Jerry Belich talks about his wild work in the Alt.ctrl milieu, his boundary-redefining escape rooms (for lack of a better term), and his digital game work, from Recommendation Dog and Reel Steal on the Playdate, to High on Life and High on Knife.
High on Knife is out now on Steam, Epic, Xbox, and Playstation.
You can find Jerry’s work on this pretty comprehensive page of his website.
A Masterpiece in Disarray is available wherever you get books.
You can also follow Jerry on Bluesky.
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• Here are our past conversations with Megan Fox, Robin Baumgarten, Adriel Wallick, and the bit comedy devotee himself, William Pugh.
• And here’s the Experimental Gameplay Workshop where Jerry talks about Please Stand By.
• Arvi Teikari was indeed a student at the University of Helsinki when he started working on Baba Is You—and he also made the initial prototype for Nordic Game Jam. So that’s (at least) two villages that one might say it took.
• Drew mentions at the end that his music is on Bandcamp, which it is, for now.
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“All The People Say (Season 5)” by Carpe Demon.
Some music from the Dune Swede that Jerry mentions.
“Mack the Knife” by Kurt Weil, performed by Ted Ferrer with the Klaus Alzners Orkester.
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