NOCLIP Pocket E28 - The Chadegy - Plants vs Zombies

Leave your front door open and your podcast unguarded, Welcome back
to NOCLIP Pocket this week! Today, we’re going to be talking about
Plants vs. Zombies, arguably PopCap’s breakout game, a casual tower
defense game with a distinct theme. But I probably don’t need to
explain what this game is to you, because statistically you’ve
probably played, seen, or at least heard of it before given how
crazy popular it was. Revisiting the game after so many years
really puts into context what about the game made it popular and
how we’ve advanced in design space and that historical context
makes up a lot of the discussion this week. We’re going to talk
about casual tower defense game design and how the game wants to
make you feel good, the attractive visual design and presentation
and we go on and on about how free mobile games have become a
detestable quagmire of unacceptable advertising. Thank you for
listening to us shatter our nostalgia this week! We’re trying to
balance our pocket episodes between smaller titles that don’t take
a long time to play and ones that can actually be played on a
device that fits in your pocket, and this game is pretty emblematic
of the latter. However, next time we’re sampling a little more of
the former and talking about The Unfinished Swan, from the
developers of What Remains of Edith Finch, so be sure to check back
then.