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Post Games
Chris Plante
15 episodes
3 days ago
Post Games is a listener-supported podcast about how and why we love video games. Each week, host Chris Plante reports on a new, overlooked, or underappreciated topic in gaming culture. Where did all the new porn games come from? What’s it like to be the AI that destroys the world? How has one award turned tiny indie game makers into big-name millionaires? With original interviews, writing, and a traditional audio-magazine structure, Plante keeps things entertaining, informative, and always under 90 minutes. Because Post Games is meant to be listened to, not buried in a backlog. Learn more at www.post.games.

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Post Games is a listener-supported podcast about how and why we love video games. Each week, host Chris Plante reports on a new, overlooked, or underappreciated topic in gaming culture. Where did all the new porn games come from? What’s it like to be the AI that destroys the world? How has one award turned tiny indie game makers into big-name millionaires? With original interviews, writing, and a traditional audio-magazine structure, Plante keeps things entertaining, informative, and always under 90 minutes. Because Post Games is meant to be listened to, not buried in a backlog. Learn more at www.post.games.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Arts,
News,
Leisure,
Entertainment News
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A Broadway musician’s double life as a murder mystery maker
Post Games
56 minutes 5 seconds
2 days ago
A Broadway musician’s double life as a murder mystery maker

Get full show notes at www.post.games

Subscribe for bonus segments and episodes, plus everything is ad-free! www.patreon.com/postgames


Heads up! You can now watch Post Games shorts on Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.

Today's guest is musical composer, orchestrator, lyricist, conductor, and musician Mike Pettry, who climbed the rungs of the theater world and now performs in the orchestras of award-winning Broadway shows. His performances have accompanied artists like Ben Platt and Idina Menzel.

But as his Broadway career blossomed, Pettry began to fantasize about something else entirely: making a musical… video game.

A murder mystery musical video game, to be precise. Murder at the Birch Tree Theater is a deduction game, in the style of Return of the Obra Dinn and The Case of the Golden Idol. Set across many years at a small community theater, it tells a story of intrigue, small-time fame, and, as the title promises, murder.

I talk with Pettry about juggling his two dreams on the world's biggest stage. Or under it. He plays in the orchestra after all.

  • Act 1: A gamer in the Broadway pit
  • Act 2: Fine-tuning a musical murder mystery game
  • Patreon-bonus: Three original songs based on retro gaming classics, created by Mike Pettry and his longtime collaborator Eli Bolin
  • The two previously wrote and orchestrated songs for John Mulaney’s Sack Lunch Bunch and Documentary Now!
  • Act 3: The news of the week

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Find episode notes and more at www.post.games. Subscribe to the Patreon for early access to episodes, additional segments, and bonus materials at patreon.com/postgames.


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Post Games
Post Games is a listener-supported podcast about how and why we love video games. Each week, host Chris Plante reports on a new, overlooked, or underappreciated topic in gaming culture. Where did all the new porn games come from? What’s it like to be the AI that destroys the world? How has one award turned tiny indie game makers into big-name millionaires? With original interviews, writing, and a traditional audio-magazine structure, Plante keeps things entertaining, informative, and always under 90 minutes. Because Post Games is meant to be listened to, not buried in a backlog. Learn more at www.post.games.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.