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CoolGames Inc

Published by Polygon

  • Comedy
  • Improv
  • Leisure
  • Video games

Griffin McElroy and Nick Robinson created a new video game every week with your help.

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On the charts

3 chart placements

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  1. Number 83ImprovCanada
  2. Number 45ImprovUnited Kingdom
  3. Number 88ImprovUnited States

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Recent episodes

The latest episodes published to this podcast’s own RSS feed. Titles and descriptions are the publisher’s.

  1. Breeding Amiibles (with SoftHard™ Technology)

    Jul 28, 20171 hr 0 min

    Link's CrossFit Training, a Taken roguelike based with randomized "particular sets of skills," a game where the goal is not to rhyme, and toys-to-life but for marbles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  2. Barry Bertical's Uphill Jam

    Jul 22, 201757 min

    This time around, the boys get all hung up on the idea of a multiplayer cooperative mountain-scaling game — complete with a shaky alliances, werewolf-style lying, and Mountain Justice™. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  3. Business and Pleasure (featuring Marina from the Splatoon™ series)

    Jul 7, 201754 min

    This week, we make DDR Go, a game about adding new bones to your skeleton, and a 4X strategy game about dating world leaders. Also, Marina from Splatoon 2 is there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  4. Lexiconquest

    Jul 1, 201751 min

    After a few false starts with an anti-tycoon game concept and a Miitomo + Tinder hybrid, we settle into what might be our greatest idea yet: a marriage of Scribblenauts and Bookworm Adventures that redefines what edutainment can be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  5. Exquisite Corpse

    Jun 24, 201754 min

    We return from E3 chock-full of inspiration, which leads us to design a DDR game for horses, Call of Duty's new wizard class, and a video game loosely inspired by the parlour game Exquisite Corpse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  6. PoolGames Inc 2.0

    Jun 17, 201726 min

    It's E3 time, which means we're once again, despite our better judgment, getting in a hot tub with some friends and some alcohol and recording a wet and wild hot tub episode, featuring just about every friend we could get our hands on. (For the video version of this episode, head to youtube.com/polygon!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  7. The "V"

    Jun 9, 201748 min

    This week, we create one of our greatest ideas yet — a skateboarders vs. mall cops MOBA — only to dash it against the rocks for a chance to make some of that sweet Mark Cuban money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  8. MorphCorps

    May 26, 201751 min

    We return from our week of absence to explore Mario & Sonic at the Eurovision Song Contest, Bad Dad Redemption, a competitive news chopper piloting game, and a PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds mod that adds a shapeshifting companion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  9. Angels in the Paint

    May 13, 20171 hr 4 min

    We take a deep dive in Sonic lore, make a game about One Weird Trick, a Weekend at Bernie's-style Splinter Cell game, and a game about celestial b-ball interference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  10. Property Brothers in Arms: Global Front Door

    May 6, 201758 min

    After kicking things off with an 8-almond challenge, we dust ourselves off and develop some games — including Breath of the Wile E. Coyote, Adjustin' Timberlake and Shrekken. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  11. The Prestige Goose

    Apr 29, 20171 hr 2 min

    This week, we design a game about a fake zoo, a Spider vs. Man Paragon/Renegade system, an Applebee's based fighting game, and a movie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  12. CoolGames Inc in the City

    Apr 23, 201718 min

    In this special video episode of CoolGames Inc (available on youtube.com/polygon), Griffin and Nick lay out their plans for Taste Buds, a friends-only cooperative VR food experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  13. Gary Potter and the Iguana's Curse Online

    Apr 14, 20171 hr 3 min

    🅱otions class. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  14. Silhouette of the Big One: Takedown

    Apr 8, 201754 min

    This week, we set aside some time to address #Cheetogate, introduce the first in our three-part "algorithmically-generated video games" segment, and then do what we do best: make video games inspired by Burnout 3. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  15. CGI Jr: Vitality Egg

    Mar 31, 201737 min

    With Griffin all souped up and Nick reporting in from the South, we've produced a baby-sized episode centered mostly around creating the ultimate proprietary Nintendo peripheral: the Nintendo Vitality Egg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  16. Mr. Bucket's Stroke Wars

    Mar 25, 201755 min

    This week sees us barrelling headfirst into Easter as we reminisce about our favorite holiday traditions — before making a monstrous classic movie / anime hybrid, designing a Shadow the Hedgehog ending-based birthday quiz, figuring out what S.E.X. Tricky would be, and ultimately designing the ultimate minigolf MMO featuring everyone's favorite discontinued 90's tabletop toy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  17. Munchlax Analysis

    Mar 18, 20171 hr 4 min

    We briefly set aside the video games while Griffin pitches us on his new app that's taking SXSW by storm — and then hop back into our game developer chairs to make games about Borrowers in a snack machine, a cover-based shooter where you're invincible but VERY shy, and a game about being an aging film critic trying to review Pokemon: The First Movie in the year 1999. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  18. CGI Jr: Oops! All Baileys

    Mar 10, 201731 min

    Nick is dying of a mysterious GDC ailment that renders his brain non-functional, so we're doing a half-length episode about bear mascots, a sweetlip emperor-based successor to Dolphin Olympics, and a world full of Cash Cabs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  19. The Crew: Wet Country

    Mar 4, 201754 min

    It's Nintendo Switch launch day, a day that we here on CoolGames Inc treat as a federal holiday. To celebrate, we treat ourselves to a big ol' batch of good, stupid video game ideas, including a game about going to heaven, another about buying a Vita in Reggie Fils-Aime's body, and a alternate history prohibition game so elaborate we don't have time to summarize it in this podcast description text. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  20. Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

    Feb 25, 201759 min

    The boys set a new landspeed record for crime confessions in a video game podcast, before diving into a Mario Party 6 microphone reboot, a Santana-driven baseball game, and a Skyrim toilet game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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