Halcyon Podcast - 30: Become Knucklebones

Level up! Bloody Drongo has joined the Halcyon Frequency team!

This week on the podcast, Suwey uses exquisite words, the team celebrates the little wins, and Bloody Drongo learns about Hungarian cuisine

Games Discussed:

• Two Point Campus:

  https://store.steampowered.com/app/1649080/Two_Point_Campus/

• Cult of the Lamb:

  https://store.steampowered.com/app/1313140/Cult_of_the_Lamb/

• Farthest Frontier:

  https://store.steampowered.com/app/1044720/Farthest_Frontier/

• Dinkum:

  https://store.steampowered.com/app/1062520/Dinkum/

• Rimworld:

  https://store.steampowered.com/app/294100/RimWorld/

• Citizens: Far Lands:

  https://store.steampowered.com/app/1646120/Citizens_Far_Lands/

• Geoguessr:

  https://www.geoguessr.com/

News Discussed

• Twitch Adds Custom Tags:

  We discuss custom twitch tags, how they can be used for discoverability, and the potential reasoning for Twitch to add them in the first place.

  https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2022/08/11/custom-tags-discovery-on-your-terms/

• AppLovin Attempts Unity Merge

  AppLovin, another ad platform attempts to merge with Unity in a bid to halt the IronSource merge, but will it succeed?

  https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/applovin-offers-buy-unity-software-2022-08-09/

• Unity now officially making milsims for US Government

  Unity working with defence contracts has been an open secret for a long time, but now it's official with Unity signing a multi-million dollar contract with enterprise technology firm CACI to become the "preferred real-time 3D platform"

  https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/unity-signs-multi-million-dollar-contract-to-help-u-s-government-with-defense

Episode appearances

BlindiRL: https://twitter.com/BlindiRL/

BloodyDrongo: https://twitter.com/TheBloodyDrongo

Woahh_Jess: https://twitter.com/woahh_jess

Suwey: https://twitter.com/SuweyStreams

ArchPlaysStuff: https://twitter.com/ArchPlaysStuff

Podcast music by Peter Pohl & Paul Mile