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Games Are Better When You Give a Shit and Pay Attention (Patreon)

Published:
2026-07-31 08:00:10
Edited:
2026-08-02 22:53:33
Imported:
2026-07

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This Week on Post Games:

Act 1: This One Game Is Two Games

Act 2: Fighting for Attention in the Age of Endless Distraction

Patreon Bonus: Making Games with Christian Faith

Guests:

Xalavier Nelson Jr.: Studio head, designer, and writer, Strange Scaffold

Act 1: This One Game Is Two Games

Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?! (Steam)

How Xalavier Nelson Does It (Aftermath)

When making lots of small games is more sustainable than making one big one (Polygon)

how does an indie game get made? (Noodle)

Clickolding (Steam)

Moonchild (Webtoon)

Act 2: Fighting for Attention in the Age of Endless Distraction

New Fantasy Driving Game Has An Absurd Name And An Even More Absurd Premise (Kotaku)

Frosty Pop (frostypop.com)

Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator (Steam)

El Paso, Elsewhere (Steam)

Snakes on a Plane (Wiki)

Patreon Bonus: Making Games with Christian Faith

Co-op Kaiju Horror Cooking (Steam)

Storytime with Xalavier Nelson, Jr. | PAX East 2026 (PAX on YouTube)

Faith In Rapture – Ken Levine Shares Thoughts On Creating Authentic Diversity (Game Informer)

Interview: Ken Levine on player movement, Disneyland, and how BioShock Infinite's villain compares to Andrew Ryan (PCGamer)

Dropsy (Steam)

Lars and the Real Girl (JustWatch)

David (Steam)

Waldensians (Wiki)

Lethal Company (Steam)

Lunacy Studios (lunacystudios.com)

This Week in Video Game Links

Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Fans Are Really Curious What A Change In The Remake’s ESRB Rating Means (Kotaku)

Hater Week (Aftermath)

The Abyssal Crown | Rebirth Chapter - NOW AVAILABLE! (Lycarina/YouTube)

Why date when Love and Deepspace exists? (Mothership)

"The Case of the Golden Idol-style deduction meets The X-Files": Former BioWare devs unveil supernatural detective game The Eventide (RPS)

Free Game of the Week: Reelism 2

From the official website: "Can you wade through five sixty-second rounds fending off swarms of monsters? Under normal circumstances, sure, but in Reelism 2, every round throws out the rulebook, with a slot-machine style display dictating a fresh gameplay modifier and what monsters and enemies will spawn that round!" (reelism.dog)

What Else I’m Enjoying

A History of Image Manipulation (The Stacks)

Jason And The Argonauts (1963) (YouTube)

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Comments

Robert Secundus

As someone who was, at one time, an ABD Religious Lit scholar, this conversation was fascinating. it's very rare to hear from an *evangelical* Protestant Christian artist like this. Mainline Protestantism has a decent representation still, in the various arts (see Marilynne Robinson, First Reformed, etc), Orthodox Christianity has a robust literary tradition and still pops up, here and there (as in Indika), and Catholics are everywhere, but there's just very little extant Evangelical Art at all (or even exvangelical), I've found, beyond the realm of chick tracts and their equivalents in various mediums. The connections drawn between intentionality, community, and human dignity with his religion are also interesting; I think that Evangelical Art as a concept is tricky in large part because you don't really have an aesthetic or a significant theology to build the work on, the way you might in any other branch of Christianity, so this more practical/ ethical dimension is a really useful way into the whole thing. Anyway. Big picture note: I've really appreciated the *scope* of Post Games; it's wonderful to find an outlet that will tackle Christianity in Art alongside episode on Erotic Art, postcolonialism, other kinds of Philosophies of Art, and so forth, while still being very very accessible.

Tikwid

Chris, you're killing me, dude. I just sat down and fired up Runescape Dragonwilds to listen to this to. I feel attacked 10 seconds in 😂

Robert Secundus

oh, something else that came to mind, that might be of interest--the whole Getting Isekaid By Getting Hit By A Truck thing *predates* Isekai manga/ anime. It's already a trope in early Western Portal Fantasy; not only do the Pevensies get sent to Narnia the last time by dying in a train crash, but in the Thomas Covenant series, the title character gets to his own fantasy land originally by being hit by a car. You could even argue that there's an antecedent to Lewis in the Wizard of Oz (the movie, not the book), with Dorothy's near death experience sending her to dream-Oz. It's also tough to nail down exactly where Faerie Stories end and Isekai/Portal Fantasies begin, but if you treat them all as one big category, since the former does treat the realm of Fay, often, as a land of the dead, you could argue that we've been treating Getting Hit By A Truck [or some other period-appropriate equivalent] as a gateway to an Otherworld for as long as humans have been telling stories about fantastical realms.

Patrick Hightower

This episode is super strong. What an amazing discussion. Of course, I was listening while doing some yard work and then the discussion made me start thinking about how these ideas intersect with trying to get my college first year students to understand effort is what it is all about...

Nick

This was an all-timer. I hope you have Xalavier on again in the future.

Jordan Wood

Very, very cool ep, Chris. Couldn’t stop thinking about Jenny Odell’s book _How to Do Nothing_ while listening to your conversation about attention. For her, so much of attention is rooted in a sense of place and presence, and whether or not you belong where you are. Which makes Xalavier’s discussion about immersion even more interesting. The idea that escalating stimulation is the cost of increasing immersion feels so hostile to my sense of attention’s relationship to presence. What would games that help cultivate your own attention rather than capture and keep it look like?

Sierra Powers

Fantastic discussion and another great episode, first and foremost! But I've never yelled "Fuck!" so loud while doing the dishes when at the tail end of the episode you started talking about Love and Deepspace. I'm a player and we have been going THROUGH IT. Most of us just wanted our dog boyfriend to complete our six pack harem, but noooo, we got developers harassed, content that could be gone forever, minors being weaponized to carry out the anti campaigns, bots bots bots, and Chinese government scrutiny. Exhausting 😭