Pearmain, PlayStation Showcase, and The Matrix 4

Welcome back to another episode of the Online Warriors Podcast! This week, we have a very special episode in store for you.

We kick off the episode with a special guest interview featuring James Pearmain, Co-Founder and Art Director of Massive Monster! Jim came on the show today to chat about his background in game development and to shed some more light on the studio's upcoming game, Cult of the Lamb. Some quick hits from our interview:

• James' background in game development and Flash games (00:59)
• The origin story of Massive Monster (05:04)
• Why Massive Monster pursued PC and Console games instead of Mobile games (07:11)
• Cult of the Lamb's overwhelmingly positive response after the Gamescom reveal (10:34)
• The creative inspiration and development story behind Cult of the Lamb (14:29)
• An in-depth discussion of the core gameplay loop and elements in Cult of the Lamb (21:21)
• The post-launch support/DLC plans for Cult of the Lamb (26:15)
• Where and when we can expect to play Cult of the Lamb (28:26)
• Future plans for Massive Monster (29:51)
• James answers: "If you could be a superhero, what would be your superpower?" (30:47)

Next up, we discuss some of our top highlights out of the game trailers and announcements shown at the PlayStation Showcase! Due to time constraints, we couldn't cover *everything*, but we'd love to hear from you on social media about the one's we missed.

• Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (35:36)
• Marvel's Wolverine (42:51)
• God of War: Ragnarök (49:05)
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake (54:18)
• Alan Wake Remastered (1:05:17)

To round out our news segments, we turn towards a new movie trailer:

• The Matrix: Resurrections (1:07:57)

The crew then goes hands on in their What-Are-You-Up-To Segment:

• Nerdbomber plays a free-to-play shooter with Halo and Portal elements, Splitgate (1:16:15)
• Illeagle finishes Call of Duty: WW2 and watches Clickbait and The Circle: Season 3 (1:21:38)
• Techtic works on a new Halloween tinkering project (1:24:40)

This week, we stick to the farm-animal territory and have a quiz game all about pigs! (01:26:01)

Special shoutout to our Patreon Producer: Steven Keller

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Thanks again to James Pearmain! Check out his work and Cult of the Lamb at...

• Jim's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtJimp
• Massive Monster's Twitter: https://twitter.com/massivemonsters
• Cult of the Lamb Website: https://www.cultofthelamb.com/
• Massive Monster's Website: https://massivemonster.co/
• Cult of the Lamb on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1313140/Cult_of_the_Lamb/

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