This week we’re joined by the mercurial <a href="http://twinbeard.com/frog-fractions">Jim Crawford aka Twinbeard</a> of Frog Fractions fame, and he’s been playing Skyrim and Rockband and Hungry Cat Picross; during the recording Lisa plays Doge 2048, <a href="http://asherv.com/threes/threemails/">a clone of a Threes clone</a>; Joel goes low-fi with the Blackwell series of point and click adventure games; and Dave tells us about the Experimental Games Workshop at GDC and Bounden (watch the video on <a href="http://playbounden.com/">their site</a> and you'll get it immediately).
For this week's discussion we had a chat with Jim about the Frog Fractions 2 Kickstarter (<a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/475057068/frog-fractions-2">that you should totally back right now</a>) and his adventures in crowdfunding. Inevitably we also discussed <a href="https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101319050523971">Facebook's $2b acquisition of Oculus</a> and pontificate about their nefarious(?) plans for VR technology. If you have any questions for Jim you can tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/mogwai_poet">@mogwai_poet</a> and as always if you'd like to write in to us you can do so via <a href="http://hello@staringatscreens.org/">email</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/StaringScreens/">Twitter</a>. 
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54.5. Interactive Games

Here on Staring at Screens we look at the bright, pretty lights that make up our video games. Also, we like to talk about them from a critical, mature and often giggly perspective.