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Lucy tells us of her time with APICO, a beekeeping simulator with minecraft-like survival elements. Ben touches on his first impressions of Diablo Immortal. We then spend the rest of the episode talking about the open letter from CAMRA chairman Nik Antona to the Minister for Small Business lobbying for the legal definition of a pint to be 100% liquid. Lucy has the Coconut Froth Latte Stout from Overtone, while Ben has the Forbidden Worlds Session IPA from New Bristol Brewery. Aadil rounded it all out with the Hamer & Sikkel Porter from Brouwerij de Molen.

We start with a chat about Aadil’s PC problems, windows 11, and the scourge of computing that DUST is. Aadil takes a deep dive on the first-person photography game Umurangi Generation, now on GamesPass. Some nerding out on photography in general. We chat at length about the mechanics, UI, and aesthetics. Aadil has Two Chefs Brewing’s Decennium Falcon Double Funky Falcon Pale Ale and Ben has the Pils Like These Pilsner from Bristol Beer Factory. Tweet and follow us: http://twitter.com/outoflivesnet Check Out Our Website: https://www.outoflives.net Join The OOL Community Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork #podcast #videogames #craftbeer

Aadil continues his chat with Chad and Curtis of Bit Rot Games. We chat about the narrative focus of Recursive Ruin, demo design and testing, and the procedural techniques from music to visuals. We also chatted about how to make the perfect martini, the perils and pros of machine learning, JS Bach’s music and Magic: The Gathering.   No beer for Chad, instead we have an extensive chat about Black IPAs, and where they can excel (or fail). Curtis has the Chimay White Trappist Tripel, while Aadil has Siren Cacao & Hazelnut Broken Dream Twisted Breakfast Stout.    

Aadil is solo-hosting but is joined by the return of Chad and Curtis from Bit Rot Games. We talk the development, features, and balance of designing a narrative puzzle game that is Recursive Ruin. With only Aadil at the helm we touch on Micro-brewing vs. Craft brewing (vs. Femto-brewing), the parallels of working on a PhD and developing a game, as well as the Beethoven vs. Mozart approach to art and comedy(?). Chad had the Light-hearted Ale from Bell’s Brewery, Curtis had the always excellent Trappistes Rochefort 8, and Aadil had the Wiper & True x Verdant Farmhouse Spelt Pils. Tweet and follow us: http://twitter.com/outoflivesnet Join The OOL Community Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork

Ben played FIFA 22, courtesy of PS+. It devolved into a general discussion of FIFA, football games and the (lack of) iteration over the years in sporting games. Ben had Arbor’s Space Hardware NEIPA, Lucy Cloudwater’s West Coast IPA, and Aadil had Arbor’s Texas Sunday Morning Hazy India Pale Ale. Tweet and follow us: http://twitter.com/outoflivesnet Join The OOL Community Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork #podcast #craftbeer #videogames #fifa22

Lucy makes us all jealous with her first impressions of the Play Date, and “Playtris”. That is until the Steam Deck arrived. She played Strange Horticulture, ElecHead, the Apeture Desk Job, Ynglet, Swallow the Sea and Raven’s Hike. We also chat briefly about Stadia and the steam platform.   Lucy had the Loral Lager from Quantock, Aadil had Bristol Beer Factory’s Well Above Sea Level IPA (with lactose), and Ben had Arbor’s GalAzacca NEIPA. Tweet and follow us: http://twitter.com/outoflivesnet Join The OOL Community Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork #podcast #craftbeer #videogames #steamdeck #playdate

Ben talks about his initial impression of the beautiful Trek to Yomi, along with a review roundup of (minor?) complaints. Aadil played the sometimes body-horror ‘family’ game Bugsnax!   Ben has the Maple Pancake Pale Ale from Fierce, also from his recent trip to Sainsbury’s. Aadil has Arbor’s Date Night New England DIPA, a sharing can had by one. Tweet and follow us: http://twitter.com/outoflivesnet Join The OOL Community Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork  

It’s Ben and Aadil chatting about the games they’ve been playing. Ben touches on his time with Dorfromantik, from early access to many hours played through release. Aadil talks about the now in kickstarter Remnants of the Rift. Ben went to Sainsbury’s and picked up Unity’s Hugh Pale ale, and Aadil had the Siren and Old Street Brewery collab The Sound of Bliss Haze Pale Ale. Join The Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork Want to be part of the team, contact us!

Special Guest Kimberley Owens (@creaftbeerpinup) joins us again for a more raucous episode than the last. We start with going through Kimberley’s Star Wars beers to pick one for the episode. We talk about Kimberley’s approach to gaming and unwinding. We talk Battlefront 2 (2) , retro games before derailing into a long discussion of Star Wars LEGO (not the games, the bricks). We get back on track and get into the plethora of upcoming Star Wars games and our hopes and highlights. Kimberley ends up having the F&%K Cancer beer Imperial Stout collaboration between Emperor’s Brewery and Loch Lomond Brewery. Aadil has the Barrel Aged Dark Ale Sour Series 1 from Moor. Ben rounds the episode out with Pressure […]

It’s May the 4th (at time of recording) and we are joined by the lovely lovely Kimberley Owens (@craftbeerpinup) to chat Star Wars beers and video games. Then Aadil can’t help gush about his time with LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.   Join The Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork Please like comment and subscribe and if you can share it! Want to be part of the team, contact us! #podcast #videogames #lego #starwars

It’s been a minute but we are back with a catchup about Lucy’s brewery visit to Little Earth Project, and some of the games Aadil has been playing: Winter and Skábma: Snowfall.     Lucy has the Northern Monk Patrons Project 4.05 Northern Tropics Tropical Milkshake IPA. Ben has Thrilling APA from VarVar, a Ukranian brewer. Aadil rounds the pack out with Rabbit Pants Black IPA from Wild Beer and Coolhead.     Join The Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork Please like comment and subscribe and if you can share it! Want to be part of the team, contact us!

This time on Out of Rupees, your hosts delve into the vast quantities of tall grass that is the Pokémon franchise. Francis, joined by Adam for the first time on the show, takes you on a journey from the heady days of the initial Poké-craze we fell in love with in our earliest gaming experiences back in Gen 1 to discussing the most recent entry and reveal of Scarlet & Violet to come later this year. How did our journeys to be the very best, like no one ever was, begin? Where did our travels take us? Well, why not listen and find out for yourself…  

It’s just one episode from us this week but it’s the joy of a longer one. We discuss the games we’ve been playing starting with mech twin-stick shooter Uragun, jumping into eldritch cowboys in Wierd West and heading back to the arcade with Astro Ace. Ben and Aadil drink and discuss some beers. Ben has Order of the North from Northern Monk X Rivington Brewing Co and Riffle from Thornbridge X Burnt Mill whilst Aadil has the Brewmaster Nitro Stout and Madison from 6 Degrees North. Join The Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork Please like comment and subscribe and if you can share it! Want to be part of the team, contact us!

Just one episode this week and we are chatting about genres we miss, or styles of play within genres we would love to see again, with maybe some nostalgia in the mix as well.   Lucy has Crak’s Fresh, a DDH IPA. Aadil has Whiplash’s Quiet Crowd, a Robust Brown, and Ben has Verdant’s 5am DIPA. Join The Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork Please like comment and subscribe and if you can share it! Want to be part of the team, contact us! #podcast #craftbeer #videogames

The gang talks about Playstation’s new plus offerings in comparison to Microsoft’s GamePass. The multi-tiered approach is described and dissected. Plus bonus Olivia Newton John!     Aadil has the Stout Brummie from Birmingham Brewing Company, while Lucy and Ben both have beers from Staggeringly Good. Lucy has Bru, a NEIPA collab with Little Monsters, and Ben has the DIPPA… which is a DIPA. Join The Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork Please like comment and subscribe and if you can share it! Want to be part of the team, contact us! #craftbeer #podcast #playstationplus

Ben and Lucy talk at length about the end-game of Tunic, spoiler-free. Aadil tries to just mention what it reminds him of trying a new character in Elden Ring, and the stark differences in experience the two seem to have.     Lucy has the promised A Saison Apparent from Trial and Ale brewery, Ben has Mumbles’ Albina Dry-hopped APA, and Aadil has the Funky Drummer DIPA from 71 Brewing.   Join The Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork Please like comment and subscribe and if you can share it! Want to be part of the team, contact us! #craftbeer #podcast #tunic #eldenring

On this week’s Topisode we chat a bunch about the solo-developed Zelda ”soulslike” TUNIC, as well as chatting about keeping up with the zeitgeist and when its a good, versus the normally bad, thing.   Aadil has the Stout Brummie (Salted Caramel and Almond Milk Stout) from Birmingham Brewing Co., Lucy has Otherworld Brewing’s Mixed Fermentation NEIPA, and Ben Roots to Remember (IPA) from DEYA Join The Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork Please like comment and subscribe and if you can share it! Want to be part of the team, contact us! #podcast #craftbeer #tunic

On this week’s tupisode we chat about Onde, Aerial Knights, Rayman mini, Gibbon: Beyond the Trees and Labyrinth City. We also chat about Apple Arcade and Netflix Games.   Lucy has the Yankie Brummie (APA) from Birmingham Brewing Co., Ben has Polly’s Beginning Futures (DDH IPA), and Aadil has the Polar Ice Walls (PA) from Wild Card Brewery. Join The Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork Please like comment and subscribe and if you can share it! Want to be part of the team, contact us! #podcast #craftbeer #videogames

This week’s topisode is all about Elden Ring. It’s Aadil’s first Souls game and Lucy is 70 odd hours in. Ben sadly waits on the sidelines currently. The focus is first impressions and what makes this game special. Ben has Left-Handed Giant’s Export Porter, and Aadil has the Nesta (Tropical) Extra Stout. Join The Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork Please like comment and subscribe and if you can share it! Want to be part of the team, contact us! #craftbeer #videogames #eldenring #podcast

On this week’s games roundup we talk about Far: Changing Tides (and its predecessor), Atelier Sophie 2 (and not its predecessor), and Wordbreaker by POWGI. Aadil had Beatnikz Republic’s Ekuanot Silhouette NEIPA, and Ben had Polly’s Bleur Orion IPA.   Join The Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork Please like comment and subscribe and if you can share it! Want to be part of the team, contact us! #podcast #craftbeer #videogames #farchagingtides