Mewgenics is a Meow-sterpiece
2/13/20261 hr 1 min
How do we celebrate a new release from one of the most acclaimed indie game designers of all time? With Ron Funches, of course! The fifth Besty joins us to chat about Mewgenics, a tactics-RPG about cats, breeding, hoarding, and well… eugenics. Plus, Ron shares what it was like to approach his time on Traitors as a gamer.
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First 90 secondsGriffin McElroy· Host0:00
Is there a letter in video game history that has carried the weight of the world more than the M at the beginning of the video game title that we are discussing today? [laughs] It's a tough game to talk about, because you really need to hit that M so hard, or else it sounds like you are providing a sort of full-throated endorsement for sort of g- genetic, uh, ex- exclusion as a kind of, like, philosophical policy.
Christopher Thomas Plant· Host0:33
You're trying to say that Eugenics: The Video Game wouldn't sell?
Griffin McElroy· Host0:37
Yeah. No. Well- Depends on the region. [laughing] [laughing] It depends where, what audience you're talking about.
Christopher Thomas Plant· Host0:44
What a country!
Griffin McElroy· Host0:45
[laughing] I- you just really Mewgen- Mewgenics, because otherwise you could sound like you're, like, a snobby person who's like, "I've been playing Mewgenics," and that's still not good enough.
Russ Frushtick· Host0:58
That is how you sound all the time, Griffin.
Griffin McElroy· Host1:00
Yeah, I know. That's why today I'm gonna be calling it the Kitty Cat Game.
Russ Frushtick· Host1:05
[laughing] [laughing] Uh, people are calling it Baldur's Gato, which I think is spectacular.
Christopher Thomas Plant· Host1:10
I do like that a lot.
Russ Frushtick· Host1:12
Real good.
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