The Electronic Wireless Show Podcast episode 153: the best weird currencies in games special
We're pretty salty this week
The Electronic Wireless Show podcast is playing with a full hand today, as Matthew rejoins us! Inspired by the reveal of new games like theme park sim Park Beyond, which uses a resource currently earmarked as Amazement, and Strange Horticulture's Will To Explore, episode 153 is all about weird currencies and resources in games.
We do have a decent discussion about games, and what constitutes a resource (answer: possibly everything). But because Matthew is back, we grill him about how much ice cream he at at a wedding, and also discuss what mineral we would most like to keep in a vault in our home in place of gold. Unfortunately, a lot of time is taken up by making fun of Matthew for not using salt, like, at all, but there is a decent Cavern of Lies that's all about the most expensive digital things people have bought with real money.
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Music is by Jack de Quidt.
Music is by Jack de Quidt, who uses the barter system.You look like you could use a new t-shirt.
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Nate is all about the weird resources in Old World, like 'legitimacy', and points out that a lot of Paradox games do similar.
Two of my favourite examples of weird currencies are Fallout's Caps and the teeth in Alice: Madness Returns.
Nate loves the bullet currency in Metro.
Matthew likes the changes to Jurassic World Evolution.
Failbetter have loads of weird currencies and resources.
Planet Zoo accidentally made a warthog economy.
Recommendations this week are for the TV show The White Lotus, the New Zealand version of Taskmaster, and Peter Jackson's They Shall Not Grow Old.